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Return to the Forbidden Planet
Return to the Forbidden Planet started life in a tent on Blackheath Park, London on Monday 23 May 1983.
Conceived, written and directed by Bob Carlton, Return to the Forbidden Planet started life with the Bubble Theatre Company and was designed to be performed in a tent in and around the parks of outer London. Designed originally as little more than two hours of family entertainment, Carlton had no idea that the show would have any more life after that first summer of performances.
However, the show was seen by the creative team at The Everyman Theatre in Liverpool who offered Carlton the chance to re-work the show and produce it in an indoor theatre. He jumped at the chance and the resulting production was deemed successful enough to return to London where it was produced (in a slightly different form again) at The Tricycle Theatre. It was at the Tricycle that the show finally came to the attention of a West End producer by the name of Andre Ptaszynski.
Ptaszynksi knew he was watching a potential hit, so arranged for the production to open at The Cambridge Theatre in September 1989.
Realising he was on the brink of real success with the show, Carlton knew that this incarnation would have to be the one. Kate Burnett, the original designer, was commissioned to completely redesign the spaceship and top West End lighting designer Benny Ball was brought in to light it. Bobby Aitken (who designed the sound for the original Bubble production) would design the sound system and leading choreographer Carole Todd would design the dance numbers. Never in its history had so much talent been assembled to work on the show. With such a top rate creative team supporting him, Carlton felt confident to increase the cast size and created a set of new characters for this production. As he comments on his website "The real challenge [for the West End version] would be the quest for more performers as the show turned into a larger scale musical." A series of auditions were held in early 1989 to find the remaining crew members.
The West End production – the version you are seeing tonight – opened at The Cambridge Theatre in September 1989. To everyone's relief the show was a massive success and that first run lasted a record breaking three and a half years!
Besides huge commercial appeal, Return to the Forbidden Planet was also a critical success and surprised everyone when it won the prestigious Olivier award for Best Musical of 1990. The reason for the show's enormous popularity is simple – it's fun and the songs are great.
The idea to create the show came from Carlton's love of cheesy American science fiction of the 1950's – and in particular 1956's "Forbidden Planet". The film may feel incredibly dated when watched today, but at the time it was a revelation in its portrayal of all things futuristic and it set the template for the science fiction that would be popularised a decade later in TV shows such as "Star Trek". Knowing that the film was loosely based on Shakespeare's play "The Tempest", when Carlton decided his show would be a sequel to the film (although the tile is bit of a misnomer as the show is more of a remake than a sequel) he made the decision to also return to the source play. The finished result is an affectionate pastiche of both. Add to the mix some wonderful and well known songs from the era (at times very loosely incorporated into the plot) and the result was a huge success.
And it's a huge success that we hope we can repeat here at Henley with our production. Choosing the musical each year is always a difficult job as you try to pick a show that will be both an artistic challenge for the cast and crew and that will also be a crowd pleaser at Christmas. Having had great success last year with Grease, I was keen to find something that would replicate its winning formula and I hope Return to the Forbidden Planet is that show.
It's certainly been a very demanding show to work on as it requires the building of the bridge of a space ship, complete with video monitor and working air lock. These may seem simple enough on paper, but bringing them to life on the tiny budget we have to work with at the college requires much scratching of heads. The production has been very fortunate this year to have had the specialist knowledge and assistance of professional film carpenter Martin Duffy who has built our space ship for us. With the generous donation of materials by Alan Passam we have been able to bring the whole show in (roughly) on budget. Add to that the film making expertise of Richard Thomas and Nic Dawkes who have slaved over the video monitor sequences and I hope you'll agree we've managed to pull it off successfully.
Besides the physical construction aspect of the show, it's also been a demanding show to stage with the cast. Bob Carlton is very specific in his notes on the show that actors walk a fine line when working on this show between affectionate pastiche and plain outright parody. We have found walking this line a difficult balancing act at times, but I hope we've been successful. We've definitely got our tongues firmly planted in our cheeks, but we've always treated the material with respect and tried hard to bring out the humour whilst maintaining a warmth for the characters and their situation. Certainly, when I watch the show I feel that we've created some laugh out loud moments, but we also have our moments when emotions feel genuine. It's important, for example, that we feel for Cookie when he realises Miranda's heart belongs to Tempest or that we feel a twinge of sadness as we watch the planet explode and all that that means. Of course, we've never lost sight that this is an upbeat feel good show and I owe David Golby and his band a massive thank you for providing us with the music and Emma Briggs a huge thank you for choreographing the dances. This isn't really a dance based show and with so many of the crew seated or stood on thin walkways, finding dance opportunities hasn't been easy, so I'm grateful to Emma – a student at the college, by the way – for all of her hard work and tireless enthusiasm for the piece.
