On a lighter side.....

[chellers]

How about unmemorable?

Mutiny on the Bounty
Moby Dick
Shakespeare: you name it!
In Cold Blood
Godfather

Ha, I loved Moby Dick!

 

[John Davison]

We bring more to the table as we age, hopefully. Experience and education shape our interpretations of what we read, for good or bad.

Of course there are the puffed up, super - educated snobs who, despite their formal "book" education of 16 years, willingly reveal themselves as having had 1 year of education 16 times.

 

[BelleBlackburn]

I always hate those favorite book and favorite movie questions because after thousands of them I still get the deer in the headlight look as I try to come up with at least one. As far as travel with cats, a few years ago my daughter and husband drove from Louisiana to Oregon with two cats, a dog and a turtle. In the dead of winter. And they are all still alive.

 

[diane]

I always hate those favorite book and favorite movie questions because after thousands of them I still get the deer in the headlight look as I try to come up with at least one. As far as travel with cats, a few years ago my daughter and husband drove from Louisiana to Oregon with two cats, a dog and a turtle. In the dead of winter. And they are all still alive.

I've travelled with all manner of critters, including a very p o'd mandrill. (That's a long story but he belonged to my great-uncle...) The worst travellers are cows. Hands down. They are all right once the vehicle is in motion but getting them in and out is...a challenge! When the Bible talks about back-sliders, you have to be a cattleman to know what the good book REALLY means!

 

[BelleBlackburn]

I've travelled with all manner of critters, including a very p o'd mandrill. (That's a long story but he belonged to my great-uncle...) The worst travellers are cows. Hands down. They are all right once the vehicle is in motion but getting them in and out is...a challenge! When the Bible talks about back-sliders, you have to be a cattleman to know what the good book REALLY means!

You have had some interesting travel companions!

 

[diane]

You have had some interesting travel companions!

Lol! I won't tell you about the python. He got loose...

 

[BelleBlackburn]

My cousin's daughter had some kind of big snake as a pet. Her little brother decided to feed it into the heat vent and it crawled up to the kitchen on the first floor and when it emerged the two birds in their cage fell over dead from fright.

Who is that is your profile pic? He's rather charming...

 

[diane]

My cousin's daughter had some kind of big snake as a pet. Her little brother decided to feed it into the heat vent and it crawled up to the kitchen on the first floor and when it emerged the two birds in their cage fell over dead from fright.

Who is that is your profile pic? He's rather charming...

That is Nathan Bedford Forrest, on his first Tennessee raid! I'm one of the four hosts of his forum.

 

[BelleBlackburn]

Is that a real picture or painting? He has an absolutely atrocious statue here.

 

[diane]

Is that a real picture or painting? He has an absolutely atrocious statue here.

It's a painting by David Wright. I have a lithograph of it on my wall - a pal picked it up at a yard sale for ten bucks, signed by the artist. I've seen that one at Nashville... aaiiyyeee! (Ricky Ricardo with a Spanish rant...) I can just hear Forrest, upon seeing it... Whar's mah sword at?

 

[Northern Light]

I always hate those favorite book and favorite movie questions because after thousands of them I still get the deer in the headlight look as I try to come up with at least one. As far as travel with cats, a few years ago my daughter and husband drove from Louisiana to Oregon with two cats, a dog and a turtle. In the dead of winter. And they are all still alive.

At least the turtle won't be asking every five minutes, "Are we there yet?".

 

[matthew mckeon]

I read "The Scarlet Letter" and was bored by it in school. I reread it about ten years ago and could finally appreciate its feverish insanity.

 

[BelleBlackburn]

It's a painting by David Wright. I have a lithograph of it on my wall - a pal picked it up at a yard sale for ten bucks, signed by the artist. I've seen that one at Nashville... aaiiyyeee! (Ricky Ricardo with a Spanish rant...) I can just hear Forrest, upon seeing it... Whar's mah sword at?

It's so hideous looking. The head is huge and it looks like one of those heads used for theater - the laughing and the crying guys. It gets "defaced" on a regular basis by locals. I don't even know who put it up. I should look that up.

 

[diane]

It's so hideous looking. The head is huge and it looks like one of those heads used for theater - the laughing and the crying guys. It gets "defaced" on a regular basis by locals. I don't even know who put it up. I should look that up.

The artist is Jack Kershaw, who is now departed and who had a controversial career as a lawyer, segregationist and secessionist. The property is private, donated by a bathtub maker named Bill Dorris. He doesn't subscribe to the artist's politics, nor does he particularly like the piece of art produced. So, I'm not sure why he donated land for it to sit on and has a network of roads and padlocks and combination locks to keep people from vandalizing the thing.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

The artist is Jack Kershaw, who is now departed and who had a controversial career as a lawyer, segregationist and secessionist. The property is private, donated by a bathtub maker named Bill Dorris. He doesn't subscribe to the artist's politics, nor does he particularly like the piece of art produced. So, I'm not sure why he donated land for it to sit on and has a network of roads and padlocks and combination locks to keep people from vandalizing the thing.

Curiosity finally got the better of me. Here's a link for anyone else who may be wondering:
http://tennessee-scv.org/camp28/Equestrian_Statue.html

 

[bsmart]

I loved "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel".

One day in ROTC the instructor brought up 'Kiddy Lit' and how important it was in forming later ideas. He asked what books we really liked as kids I mentioned Mike Mulligan. He said that it was important and taught an important point in military operations and asked us what that point was. After what seemed like a looonng time (probably about a minute ) I came up with something

'Always have a backup plan' He said that was a good choice. It could also be 'Think all the way through the operation before starting' We then got into a discussion of whether not having a way out of the cellar was part of Mikes original plan or not!

 

[matthew mckeon]

One day in ROTC the instructor brought up 'Kiddy Lit' and how important it was in forming later ideas. He asked what books we really liked as kids I mentioned Mike Mulligan. He said that it was important and taught an important point in military operations and asked us what that point was. After what seemed like a looonng time (probably about a minute ) I came up with something

'Always have a backup plan' He said that was a good choice. It could also be 'Think all the way through the operation before starting' We then got into a discussion of whether not having a way out of the cellar was part of Mikes original plan or not!

I wonder what his take was on "The Giving Tree."

 

[ole]

The picture of the statue of that guy sorely tempts me to vandalize it.

 

[28thNewYork]

My undergraduate major was English and I had additional minors in Drama/Speech, Poetry, and Thomistic Philosophy (the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas). If I only listed 10 I would be giving something short shrift. Let's just say that Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner predominate and leave it at that.

 

[bsmart]

I wonder what his take was on "The Giving Tree."

Can't say I remember him mentioning that one. It has been 40+ years and Mike Mulligan is the only specific book I remember from his discussion ( I know he mentioned Dr Seuss). Ours was not the 'usual' ROTC department. It was one of the few 'Branch Oriented' ROTC (Your junior and senior year were either Artillery, Armor or Infantry oriented).