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5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'I Shall We... · 0 replies · +8 points

On the subject of nettles, stinging, and handling: Allow me to recommend "Dearest" by Althea Kontis, which is a new take on the swan princes, and their sister weaving shirts out of... ouch, nettles. /book pusher

Be advised, with 6 enchanted princes, there _will_ be a romance or two.

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'I Shall We... · 1 reply · +11 points

But don't forget, this is Granny Aching's Granddaughter.
That has to count for something.

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Unseen Aca... · 0 replies · +6 points

Ook!*

Orangutan, not monkey, and here's a bag to carry your teeth home. Oh, did you break your arm trying to pick up the bag? Remarkable.

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Unseen Aca... · 1 reply · +6 points

Mark: So I admire that Pepe brilliantly gets the crowd to chant something else. It takes their attention away from Mr. Nutt, and Trev’s family name becomes closer to something like an invocation, a prayer to times gone by.

Aha. Ahaha. Ahahahahha!!!!!!!!

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Unseen Aca... · 0 replies · +8 points

Anyone who read UA when published would have IMMEDIATELY associated Macarona-Macarena.

Especially since he cannot live without pasta.
Video here, beucaes it seems I am an evil person.

Also spill-chick wants to correct the above misspelling to beef-cake, so I am leaving it in honor of Mr Tall Dark & Handsome.

[youtube 4X7BP4JFRIo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X7BP4JFRIo youtube]

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 0 replies · +1 points

Stripey petunias:
Well, I want to know why some of my marigolds are orange, some are yellow, and some are orange with red tips.
I'd like to arrange for all my marigolds to be 2-tone, thank you.

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 0 replies · +1 points

The Inheritance of An Acquired Characteristic:

This is why young soldiers who return from the army with a foot or leg lopped off later become parents of one-footed, one-legged babies. *nods wisely*

Well known phenomenon.

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 0 replies · +3 points

We cannot have a Susan cameo here, this is a science book. Women have no place for science, it melts their brains. Biology, you know.

note that Sally Ride has a helmet to catch the brains melting out her ears. <3 SallyRide

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 0 replies · +2 points

Catching up from the previous post, about 'what if' and 'alternate universe' questons needing a new name when respectable people want to use the term...

Counterfactual Question:

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck of a woodchuck would chuck wood?

Inquiring minds want to know!

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 0 replies · +3 points

Oh well if you want another hotel that plays with math theory, namely that you cannot have 5 right angles in a square building, go hang out at that SF convention Diane Wynne Jones wrote about...

somewhere in this chapter, I think. http://markreads.net/reviews/2014/03/mark-reads-d...

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