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Cicero 11-19-2007 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 408577)
I got halfway through "You're Only Half the Loser You Think You Are" before I gave up. Didn't help my self esteem at all.

Why....did you spill your Boone's all over your copy like I did mine?
:D
The bottle was half empty anyway.....

Shawnee123 11-19-2007 03:25 PM

Good one Cic! :)

Cicero 11-19-2007 03:44 PM

lol! Anytime Shawnee...
Gotta keep up with you...it's not easy....

ZenGum 11-19-2007 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 408577)
I got halfway through "You're Only Half the Loser You Think You Are" before I gave up. Didn't help my self esteem at all.

I'm not sure, does this mean you are only one quarter the loser you think you are, or that you are in fact exactly the loser you think you are?

Shawnee123 11-20-2007 08:05 AM

Puh. New Math. (shrugs)

Andoria 11-20-2007 12:27 PM

My self help books are appropriately blank.

Depends on what kind of 'help' you need. All of them are only going to tell you what you're usually refusing to admit to yourself.

But if it is general 'eh' and doldrums, try Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance by Joseph M. Marshall.

Aliantha 11-22-2007 07:17 AM

or, Learning Not to Procrastinate. Can't remember the author. I'll look into it later. ;)

Clodfobble 11-28-2007 11:38 AM

Gmail had a link this morning to a recipe for Spam-and-Lemon Crescent rolls. Can you imagine something so patently filthy, so soulless, so whoringly disgusting?

Cicero 11-28-2007 11:45 AM

Can I say spam-loaf? Uuuuugh!!!

I believe these ingredients create the gateway to hell:

Foil dinner on the grill
1/4 cup brown sugar 8 new potatoes, sliced 1/4"
1/4 cup beer 2 cups carrots, sliced 1/4"
1/4 cup stone ground mustard 1 large onion, thinly sliced
1/2 tsp celery seed 12-oz can SPAM, cut into 12 slices

glatt 11-28-2007 11:51 AM

Sure Clodfobble, but Spam, all by itself, is really pretty disgusting too. What do you think, agird626? How do you feel about spam?

Shawnee123 11-28-2007 01:34 PM

oooh what'd I miss?

ZenGum 11-28-2007 01:42 PM

Not much. Just some first-time-poster appeared, apparently offering a "testimonial" about some self help program ... it MIGHT have been genuine ... but it looked a lot like advertising.
Only thing I recall was the author's name was Penix. Yeah, google penix if you really want to know. Damn I'm gonna go try that now, just to see what happens.

Shawnee123 11-28-2007 01:45 PM

Ohhhhhhh, penix. I've always been so jealous of him. I suffer from penix envy. :(

Shawnee123 11-28-2007 02:22 PM

Was it this book?

Why would you mess with a good thing? :lol:

agird626 11-28-2007 02:37 PM

Gee Whiz
 
Quote:

Anyways, do you like self help books? think they are a load of shit?

Recommend any?

I dont mind CC's cds, because I can listen to them whilst I am in the car for my 60 minute commute.
...Sorry, I thought the thread was started by ducknuts asking for self-help book recommendations...
...so I posted about my experience with a self-help book...
...but after all of your classy remarks, I now understand how my recommendation was completely out of line?
I see that your new contributions to the thread have definitely heightened its value and sincerity.
Way to be.


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