Wcv63 | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 12:12 pm  Does anybody feel like talking about the new challenge? Mr. Jones drives a hundred miles to the nearest book store. He pays $20.00 of his hard-earned money to purchase a first edition of a new book. After many hours of reading, he concludes that the book is poorly written, boring and inaccurate. Rather than be upset, Mr. Jones is instead greatly pleased with his purchase. Why would this be? |
Wcv63 | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 12:17 pm  Okay wcv I'll discuss it with you. Maybe the book is one of those nasty tell all books and it is about Mr. Jones. Therefore he is pleased because he thinks no one else will buy it. |
Wcv63 | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 12:25 pm  wcv- that is just stupid!!! Can't you come up with a better theory than that?! Jeesh |
Nikkid | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 12:27 pm  Written by his ex-wife who got everything! |
Noslonna | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 12:38 pm  Book has money back guarantee. |
Nant | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 12:56 pm  What's got me wondering is...where would a person have to be living if there is not a bookstore within a hundred miles? |
Spamgirl | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 01:04 pm  Well, these are the pertinent facts (as far as I can tell : - he drives a hundred miles to the nearest book store - he pays $20.00 - it's a first edition of a new book - it takes many hours to read it - the book is poorly written, boring and inaccurate - he is greatly pleased with his purchase My questions are: Why is the store so far away? What kind of book is supposed to be poorly written, boring, and inaccurate? I think the BGs are onto something with the first edition being worth a lot of money thing - it would explain it's being inaccurate (etc), the fact they mentioned it's price, and why he is happy about the purchase |
Sara | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 01:40 pm  wcv, I thought about you before when I was reading the "How Did You Survive Friday the 13th With a Full Moon" thread. The first time I read it, somehow I read, How Did You Survive...With a Full Bladder." ROFL btw, this is a great thread. |
Wcv63 | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 01:42 pm  LOL Sara...thanks! They asked their first question. Is Mr. Jones a book collector? |
Norequerdo | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 03:24 pm  except one thing. The first edition is of a new book. All new books are first editions. So there must be some personal reason he is happy with his purchase. Now the Farmer's almanac may be a good theory, not great literature by any means, certainly not always accurate. However, if you are a farmer in Texas and you bought the farmers almanac which tells you that next year there will be plenty of rain. you will be pretty happy. So I am with the Farmer's almanac. |
Spamgirl | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 03:24 pm  Yes, but how does he KNOW it's inaccurate if it's a farmer's almanac?? None of the stuff has happened yet ;) Oh, and why would they mention that it's the FIRST EDITION of a new book if that wasn't important? Maybe to throw them off... |
Norequerdo | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 03:30 pm  The first edition is to throw people off. Everyone knows the farmer's almanac is not 100% accurate. So he knows that it won't be totally accurate. You know that when you buy the book. |
Norequerdo | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 03:30 pm  The first edition is to throw people off. Everyone knows the farmer's almanac is not 100% accurate. So he knows that it won't be totally accurate. You know that when you buy the book. |
Wcv63 | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 03:31 pm  Well he's not a book collector. I'm going back to my first stupid theory. The book is a nasty tell all about him and he's happy it's bad because no one will buy it. It will be panned by the critics. Okay, I've got to go help my son with igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. I'll think about this some more and come back later. |
Spamgirl | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 03:44 pm  ok, why is it poorly written then? it's not a fact that farmer's almanacs are poorly written, too, is it? |
Norequerdo | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 03:48 pm  well Farmers Almanac doesnt usually get a Pulitzer prize. |
Ocean_Islands | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 03:58 pm  I know! It's his autobiography! |
Norequerdo | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 04:00 pm  Excellent Ocean, That is probably it. |
Ocean_Islands | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 04:23 pm  That was dumb of me. I mean his 'biography'. I don't think he would say that his autobiography was poorly written. |
Nant | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 04:42 pm  Maybe the book is the "red herring". What if Mr. Jones was a prisoner and got a day pass. He was pleased just to get out and take the long trip to the bookstore and buy something of his own choice. |
Karuuna | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 05:13 pm  If his biography was boring, poorly written and inaccurate, wouldn't he still be upset? After all, it would spread a great deal of misinformation about him. And most people hate that? |
Katie | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 05:37 pm  I am guessing it might be a book written by his ex wife and since it isn't very good, it isn't going to sell very well. Either that of the Farmer's Almanac. It could boring, poorly written and inaccurate, as it usually is, but still have some interesting information in it that he liked. Maybe for his area it is good and he wants to believe it will come true. |
Ocean_Islands | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 06:10 pm  Wait a second, it says he was happy with his PURCHASE, not that he was happy with the book. It doesn't say that he was upset or not. Just that he was happy he had bought it. |
Azriel1104 | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 06:20 pm  It's written by his high school English teacher, who gave him a C on a short story he had written and told him he would never be a published author. He is a well known author with a whole series of award winning published books and now he also has the last laugh. It could happen.  |
Leap | Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 06:36 pm  Just a couple of different thoughts on this one- - it is a close competitor's book. OR - he lives by himself in the sticks and likes being alone. The book is about how awful it is where he lives, therefore preserving his space/place/quiet. That's all for now. Maybe I will think of some others later. |