As with any production there are always too many people to thank individually but to everyone who contributed in some way, I say thank you, but I would like to particularly thank Sam Scottorn, the technical director, of the show. This show will be Sam's third official musical at the college and sadly will also be his last as he leaves us next year for adventures in Lapland! So, thank you Sam – good luck in whatever comes next and I hope that Return to the Forbidden Planet is a suitable send off.
I hope you enjoy this evening and will keep an eye out for future college productions.
Nic Saunders


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Everglide Giganta V-3 Mouse Surface Review
Reviewed by: Admin
Reviewed on: June 13, 2003
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Price: $5 USD
It's been quiet sometime since I have reviewed any type of mouse surface, the Icemat mouse surface being the last one I reviewed back in May of 2001! (FYI: That was only two months after we opened the site.) Believe it or not, I'm still using that exact same mouse surface. I have taken it to over fifty different lan party's and it has taken a beating from dropping it on the ground on many occasions. I have yet to find a mouse surface that I like better than the Icemat. Frankly, I haven't been searching for a better mouse surface because I simply love the Icemat. However, I was contact by Everglide and they asked me if I would be interested in reviewing their new mouse surface, the Giganta v3. I was very eager to jump on the offer because I have heard many great things of Everglide mouse surfaces.
-> The FineCell texture is consistent across the pad.
-> The FineCell texture has a denser grain.
-> The FineCell texture has a lower coefficient of friction.
-> The FineCell texture has a flatter finish.
-> The FineCell is compatible with the optical mice.
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Here's a quote from the spec sheet that was given to me by Everglide, as it tells you exact what the mouse surface is made of. All Everglide mouse surfaces are constructed of Polystyrene Tetra Polyethylene thermoplastic compound a material that contains a polymerized organic substance of large molecular weight. In plain English, they are pliant becoming soft when heated and hard when cooled. Therefore, you can lay the pad over your knee or any edged surface, and gently press down on the pad edges to reshape. The pad will retain the shape in which it was bent.
There's a total of five rubber feet on the bottom of the Everglide Giganta mouse surface. From my perspective, I think Everglide should of maybe placed one in the middle of the mouse pad to prevent flex in the middle of the pad while you're gaming. Obviously they didn't think it would be necessary since the Giganta is so durable and hard, and maybe they're right.
I couldn't think of any better way to test this mouse surface than to load up my favorite game, Half-Life. I am extremely picky when it comes to a mouse surface, mouse, and the sensitivity settings of the mouse. In Half-Life you must be very precise when shooting the Tau cannon or the Crossbow (like many other games), so you need a mouse surface that is very smooth and that provides skip free mouse movements.
When I went online to play a game of Half-life AG Mod, I noticed that my mouse was almost completely silent! Mouse movements on my Icemat are slightly raspy, since the mouse surface is made of glass. With the Everglide mouse surface, I could hardly hear any movements. When I first felt the surface of the Giganta, I thought it wouldn't provide smooth mouse movements, but I was dead wrong. The surface of the Giganta is very smooth and flowing with mouse movements, but not smooth as the Icemat. I played Half-Life online for a few minutes and I noticed that my mouse would skip, almost like crud was clogged up in my mouse ball. I took the mouse ball out to clean it, and the rollers and I did find some gunk built up on the rollers. I then put the mouse back together and went at it again in Half-life. A few minutes later, I found the mouse skipping yet again. I knew for a fact that my table was level, and that couldn't be the problem. So, I cleaned the mouse again (which dirty to begin with) and I also washed off the Giganta mouse surface to ensure that it was clean. I tried playing Half-life yet again, and I was still having the same problems. When the problem occurred this time, I tossed the Giganta mouse surface to the side and got out my trusted Icemat mouse surface and all problems went away while still in the same game!
