>>>>And then there are the Danielle Steels of the world who have discovered the secret of printing money; write crap.
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>>And the ironic thing is how little Danielle Steele needs money. Just her divorce settlement from Traina would have floated her for all of this century <bg>
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>Hmmm.... How is it you know so much about Danielle Steel (except how to spell Steel, of course)? Secret book stash perhaps?
When I lived in SF we had mutual friends - my richer friends, her poorer friends. In those days a certain hedonism was the extreme leveler.
Which reminds me, if you've never read Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City (just the first two books) you're missing one of the great slices of Americana. Ran as a daily serial in the SF Chronicle in the pre-plague years.
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>BTW, I just picked up
The Complete Jeeves & Wooster DVD set for a mere $37.50 Cdn. Hilarious stuff. Hugh Laurie was born to play Bertie Wooster, and Stephen Fry was born to play Jeeves. The casting couldn't be better. I was going to say 'more perfect' but Dragan might be lurking.
I have the set as well and love it.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
