Just came back from the post office...
Mar. 15th, 2005 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2...where I have taken my first step to Global Domination Through eBay by renting a PO box. Go me.
I also grabbed my mail on the way in. The new TV Guide was there. First thing I do with TV Guide is flip it open to all of the stiff inserts and rip them out enthusiastically so that none are left to distract me from finding a listing.
These inserts are always a motley collection of "Baby Unicorns Collection by Franklin Mint" and "Collectible Wolf Plates".
Today's insert: "The greatest literature of all time...in perfect minature. Just $7.95 each."
Yes, tiny versions of classic books (in the public domain, of course) like Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, featuring "Original classic cover designs", "Rich gold-patterned covers", "Traditional stitched headbands", and "Select ivory-colored book paper". From the illustration it appears that each book is approximately two inches long.
"These great books will captivate your family".
Yes, if your family is six inches tall.
I also grabbed my mail on the way in. The new TV Guide was there. First thing I do with TV Guide is flip it open to all of the stiff inserts and rip them out enthusiastically so that none are left to distract me from finding a listing.
These inserts are always a motley collection of "Baby Unicorns Collection by Franklin Mint" and "Collectible Wolf Plates".
Today's insert: "The greatest literature of all time...in perfect minature. Just $7.95 each."
Yes, tiny versions of classic books (in the public domain, of course) like Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, featuring "Original classic cover designs", "Rich gold-patterned covers", "Traditional stitched headbands", and "Select ivory-colored book paper". From the illustration it appears that each book is approximately two inches long.
"These great books will captivate your family".
Yes, if your family is six inches tall.
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Little Books
Date: 2005-03-15 11:50 pm (UTC)That would be the Borrowers, wouldn't it?
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:11 am (UTC)*snort*
I'll have to admit, I was very tempted to purchase the Rankin/Bass Commemorative Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys Village. Alas, I didn't have the money. But I love me some stop-motion animation!
Re: Little Books
Date: 2005-03-16 12:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 12:17 am (UTC)Hey, news flash in the same issue of TV Guide:
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Spike Resurrected
A new player has entered the Buffy/Angel TV-movie fray: Spike. With SMG and DB otherwise engaged, WB president David Janollari is now mulling a telepic centered on James Marsters' toothsome alter ego--and the prospect has fans foaming at the mouth. But the exec better act quick: The 42-year-old actor says he's game to resurrect "William the Bloody," provided shooting begins in the next few years. "Past that, I'm too old," marsters says. "Spike's a vampire, man, you have to believe that the guy has not aged since we met him." Eh, that's nothing some good lighting and a little makeup can't fix.
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Oh, that would be heavenly.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:51 am (UTC)*snort*
Tell that to Alan Rickman.
"Snape's how old?"
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:56 am (UTC)David Thewlis looks the age, but Rickman is a bit long in the tooth...though still yummy. And the voice...ah, delicious.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 12:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 01:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 01:32 am (UTC)Bwahahaha!!!
Ye gods, I miss you! :)
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Date: 2005-03-16 01:36 am (UTC)Billie Jean is one of those movies you see years later and just cringe. It was so cool at the time.
I miss you too!!
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Date: 2005-03-16 03:08 am (UTC)May you achieve world domination. Be sure to let me know when you do. I've a few odds & ends I'd like fixed up hereabouts.
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Date: 2005-03-16 03:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 04:03 am (UTC)Someone stop me.
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Date: 2005-03-16 04:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 05:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-17 12:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-17 07:35 pm (UTC)JAMES MARTERS'S 42 YEARS OLD???!?!!? WTF. No way. I so did not see that coming.
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Date: 2005-03-17 07:53 pm (UTC)Yes, if your family is six inches tall.
*giggles*
I thought it was only over here that we got those crappy offers! Loads of them are for children's books, usually box sets (which I admit do look very nice, but cost a fortune, plus you usually have to join some book club and buy things every month), but other times you get really weird ones like tins of foie gras! My mother-in-law ordered some of that once! My husband was not impressed, especially as we've got a friend whose mother makes foie gras. And she has to go and buy tinned stuff from the TV guide!!
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Date: 2005-03-18 01:36 am (UTC)He is so the yum.
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Date: 2005-03-18 01:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-18 05:35 am (UTC)*blush*
*exposing another quirk*
Marianne
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Date: 2005-03-18 06:09 pm (UTC)