The sensitivity on my mouse is very high, requiring me to only move the mouse about half an inch to go from the left side of the screen to the right side (at 1280x1024). With such high sensitivity settings maybe the gradient texture of the Giganta wasn't flat enough or smooth enough to keep in contact with the mouse ball. That's the best conclusion that I could come up with from what I was seeing. Obviously the mouse ball was not dirty, because the problems went away after switching to the Icemat. I know for a fact that the Giganta surface wasn't dirty because I had just cleaned it.
Another problem I noticed with the Giganta mouse surface is the cutout at the bottom of the mouse surface where you should place your hand or wrist pad. I tried playing Half-Life with my wrist pad there, and it was very uncomfortable because the wrist pad wouldn't fit in the cutout. I had to flip the mouse surface 180' and play like that for it to be comfortable with my wrist pad. I think Everglide should have a wrist guard built-in for us gamers that use wrist pads and can't live without them. If you don't use a wrist pad, then the cutout works great.
What about optical mouse users? This mouse surface is for you too! I would recommend this mouse surface to optical mice user's way before I would recommend it to users who use ball mice. Simply because the surface is extremely smooth and it provides a lot of room for movement. The mouse skipping problem shouldn't occur with optical mice for obvious reasons and the black surface makes for an optical mice paradise.
Personally, I don't like the Everglide Giganta V-3 mouse surface and I plan on keeping my Icemat. The Giganta V-3 simply doesn't like highly sensitive mouse settings, plain and simple. I also couldn't live without my wrist pad, and I don't think I should have to flip the mouse surface around 180 degrees just to use the pad. If you're an optical mouse user that doesn't require a wrist pad, then this might just be the mouse surface you've been looking for. If you're an owner of a ball mouse, or you require a wrist pad then I would look elsewhere for you're ultimate gaming mouse surface.
I had one last effort at trying to prove I was wrong about the high sensitivity mouse ball problems with the Giganta mouse surface. I thought I would turn down the mouse sensitivity while playing Half-life to find out if the problems still occur. I launched a game of Half-life online, and started playing (with my regular settings) and I noticed the problem again. I then set the sensitivity much lower than I normally play (which is probably more normal for most gamers) and it appeared as though the problems went away. This was the evidence I needed to insure that there's a sensitivity problem with the Giganta mouse surface when using a ball mouse. When Everglide reads this review maybe they'll try to reproduce this problem in their labs and if that does happen, maybe they'll fix the problem.
- Very Durable
- Smooth
- Optical Mice Friendly
- Dishwasher safe
- Problematic with high sensitivity ball mice
- No built-in wrist pad


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The Story of 'Catch-22'
by Jonathan R. Eller
It shouldn't have survived the first printing. It was a first novel by a part-time writer who had published very little since the 1940s. It was a book that captured the feelings of helplessness and horror generated by the darker side of the American dream at a time when the general reading public still expected fiction to reflect a positive view of contemporary America and its hallowed institutions. The title was changed twice during presswork; as if that weren't enough, someone who thought he was portrayed in the book threatened to sue, prompting a name change for one of the main characters after almost a year in print.
But for a number of editors, advertisers, writers, and critics, reading the book echoed the opening line of the novel: "It was love at first sight." This core of avid supporters kept the novel alive in the East Coast book market until word-of-mouth praise (and overnight bestseller status in Great Britain) took it to international prominence. In time, the title Catch-22 became a part of the English language, and Joseph Heller's novel became an enduring part of American culture.
Heller was not unknown in publishing circles prior to Catch-22. His first published work appeared in the fall 1945 issue of Story, an issue dedicated to short fiction by returning servicemen. For several years after the war, he wrote what he called "New Yorker-type" stories about Jewish life in Depression-era Brooklyn. Several of these formula pieces were published in Esquire and the Atlantic Monthly while Heller was completing undergraduate work in English at NYU. These publications gained him some attention as a promising new writer, but he published no new stories after 1948--partly because they weren't selling anymore, but primarily because he was ready to move on to more universal material:
By the time I was a senior in college, I'd done a little more reading and I began to suspect that literature was more serious, more interesting than analyzing an endless string of Jewish families in the Depression. I could see that type of writing was going out of style. I wanted to write something that was very good and I had nothing good to write. So I wrote nothing.
