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Maybe I'll go vote for not-Adams after work today -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 09:15
Ma'am, this is a Wendy's -- (link) - Jovian Oct 27, 09:13
Heh. Traffic troubles. -- (link*) - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:56
Your 2021 elections cheat sheet -- (link) - ty97 Oct 27, 08:45 4
- I'm not voting for mayor or any judges. I'm only voting on the other offices and the ballot proposals. -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 09:00 2
  - Still deciding on mayor, doubt I'll leave it blank but won't vote Adams or Silwa - ty97 Oct 27, 09:10 1
    - I don't know anyone else that's running so for now I'm leaving it blank -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 09:22
- Life is too short to follow all that. -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 27, 08:52
John Scott, an attorney that assisted Trump in a suit seeking to block the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania for a short while... - Qale Oct 27, 08:43 8
- At least it’s not a state that’s actually in play. -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 08:52 1
  - It's Abbott's Hail Mary insurance policy should the worst (for him) surprisingly happen. -- nm* - Qale Oct 27, 09:15
- This is FINE -- nm - Pippy Oct 27, 08:48 2
  - Why do I think that even if Trump is not *running* in 2024, he will still win? -- nm - Spawn Oct 27, 08:51 1
    - Oh I can totally see that happens he doesn't officially run and still gets the nomination at the RNC -- nm - eag Oct 27, 09:22
- these seditionists are being installed all over the country -- nm - Jovian Oct 27, 08:44 1
  - now that I agree with. And they're going to take over school boards. Seeing it here in Indiana -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 09:19
- swell -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:44
Tiger King 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix (November 17th) -- (link) - Boooooooker Oct 27, 08:40 [youtube] 5
- I think we've given these people enough attention... -- nm - Guigue Oct 27, 08:44 4
  - I never watched a minute of the show and I think I've given them too much attention. -- nm - Trick or Todd Oct 27, 08:56
  - I watched the Pitch Meeting, that was more than enough -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 08:56
  - First time, we were all stuck in our houses. Fair enough. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:53
  - *nods* -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 08:49
Finished For All Mankind last night. Seriously good series. -- nm - Jovian Oct 27, 08:36
“ Elon Musk made $36 billion yesterday. That's more than most people make in a month.” - flavorize Oct 27, 08:31 4
- Elon Musk is worth more individually than all but 21 of the companies in the S&P 500. -- nm - decline Oct 27, 08:49
- I must be doing something wrong, it's taken me most of the year so far to make that much. -- nm* - Trick or Todd Oct 27, 08:32 2
  - SAD! -- nm - Spawn Oct 27, 08:36
  - 🤣 -- nm - flavorize Oct 27, 08:36
Ralph - here's some real Victorian names for potential 19th century pen-pals, if Nick is after inspiration -- (link) - LMS Oct 27, 08:27 [youtube] 1
- When I read the message, I assumed the IM was going to be something like Nick asking her if she had any of her letters he could use as examples. -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 08:29
So I will say that I read the wiki overview of Beloved earlier this year and I was....confused. - ty97 Oct 27, 08:23 3
- the Beloved book that was a movie? *spoils* - Pippy Oct 27, 08:25 2
  - I'm a bit confused where (and why) the [spoilers] plays in - ty97 Oct 27, 08:36 1
    - I don't recall that from the movie but its been a long time. One and done. I liked the twist but its a rough plot -- nm - Pippy Oct 27, 08:41
My sea lion photo from Monday turned out to be unimpressive in developing, so here's a replacement -- (pic) - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:22 [Attachment]
In 9th grade we had to do a monologue from Julius Caesar…I loved that …doing the Marc Anthony Friends Romans Countrymen monologue. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:19 1
- I boggled at the people who protested that version with "Trump". Because the moral of Julius Caesar is definitely - Reagen Oct 27, 08:24
This does remind me that I need to get back to reading some of those 'required reading' books that I missed - ty97 Oct 27, 08:04 11
- Several years ago I was at a big bookstore and they had a huge table setup with all of these greatest hits and I thought the exact same thing. - Volnelk Oct 27, 08:30
- I've done that with a few of mine. The Orwell, Of Mice & Men and Vonnegut particularly. Been meaning to revisit Catcher, which I loved, but feel... - Name Withheld By Request Oct 27, 08:27 3
  - I feel like you read Catcher as a teenager, or never. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:29 2
