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True Confessions of a Ricochetti
On another thread, one of our members admitted something:
I always confuse Horace Greeley with William Jennings Bryan.
I’ve seen a few other comments like this over the years I have been here. When Ricochetti go wild and make their true confessions, it usually isn’t the sort of thing you would see on Facebook or Jeff Bezos’ diary. How many people on your Facebook feed even know who Horace Greeley and William Jennings Bryant are? This is a high-class joint with high-class true confessions.
My true confession: the older I get, the more trouble I have with homonyms. I tend to write out loud. I once found an error in one of my books where I had used the word “clamber” instead of “clamor,” for instance.
What’s your most Ricochet-style true confession?
Published in Humor
NOOOOOooooooo!
It’s okay, @bossmongo. I’m not like… going to call your universities and ask them to cancel your diplomas or anything. I’m just shocked, I say. Shocked. (You’re carrying a club in your picture!!!!!!)
Love,
Francis ;)
Okay, here’s one sure to rile people up.
I liked LOST (even the way it ended), and have no issues with JJ Abrams or his reboots of Star Trek.
Okay, now that’s heresy.
@franksoto said it best: JJ’s schtick is to remake better films and add daddy issues.
I forgot about that. I remember watching and my dad said “Hey, that’s old G. Gordon Liddy!”
Lois, these people have something wrong with them!!!
Liddy was really in Miami Vice? Goodness. That’s funny.
Even though I love nautical literature, I have never been able to finish Moby Dick. I think I have started it more times than Sam Clemens quit smoking but it always puts me to sleep. Once I tried listening to it as an audio book during my daily commute and it almost put me to sleep as I was going down Beltway 8 at 65 mph. Quit listening to it, and switched to Space Viking.
Finally! A regular, reasonable person!!!!! :D
I only remember the Phil Collins and Sheena Easton episodes.
Now that is quite the surprise.
I have gotten through it, but I was young at the time. It’s much easier when one does not feel time’s wingèd chariot rolling over one’s bones and urging one to not waste time on poor writers.
On a more serious side:
I think that we shouldn’t have a tax bracket for single parents.
The sad thing about that novel, which I had to read in graduate school, is that it starts out great. Queequeg is so compelling! Almost like a LOTR character! :) But then comes the whale section… You know which one I’m talking about. It reads like a textbook on mammals with fins, and it is so very, very, verrrrrry long.
As a writer who has made a very, very thorough study of all the mistakes a writer can make, my assessment is the same as Boss Mongo’s. He may not be as bad as Hilary Mantel, but the LotR is nearly unreadable.
Whenever people here post ”Required reading” for highschool students, college students, or conservatives in general, they are almost all books I’ve never read.
Oh, are we going to our bold political views too?
I think we should legalize health insurance. Yes, that’s right–I think we should allow private companies to refuse coverage for people with preexisting conditions. Because that’s what health insurance is. I think we should accuse the Democrats of banning health insurance.
I think we should accuse them of being creepily anti-Muslim. (And I can justify this opinion with meticulous inductive logic, too.)
Heh, Boss’ university was not the sort to care that much about literature unless one’s degree major was in foreign languages. But that would not be English lit.
Well, I was going for a confession of something I know other Ricochetti find terrible. Because yes, I’ve been told here I’m one step away from being a Handmaid’s Tale character for thinking that the tax and legal system should make being a single mother more difficult.
Well, I can’t argue with that choice.
He is not. He’s a tanker. And you’re both abusing exclamation points. A sure sign of dementia or tankerhood.
G. Gordon appeared in two episodes as a bad guy and nemesis of Sonny Crockett, although (as I recall) some of his energies were directed to funding a paramilitary war against the Nicaraguan Contras.
Clarify? What if it’s Jeff Or MacKenzie Bezos?
Alright, people. I reread sections of Tolkien’s work whenever I’m unhappy. He’s like my perpetual pint of peanut butter and chocolate ice cream consumed on the couch in PJs and a fuzzy blanket. Delicious, warm, and satisfying. A true treat. I occasionally feel like going out and spray-painting “Frodo Lives!” in a subway. And when I pull at the Catholic theology threaded through the work??? I’m left in awe at the artistry.
Finally…. I’m going to leave this little nugget right here… :)
Sections? But do you read all of the work, or pull out favored sections? I will admit he had his moments. As someone else said, he was a talented amateur. But a pro would have treated it more as William Goldman treated The Princess Bride and excised all the boring parts. A lot of what JRRT had in The Two Towers should have been background material. It should have not been in the book, but at most an appendix at the end of the trilogy.
He, like Melville in that whale section, suffered from the same disease as Jules Verne suffered from. No, M. Verne, you do not need to name every creature and plant in the sea. No, Mr. Tolkien, we do not need to know Aragorn’s patriline since the creation of the world.
Lord of the Rings was the last three books my father-in-law read before he died. He had started reading it in February, 2018. He was determined to finish it one more time.He finished re-reading it back in June, when he was 96. Shortly thereafter he had a set of mini-strokes which made it impossible for him to concentrate on reading. (He died in December.)
Best loved is not the same as good.
So, you’re saying that trying to read it past a certain age may be fatal? I’ll keep that in mind for the future.
My confession: I can remember pi to 50 decimal places, but I can never remember the 51st.