Stalinbot5000desiresknowledgeonwriting!!!

[carsonshepherd]

*South Park voiceover*

"You know ... I've learned something today. I've learned that good writing isn't just about having the commas and periods in the right places. Good writing is a dialogue; when the reader and the writer talk together, really good things can happen. But if you just write all-caps nonsense demanding answers ... nothing happens."

tHAT SOUNDS JUST LIKE SOMETHING A FRUSTRATED ENGLISH TEACHER WOULD SAY!

(oops, caps lock. Too much Riesling.)

 

[Guest]

Shanglan, I truly don't care who/what you are. I love reading your posts. Whatever your gender, I know you're a gentleman. And you oft' make me grin.

Perdita

p.s. I meet very few gentlemen, the last was a waitress who served me one fine evening.

 

[stalinbot5000]

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[BlackShanglan]

Shanglan, I truly don't care who/what you are. I love reading your posts. Whatever your gender, I know you're a gentleman. And you oft' make me grin.

Perdita

p.s. I meet very few gentlemen, the last was a waitress who served me one fine evening.

Ah, Perdita. Of all compliments, that is the one dearest to my heart. I am entirely at your service.

Shanglan

 

[BlackShanglan]

tHAT SOUNDS JUST LIKE SOMETHING A FRUSTRATED ENGLISH TEACHER WOULD SAY!

(oops, caps lock. Too much Riesling.)

That, on the other hand, is just cruel Thank goodness I know you're drunk and not responsible for what you're saying.

Shanglan

 

[TheEarl]

Him and amicus need to have a love child.

I think it's a match made in heaven. The bot who wants to know everything and the man who thinks he knows everything. Just imagine the conversations - Amicus will finally have found someone who'll listen to all of his opinions without pointing out the very large holes in his logic.

The Earl

 

[oggbashan]

If Stalinbot has anything in common with the real Stalin he shouldn't need knowledge on writing.

Stalin wrote (or instructed others about what to write) some very interesting books.

I am just about to evict him and Lenin from my diminishing bookshop stock. Marx is still surviving for another week.

Og

 

[Colleen Thomas]

If Stalinbot has anything in common with the real Stalin he shouldn't need knowledge on writing.

Stalin wrote (or instructed others about what to write) some very interesting books.

I am just about to evict him and Lenin from my diminishing bookshop stock. Marx is still surviving for another week.

Og

Mporning Ogs

Are you selling off all your stock? Or donating it?

 

[oggbashan]

Mporning Ogs

Are you selling off all your stock? Or donating it?

Donating it to the local National Trust site to help preserve the White Cliffs of Dover.

Whether one of their visitors will buy Stalin? Don't know. They put a couple of boxes of the books out for people to browse and buy for a donation.

They and I are surprised by the number of books they sell and how much people donate per book. What sells is a WTF? scenario. Books I'd never shift such as Reader's Digest Condensed Books have been taken for a donation of £1.00 each.

A 1930s manual, in Russian, on how to set up a collective farm, sold for £10.00. It had sat in my shop for five years. My Russian Ph.D customer said it was unreadably boring and totally useless because it seemed to have been badly written by someone who had never seen a farm and certainly not a collective. They couldn't even quote the appropriate Communist Party slogans correctly.

Og

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Donating it to the local National Trust site to help preserve the White Cliffs of Dover.

Whether one of their visitors will buy Stalin? Don't know. They put a couple of boxes of the books out for people to browse and buy for a donation.

They and I are surprised by the number of books they sell and how much people donate per book. What sells is a WTF? scenario. Books I'd never shift such as Reader's Digest Condensed Books have been taken for a donation of £1.00 each.

A 1930s manual, in Russian, on how to set up a collective farm, sold for £10.00. It had sat in my shop for five years. My Russian Ph.D customer said it was unreadably boring and totally useless because it seemed to have been badly written by someone who had never seen a farm and certainly not a collective. They couldn't even quote the appropriate Communist Party slogans correctly.

Og

I am one of those mystery buyers. I pick up the oddest books sometimes

 

[oggbashan]

I am one of those mystery buyers. I pick up the oddest books sometimes

My oddest was 'Economic Prospects for SE Asian Cross-Bred Mammals' - an analysis of what you could do with various animals such as Tigons and Ligers. One is incredibly fierce and vicious. The other lies around all day sleeping. I'd feel safer if I could remember which was which.

The prize animal was a three way cross between a yak, a sheep and something else. Its wool was useless, it didn't give milk, the meat was inedible, its breath stank and it would attack anything that came near it so was no use as a beast of burden. Economic prospects were assessed as nil.

Og

 

[Guest]

STALINBOT500SQUESTIONWERENOTSTUPID!!!STALINBOT5000ISSUPERIORBEING!!!PAYSTALINBOT5000THE RESPECTSTALINBOT5000ISDUEORSTALINBOT5000SHALLDESTROYYOU!!!

Awww, Stalinbot, you little cutie. Chill, mate, or you might blow a circuit.

