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blahpook says...

Yes, alas, Farm Frenzy and its offshoots are one of my favorite ways to procrastinate from various reading and writing assignments. LOL.

By the way, what do you translate?

In reply to this comment by EDD:
The *quality was well-deserved. Although I kind of feel your pain and then again I kind of don't

I took a brief stint in English A1 (supposedly for native speakers, mostly World-lit analysis) course as a part of IBO diploma programme. It included Lermontov, 1984, Ancient Mariner, Kafka etc. etc. etc. Decided it wasn't for me, but that's mostly because other group members were even less-qualified to pass as native speakers than I was and also I simply had already read most of what was on the mandatory reading list.

Still, English is my life-long mistress. No wonder I'm 'moonlighting' as a translator/interpreter now.

*edit - I looked below and were you really playing Farm Frenzy? My wife can't get enough of those kinds of games.

In reply to this comment by blahpook:
Thanks! I still read Pooh and Catcher every once in a while, even though the first time I read both was probably because I was assigned them in class (read: English major). Interestingly enough all but a couple of the books on my list were ones I have read for leisure in-between classes. I guess that says a lot.

In reply to this comment by EDD:
oh and what the hell, anything that helps me exercise some healthy verbal diarrhea is *quality

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blahpook says...

Thanks! I still read Pooh and Catcher every once in a while, even though the first time I read both was probably because I was assigned them in class (read: English major). Interestingly enough all but a couple of the books on my list were ones I have read for leisure in-between classes. I guess that says a lot.

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oh and what the hell, anything that helps me exercise some healthy verbal diarrhea is *quality

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blahpook says...

Meant in jest, mostly to poke fun at her over-the-top tactics to use her sex as a means of garnering political support. I personally wish she would stop speaking for all of us females as though we all thought the same. What makes it worse is that her constantly drawing attention to non-issues in "hockey mom" terms (like saying that Katie Couric "annoyed" her instead of owning up) makes her sound like a 'typical' woman, distraught, emotional, dumb, and in need of rescuing. BARF. It really makes me ill.



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I object to the sexist title.
For serious.

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blahpook says...

I agree. She deserves way more credit than the small group off the street the Today Show must have pulled in to watch her sing.

In reply to this comment by oileanach:
I heard this track on the radio when it first came out and I bought the album almost immediately - what an excellent piece of work! That lame ass clapping at the end is pathetic though... flogging one's album on morning TV shows is a pretty humiliating end of the business I think. I'd strongly recommend all of her stuff.

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