    - The plot also feels a little disengaged from anything a modern teenager could relate to. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 27, 08:31
    - correct. -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:31
- just read the wiki plot summaries and save yourself the anguish -- nm - decline Oct 27, 08:12 1
  - Some of the books are good! -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 08:13
- Cliffs Notes guides were great back in the day -- nm* - budice Oct 27, 08:05 2
  - There was only one book I used them on. Scarlet Letter. I read page 1 and noped out hard. -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 08:17 1
    - For me it was Moby Dick. - Trick or Todd Oct 27, 08:33
- I've read The Road and 1984 cause the oldest had to and have greatly enjoyed both -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 08:05
US Asks UK Court for Permission to Extradite Wikileaks' Julian Assange -- (link) - budice Oct 27, 07:59 2
- I'm not a fan of the dude, but are we really still doing this? -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 08:14 1
  - The neat thing about bureaucracy is that once it sets itself upon a person, it is indefatigable. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:24
ST Poll: You have to assign 5 books to be read in high school. What 5 do you choose **rules inside - ty97 Oct 27, 07:54 53
- Frankenstein, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 100 Years of Solitude, Turn of the Screw, To Kill a Mockingbird. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 27, 09:06
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Brave New World -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 08:41
- Lord of Flies, To Kill a Mocking Bird, 1984, The Crow Road and We Need to Talk About Kevin - LMS Oct 27, 08:21 1
  - yeah! slip some Banks in there. -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:33
- I spent way too much time on this: Animal Farm, Of Mice & Men, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Handmaid's Tale -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 27, 08:13 1
  - I also believe Irving should be taught - I like Cider House Rules for the themes and topic but others would also qualify for study -- nm - rollo Oct 27, 10:08
- Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, Brave New World, The Book Thief -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 08:12 1
  - It's hard to pick just five as I'd want to include things like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and plays like A Raisin in the Sun - Krusty Oct 27, 08:19
- I would say I'm not well-read enough to assign books that'd be more appropriate for a modern kid. Five literary classics seems unwise. -- nm - Qale Oct 27, 08:12
- I think a rule should be at least one African-American author and one female author -- nm - flavorize Oct 27, 08:10 4
  - Great, now this thread is banned in Texas. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:21
  - And that's where I fall short on being able to put in five good books unless I go like Little Women. -- (edited) - spamlet Oct 27, 08:19
  - I've been trying to figure out if my high school reading succeeded at either of these and I'm not sure. -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 08:12
  - *adds Kindred by Octavia Butler* Done! -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 27, 08:12
- I would prefer not to. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 27, 08:09 1
  - Bartleby the Scrivener it is -- nm - rollo Oct 27, 09:41
- Tale of Two Cities, Shakespear, 1984, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird -- nm - Pippy Oct 27, 08:07
- 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, Neuromancer -- nm - VMan Oct 27, 08:06
- 100 Years of Solitude, Merchant of Venice, The Old Man and the Sea, The Remains of the Day, Of Mice and Men -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 08:06
- I really enjoyed Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Marquez. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 27, 08:05
- The collective works of Cormac McCarthy -- nm - decline Oct 27, 08:01 3
  - You're going to destroy the kids' ability to use punctuation. -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 27, 08:16
  - whoa -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:03
  - "we had to watch The Road twice and let me tell you, it was not as funny the second time!" -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:02
- I'll be nice and give them fairly short works. - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 27, 08:00 5
  - F**k Faulkner. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:02 4
    - It's the shortest Faulkner! -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 27, 08:08 3
      - The worst teacher I ever had grew up in his town…she loved him and assigned his garbage. - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:16 2
        
