[Thundarr]

$h!teake mushrooms I meant.

[Ready2Transform]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.   

[trusting]

Potty mouth analysis and sketchy morals aside, am I the only one who found d!ckens' novels to be really boring?

[BB64]

Blardy boring! But Bleak house was a good one.
I have visited d!cken's world and that was much fun. A guided tour into his life and era.
And what an Era!

d!ckens had a thing for teenage girls. He was a walking crisis, nothing to do with midlife.

Trusting, his books were boring because they were all about him, mostly, with his alter egos and fantasies of young women in need with not much self esteem to their person. Self indulgeance ahoy.

Basically he was a perv 

[twilightzone]

It's ironic, as his Christmas classic, A Christmas Carol, is about an old man who faces his demons and, overnight, transitions from a seriously disturbed and childish hermit to a loving, giving adult.  We all know about transitions, here.

No offense to the English but, another bore....Shakespeare.

[trusting]

No offense to the English but, another bore....Shakespeare.

I would have to disagree with you on that.    He does have some great insults.  One of my favorites - “I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”   

If I remember correctly from the days I had to plod through d!ckens, they were descriptive to the point of tedium.

[twilightzone]

I remember the days I had to plod through Shakespeare.......nuff said

[kikki]

The expression “what the d!ckens” has the same meaning as “what the hell?” and “what the devil?” So when someone says, “Who the d!ckens are you?” what he is saying is, “Who the hell/devil are you?” According to some scholars “d!ckens” refers to Satan. One of the terms used to refer to the devil is “Old Nick”. Since “d!ck” rhymes with “Nick”, the word began to be used to refer to the devil. There are a number of expressions in the English language with the word “d!ckens”. Some are, “go to the d!ckens”, “raise the d!ckens”, “play the d!ckens” and “the d!ckens take you”

Are we dealing with intuitive censorship here LOL - does the forum know that d!ckens is a euphemism? 

One of my favorites - “I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”   

Oh I like that Trusting 

[trusting]

I remember the days I had to plod through Shakespeare.......nuff said

Speaking of plodding through, another Shakespeare quote comes to mind when thinking about MLC. 

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in its petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time..."

I think that is about how long MLC takes, give or take a day or two.

[Rebel Yell]

To suffer the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune............