Comments on: Halls of book-learnin’ http://joshreads.com/?p=949 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:18:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Johnny Sorrento http://joshreads.com/?p=949&cpage=7#comment-626493 Johnny Sorrento Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:21:58 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=949#comment-626493 Not so long ago, or should we say an lifetime that is ever present, I found myself dinning from the floors of restaurants and scavenging the left overs of the loaded and well to do.I then made my mind up to engage with those feelings which at the time felt uncomfortable but now feel the norm .The feelings to which I refer are simple such as warmth , being fed and of course being loved.Above all my sheer belief to succeed was the greatest and most important commitment I could dare dream to to aspire to and now as the story goes ,the rest is history. Not so long ago, or should we say an lifetime that is ever present, I found myself dinning from the floors of restaurants and scavenging the left overs of the loaded and well to do.I then made my mind up to engage with those feelings which at the time felt uncomfortable but now feel the norm .The feelings to which I refer are simple such as warmth , being fed and of course being loved.Above all my sheer belief to succeed was the greatest and most important commitment I could dare dream to to aspire to and now as the story goes ,the rest is history.

]]> By: Poteet http://joshreads.com/?p=949&cpage=7#comment-179051 Poteet Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:54:51 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=949#comment-179051 # 337 -- JJ, sorry to repeat if you know this, but Foob is going to continue on indefinitely in a frozen-in-time format, according to Johnston. That may partly account for the lack of concern about possible future jonesing for it here:-) # 337 — JJ, sorry to repeat if you know this, but Foob is going to continue on indefinitely in a frozen-in-time format, according to Johnston. That may partly account for the lack of concern about possible future jonesing for it here:-)

]]> By: JJ http://joshreads.com/?p=949&cpage=7#comment-178912 JJ Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:02:34 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=949#comment-178912 Being serious for a second (or at least for a post), I wonder how many of you are actually going to miss For Better or For Worse. I have to caveat this: I like the strip; I don't always like the directions it's gone or it's going, I think some storylines are lame, but I like the strip and have liked it for years. Everyone that complains about ad nauseum seems to be reading it, or else they wouldn't know enough about it to comment on it (continuously, and to reference old strips and situations, or people that haven't been in the strip in months, if not years). I'm going to miss it when it finally ends. I agree with Saxman who said "Contrarian that I am, I point out that FOOB thrives on conflict, not resolution." Good observation. I agree with his comment "And speaking of Howard, I don’t know for sure how they do it in Canada, but hasn’t this rape trial dragged on a long time? Why is that? Isn’t the jury getting bored?" but I also understand that it's a strip based around "continuing real life" i.e., time is actual and people are living lives and age, etc., thus you can't just devote the strip to rape trial to the exclusion of that one storyline. But I do think it would be good if the storyline was interrupted on a day-by-day exception to bring in some other on-going storyline updates. Sorry folks, but if you don't like it, don't read it. But I have sneaking suspicion that the majority of people who complain about the strip wouldn't miss it for anything, and will miss it when if finally wraps up. Jack_in_the_world@yahoo.com Being serious for a second (or at least for a post), I wonder how many of you are actually going to miss For Better or For Worse. I have to caveat this: I like the strip; I don’t always like the directions it’s gone or it’s going, I think some storylines are lame, but I like the strip and have liked it for years. Everyone that complains about ad nauseum seems to be reading it, or else they wouldn’t know enough about it to comment on it (continuously, and to reference old strips and situations, or people that haven’t been in the strip in months, if not years).

I’m going to miss it when it finally ends.

I agree with Saxman who said “Contrarian that I am, I point out that FOOB thrives on conflict, not resolution.” Good observation. I agree with his comment “And speaking of Howard, I don’t know for sure how they do it in Canada, but hasn’t this rape trial dragged on a long time? Why is that? Isn’t the jury getting bored?” but I also understand that it’s a strip based around “continuing real life” i.e., time is actual and people are living lives and age, etc., thus you can’t just devote the strip to rape trial to the exclusion of that one storyline. But I do think it would be good if the storyline was interrupted on a day-by-day exception to bring in some other on-going storyline updates.

Sorry folks, but if you don’t like it, don’t read it. But I have sneaking suspicion that the majority of people who complain about the strip wouldn’t miss it for anything, and will miss it when if finally wraps up. Jack_in_the_world@yahoo.com

]]> By: Stationary Jew http://joshreads.com/?p=949&cpage=7#comment-178109 Stationary Jew Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:55:17 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=949#comment-178109 The linguistic survey of Snuffy Smith was well before my time here. My conclusions were based on topography; those cliffs that you used to see all the time are very much a northwestern Arkansas feature, while so far as I've ever seen, the suggested bit of Appalachia is much more a rolling hill kind of place. In <a href="http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html" rel="nofollow">the relevant soft drink map</a>, we see two isolated counties in north Arkansas where "pop" is the prevailing term:Boone in the northwest (50-80%), and Stone in the north center (80%+). That these are linguistic islands surrounded by areas where flatlander retirees have moved in and brought some linguistic modernization seems fully in keeping with the nature of the Holler. I'm more certain of the geography of Boone county being a match, but I wouldn't rule out Stone without further research. The linguistic survey of Snuffy Smith was well before my time here. My conclusions were based on topography; those cliffs that you used to see all the time are very much a northwestern Arkansas feature, while so far as I’ve ever seen, the suggested bit of Appalachia is much more a rolling hill kind of place. In the relevant soft drink map, we see two isolated counties in north Arkansas where “pop” is the prevailing term:Boone in the northwest (50-80%), and Stone in the north center (80%+). That these are linguistic islands surrounded by areas where flatlander retirees have moved in and brought some linguistic modernization seems fully in keeping with the nature of the Holler. I’m more certain of the geography of Boone county being a match, but I wouldn’t rule out Stone without further research.

]]> By: Dick http://joshreads.com/?p=949&cpage=7#comment-178058 Dick Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:46:52 +0000 http://joshreads.com/?p=949#comment-178058 Why does "Weed" keep calling that chick 'Mike'? Why does “Weed” keep calling that chick ‘Mike’?

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