Last 3 books you read
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Cheri said:
Jealous? No, no, ma sweet cheri. You miss the point. The good doctor and I are equal opportunity titty men. We simply adore all of the women on this board and would never dream of slighting one at the expense of another. I'm quite sure that all of your, uh, "racks" are magnificent and our purpose here is to demonstrate the healthful benefits of sharing them with the rest of the male board members.
Why, in the few short months that Whisper has been providing this service for Dr. Clozoff and myself, the effects of this treatment have been nothing short of remarkable! I'll have to leave it to the good doctor to provide the exact details but my hand/eye coordination has never been better and my heart's ability to pump fluids through my, er, body has increased tremendously.
And as much as we are enamored of Whisper's titties, it's not fair for her to have to, uh, shoulder this burden all alone. So, curvaceous cheri and beautiful bliss, won't you open your...hearts and share your exquisite treasures with the board for the betterment of all mankind? Perhaps, with your courageous examples to follow, the rest of the ladies on this board wouldn't be so...shy?
Star Spangled Roostah Balls
Cher, did he say *treasures*? Aren't those a Nestles candy?
Leave it to a man to misunderstand which way the fur'd be flying. *winka* *winka* I got ya front.
Sonora, that's a philisophical question, really, does one ever cease shopping? To shop or to shop some more, that is the question.
Dr. ClothesNotNecessary, Truman was a little pip of a man, a true sycophant, who lived a lavish lifestyle courtesy of Bill Paley's money. His opinion means nothing <------- Isn't that a song?
Anywho, I think Harper wrote the book, that it was much coached and coaxed, and she has better things to do with her personal time than entertain us, unlike us, who think that that's a fine occupation.
Maybe we'll find out 'round about the time the FBI decides who really shot JFK.
Ta for now. Gaucho, the shower massage broke.
Cher, did he say *treasures*? Aren't those a Nestles candy?
Leave it to a man to misunderstand which way the fur'd be flying. *winka* *winka* I got ya front.
Sonora, that's a philisophical question, really, does one ever cease shopping? To shop or to shop some more, that is the question.
Dr. ClothesNotNecessary, Truman was a little pip of a man, a true sycophant, who lived a lavish lifestyle courtesy of Bill Paley's money. His opinion means nothing <------- Isn't that a song?
Anywho, I think Harper wrote the book, that it was much coached and coaxed, and she has better things to do with her personal time than entertain us, unlike us, who think that that's a fine occupation.
Maybe we'll find out 'round about the time the FBI decides who really shot JFK.
Ta for now. Gaucho, the shower massage broke.
Miranda Reigns
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Um .... okay ...
My favorite book of all time ... CyberWebs ... the last book I read ... CyberWebs ... the book that you should read if you find yourself lonely and bored on a Saturday night? CyberWebs .... <eg> Oh, and don't forget the sequel ... Sweet Revenge - CyberWebs II ... (ok ... so maybe I'm just a little bit partial ..... heheheheehehhe)
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xxxooo
Miranda
My favorite book of all time ... CyberWebs ... the last book I read ... CyberWebs ... the book that you should read if you find yourself lonely and bored on a Saturday night? CyberWebs .... <eg> Oh, and don't forget the sequel ... Sweet Revenge - CyberWebs II ... (ok ... so maybe I'm just a little bit partial ..... heheheheehehhe)
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xxxooo
Miranda
A really good use for statistics
Statisticians are often brought in to provide analysis on authorship of works of literature. Ya see, authors (even when writing under a pseudonym) tend to use the same percentages of one syllable words, two syllable words, three syllable words, etc. They dissect work and using a multinomial/contingency table approach can add to the debate on authenticity. I saw a study done by some math geek who looked at a bunch of Capote's stuff (In Cold Blood and a few other things he wrote in the 60's) and looked at To Kill A Mockingbird and concluded that it was unlikely that Capote wrote it. They also looked at percentages of types of sentences (parenthetical expressions, etc.) that also would rule out Capote as the author. Maybe Lord Byron wrote it . . .
Regarding last three books
_What Fresh Hell Is This?_ A Dorothy Parker bio by Marion Meade
_Fractured Fairy Tales_ from the old Bullwinkle show
_The Dwarf_ by Par Lagerkvist
Oliver Clozoff said:
Statisticians are often brought in to provide analysis on authorship of works of literature. Ya see, authors (even when writing under a pseudonym) tend to use the same percentages of one syllable words, two syllable words, three syllable words, etc. They dissect work and using a multinomial/contingency table approach can add to the debate on authenticity. I saw a study done by some math geek who looked at a bunch of Capote's stuff (In Cold Blood and a few other things he wrote in the 60's) and looked at To Kill A Mockingbird and concluded that it was unlikely that Capote wrote it. They also looked at percentages of types of sentences (parenthetical expressions, etc.) that also would rule out Capote as the author. Maybe Lord Byron wrote it . . .
Regarding last three books
_What Fresh Hell Is This?_ A Dorothy Parker bio by Marion Meade
_Fractured Fairy Tales_ from the old Bullwinkle show
_The Dwarf_ by Par Lagerkvist
Miranda Reigns
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Bliss you're a sweetheart!
Thank you for your support ... I trust you will not be disappointed! (And if you are ... well, um ... I guess you can come here ... publicly slap me upside my head and then flush me down the crapper .... ) <wink> A risk I'm willing to take ..... <eg>
xxxoooo
Miranda
Thank you for your support ... I trust you will not be disappointed! (And if you are ... well, um ... I guess you can come here ... publicly slap me upside my head and then flush me down the crapper .... ) <wink> A risk I'm willing to take ..... <eg>
xxxoooo
Miranda
Friday by Robert A. Heinlein (nothing to do with the Ice Cube movie)
Trainspotting by Irving Welsh
Clerks and Chasing Amy the Screenplays by Kevin Smith
La Domme: A Dominartix Anthology with Claire Baeder, Ed.
