This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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How I learned to be invisibleI bought a book years ago, called "Ninja Secrets Of Invisibility." It lived in my toilet for years, as it was the kind of book you could open on any page and learn something amazing. For instance, if you want to sneak past an armed guard, you wait until he's looking the other way, then tiptoe past him! Or to be really tricky, you can tap him on the shoulder, then when he turns that way, you go the other. With these kinds of subtle tricks, Im amazed that Ninjas didn't take over the whole world!
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 17 May 2008, 12:05,
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That's one of those tricksyou do and expect it to utterly not work at all, so you do it as a sort of tongue-in-cheek act of silliness, knowing that the "victim" will never be fooled by it- kinda like telling people they can access your collection of mp3s by pressing Alt+F4.
So one day when a bunch of us went to lunch I did that to a co-worker and did an exaggerated sneaking-off-to-my-chair walk and sat down- only Greg genuinely fell for it, and got quite pissed off at me for it.
Somehow that made it even funnier.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 17 May 2008, 12:31,
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