Has Landpoke or anyone else read

[marsupial]

Originally Posted by landpoke

Depends. If you come in and tell us we're doing it all wrong and back in Texas/California/Africa we did it this way which is much better and you're all a bunch of know-nothing inbreds because you live in Wyoming and we'll tell you what's best for you, well that might not go over too well

My brother lives in Wyoming. He grew up in California, lived in Nevada and Utah, but tells people he is from Nevada because apparently that's a more acceptable place to be from according to the Wyomingites he encounters.

[MikeWaters]

I could never tell them I was from Texas. Instant inferiorty complex on their part.

[landpoke]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I could never tell them I was from Texas. Instant inferiorty complex on their part.

"Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast"
John Steinbeck
East of Eden

For some reason that quote always evokes Texas for me.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by landpoke

I like Abbey's non-fiction a lot and Solitaire is one of my favorite books. His fiction is just so-so.

I agree completely. I keep an extra copy of desert solitaire in my office to give to local coastal californians if they seem to want to understand the western mind. Abbey's fiction (e.g. Monkey Wrench Gang) is just so-so.

[landpoke]

I received my copy today and it's not looking good. Beyond the fact that I've had a few, this book is dripping condescension such that I'm finding I need to constantly wipe my hands. I'll have a report by the end of the weekend.

[Solon]

Originally Posted by landpoke

I received my copy today and it's not looking good. Beyond the fact that I've had a few, this book is dripping condescension such that I'm finding I need to constantly wipe my hands. I'll have a report by the end of the weekend.

How the hell did you get your copy already? The carrier pigeon that delivers mail to my shitsplat town won't be in for another week or so.

[landpoke]

The wife bought some sort of Amazon membership whereby we get second day delivery on everything we order at no extra cost. Well, other than the membership costs, the sum of which I don't know.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by landpoke

The wife bought some sort of Amazon membership whereby we get second day delivery on everything we order at no extra cost. Well, other than the membership costs, the sum of which I don't know.

Amazon Prime. It's great.

[landpoke]

Ms. Fuller seems to have a pretty low opinion of the dominant social/religious group in Utah, calling you all "fanatical" and "half-crazy."

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by landpoke

Ms. Fuller seems to have a pretty low opinion of the dominant social/religious group in Utah, calling you all "fanatical" and "half-crazy."

Of course we are.