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From: Jonathan Kirwan on 3 Nov 2006 21:24 On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:41:05 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >"Jonathan Kirwan" <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote in message >news:6qcnk2h9rl7p2vcnh97pr7i0ihpa9idseg(a)4ax.com... >> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:23:29 -0000, "T Wake" >> <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >>>Maybe they don't sell books in America........ >> >> :) >> >> They do. But in many American homes you won't see that many. Like 5. >> (And one is a bible they don't read that much -- and never the Sermon >> on the Mount, because they might actually have to consider the painful >> idea of not actually being a darned hypocrite.) >> >> In my home, I've a technical library numbering currently some 2,000 >> books spanning across all the walls of my 'office' room, which are a >> minimum of 10' high (to over 12'.) About 200 cu ft of shelf space in >> my office alone. More books, of course, elsewhere. > >My collection's not quite as big, but more eclectic. Some technical, some >fiction, some philosophy, history, some soft-core science, travel, a variety >of beer- and wine-making books...and a full collection of Dilbert, Bloom >County, and Life In Hell. My 'office' includes mathematics, physics, philosophy, history, politics, a particular specialty on the formation of the US and its history circa 178*, computers, and a variety of hobby things like rocketry, astronomy, electronics, and the like. Travel is of no interest, nor Dilbert, nor beer (which I hate the taste of, at least American stuff), or wine. Some overlap, it seems. >> Some of us do buy (and >> read) a lot of books to keep the bookstores happy. > >Yeah, Mary won't even let me go into a bookstore these days. :^) Hehe! My wife is a writer and reads a lot, too. So I get to have some of my penchant in the bargain. We've 'controlled' our spending on books some, though. It's down substantially from the peak of about US$5k/yr, but probably not less than about half that. Jon
From: MooseFET on 3 Nov 2006 22:02 unsettled wrote: > MooseFET wrote: > > > unsettled wrote: > > > >>lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >>>Gallup is "suspect"...right.... You will label anything you don't like with > >>>any pejorative label you can come up with, just so you don't have to deal > >>>with it. Nice. > >> > >>You argue like a first grader. > > > > > > But you are losing to him. > > > > Are you following him, or are you following the lemming directly? Neither. I'm just pointing out that this person that you claim is arguing like a first grader is doing a better job than you are.
From: unsettled on 3 Nov 2006 22:14 MooseFET wrote: > unsettled wrote: > >>MooseFET wrote: >> >> >>>unsettled wrote: >>> >>> >>>>lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: >>> >>>[...] >>> >>> >>>>>Gallup is "suspect"...right.... You will label anything you don't like with >>>>>any pejorative label you can come up with, just so you don't have to deal >>>>>with it. Nice. >>>> >>>>You argue like a first grader. >>> >>> >>>But you are losing to him. >>> >> >>Are you following him, or are you following the lemming directly? > > > Neither. I'm just pointing out that this person that you claim is > arguing like a first grader is doing a better job than you are. > Your opinion is worthless.
From: MooseFET on 3 Nov 2006 22:24 unsettled wrote: > MooseFET wrote: > > unsettled wrote: > > > >>MooseFET wrote: > >> > >> > >>>unsettled wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >>> > >>>[...] > >>> > >>> > >>>>>Gallup is "suspect"...right.... You will label anything you don't like with > >>>>>any pejorative label you can come up with, just so you don't have to deal > >>>>>with it. Nice. > >>>> > >>>>You argue like a first grader. > >>> > >>> > >>>But you are losing to him. > >>> > >> > >>Are you following him, or are you following the lemming directly? > > > > > > Neither. I'm just pointing out that this person that you claim is > > arguing like a first grader is doing a better job than you are. > > > > Your opinion is worthless. I think I'll give it one more chance to sink in.
From: Eeyore on 3 Nov 2006 22:52
unsettled wrote: > I'll repeat, LPG comes from petroleum. Propane is LPG. So ? Both work equally well. Graham |