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The "How long can you RESIST buying/reading FR?" c
That's right, I said it's a "How long can you RESIST buying/reading FR?" contest!
Let's see who can hold out the longest.
Now, the only rule is that you must be in a position to buy/read it before your count can begin.
So, anyone going on a cruise for the next two weeks, for example, can't start their suffering time until they get back.
Just buying it doesn't end your suffering time count though, you have to crack it open and begin to read it.
I added "buying" in the description because many might have a limited opportunity to actually buy the book and I don't expect anyone to hold back at that point. But if you live next to a bookstore try to tough it out and not buy it.
So at 9:00AM (the time most retail stores open for business) Eastern Standard time (hey, my contest my time zone) on Oct 9th (that is the day it goes on sale right?) the contest will begin!
If you get your greedy little hands on a copy before that and somehow manage to resist reading it then you can back credit your suffering time.
So if you get it this Sunday at 9:00 AM but don't read any of it until the next day at 9:00 AM put yourself down for 24 hours.
Does that make sense?
I'm assuming that like that episode in Seinfeld most of us won't last more than 2 hours!
And all you *losers* who already have a copy and have read it and have begun discussion and dissection, you all can just kiss my ass!!
Let's see who can hold out the longest.
Now, the only rule is that you must be in a position to buy/read it before your count can begin.
So, anyone going on a cruise for the next two weeks, for example, can't start their suffering time until they get back.
Just buying it doesn't end your suffering time count though, you have to crack it open and begin to read it.
I added "buying" in the description because many might have a limited opportunity to actually buy the book and I don't expect anyone to hold back at that point. But if you live next to a bookstore try to tough it out and not buy it.
So at 9:00AM (the time most retail stores open for business) Eastern Standard time (hey, my contest my time zone) on Oct 9th (that is the day it goes on sale right?) the contest will begin!
If you get your greedy little hands on a copy before that and somehow manage to resist reading it then you can back credit your suffering time.
So if you get it this Sunday at 9:00 AM but don't read any of it until the next day at 9:00 AM put yourself down for 24 hours.
Does that make sense?
I'm assuming that like that episode in Seinfeld most of us won't last more than 2 hours!
And all you *losers* who already have a copy and have read it and have begun discussion and dissection, you all can just kiss my ass!!
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GOD-DAMN-IT!!!Seareach wrote:Well, Vain's won. He doesn't intend to read them until all four books are released.
How dare you Vain, ruining my perfectly good contest years before I even created it!
Kiss my ass bitch, just go and kiss my ass......Seareach wrote:As for your last sentence: you forgot to add a wink or something! You did mean that as a joke. Yes?
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Seareach wrote:I have absolutely no problems with kissing your ass... So, when should I expect you? Do you want dinner first?High Lord Tolkien wrote:Kiss my ass bitch, just go and kiss my ass......Seareach wrote:As for your last sentence: you forgot to add a wink or something! You did mean that as a joke. Yes?
That is so not fair!
Deflecting my rage with fake kindness.....that's evil and so wrong.
Just what I would expect from a Linden lover though.
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Now, I'll be the first to admit that I'm weak, I'll probably start reading FR as soon as I pick it up at the bookstore and am carrying it to the checkout counter to pay for it. I will than leave the store, oblivous to all around me, bump into a few people, cause some cars to lay on their brakes and yell at me, than I'll get into my standard Honda Accord and continue to read as I drive...woe unto those who are on the road...(this will all happen before noon for those who wish to stay indoors until it is safe)
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I'm pretty sure Amazon is sending my book to my work address. So I will probably start it immediately (productivity be damned!), or at least by the end of the day. I may not wait 'til I get on the subway -- I may start reading it while walking to the subway....
Hmm, driving home from the Metro will be problematic. I wonder if there's a hotel within walking distance of Vienna Metro...? (You laugh, but for the HP7 release, I rented a room in a hotel across the street from the BAM where Batty worked the midnight release party. I sat up all night and read; so did she, between the time she got "home" and the time she had to be back at work in the morning. I do wonder what the maid thought...)
Hmm, driving home from the Metro will be problematic. I wonder if there's a hotel within walking distance of Vienna Metro...? (You laugh, but for the HP7 release, I rented a room in a hotel across the street from the BAM where Batty worked the midnight release party. I sat up all night and read; so did she, between the time she got "home" and the time she had to be back at work in the morning. I do wonder what the maid thought...)
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Uh, sorry HLT, but me too. I need 'em all together so I can plow straight through 'em or I'll go nuts with waiting and re-rereading.High Lord Tolkien wrote:GOD-DAMN-IT!!!
How dare you Vain, ruining my perfectly good contest years before I even created it!
Although I guess I've already lost since I've read the acknowledgements.
And heard 'em read plenty.
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Really?bloodguard bob wrote: Uh, sorry HLT, but me too. I need 'em all together so I can plow straight through 'em or I'll go nuts with waiting and re-rereading.
That's such and alien point of view to me.
I never would have considered taking that course with anything.
I'm too afraid I'll die first and miss out on something, I think.
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Methinks HLT has lost his marbles!!!!That's right, I said it's a "How long can you RESIST buying/reading FR?" contest!
Anybody who can resist buying or reading FR also can resist Picolax.
They're not human.
I havn't even got FR and I'm ready for the last one, so I guess I have lost.
(I guess HLT want to keep the prizes)
What's this silver looking ring doing on my finger?
Didn't think it would be that easy to rattle you HLT! [and sorry, Linden insults these days don't have the "punch" they once did so.... I WIN! ]High Lord Tolkien wrote:Seareach wrote:I have absolutely no problems with kissing your ass... So, when should I expect you? Do you want dinner first?High Lord Tolkien wrote: Kiss my ass bitch, just go and kiss my ass......
That is so not fair!
Deflecting my rage with fake kindness.....that's evil and so wrong.
Just what I would expect from a Linden lover though.
dude. i so hope ya'll are joking...cause...HLT...you DO know Sea is coming to the USA next june right? heh. (you can run but you can't hide)Seareach wrote:Didn't think it would be that easy to rattle you HLT! [and sorry, Linden insults these days don't have the "punch" they once did so.... I WIN! ]High Lord Tolkien wrote:Seareach wrote: I have absolutely no problems with kissing your ass... So, when should I expect you? Do you want dinner first?
That is so not fair!
Deflecting my rage with fake kindness.....that's evil and so wrong.
Just what I would expect from a Linden lover though.
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~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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