        :-] -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:19 1
        
        Me and a girl swapped papers after we complained about the grading guys and girls got. - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:22
- Hamlet, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wizard of Oz, Das Kapital, Diary of Anne Frank. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:00
- Lord of the Flies, 1984, Shakespeare, Old Man and the Sea and I'll drop a new one in The Martian -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 07:59 4
  - The Martian is fun but does not stand up to that level of analysis. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:00 3
    - I was thinking more pimping of science, intelligence and working together -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 08:04 2
      - DGMW, totally worthy of a book report type assignment or just to encourage kids to enjoy reading. It's not deep enough to go up against like - Reagen Oct 27, 08:09 1
        
        fair -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 08:10
- 1) East of Eden 2) The Cider House Rules 3) Kane and Abel 4) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 5) Catch-22 -- nm - rollo Oct 27, 07:58
- not for anything, but I would assign the scifi epic Hyperion for sure. -- nm - Jovian Oct 27, 07:57
- Hamlet, Lear, … - spamlet Oct 27, 07:55 14
  - We did one Shakespeare a year from G9 on. Not many novel studies as a result. - Reagen Oct 27, 07:58 3
    - We did as well growing up. Pretty sure the same 4. -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 08:08 2
      - We added Othello and Lear into ours. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:23 1
        
        I would have like MacBeth or Lear over R&J or MSNsD - Reagen Oct 27, 08:26
  - As much as I don't get the Shakespeare love, it would be deficient to not assign at least one in high school I figure. -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 07:57 9
    - I'm the same way, I question if high schoolers can really comprehend the depth of his work until later, making that study inefficient. - Max Oct 27, 09:21
    - I don't remember reading much more than one or two from him. I know we read Hamlet and we might have also read A Midsummer Night's Dream. -- nm - Krusty Oct 27, 08:28
    - AND NOT EFFING ROMEO AND JULIET - spamlet Oct 27, 07:58 6
      - Oh man. We read out all ours. With assigned roles and everything. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 07:59 5
        
        How does it work? -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 08:07 4
        
        ...not well. Or did you mean the mechanics of it? - Reagen Oct 27, 08:13 3
        
        The IM. Is it more understandable than reading it? -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 08:17 2
        
        a little. It didn't really click in until we watched filmed versions. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 08:21 1
        
        Richard III (1995)!!! -- nm - mud Oct 27, 08:30
If you want your heart to truly sing like Wiggie's son's did, watch Love on the Spectrum Season 2. - Inigo Oct 27, 07:51 2
- I never saw Season 1, but watched all of 2 in one weekend. -- nm - Necromandie Oct 27, 08:23
- We watched 1 and didn’t realize there was a 2 until last week. It’s definitely on our list. -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 07:53
Inside Nick Rolovich's downfall at Washington State over the COVID-19 vaccine -- (link) - Boooooooker Oct 27, 07:51 2
- this section right here - Reagen Oct 27, 07:56 1
  - Well, he's catholic and the pope said get the shot -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 27, 10:43
Spawn, that's the most subtle death threat I've ever seen. What did you do to those South Africans? -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 07:47 5
- my partner Doug at the downtown store was threatened the other day by a homeless guy who was going to cut off his head -- nm - Remlik Oct 27, 09:10 1
  - that would be on the opposite end of the subtle scale. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 09:18
- I'll never tell. -- nm - Spawn Oct 27, 08:16
- stole some Krugerrands from their diplomats? -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 07:49 1
  - "It's been revoked." -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 07:51
Krusty: I went to public high school in New York state. - ty97 Oct 27, 07:47 2
- Alternatively, maybe there was a rule of only one book by an author per class. - ty97 Oct 27, 07:50 1
  - There is a limit to which books can be assigned by each teacher simply because the school won't have enough copies of the book for each student. - Krusty Oct 27, 08:08
It's just a cheap trick putting Bowie in a trailer but it did get me to listen to more Bowie today, so there's that. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 07:45 3
- Then you should purchase the Bowie graphic novel! -- (link) - Remlik Oct 27, 08:29
- I thought it was edgy for a Pixar trailer. Especially the way they altered the song. -- nm - Inigo Oct 27, 07:49
- that always improves things. -- nm - mud Oct 27, 07:47
True Story | Official Trailer | Netflix (Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes) (November 24th) -- (link) - Boooooooker Oct 27, 07:43 [youtube] 1
- Snipes looks weird now. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 07:50
*zoom zoom* -- nm - Spawn Oct 27, 07:42
ST Literary Poll: What books did you get assigned to read in High School (or have your kids been assigned) -- nm* - Boooooooker Oct 27, 07:42 27
- Off the top of my head: Gatsby, Crucible, Scarlett Letter, Heart of Darkness, Mockingbird, Lord of Flies, Animal Farm, Romeo/Juliet, Julius Caesar -- nm - Dano Oct 27, 08:27
- I remember Tender is the Night and a Philip Larkin poem about how your parents fuck you up. -- nm - LMS Oct 27, 08:18
- I read so many books in school. I was in the G&T program here and things were rather accelerated. I also read a lot for fun so I'm not sure - Krusty Oct 27, 08:16
- Lots of Shakespeare, Old Man and the Sea, As I Lay Dying and another shitty Faulkner, Huck Finn (toughest read ever), Canterbury Tales…and others -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 27, 08:04
- The Crucible, Ragtime, The Pearl, The Chocolate War, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, The Outsiders, All Quiet on the Western Front, Things Fall Apart -- nm - Jovian Oct 27, 07:55
- A lot of times in the kid’s school they get a list of 3 or 4 books and choose one to read. - spamlet Oct 27, 07:52 5
  - Ugh, make the kid suffer like we did -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 07:54 4
    - Ones that I can think of for the whole class include 1984 and Gatsby. - spamlet Oct 27, 07:57 3
      - I read 1984 as an adult and, yeah, it wouldn't really have registered with me as a kid I think -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 08:02 2
        