Instead, he began graduate studies in English at Columbia, which he would complete with an M.A. in 1949, followed by an additional year at Oxford on a Fulbright Scholarship. After two years teaching expository writing at Pennsylvania State University, Heller moved back to New York in 1952 and took a job writing for a small advertising agency, and later for Remington Rand. Graduate work provided the insight required to attempt serious literature, and Heller wanted to write a novel. The drive developed tentatively and without much outside inspiration. He was generally disappointed by the new novels of the early postwar years: "There was a terrible sameness about books being published and I almost stopped reading as well as writing." He considered the war novels of Jones, Miller, Shaw, and others quite good, but he did not at first consider his own wartime experiences as subject for fiction. Nearly thirty typescripts accumulated by 1952, but only one--the never-published "Crippled Phoenix"--offered a hint of the wartime traumas that would surface in Catch-22.
In 1953, he began a series of notecards outlining characters and a military scenario for what would become Catch-22. Certainly his wartime experiences, and those of boyhood friends like George Mandel, formed a basis for the new project. Mandel, who had been seriously wounded as an infantryman in Europe, would eventually write The Wax Boom (1962), a tough war novel that also questioned traditional army chain-of-command responses to combat situations. Mandel remained a responsive and insightful reader for Heller during the seven years that Catch-22 evolved.
A photograph from Joseph Heller's copy of the 488th Squadron's unofficial scrapbook. Heller is on the right.
But in 1953, Heller was still searching for the right form and style of expression. In literature, he found himself attracted to the innovative work of Waugh, Nabokov, and Céline for their successes in achieving the kind of effect Heller wanted. In an early post-publication interview, Heller used Nabokov's work to describe the effect he himself was searching for: "Nabokov in Laughter in the Dark takes an extremely flippant approach to situations deeply tragic and pathetic, and I began to try for a similar blending of the comic and the tragic so that everything that takes place seems to be grotesque yet plausible."
From a publishing perspective, however, it was Heller's interest in Céline that finally sparked a marketable product. Heller had read Céline's Journey to the End of the Night while teaching at Penn State; sometime later, probably in 1954, he read Céline's Death on the Installment Plan. Céline's experimentation with time, structure, and colloquial speech profoundly affected him, and triggered a crucial burst of creative energy. Heller recalled the event for his 1975 Playboy interview with Sam Merrill:
I was lying in bed, thinking about Céline, when suddenly the opening lines of Catch-22 came to me: "It was love at first sight. The first time he saw the chaplain, Blank fell madly in love with him." I didn't come up with the name Yossarian until later, and the chaplain wasn't necessarily an Army chaplain. He could have been a prison chaplain. Ideas of plot, pace, character, style, and tone all tumbled out that night, pretty much the way they finally appeared in the book. The next morning, at work, I wrote out the whole first chapter and sent it to my agent, Candida Donadio, who sold it to New World Writing.
Donadio offered "Catch-18" to Arabel Porter at New American Library's Mentor Books, and immediately found another enthusiastic fan; Porter wanted "Catch-18" for the Seventh Mentor Selection of New World Writing, an NAL series dedicated to publishing the best new literature and criticism. Other NAL editors concurred in superlative terms; Walter Freeman believed that "Of all the recommended pieces lately,
this stands out. It seems like part of a really exciting, amusing novel." Founding editor Victor Weybright was convinced that "Catch-18" was the "funniest thing we have ever had for NWW."
Although Heller was already referring to his initial experiment as a prospective novel, it would be a year before he completed the next chapter, and two years before he finished enough material to send out the story for further review. The main problem was time: between business and family responsibilities, Heller was only able to work on Catch-18 in the evenings, and never very late. He worked slowly and revised extensively at the kitchen table in his West End Avenue apartment, completing about three handwritten pages each night on yellow legal tablets. By day he continued in advertising, moving to successively better-paying positions at Time in 1955 and Look in 1956. In 1957 he moved into the Advertising-Promotion Department at McCall's, where he would remain until Catch-22 changed his life forever.
By the summer of 1957, Heller had completed enough to make a seventy-five-page typescript. In August, Candida Donadio circulated the typescript and received offers from Bob Gottlieb at Simon and Schuster and Tom Ginsberg at Viking. Each offered options to draw a contract when the book was complete; author and agent passed on both, opting to develop more of the book and then ask for an immediate contract.
