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Re: Please accept mey THOOLAH application.
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 12:17 am
by ussusimiel
CerealKiller wrote:I humbly request that you please accept mey THOOLAH application.
All you need to be a member is to have the perspicacity to see the truth of Linden. You obviously have seen plenty of the Light. Welcome to THOOLAH!
u.
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 2:18 am
by Menolly
Be Welcome to the Watch, CK.
Be Well Come and True.
Come tell us a little about yourself in the
Say Hello in Here thread in
The Summonsing.
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 3:04 pm
by kevinswatch
The THOOLAH thread never ceases to entertain me.
-jay
Re: Please accept mey THOOLAH application.
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 4:37 pm
by dlbpharmd
CerealKiller wrote:Lurker deLurking. I was kind of apathetic to Linden in the Second Chronicles, but I have developed such a frothing hatred of her that I have not been able to finish The Runes of the Earth. I have picked it up several times over the years but usually give up a little more than half way through. Does she get any more palatable in the following books? I may just give up on Ruins and start again at Fatal.
aTOMic, thanks for the bumper sticker in your July 16 post. I have it in my car back window, above my desk at work and use it as part of my avatar on other board.
I humbly request that you please accept mey THOOLAH application.
You had me at "frothing hatred." Welcome to THOOLAH!
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 10:19 am
by TheFallen
Here's a Zen riddle for you all. I trust that you'll find it enlightening...
Question:
Linden Avery, Jar Jar Binks (that character from Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace) and an IRS inspector all coincidentally weigh exactly 125 pounds. They find themselves all at the top of the Empire State Building, feeling massively depressed - hardly a reach in Linden's case, since it's her natural state of being. Anyhow, they all feel so irredeemably hopeless that they decide to make a suicide pact and end it all. So, on the count of three, they all leap off at the exact same microsecond...
So, who hits the ground first?
Answer:
The ONLY correct answer is... who gives a crap? It's all good.
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:20 pm
by aTOMiC
TheFallen wrote:Here's a Zen riddle for you all. I trust that you'll find it enlightening...
Question:
Linden Avery, Jar Jar Binks (that character from Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace) and an IRS inspector all coincidentally weigh exactly 125 pounds. They find themselves all at the top of the Empire State Building, feeling massively depressed - hardly a reach in Linden's case, since it's her natural state of being. Anyhow, they all feel so irredeemably hopeless that they decide to make a suicide pact and end it all. So, on the count of three, they all leap off at the exact same microsecond...
So, who hits the ground first?
Answer:
The ONLY correct answer is... who gives a crap? It's all good.
Simply awesome...
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:49 pm
by Icarus Unfallen
Since this is the 1st and 2nd Chrons forum, I can't get into specifics, but ROTE certainly contains information relevant to TheFallen's riddle.
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:35 pm
by CerealKiller
aTOMiC wrote:TheFallen wrote:Here's a Zen riddle for you all. I trust that you'll find it enlightening...
Question:
Linden Avery, Jar Jar Binks (that character from Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace) and an IRS inspector all coincidentally weigh exactly 125 pounds. They find themselves all at the top of the Empire State Building, feeling massively depressed - hardly a reach in Linden's case, since it's her natural state of being. Anyhow, they all feel so irredeemably hopeless that they decide to make a suicide pact and end it all. So, on the count of three, they all leap off at the exact same microsecond...
So, who hits the ground first?
Answer:
The ONLY correct answer is... who gives a crap? It's all good.
Simply awesome...
Can we expand on that list?
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:40 pm
by Frostheart Grueburn
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:23 pm
by Menolly
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 8:26 pm
by Frostheart Grueburn
Glad you liked it.
Devoted Thoolahians grow oddly quiet when the Swordmainnir step in to defend Linden.
We however do wish that Stave Rockbrother would give her a passionate, rock-hard staffing in the bushes, so that she would not blather about the stick for hours on end with that frown potent enough to curdle milk.
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:12 am
by Ur Dead
Now that the Final book has been written..
Who won???
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:46 am
by ussusimiel
THOOLAH, of course!
u.
P.S. In saying that Linden wasn't that annoying in TLD, but that may simply be a case of fractions. We only had 1/3 as much of her as in some of the other books (TC an Jeremiah shared out the rest of the time in TLD)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:28 am
by aTOMiC
Ur Dead wrote:Now that the Final book has been written..
Who won???
Nobody won. That's the whole damn point of THOOLAH.
Its like if your Mom made you your favorite meal from when you were a kid but mixed something in that you hated just to shake things up a bit. You would be crushed and disappointed. You would probably try to salvage the situation by eating around the icky parts but this isn't a pizza with anchovies on it. Its a book and you can't skip over the parts you don't care for (unless its the bible
)
Long Live THOOLAH!
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:56 pm
by Savor Dam
What the heck is wrong with a pizza with anchovies on it? Sounds good to me!
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 4:47 pm
by Menolly
Every other slice with anchovies for me, please...
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 4:53 pm
by aTOMiC
Savor Dam wrote:What the heck is wrong with a pizza with anchovies on it? Sounds good to me!
Gross!
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 7:10 pm
by Savor Dam
Tastes differ...which brings us back to Linden. Clearly, you and other THOOLAHans do not care for her...while those who are more favorably inclined toward her find piquiancy the intensity of her angst and the salt of her tears.
Linden...if the Chrons were a pizza, might Linden be the anchovy? Would Menolly want her to appear every other book?
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:23 pm
by aTOMiC
Okay. I've finally begun reading The Last Dark and I have to confess that the first chapter has completely changed my opinion of Linden Avery. I will now withdraw my membership in THOOLAH and happily embrace...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!
Just kidding.
Actually getting a heavy dose of LA at the beginning of TLD does nothing to change my feelings about the character.
I opened the book hoping for a final book Easter egg like if the opening chapter involved a scene taking place just before Covenant enters the Land for the first time in which Lord Mhoram describes Linden Avery's future acts of unremitting irritation and baffling levels of unrestrained treachery to High Lord Prothal who immediately voids his stomach at the thought of such evil unleashed upon his beloved home.
Nope, just more Linden Avery.
Perhaps the rest of the book will win me over for real.
Don't hold your breath.
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 2:36 am
by Holsety
Savor Dam wrote:Tastes differ...which brings us back to Linden. Clearly, you and other THOOLAHans do not care for her...while those who are more favorably inclined toward her find piquiancy the intensity of her angst and the salt of her tears.
Linden...if the Chrons were a pizza, might Linden be the anchovy? Would Menolly want her to appear every other book?
I like Linden, but I'm not sure I like her as much as I like anchovies...food is good.