        I re-read it about every decade. It’s one of my favorite books now. - spamlet Oct 27, 08:09 1
        
        we just watched the cartoon of it. -- nm - Reagen Oct 27, 09:09
- Most of the common ones plus: The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Crime and Punishment, All Quiet on the Western Front, King Lear, Our Town -- nm - rollo Oct 27, 07:51
- Related: remember trying to find a Coles Notes for these books? Kids today will never know the joy of finding one you got assigned -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 07:50 2
  - My humble brag is that I got a 5 on the AP English exam and the only thing I read for the class was the Cliff Notes for King Lear. - rollo Oct 27, 07:53 1
    - That’s the best one! -- nm - spamlet Oct 27, 07:54
- Probably a bunch I’m missing but Mockingbird, Outsiders, Grapes of Wrath, Gatsby (unread) are ones that I remember. -- nm - znufrii Oct 27, 07:49 2
  - +All Quiet on the Western Front, Anne Frank -- nm* - znufrii Oct 27, 07:51
  - I recall reading portions of Beowulf, some of the Canterbury Tales (not the whole book though) in College Prep English (Grade 12) -- nm - ty97 Oct 27, 07:51
- Way too much crappy Dickens. Animal Farm. I know why the caged bird sings. Heart of Darkness. Chronicles of a death foretold. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 27, 07:47 2
  - God I hate Dickens. -- nm - loosilu Oct 27, 08:11
  - Metamorphosis, Stranger, a bunch of stuff in that link below. - Strongbad Oct 27, 07:50
- Here is a greatest hits list to jog your memory if you need it. -- (link) - Volnelk Oct 27, 07:46
- Animal Farm, A Separate Peace, Brave New World. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 27, 07:45
- it was ~50 years ago, all I remember was Tess of the D'Urbervilles. It was while I was reading Tolkien, Orwell, Hesse and Vonnegut on my own. -- nm - mud Oct 27, 07:45
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Homer's Odyssey/Iliad, Grapes of Wrath -- nm* - budice Oct 27, 07:43
- Me: The Pearl, Old Man and the Sea, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird (plus some Shakespeare) -- nm* - Boooooooker Oct 27, 07:43 1
  - Oldest: The Road, The Outsiders, 1984 (plus some Shakespeare) -- nm - Boooooooker Oct 27, 07:44

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