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    Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove

    Kewl (re: your book list) but I must admit my ignorance...what is a graphic novel?..excess blood/violence/sex or a comic book?
     
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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    Just an FYI, a graphic novel is basically a book-bound comic book, usually several issues combined to make a complete story.
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    It's mostly a pointless attempt to make comics seem like "serious literature," though there are exceptions (Alan Moore's "Watchmen," "V for Vendetta," and "From Hell" being prime examples).
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Have to admit I was surprised at the totals. Somehow I hadn't realized just how many comics I'd been reading lately.
     
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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    Have to figure it's more important to be entertaining and interesting than for a book to be "serious literature", at least for me.
     
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    Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove

    Gee, toe-huggers, it may interest you to know that Deb has an intense like for swords.
     
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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    Figures, I've been hoisted on my own pitard
     
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    Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove

    Ewww, Deb, didn't know you HAD a pitard...kinda kinky.
     
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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    Do you know I'm not sure what a pitard is myself, but I believe it's a nautical term.
     
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    Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove

    Deb, they call it Laughing Place for a reason; I had to look up the meaning of your phrase, and this is what I got:

    <<<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hoisted+by+own+petard>>" target="_blank">http://www.thefreedictionary.c
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    Word History: The French used pétard, "a loud discharge of intestinal gas," for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. "To be hoist by one's own petard," a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means "to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices." The French noun pet, "fart," developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, "fart."

    (I thought it meant "sword" :)
     
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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    Can't say I knew ANY of that, LOL
     
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    Originally Posted By knightnfrees

    Boy, what an interesting time I found to post. ;-p
     
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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    Ah yes, we've been having a gas here ;-P
     
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    Originally Posted By knightnfrees

    Zounds! LOL! And I thought that noise was coming from the ol' sputtering Autopia cars. ;)
     
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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    Yes, just as the cars "blow" by
     
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    Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove

    Xactly why I love this thread; it is educational and yet wildly funny at the same time! :)
     
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    Originally Posted By knightnfrees

    Well, I don't like to *toot* my own horn, butt...er...but, we can be quite cheeky.
     
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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    Very well poot knight
     
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    Originally Posted By knightnfrees

    Unsure If I should let that funny linger or not.
     
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    Originally Posted By Autopia Deb

    Time to let it pass
     
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