always the current sears catalogue.
always the current sears catalogue.
You're not a Janeite I take it?!Originally Posted by J.W.
I wouldn't read Austen in the loo, because Jane would find the idea abhorrent! I read her everywhere else though!
I would read her in the loo.
I would read her in the zoo.
I would read her here or there --
I would read her anywhere!
Meanwhile, the current contents of my own book basket --
Radio Personalities for 1936 -- A Pictorial and Biographical Annual.
National Geographic for April 2012, featuring a new look at the wreckage of the Titanic.
The Spalding-Reach Official Baseball Guide for 1941
Uncle Remus -- His Songs and Sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris
Caught Short -- A Saga of Wailing Wall Street by Eddie Cantor
The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. -- William Jennings Bryan
Too cheap to buy real Toilet Paper??? Dad said that you should use the pages with lingerie first, clothing second, and tools last. The pages with lingerie on them were softer...
later
Mike
Groucho Marx said it best:
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying all the wrong remedies.”
An elderly couple Sven and Lena won one of the door prizes at the Sons of Norway lodge meeting, a toilet brush. They tried it for a week and eventually went back to toilet paper.
Blue Skies!
Hi have all the latest motorcycle magazines, a copy of the Autobiography of the Agha Khan. Raffles by E. W. Hornung its a novel not a hotel guide, King Solomons Mines by Rider haggard, Octaine, a high end Classic car magazine, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind(had to add that one, and yes I have read it). Long way down(yes I know) by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boreman, and at the moment I am reading Uneasy Rider, a comedy book about a motorcycle adventurer. And the Mrs has a stack of TV chat type of mags.
J
A copy of the Summa Theologica, Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America, States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, A Young Man's Guide to Being a Gentleman, and the past editions of Style magazine.
"America's Capacity to Produce" (Brookings Institution, 1934)
"American Memoir" Henry Seidel Canby
"QST" September 1925
"Review of Reviews (Incorporating World's Work)" November 1933
"The American Home" August 1931
"Citizen's Radio Call Book"
a collection of old Kohler and Ferguson catalogs.
"I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order." ...Eric Morecambe, OBE
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A "Radio Yesteryear" catalogue from c. 1975
The Baseball Register for 1942, with a notation on the cover: "Stolen from Crosley Field Press Box." Tsk.
The Saturday Evening Post for 2/10/40, featuring the first part of a serialized biography of F. W. Woolworth.
An owner's manual for a 1939 Plymouth. I can dream, can't I?
The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. -- William Jennings Bryan
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