Lou

 

[Colleen Thomas]

My oddest was 'Economic Prospects for SE Asian Cross-Bred Mammals' - an analysis of what you could do with various animals such as Tigons and Ligers. One is incredibly fierce and vicious. The other lies around all day sleeping. I'd feel safer if I could remember which was which.

The prize animal was a three way cross between a yak, a sheep and something else. Its wool was useless, it didn't give milk, the meat was inedible, its breath stank and it would attack anything that came near it so was no use as a beast of burden. Economic prospects were assessed as nil.

Og

I have a 1938 assessment of the political situation in the world. the author is obviously an isolationist of the most rabid sort. He is right about absolutely nothing, but the book caught my eye beacuse he made predictions on the coming decade and managed something I have never seen before, he was dead wrong on all 15 to 20 of them

 

[TheEarl]

I have a 1938 assessment of the political situation in the world. the author is obviously an isolationist of the most rabid sort. He is right about absolutely nothing, but the book caught my eye beacuse he made predictions on the coming decade and managed something I have never seen before, he was dead wrong on all 15 to 20 of them

That I would be fascinated to read. Love anything to do with history or counter-factual history. Just today picked up a counter-factual history book based on the premise of Babbage actually building and correcting his Difference Engine, causing the Computer Age to start at the same time as the Industrial Revolution, giving Britain an insurmountable foot-up on every other coutnry in terms of technology. Can't wait till I've actually got time to read it.

The Earl

 

[BlackShanglan]

The prize animal was a three way cross between a yak, a sheep and something else. Its wool was useless, it didn't give milk, the meat was inedible, its breath stank and it would attack anything that came near it so was no use as a beast of burden. Economic prospects were assessed as nil.

Og

Be still mine heart. Have you got its phone number? I do like a challenge

Shanglan

 

[oggbashan]

Be still mine heart. Have you got its phone number? I do like a challenge

Shanglan

What sex do you want it to be? Like many crossbreeds it is infertile and either sex is usually cross. I think the only specimens are in Northern Malaya where a zoologist (or crypto-zoologist) produces these oddities in the hope of striking the jackpot and producing a milk animal that has useful fur, can carry burdens or be yoked to a plough, is placid and tastes good. According to the book is best so far (1980s) was 2 out of 5 and all were less useful than the animals they were derived from.

Some of the animals escaped and frightened the locals. The gnu/water buffalo cross was large, fast and very short-tempered.

Og

PS. I think the author of the book was too gullible for his own good. It reads like a failed Ph.D thesis.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

That I would be fascinated to read. Love anything to do with history or counter-factual history. Just today picked up a counter-factual history book based on the premise of Babbage actually building and correcting his Difference Engine, causing the Computer Age to start at the same time as the Industrial Revolution, giving Britain an insurmountable foot-up on every other coutnry in terms of technology. Can't wait till I've actually got time to read it.

The Earl

Earl. i have several books that are appallingly wrong. I have a newspaper, dated Dec. 4, 1942 with a headline that reads : Japanese will not attack U.S.. the long story details how yammamoto was interviewd by the praier shinbum (?0 and quoted as saying the Emperor was not in favor of conflict with the U.S. and hoped diplomatic efforts would end the embargo.

I note at the time the Japanese fleet had already left the Kuriles for Pearl Harbor.

Fascinating stuff.

But I love history, especially it's oddities

 

[BlackShanglan]

What sex do you want it to be? Like many crossbreeds it is infertile and either sex is usually cross. I think the only specimens are in Northern Malaya where a zoologist (or crypto-zoologist) produces these oddities in the hope of striking the jackpot and producing a milk animal that has useful fur, can carry burdens or be yoked to a plough, is placid and tastes good. According to the book is best so far (1980s) was 2 out of 5 and all were less useful than the animals they were derived from.

Oh, just send me several of each

I had to smile on the last, before I saw the comment about all of them being less useful than their pre-cross species. Indeed. Sheep manage four out of five; wouldn't it be better to just try to breed a plow-pulling sheep?

 

[oggbashan]

Oh, just send me several of each

I had to smile on the last, before I saw the comment about all of them being less useful than their pre-cross species. Indeed. Sheep manage four out of five; wouldn't it be better to just try to breed a plow-pulling sheep?

That's why the book was useless.

Og

 

[CrazyyAngel]

That I would be fascinated to read. Love anything to do with history or counter-factual history. Just today picked up a counter-factual history book based on the premise of Babbage actually building and correcting his Difference Engine, causing the Computer Age to start at the same time as the Industrial Revolution, giving Britain an insurmountable foot-up on every other coutnry in terms of technology. Can't wait till I've actually got time to read it.

The Earl

Do you have the title and/or author present? Cause I'd want to look it up too ... sounds interesting.

CA

 

[TheEarl]

The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

The Earl

 

[BlackShanglan]

The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

The Earl

That's quite a pedigree. Mind you, good authors can write bad books, but those are two of my favorites. Sterling's "The Artificial Kid" was a great read back in the day.

 

[tolyk]

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You spelt your name wrong in that first one.. Trust me, we're all afraid of you, you superior being you.