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    If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You

    If Lawsuits Were Decided by Press Releases, This Star Trek Writer Should Totally Win
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    It's very helpful for a writer who is past his Sell By date, like that Ellison, to pretend his work is worth stealing. He can think down in his remnant carpeted basement, man, ten million readers, unfortunately all thieves.


    A certain upscale ivy has never been pressured to drop its AA policy. It sees thirty thousand applicants, accepts ten, tells the rest they were only just aced out by a gay Puerto Rican with a low SAT due to developmental disabilities. Ah cudda been a contender, they muse forevermore in a JC somewhere.

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    Honestly? I think he was referring to the fact that the people he'd be trying to catch are more than likely without funds (read: deep pockets), not to mention the fact that he's probably making fun of himself by saying that's the kind of person who reads his schlock.
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    Image of sassenach sassenach
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    I wouldn't expect such classist comments from Steve.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    05/12/09

    @sassenach: See my note above. And I just hobbled my right foot in penance to Funyun-lovers.
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    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    You'd think the author of Misery would know better than to piss off his fans, especially basement-dwelling rednecks.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    05/12/09

    @Steverino Begins: Caan we believe you said that? Yes we Caan.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    05/12/09

    @Aaron Altman: Sorry, my wording was deBates-able.


    I just think redneck is the image he was going for. Obviously eating funyuns and having poor basement carpeting doesn't make one a redneck--but it does seem to be the traits of King's classic redneck schlub characters (in his movies at least).


    God, I've seen Misery so many times, you'd think I could make a better Annie Wilkes joke.

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    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    To pirate a quote from Stephen King and direct it now to Stephen King, "Shut ya head, Trout."
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    Image of bayktdin bayktdin
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    My brother let me read his copy of Cujo when I was in Jr. High, was that piracy?
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    @bayktdin: Stephen King just called and wanted me to tell you that he thinks you're a moron who lives in refrigerator box and exists on orange circus peanuts.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    @Mama Penguino: hey, dipshit, you forgot your indefinite article!
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    Image of bayktdin bayktdin
    05/12/09

    @Mama Penguino: Are you still pouting about the time I called you out for using a mysognyistic term?


    I like it when you make the homeless feel like more shit by telling other people they are homeless as a way to belittle them.

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    @bayktdin: I was being playful! I don't mind being called out, just so I'm being called.


    @Bob_Mackey: At the library, maybe . . . duh!

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    05/12/09

    @bayktdin: I think it depends on the number of brothers in the family.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    05/12/09

    @Mama Penguino: Oh, yeah, well I know Penguino, and you're not half the woman he is!
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    @Tremonius: *sob*
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    Image of Mutley Mutley
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    Perhaps he should write a novel about a pirated story that, once downloaded, causes the readers eyeballs to be slowly eaten inside out. And then the victim is attacked by possessed Funyuns.
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    05/12/09

    @Mutley: Please leave Dostoevsky's minor works out of this.
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    Image of not2techy not2techy
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    Wait a minute--wasn't Stephen King living in a basement floored with carpeting remnants, living on Funyons and discount beer prior to the sale of Carrie?
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    Image of wry_bred wry_bred
    05/12/09

    @not2techy: He lived in a trailer with his wife! So he had to share his beer and funyons.
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    Thus rendering the Kindle a money stealing device like a computer that downloads illegal music.
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    Image of OlavRokne OlavRokne
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    I really enjoy Stephen King as a pundit, less so as a novelist.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    05/12/09

    @OlavRokne: I read a story of his once. It was given away free on the Internets. I thought it a nice gesture, and he's a good storyteller, but I decided he's no Stephen King.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    Dear Stephen King:


    It's Funyuns with a Y, you big doofus.


    Love,


    "These guys"


    PS mmmm I love my damp carpeting remnants

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    05/12/09

    @Aaron Altman: This correction brought to you by Paul's Bunion.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    05/12/09

    @scroll_lock: With music by Damon Runyon.
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    Little know fun fact: you can ferment Funions into a delicious microbrew!
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    Image of Juancho Juancho
    03/16/09

    In reply to If Lawsuits Were Decided by Press Releases, This Star Trek Writer Should Totally Win
    If we're going with fun outrageous Harlan facts, he apparently loves to do all his housework in the nude, and keeps (or used to) a bust of Nixon on his back porch for birds to shit on.


    I love the guy, but this probably was constituted as work for hire: he's screwed.

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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    03/16/09

    @Juancho: Tells the tale of being present when another writer came up with the idea of a religion from outer space being a great way to make money.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    03/16/09

    In reply to If Lawsuits Were Decided by Press Releases, This Star Trek Writer Should Totally Win
    Harlan's a good dude. Love him or leave him alone.


    Also, writers DO get fucked over and someone has to fight back.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/16/09

    In reply to If Lawsuits Were Decided by Press Releases, This Star Trek Writer Should Totally Win
    Did Paramount make Shatner and Nemoy climb all the way up into Harlan's Keebler Elf tree?
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    03/16/09

    @BadUncle: Ellison is an excellent storyteller, and writes of how Shatner insisted on coming out to his house to read the original "City" script. First he crashed his motorcycle at the foot of Ellison's driveway, then he sat with the script and counted the number of lines he got vs. everyone else. Funny inside baseball.
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