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- Nothingland (http://cellar.org/forumdisplay.php?f=36)

- - Guess my job (http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=26314)

HungLikeJesus

11-16-2011 08:13 AM

Cotillion, do you occasionally have to travel to distant cities and kill people?

Nirvana

11-16-2011 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 773108)

I'd love to convert an old caboose into a guest room or something.

There is one for sale down the road from me IM shall I inquire for you? ;)

Spexxvet

11-16-2011 09:20 AM

Cotillion, do you masturbate while on the clock?

infinite monkey

11-16-2011 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Nirvana (Post 773292)

There is one for sale down the road from me IM shall I inquire for you? ;)

Oh I wish. I have no money and no land. I'll let you know after I win the lottery tonight. :)

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 773293)

Cotillion, do you masturbate while on the clock?

Cotillion, do you like Gladiator movies?

Sundae

11-16-2011 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 773253)

Kids' favorites always seem to involve absent parents or dead parents. Especially popular when the parents come back at the end and praise the kids for being so independent and resourceful.

This is the case with almost all classic children's literature. At least one parent is absent.

One of the marked exceptions is the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. But the family lived a pioneer lifestyle, so it was still a time of great upheaval.

infinite monkey

11-16-2011 09:31 AM

I hadn't thought of that. Pippi Longstocking also comes to mind:

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Pippi lives in a small Swedish village, sharing the house she styles "Villa Villekulla" with her monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and her horse ("Lilla gubben", "little buddy", in the books, in adaptations usually referred to as "Old Man" or Alfonzo) but no adults or relatives. She befriends the two children living next door: Tommy and Annika Settergren. The three have many adventures. Tommy and Annika's mother, Mrs. Settergren, often disapproves of Pippi's manners and lack of education, but eventually comes to appreciate that Pippi would never put Tommy and Annika in danger, and that Pippi values her friendship with the pair above almost anything in her life. Pippi's two main possessions are a suitcase full of gold coins (which she used to buy her horse) and a large chest of drawers containing various small treasures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstocking

limey

11-16-2011 10:49 AM

I know!!!!! Cotillion is Pippi Longstocking!!!!!!!

infinite monkey

11-16-2011 10:51 AM

What a great username that would have been. Rats!

Griff

11-16-2011 05:03 PM

I vote inter tube spam merchant.

Gravdigr

11-16-2011 05:27 PM

Could your job be described as "slangin"?

DanaC

11-16-2011 05:31 PM

My favourite of the kids without parents around type books as a kid, was Homecoming. Followed by Dicey's Song Even now I get a lump in my throat at the second title, though Homecoming was the best of the two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming_(novel)

Was published when I was 11, and I think I read it when I was 12.

Heh. I hadn;t realised there were more in the series. I fell off after Dicey's Song.

Clodfobble

11-16-2011 06:37 PM

One of my favorites as an adolescent was The Talisman. And yep, kid's mom is dying of cancer so he has to go out into this crazy fantasy world and save her by himself.

Then again, I also loved a lot of Dean Koontz, and his were never about kids.

HungLikeJesus

11-16-2011 07:19 PM

Three of my favorite books when I was nine were, Watership Down, The Blue Knight, and Mouthful of Flesh - which I found in the road one day.

kerosene

11-16-2011 09:59 PM

My favorite was a Wrinkle in Time. Read it in 4th grade and it freaked me out so much I had to read it again.

Sundae

11-17-2011 08:07 AM

You loved Watership Down at none years old?!
Wow. I couldn't get into it until I was an adult.

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