Maybe she's like Quincy ME. You know, the TV pathologist played by Jack Klugman? Even though he was just a pathologist, he single-handedly solved murder cases all by himself! Maybe your aunt is like that. I don't mean she dissects people (although who knows what she does in her spare time). I mean maybe she goes above and beyond the call of duty.SteveB wrote:We don't do that in Canada either. She's a pharmacist in Glasgow, Scotland. I'm not sure that's how they roll in Scotland either. Maybe she's the exception, I don't know.tattuchu wrote:Weird. You must do things differently in Canada. Patients generally don't have relationships with pharmacists here. It's just, "Hi, I'm Joseph Schmough and I'm here to pick up pills," and then, "Okay, here you go." That's about the extent of it, reallySteveB wrote:
I'm like halfway through it. It's about...her crazy patients, like one of them has a bunch of newspapers piled up in her house, creating a huge fire hazard. Then there's the criminal who was escorted by two policemen into the pharmacy to take a dose of methadone. There's a bit of about the NHS, like communication between hospitals, GPs and pharmacists. Then there's the deaths and the success stories, like recovering from addiction. The relationships between patients and pharmacist. That kind of stuff.
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People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
But those letters are not silent.
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Beatles biography 1, 900 pages.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
That certainly explains all the corpses in her house when I last came to visit. Dried up corpses are a fire hazard, you know. And we're back where we started.tattuchu wrote:Maybe she's like Quincy ME. You know, the TV pathologist played by Jack Klugman? Even though he was just a pathologist, he single-handedly solved murder cases all by himself! Maybe your aunt is like that. I don't mean she dissects people (although who knows what she does in her spare time). I mean maybe she goes above and beyond the call of duty.SteveB wrote:We don't do that in Canada either. She's a pharmacist in Glasgow, Scotland. I'm not sure that's how they roll in Scotland either. Maybe she's the exception, I don't know.tattuchu wrote:Weird. You must do things differently in Canada. Patients generally don't have relationships with pharmacists here. It's just, "Hi, I'm Joseph Schmough and I'm here to pick up pills," and then, "Okay, here you go." That's about the extent of it, reallySteveB wrote:
I'm like halfway through it. It's about...her crazy patients, like one of them has a bunch of newspapers piled up in her house, creating a huge fire hazard. Then there's the criminal who was escorted by two policemen into the pharmacy to take a dose of methadone. There's a bit of about the NHS, like communication between hospitals, GPs and pharmacists. Then there's the deaths and the success stories, like recovering from addiction. The relationships between patients and pharmacist. That kind of stuff.
Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Part of the libretto for Le Nozze di Figaro. In Italian. With my ears. Yes. I can read with my ears. _derp_ A la vittoria!
Se vuol ballare.. ;-)
Se vuol ballare.. ;-)
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Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro, al mio duolo, a'miei sospir!
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My love, you restore my love, soothe my sorrows and my sighs!
Il mio amore, si ripristina il mio amore, lenire i miei dolori ei miei sospiri! :-)
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It could be worse, it could be golf nuts...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I just edited the [very bad] machine translation that google gives.
Currently 'reading' The Crystal Spheres by David Brin; it is the fifth story of The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century
Currently 'reading' The Crystal Spheres by David Brin; it is the fifth story of The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century
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David Brin is a great writer...
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It is an amazing short story.
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Reading "The Book of Barely Imagined Beings" by Caspar Henderson and "Andes" by Michael Jacobs. And the second Harry Potter to the MHs.
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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Wow, what a great title for a book!Clinton Huxley wrote:Reading "The Book of Barely Imagined Beings" by Caspar Henderson and "Andes" by Michael Jacobs. And the second Harry Potter to the MHs.
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
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Some short stories by Ramsey Campbell
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Salem's Lot. It's not great, but is the prime for the rest of his horror work. A writer in Maine, creepy childhood memories, and a small town driven crazy by supernatural events.
I wonder what happened to Stephen King as a kid sometimes.
I wonder what happened to Stephen King as a kid sometimes.
"What started as a legitimate effort by the townspeople of Salem to identify, capture and kill those who did Satan's bidding quickly deteriorated into a witch hunt" Army Man
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I remember watching the TV adaptation of Salem's Lot when I was young myself. Frightening Saturday night viewing.Audley Strange wrote:Salem's Lot. It's not great, but is the prime for the rest of his horror work. A writer in Maine, creepy childhood memories, and a small town driven crazy by supernatural events.
I wonder what happened to Stephen King as a kid sometimes.
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It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
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