Next I have The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Heinlein
and Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Trainspotting by Irving Welsh
Clerks and Chasing Amy the Screenplays by Kevin Smith
La Domme: A Dominartix Anthology with Claire Baeder, Ed.
Next I have The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Heinlein
and Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Bobtoad777
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Amos
Revelation
Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Revelation
Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Topping From Below & Panic Snap.... both "dark" stories of not totally consenusal BDSM -can't remember the author.
Hot Six by Janet Evonovich Her 6th Stephanie Plum, lingerie buyer turned bounty hunter, story. This is a hysterically funny series. Starts with One For The Money.
Magic Kingdom For Sale, Sold by Terry Brooks. This is the first book in a series of fantasy novels. I've read them before, have bought them for friends and highly recommend them.
Hot Six by Janet Evonovich Her 6th Stephanie Plum, lingerie buyer turned bounty hunter, story. This is a hysterically funny series. Starts with One For The Money.
Magic Kingdom For Sale, Sold by Terry Brooks. This is the first book in a series of fantasy novels. I've read them before, have bought them for friends and highly recommend them.
Oliver Clozoff
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Re: A really good use for statistics
RonG, I had no idea the scholars debating authorship turned to such complex and statistical methods. I must say it warms the cockles of my scientific heart.
A couple of years ago, I remember reading about how the anonymously-authored novel Primary Colors, (based on Clinton's first presidential campaign) was finally correctly attributed to Joe Klein by a Harvard writing expert. After a meticulous comparison of Klein's writing and the novel, the expert concluded Klein had authored the novel. He apparently spoke with enough authority that the press accepted his opinion as truth and eventually Klein 'fessed up.
I wonder if the expert in the case used a technique similar to the one you describe here... and do you know if they've ever used this method to answer the nagging question of whether Shakespeare's plays were written by Marlowe, Bacon, etc.?
Hmmmm...
RonG, I had no idea the scholars debating authorship turned to such complex and statistical methods. I must say it warms the cockles of my scientific heart.
A couple of years ago, I remember reading about how the anonymously-authored novel Primary Colors, (based on Clinton's first presidential campaign) was finally correctly attributed to Joe Klein by a Harvard writing expert. After a meticulous comparison of Klein's writing and the novel, the expert concluded Klein had authored the novel. He apparently spoke with enough authority that the press accepted his opinion as truth and eventually Klein 'fessed up.
I wonder if the expert in the case used a technique similar to the one you describe here... and do you know if they've ever used this method to answer the nagging question of whether Shakespeare's plays were written by Marlowe, Bacon, etc.?
Hmmmm...
Nick Reigns
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last three books I've read........
That would have to be CyberWebs, Rainbow Six and Sweet Revenge in that order.....
That would have to be CyberWebs, Rainbow Six and Sweet Revenge in that order.....
Re: Re: A really good use for statistics
Yes, to a point. These methods have been used to look at the question of whether Shakespeare's works were the result of a consortium (one theory was that a group of writers from the noble class worked together on them) and concluded that the style consistency across a long range of works with the accepted dating shows that a single hand wrote all of them. The typical statistical weaselwords are something to the effect of "The data provided does not support rejecting the hypothesis of single authorship at the alpha = 0.05 level". These same methods are used to attribute some sonnets to Willy and rule some out.
The question of a single masquerading author is tougher to throw out due to the lack of any work of similar style by the pretenders to compare it with. I guess the way to view this from a 21st Century viewpoint is that the easy to dismiss rumors were trashed years ago so the ones that are still around are those that are so vague and unproveable that you can't do anything with them.
Oliver Clozoff said:
Yes, to a point. These methods have been used to look at the question of whether Shakespeare's works were the result of a consortium (one theory was that a group of writers from the noble class worked together on them) and concluded that the style consistency across a long range of works with the accepted dating shows that a single hand wrote all of them. The typical statistical weaselwords are something to the effect of "The data provided does not support rejecting the hypothesis of single authorship at the alpha = 0.05 level". These same methods are used to attribute some sonnets to Willy and rule some out.
The question of a single masquerading author is tougher to throw out due to the lack of any work of similar style by the pretenders to compare it with. I guess the way to view this from a 21st Century viewpoint is that the easy to dismiss rumors were trashed years ago so the ones that are still around are those that are so vague and unproveable that you can't do anything with them.
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I love to read....
fiction, particularly mysteries. The most recent are:
1. The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
2. A Faint Cold Fear by Robert Daley
3. L.A. Noir by James Elroy
4. The Poet by Micael Connelly
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[Edited by FlamingoBlue on 10-01-2000 at 01:19 PM]
fiction, particularly mysteries. The most recent are:
1. The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
2. A Faint Cold Fear by Robert Daley
3. L.A. Noir by James Elroy
4. The Poet by Micael Connelly
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[Edited by FlamingoBlue on 10-01-2000 at 01:19 PM]
The last three I read were:
Darkover Landfall -Marion Zimmer Bradley
Two to Conquer -Marion Zimmer Bradley
City of Sorcery -Marion Zimmer Bradley
and currently I am reading Stormqueen by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
I only recently discovered her found that I liked her and went to the nearest second-hand bookshop to stock up. When I have read the entire Darkover series I shall probably move on to The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson.
Darkover Landfall -Marion Zimmer Bradley
Two to Conquer -Marion Zimmer Bradley
City of Sorcery -Marion Zimmer Bradley
and currently I am reading Stormqueen by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
I only recently discovered her found that I liked her and went to the nearest second-hand bookshop to stock up. When I have read the entire Darkover series I shall probably move on to The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson.
