On 01/10/2011 07:42 PM, Giles wrote:
On Jan 10, 12:57 pm, Frank Reid © wrote:
On Jan 10, 12:57 pm, Frank Reid © wrote:
On Jan 10, 12:51 pm, Frank Reid © wrote:

Meanwhile, you should be making plans to get your slenderized ass up
here in the spring. Many fish in many excellent streams (the nearest
of which is about a four minute drive away), and deluxe free
accommodations* in a beautiful sylvan setting. Ask Frank.

Wolfgang
*including two heart-healthy meals a day at no extra cost.

Bring a "suit of lights" and your favorite set of varas for access to
the stream.
Frank "Pick-a-Door... Any door" Reid

I guess the proper term is picas, though why you would fight a bull by
throwing little guinea pigs at it, I do not know.
Frank Reid

In their native range they are plentiful and inexpensive.....like
rats. Elsewhere, they breed.....um.....well, like ****in' rats
(which, let's be frank here, they are). Bottom line.....cheap
ammunition. A few hundred, fired in rapid succession would, at the
very least, wreak havoc on bovine traction.....not to mention
distraction on an scale impossible for ANYTHING to ignore. However,
speaking frankly (oops, just spilled a gallon of wine on the keyboard,
breaking an ankle and severing a relatively major artery in the
process.....but, no matter) such measures should hardly be necessary
for most ordinary mortals. Prevarication, dissembling,
circumlocution, joshing, kidding, or outright lying should be
sufficient. In short, don't be.....wait for it.....frank.

Meanwhile, a day slated for reading from the new device that inspired
this thread has turned into a nightmare of trying to sate the
monster. I'd already made a trip to Project Gutenberg and downloaded
a number of items that had never particularly excited my interest but
seemed like the sort of thing that a literate boy SHOULD be familar
with. Fair enough.....into the hopper they went. O.k., let's see
what we've got. Hm.....roughly 3 gigabytes of capacity remaining.

Allright, back to PG. Hm.....Shakespeare. Yeah! That ought to do
the trick! Download. Roughly 3 gigabytes left.

Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," Stowe's "Uncle tom's Cabin," and Baum's
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Roughly 3 gigabytes left.

Gibbon's "Decline and Fall....," Shelley's "Letters written during a
short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark," and Kafka's "The
Trial." Roughly 3 gigabytes left! Ack!

Christie's "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," Swift's "A Modest
Proposal," Twain's "Life on the Mississippi," and "Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn," Wodehouse's "My Man Jeeves," Cervantes' "Don
Quixote," Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass," the KJV, Smith's "An
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," Grose's
"1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," Kipling's the Jungle Book,"
Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil,".....HAH! Roughly 3
gig......AAAARRRGGGHH!

So, I bought Twain's autobiography (the 2010 edition....volume 1, as
it turns out) from Amazon ($9.95), the Complete Works of Twain (sans
2010 autobiography) 300+ works with active table of contents ($0.99),
& the Complete Works of Kipling 100+ works with active table of
contents ($0.99). That shou......roughly 3 g WTF!!??

help me!

Wolfgang
who will gladly accept any reasonable recommendations.

All I know it that "War and Peace" and two volumes of autobiography by
Ulysses S. Grant don't make a dent.

Russell

"There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza . . . "