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leandar:
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--- Quote from: leandar on November 05, 2004, 09:57:04 PM ---Well, Seniorita, that's why I said IF.
I've only read partially one book on the Stooges, hoping to get another, and most of my behind the scenes knowledge of them comes from the A&E biography. Otherwise, I'm not very knowledgeable. Can you help?
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Tip: You can order several books from Amazon.com on the Stooges through Bibliography link in the menu on the left.
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Great. I've got a couple hopefully coming for Christmas. Thanks for the tip!!!
kinderscenen:
Greetings!
Shempetta, you may be able to find Stoogephile on eBay or something like that--I bought the book fresh off the press and I assumed it was still pretty easy to get or at least order.
Regarding if "Stroke of Luck" is worth getting...yes. As a Stooge nut, it rounds out my collection of books like nothing else can. After searching for it for 20 years, I cannot adequately say how happy I am to have it. That being said, it has to be one of the strangest books I've ever read. I won't rant on the fact that there is a great deal of mis-captioning going on in regard to the photos, since we've seen this before. My whole thing is the style of the book--it looks like James Carone just transcribed the tapes of Larry's interviews. (Whoever did the proofreading had to be drinking a little somethingsomething....). I wanted more personal information, but seeing that this IS Larry, what I got was a rather sunny, upbeat book. So if you can find a copy (and pay a decent price for it), it's worth it!
Viva:
--- Quote from: shemps#1 on November 06, 2004, 05:49:50 PM ---It's not your conduct I have a problem with; it's your typing. From the looks of it you are being incredibly lazy (i.e. no caps in your post whatsoever).
Look people, not only does shoddy typing make you look stupid, it also gives me a migraine.
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I've been a lurker for a long time, not just here, but other boards as well. I've seen boards where much intelligent conversation between mature adults takes place, where the administrators post just as shoddily as some of the people you've banned here.
I'm not going to rebuke you, try to tell you what to do or do anything you can come up with to declare me guilty of against you. I would just kindly suggest that you ask yourselves if you sometimes get carried away. The person mentioned within the quote is not only living proof of a shoddy typist that makes intelligent posts, but may well be a victim of circumstance here. The offending posts lacked capitalization, but everything else was there. As long as proper punctuation and spacing is used, can't you easily tell that there is a new sentence? I'll type a paragraph just like it now, and I hope you will see just how much of a "migraine" it gives you:
moe, larry and curly started at columbia in 1934. around 1945, curly's heath started to decline, leading to a stroke on the set of "half-wit's holliday". that was the end of his stooging career. shemp joined to fill in for curly, but ended up replacing him. curly never fully recovered and died in 1952. a few years later, in 1955, shemp died in the back seat of a car with his friends, on the way home from a boing match.
Was that so terrible? 1 flaw is all there was. Just 1. Imagine how many intelligent people (like those on the message boards I mentioned earlier in this post), who could've provided valuable input, might have been scared away because the powers that be seem like persnickety English professors. Aren't message boards supposed to provide relaxed environments? I mean no complaint here, just that you would consider how relaxed you are making the posting environment for others outside the powers that be.
After this reflection, I, for 1, will abide by whatever you decide. I hope you will take a day or so to reflect before responding to this, if only to show that you have done this reflection and not come off like you think you know better, and think you are better than me, simply because you have power. If you disagree, it's merely a matter of different, yet equal, opinion.
Respect my authoritah! S#1
123cagney:
Ok boys and girls fasten your seatbelts! If you challenge SHEMPS#1, be sure it's worth it! For everyone else...it's worth every penny. Back and forth with him spices up even the most boring of topics. I've been there and I don't care to go back! STAY STOOGE! But for now, batten down the hatches!
Baggie:
I don't really know what Shemps#1 is like, but I thought all Shemp and Stooge fans were pretty easy going people, a few mistakes here and there shouldn't really, matter, but I'll stick by the rules anyway from now on
peace
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