L. Marcus Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Re: The Last Word I got no boss at home. I'm single. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Re: The Last Word In that case, a 56k modem connection tends to make you lose patience and go back to something else very quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . So it can actually be done?! Yep. Several times a day, even. Sure it can. Just have the boss walk in. That, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Re: The Last Word I got no boss at home. I'm single. You don't even have a cat, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Re: The Last Word Nope. I can barely take care of myself, let alone another living creature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Re: The Last Word So get an undead cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Re: The Last Word Is that what they're called when they've used up 8 of their lives? Or only one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word I suspect that it depends upon which flavor of undead we're dealing with. Vampire cats may not require the loss of any lives. OTOH, I don't think I've ever seen a zombie cat, so that must take a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . Oooohhh, Pet Sematary . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word Pet Seminary? Ordained cats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word No, the title is quite deliberately misspelled. It makes sense if you've read the book. That was actually the first Stephen King book I read. I was in the sixth grade, and didn't think it scared me until I turned out the lights to go to sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word I've read very little Stephen King. I'm not a horror/suspense fan. I was stunned when I read a novella (it was in a collection) by him and found that it was a story about hope ... I don't recall the story title now, but it's the one that was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word King, as Pratchett, is occasionally accused of literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." I like King's stuff, but I freely acknowledge I don't read it to put my thinking cap on and read something deep. His On Writing is really, really good, and I like the tone of his nonfiction stuff (it's sort of folksy, down-to-earth, conversational), but I wouldn't argue he's a true artiste. He writes a LOT, though, and even a broken clock is right twice a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word No, the title is quite deliberately misspelled. It makes sense if you've read the book. That was actually the first Stephen King book I read. I was in the sixth grade, and didn't think it scared me until I turned out the lights to go to sleep. True story from High School. A girl in my first hour class came in dead tired. Seems she was home by herself reading Pet Semetary, with the only light on, the one she was reading by. A hand comes over her opposite shoulder from the lamp, and when she jumped up (.5 sec later) no one was there. She spent the next hour going from room to room turning on all the lights and checking all doors and windows. She didn't sleep that night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word Maybe it was a spider. Did you live in the southwestern part of the US at the time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word Maybe it was a spider. Did you live in the southwestern part of the US at the time? NOpe, it was here in Cape. We don't have spiders THAT big. But the mosquitoes have to use runways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word Heh. Then a mosquito, perhaps. My sister once told me a story of when she lived in Texas, and she felt something on her shoulder. She thought it was her husband's hand, so she want to lay her hand on top of it. Then she looked, and it was a huge friggin' spider. She threw the blanket the spider was sitting on across the room. It sat there and glared at her for the rest of the night. So, yeah. Never moving west. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conduit Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word Texas - where real men ride spiders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word Don't joke about that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word Heh. Then a mosquito, perhaps. Nah, she said the house was empty except for her. Her imagination ran rampant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word Heh. One of the nasty little nightmares I had one night as a child was that my bedroom door opened, and a hand lobbed a little Tupperware container onto my bed. Where the lid popped off. It was full of fast-moving spiders which went everywhere. I hurtled the end of the bed (not easy from the upper bunk) and was in the kitchen before I stopped. Took about an hour to convince myself it hadn't really happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word Really, most of my nightmares involve either being chased, or something being in my room. Usually it starts with the bedroom door slowly opening. If I can help it, I sleep with the door open, but the closet doors shut. Having a cat who headbutts the door until I open it, no matter which side he's on, doesn't exactly help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word It's been years ... over a decade, I think ... since I've had a significant dream (that is, something more than a vignette) that I remember. As a kid, my nightmares usually involved being the last one in my house/class/family/neighborhood to be killed/devoured, as I warned everyone that it was going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: The Last Word The scariest nightmare I remember involves a monstrous man with lobster claws for hands chasing after me. I woke up right as he grabbed me and jabbed one of his claws into my ear. I had an ear infection at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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