Posted on 08/19/2007 6:06:46 AM PDT by tpaine
Say, you seen that guy in the ugly blue pants again?
I’m keeping my eye out for him!
No, I haven’t.
Good for you ~ someone has to protect our delicate sensibilities. >:-}
Well, where keeping an eye peeled for the guy in the ugly blue pants is concerned, it is a nasty, dirty job...
But I am happy to do it! };^b)
You’re all heart! >:-}
From the assorted usless trivia department: Marvin Zindler of EYE - Witness - News, (if you'd ever heard him you'd know what that means), in Houston, Texas passed on recently. He was the fellow who got his knickers in a twist when he found out that "Texas has a whorehouse in it!"
I Really wish some of this stuff weren't taking up what could otherwise be useful space in my brain.
Any serious Heinlien fan should check out "For Us The Living". Not because it is a great novel, because it really isn't, but because it shows how much of what later became central points to Heinlein stories were present right there at the beginning, in 1938.
Haven’t read that one, so I couldn’t help.
You're right about the alley scene. It's an all-time classic.
LOL!
The first Heinlein story I ever read was The Puppet Masters. I was 10, and spent the next 3 or 4 years devouring everything he wrote. There was probably a space of 12 months, there, where I read nothing but RAH and CS Lewis. Between the two of them, they made me the woman and wife I am today.
Books that have recently made me think of Heinlein are John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War”, and Eric Flint’s “1632” series (alternate history). No life changing philosophies there, but durn good reading.
LOL. I prefered Speaker for the Dead
Yikes! Don’t get me started on the free online Baen books again. That dang Webscriptions has been the cause of more 10 pm runs to Barnes and Noble then I care to remember...
...I am going to want something to read...
Classic. LOL.
I lived in Houston from '70-'76, so I well recall old Marvin and that toupe of his! Gadzooks! The man was so over the top, he was sow very self-righteous that he came across campy and funny but he did gain everlasting fame for bringing "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" to life...
Which brings me to my favorite Aggies joke I do believe Bob Heinlein would have loved, too:
These two Aggies were hicthhiking through La Grange and hit a slow patch of highway. All the cars would head right for the Aggies, but turn off into a driveway just before them.
The cars would all go up the road to this huge house. The men in the cars would get out and ring the doorbell. A beautiful woman would come to the door, give the men a big smile. The men would pull out their wallets and give the woman a hundred dollar bill. The woman would then smile wider and invite them inside.
After a half hour or so, the men would come back out with huge smiles on their faces. They would they get back into their car and drive down the driveway and turn on the road going away from the Aggies.
"Say, Pard," the taller of the two Aggies said to the other. "That woman up there must be selling something really wonderful!"
"She sure must be," replied the short Aggie. "Wonder what it is?"
After most of an entire afternoon had passed with the Aggies watching car after car come and go, they both finally decided to got see for themselves what the woman was selling.
They walked up to the door, but the tall Aggies suddenly said, "Whoa, Pard, we need to see how much money we got!"
They pooled what funds they had between them and it came up to one dollar and sixteen cents.
The short Aggies rang the doorbell and when the woman opened the door, she was exceptionally beautiful and her smile was dazzling.
The Aggies smiled back and the tall one held out his hand with the $1.16 in his palm.
The smile vanished from the beautiful lady and she stepped back into the house. The Aggies followed her and she simply said, "George?"
She walked away as the biggest black man either of those two Aggies had ever seen came up and grabbed them both by the neck. He took them out back of the house and proceeded to beat the living crap out of each. Finished, he dragged their unconscious bodies down the driveway and dumped them on the side of the highway.
About and hour later, the Aggies started to came to. The tall one raised up on his elbow and say, "Pard, I don't think I could'a stood a hundred dollars of that!"
I think old Bob would have laughed and understood that...
One of the best belly laughs I ever had was from the look on Jimmy Stewart's face as he said, "Now that takes me by surprise, Dr. Sanderson."
And: "Wouldn't that get a little monotonous... 
just Akron, cold beer and 'poor, poor thing' for two weeks?"
For what it’s worth, I’ve listened to Ender’s Game, and I own an unread second-hand copy of Xenocide. Haven’t read Speaker of the Dead. I usually like Card’s stuff although I can’t say that I’ve gone out of my way to read anything of his.
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