Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (97377)	3/8/2005 6:24:52 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Juiced by Jose Canseco There's a reason it's been number 1 on the NYT nonfiction list for three weeks.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (97377)	3/8/2005 7:14:12 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

i just ordered 'me talk pretty one day' my daughter recommended highly ...very funny should fit your reading requirement...as long as you don't mind looking like a complete idiot laughing out loud on the beach and having people stare at you quizzically amazon.com (even the reviews make me laugh) Sedaris takes unprecedented pride his refusal to learn any useful French - despite six summer visits and a two-year stay. The book includes several essays devoted this topic. During his second summer in Normandy, Sedaris devotes himself to learning 10 new words per day, in a faux effort to expand his two-word vocabulary of "ashtray" and "bottleneck". The list includes: "exorcism, facial swelling, death penalty , slaughterhouse, sea monster and witch doctor." In a later story, Sedaris has taken to amusing himself while walking around Paris listening to a pocket medical guide with French-English translations for visiting doctors. His fondest hope is that he'll have to opportunity to try out his new conversational French at some cocktail party in the future: "That's me at the glittering party, refilling my champagne glass and turning to my host to ask if he's noticed any unusual discharge." bill! notice "death penalty" in french! i know you are an aficionado! <edit> err...of the death penalty, not the french