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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 01:38 AM Original message |
People who sit in Barnes and Nobel and read/mutilate whole books |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 02:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. I used to work in bookstores |
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Syrinx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 02:49 AM Response to Original message |
2. we don't have a Barnes and Noble yet |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:54 AM Response to Original message |
3. It's called being a broke student. |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
4. Oh, dear. |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
5. I, too buy my share of books |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
6. Try putting that shit away. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
30. My brother in books... I remember oh, so very well, the woman who came |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:57 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. My sister in books! |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 05:13 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. I actually enjoyed it too--and plugged them in in GD/P here |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 05:13 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. I saw that: nice post! |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 01:53 AM Response to Reply #30 |
53. The shopworn stuff |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 02:27 AM Response to Reply #30 |
56. " "We had a handy bottle of Purell located at the wrap stands..." |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 11:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
51. Keynesian economic theory is obscure? |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
7. I read like a fiend on the chairs at Borders. |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. I feel the same way... |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
31. As a public library employee familiar with how money is expended--no, |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's not just Barnes & Noble. |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. It's entrapment is what it is |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 12:39 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. It's that "Seinfeld" episode... |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. Feel free, terrya - we'd rather have a paying customer take the table |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 12:18 PM Response to Reply #25 |
65. Thank you, Richardo |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. Coffee+Bran Muffins= a need for reading material |
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Inland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 09:07 PM Response to Reply #9 |
48. But the coffee's too expensive. I just bring in a thermos. nt |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
10. i dont have a problem with it |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
12. When I was a young man I used to go and look at the photography books |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 01:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. And we all knew what you were doing, too! |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
34. Was that pre- or post-Purell? |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
14. it's cuz the booksellers really want people to go to their stores |
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Southsideirish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 08:19 PM Response to Reply #14 |
45. Many libraries are changing into B & N's - not good, in my opinion. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 11:45 AM Response to Reply #45 |
58. I think that they are afraid people won't come to the library |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
15. Reading/ damaging books at B&N is a way to "stick it to the man" |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 02:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Oh, please. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 03:58 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Oooohh! Independent! What a nice way of saying "Petite bourgeois" |
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ProudToBeLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:11 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. what's wrong with capitalism? |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:13 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. What's wrong with ignoring its rules and treating merchandise poorly... |
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ProudToBeLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:30 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I think Petite bourgeois is important to our society |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:33 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. I think that mom and pop stores are part of feeding a delusion |
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ProudToBeLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:45 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. I'm taking more along the lines of equal opportunity |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 12:09 PM Response to Reply #35 |
62. I refuse to kowtow to the sacred cow of small business |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 09:19 AM Response to Reply #33 |
57. This is how I know you've never run a business. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 12:17 PM Response to Reply #57 |
64. Thank you captain obvious! A person of even subpar intelligence... |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
16. You should ring up Bernard Black. |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 05:43 PM Response to Reply #16 |
42. The "antiquarian bookseller" world IS Bernard Black. |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 05:47 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Every antiquarian bookseller is a surly Irish drunk? |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 05:54 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. I'm not talking 2nd hand bookstores, I'm talking "Antiquarian" |
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nemo137 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-18-06 12:08 AM Response to Reply #16 |
68. "I'd like to buy this book" |
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Craig3410 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. Hey, I just read Dave Barry and Dilbert. |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
19. Sometimes, I hang out at Barnes and Noble |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. The employees are *there* to restock... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:05 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. The local B&N is the closest thing to a youth scene in Redding |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:07 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Yeah the whole, read what you want thing is a scam to get you to spend... |
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quiet.american (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
28. There's always those who abuse things and mess it up for everybody. |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
39. I work at a magazine stand sandwiched between a Starbucks and a Cold Stone |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 05:36 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. After an abusive creasing read-through or two, the magazines |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 08:44 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. Coverfolding pisses me off beyond belief. |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 02:20 AM Response to Reply #40 |
55. Do magazine publishers have the same returns deal as book publishers? |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
41. Blame the store not the customers. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
47. Don't you wish workplaces were just as easy to leave? |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
49. South of us is a new B&N |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-16-06 10:58 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Thus the plot of the Seinfeld episode! |
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fleabert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 01:43 AM Response to Original message |
52. I do it. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 02:19 AM Response to Original message |
54. you know, i never got that either |
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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
59. well sometimes... |
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Aiptasia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
60. some people have no lives |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
61. I bussed tables at a Barnes & Noble. |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
63. You know, I just can't muster up my righteous indignation at this one |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 04:21 PM Response to Reply #63 |
66. Seems like a terrible waste to me. Since you work for a publisher, |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 05:25 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. Perhaps you missed my point |
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