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Archive through January 27, 2005

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Jeep
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10-17-2001

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Gal!

Close up - Under arm BO. Yuck!

Far away - On a very hot humid summer day, the smell of freshly spread cow manure. It not only stinks, it really takes your breath away. Can you tell I live in farm country?

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 11:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
One of my least favorite smells is ... burnt coffee! Yuck!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 11:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Morning breath is a good one, but other people's vomit gets me. I don't know WHAT I'll do when I have kids.

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 1:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
burnt popcorn

Nino
Member

09-20-2004

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 8:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I hate to smell fish cooking! Could be because I hate seafood! LOL!

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
NEW QUESTION

Who's your favorite author and why?


Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Least favorite scent...easy...SKUNK!!!

Wow...picking my favorite author is like asking me to chose which of my children are my favorites. Not going to happen...so bear with me, while I cover the cream of the crop and probably forget someone in the process.

Leon Uris - I found him accidently on a visit to the corner library when I came across "Battle Cry". That book helped me to understand a generation of men and the war experience. "Exodus" and "Armageddon" helped me to understand the holocaust in a very human way. But it wasn't until he wrote "Trinity" which helped me understand the whole Irish Catholic/Prostestant dynamic, that I realized how important he was to me.

James Michener- I love his detailed portraits of historical eras from "Centennial" my favorite to "Kent State".

Herman Woulk-I loved his World War II sagas "The Winds of War" and "War and Rememberance", but also appreciate his writing of his generation and helping me to understand the dynamic of being an American jew and also urban America. I've learned so much about a world very foriegn to my own experience.

Bob Greene-the voice of a the baby boomer generation that grew up in the suburbs in the 1950's, came of age during the sixties, coped with adulthood in the 70's and 80's and sold out somewhere in the 90's. It's a shame he disgraced himself the way he did...but like the times he wrote about, the reality never measured up to the myth. His "Be True to Your School" (his high school diary of 1963) is the ONLY book I have ever read twice.

Lately, I have discovered Nelson DeMille and love his page turning stories, and Rosamunde Pilcher who paints wonderful pictures with words.

I also enjoy Jeffrey Archer with "As the Crow Flies" as being my favorite.


Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Favourite author? Douglas Coupland. He's a Vancouver author, -- his most famous books are Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Girlfriend in a Coma... He has this way of painting a picture with his words, there's never a moment that you're reading one of his books that you don't have a crystal-clear picture of where he is. Philosophical, you can't read one of his books without having to stop more than a few times and think, "wow... he might be onto something there..." Douglas Coupland sparked many lets-look-at-the-world-just-a-little-bit-differently-and-see-what-happens moments for me in the past couple of years. Definately a great read.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 12:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jmm, thank you for that link! I hadn't noticed it until just now. I have tried to find the lyrics at other sites and never managed it so I am adding that one to my favs. Thanks again!

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't have a favorite. I am a constant reader. I'd say a read a new book every 3 days sometimes less. I just love a good book period and even though I may buy the same writer at times, I love to find new authors to read.

And a little P.S., the way the Marysafan writes about the books she reads, she can make anyone want to read them!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
the only authors i can truly say i've enjoyed every single book they've written are:

Dashiell Hammett
and
JK Rowling

Dashiell wrote a msytery that you could see in your mind. when i've seen the movie "the maltese falcon" or "the thin man" they were exactly as i pictured them. they always left you wondering who was the culprit to the very end.

JK for the fact that her books are fun! i still enjoy every single word of the harry potter books. i have read some of them 3 or 4 times. (and i don't get to read them the day the come out either! i have to wait till holly is done with them!) i can't wait for the next book.


Pcakes2
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08-29-2001

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 2:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dr Suess...because he made me want to read.

Llkoolaid
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08-01-2001

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 3:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
War and Peace is my favorite book, I have read it at least 4 times and at least 2 of those times I read the war parts lol.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dean Koontz-his books don't mess around and take 3/4 of character development before getting to the good stuff. He usually grabs you and hold you hostage from the first page. Also, he is the author of my all time favorite book Watchers. Ya love dogs? You'll love Watchers.

Close second-Robert R. McCammon. Great storyteller. His writing really brings you into the story.

Others authors I look out for when looking for new releases: Clive Cussler, Johnathan Kellerman, Robin Cook, Michael Crichton, Mary Higgens Clark.

Ohiomobprincess
Member

11-07-2003

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Robin Cook and V.C. Andrews

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My favorite author is Anne Rice. I love how she is so incredibly detailed and how one book can span generations. I like how there is usually a slight sexual undertone, along with an good versus evil theme. Her books are intense and she usually doesn't disappoint me.

NEW QUESTION

What is your favorite sports to watch?


Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Baseball in the summer. Basketball in the winter. And I don't want them to overlap at all.

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I miss hockey.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
David Eddings, Laurell K Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jude Devereaux, Roger Zelenzy(sp), Jayne Ann Krentz, Anne Rice, Terry McMillan, etc.

Football

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
College basketball.

Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Welllll, I looovveee air hockey, ball hockey, barn hockey, bubble hockey, field hockey, floor hockey, ice hockey, road hockey, hockey hockey, hockey all the time... c'mon now, sing it with me if you know it...

I love to watch gymnastics, too. I trained for a long time as a child and I love watching these girls (and guys) do everything I used to do.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 11:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i love to watch a real game of baseball (going to the stadium). i'll watch amateur figure skating events. major gymnastic events. all swimming .

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In person, my favorite sport to watch is soccer. On tv, it's college football, during it's season, and then women's college basketball.

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 11:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have two sports which usually keep occupied most of the time.

1) I love hockey. And miss it very much.

2) I love NASCAR racing (and Yes it is too a sport!)



Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 1:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
figure skating and any olympic event...I love watching the Olympics