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  • superfrank
    Coach
    • Apr 2005
    • 6942

    #46
    "Abandon all hope ye who enter here is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as ******* ***** notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on it's side blocking his view, but ***** who is with *****&***** and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn the radio up, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so"
    Extratime.ie

    Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.

    Abri o portão de ouro, da maquina do tempo.

    Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.

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    • Iorfa
      Coach
      • Apr 2003
      • 259

      #47
      Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho...great book.

      "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
      Allez les Bleus

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      • SkStu
        Capped Player
        • Feb 2007
        • 14863

        #48
        "Gosh these hols are whizzing by," moaned Dick peering at the calendar on the kitchen wall. "Only two more weeks left, and then we'll be heading back to school."
        I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.

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        • Iorfa
          Coach
          • Apr 2003
          • 259

          #49
          The Famous Five get ASBOS.
          Allez les Bleus

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          • LeixlipRed
            First Team
            • Apr 2006
            • 1500

            #50
            I'm suprised no ones taken the wee and given this a shot,

            "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"

            On a more serious note

            "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."

            Not a difficult one but topical seeing as the movie is out soon

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            • BohsPartisan
              Seasoned Pro
              • Oct 2003
              • 4619

              #51
              Not got a clue of that one but...

              "***** gets me a job as a waiter, after that *****'s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die"
              TO TELL THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY

              The ONLY foot.ie user with a type of logic named after them!

              All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.

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              • superbohs
                Apprentice
                • Feb 2007
                • 9

                #52
                Originally posted by Iorfa
                .

                "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."

                The Outsider
                Albert Camus

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                • Bluebeard
                  Seasoned Pro
                  • Aug 2003
                  • 3025

                  #53
                  Originally posted by LeixlipRed
                  "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
                  Presumably that Philip Pullman book I have no intention of reading - Northern Lights?

                  Here are two Irish written ones - the first a cerified classic, the second a little more obscure by a big literary name:

                  ******** ******'s Journal
                  3 May. Bistritz. __Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.


                  The sun, having no alternative, shone on the nothing new
                  That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.

                  Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!

                  Originally posted by Dodge
                  I bow to no one. bar Bluebeard and Mr A

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                  • LeixlipRed
                    First Team
                    • Apr 2006
                    • 1500

                    #54
                    Correct Bluebeard. You should read the books. Kick's any of that Harry Potty stuff to touch. Best kids stroke fantasy series I've ever read

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                    • Sheridan
                      Seasoned Pro
                      • Dec 2004
                      • 2660

                      #55
                      Originally posted by LeixlipRed
                      Best kids stroke fantasy series I've ever read
                      I'd keep your kid stroking fantasies to yourself if you want to remain a free man.

                      How about this, the opening lines of the best short story ever written (with the possible exception of The Dead.)

                      I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I think there is something wrong with my liver.
                      A leading authority on League of Ireland football since 2003. You're probably wrong.

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                      • TonyD
                        Seasoned Pro
                        • May 2004
                        • 2755

                        #56
                        Originally posted by Sheridan
                        I'd keep your kid stroking fantasies to yourself if you want to remain a free man.
                        I'm glad no-one was in the office with me when I read that - I literally laughed out loud.
                        Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.

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                        • Wolfie
                          Seasoned Pro
                          • Nov 2006
                          • 2657

                          #57
                          "The shrill tones of the phone broke the deadly silence. A profound, edgy silence that you'd get from a room full of people where Michael Jackson has just offered to babysit".

                          "It was Delaney. It was true. I was the Gaffer".


                          Anyone?
                          Quoting years at random since 1975

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                          • LeixlipRed
                            First Team
                            • Apr 2006
                            • 1500

                            #58
                            Originally posted by Sheridan
                            I'd keep your kid stroking fantasies to yourself if you want to remain a free man.
                            While I was the butt (snigger) of the joke, I still laughed out loud

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                            • osarusan
                              International Prospect
                              • Sep 2004
                              • 8079

                              #59
                              Originally posted by Wolfie
                              "The shrill tones of the phone broke the deadly silence. A profound, edgy silence that you'd get from a room full of people where Michael Jackson has just offered to babysit".

                              "It was Delaney. It was true. I was the Gaffer".


                              Anyone?
                              The World According to Stan.

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                              • jebus
                                International Prospect
                                • Nov 2004
                                • 6847

                                #60
                                I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness anyone?

                                And BohsPartisan's is Fight Club I believe, people might have been thrown by the **** in place of the name Tyler, probably thought it was a curse word

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