In February 1958, Donadio sent a longer typescript to Bob Gottlieb, who had shown a very strong interest the previous summer. By this time, Heller had finished seven handwritten chapters and revised them into a 259-page typescript. This typescript eventually became the first third of the book, evolving into the first sixteen chapters of the final novel. Gottlieb, at twenty-six the youngest editor at Simon and Schuster, loved what he saw of the book and arranged a contract for Heller, but not without a struggle.
Four members of the editorial board reported on the manuscript: Gottlieb, administrative editor Peter Schwed, Justin Kaplan (then an executive assistant to Henry Simon and Max Schuster), and Henry Simon, younger brother of founder Richard Simon and by 1958 a vice president. In his report, Gottlieb wrote:
I still love this crazy book and very much want to do it. It is a very rare approach to the war--humor that slowly turns to horror. The funny parts are wildly funny, the serious parts are excellent. The whole certainly suffers somewhat by the two attitudes, but this can be partly overcome by revisions. The central character, Yossarian, must be strengthened somewhat--his single-minded drive to survive is both the comic and the serious center of the story.
A page from the early manuscript, with revisions by Heller.
Gottlieb was the strongest advocate, and both Schwed and Kaplan found it wildly funny but at times repetitive. Even Gottlieb conceded that the book would not be a big seller, although he felt that it was "bound to find real admirers in certain literary sets." Henry Simon, however, found Yossarian's escapades repetitive and at times offensive, and recommended against publication. In the end, Heller's willingness to make revisions, and Gottlieb's willingness to work with him, convinced the board to contract the book.
The 1955 appearance of
chapter 1
in New World Writing had introduced the publishing world to Catch-18, and by the end of the decade news about the novel had spread by word of mouth from Heller's agent, his publisher, and his own circle of friends and advertising associates. His contract had originally called for 1960 publication, but Heller needed all of 1960 to finish the manuscript and work it into shape for publication. By this time the 259-page typescript of 1958 had more than doubled in length; Heller had extended the existing episodes by interleaving handwritten pages of the familiar legal-sized yellow paper into the typescript, thus expanding it from seven to sixteen chapters (through "Luciana," chapter 16 of the final work) without altering the order and basic structure of the earlier draft. But a major new manuscript section picked up where the original circulating typescript left off, adding another twenty-eight chapters to the increasingly complex narrative. Chapter 39, "The Eternal City," had proven most troublesome; it took months to refine the dark tones of Yossarian's final trip to Rome and create a smooth transition into the revelations of the novel's concluding chapters.
During 1960, Heller prepared a new 758-page typescript from this conflation, and made revisions that included deletion of the original manuscript chapter 18, "Rosoff." This chapter provided a chronological bridge between the "Soldier in White" chapter, set in the hospital on Pianosa, and "The Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice" chapter, a flashback into Yossarian's earlier hospital episodes at Lowry Air Base in Denver, Colorado. The deleted chapter included an overlong but delightful digression into "PT" and team sports at Lowry, but Heller soon sensed that this interlude impeded the progress of the narrative. Other digressive episodes would have to be cut as well before the book would go to press.
With the newly revised typescript in hand, Heller and Gottlieb made further revisions in the text. After a series of editorial sessions, Heller shortened the typescript by about 150 pages. The typescript, now heavily revised and partially retyped, became printer's copy for the Simon and Schuster galley proofs. Before the text was actually set, Heller worked with Gottlieb on some final cuts, including the original chapter 23 ("The Old Folks at Home"), a digressive flashback to conversations between Nately and his capitalist father.
A page from the submitted typescript, with revisions by Heller.
Heller's working relationship with Gottlieb was the catalyst that finally reduced the complex narrative to a manageable scale; but the chemistry did not carry over to the copy editor assigned to Catch-18. For weeks, Heller found himself locked in a syntactic struggle of wills:
[Gottlieb] assigned the book to a copy editor who immediately began rearranging my sentences and paragraphs. . . . She apparently had an aversion to what I think might be called compound predicates. For example, if I wrote "He struck a match and lit a cigarette," she would change it to "He struck a match and he lit a cigarette." It was even worse when she got to sentences like "'Get out,' he said, foaming at the mouth." This she would change to "'Get out,' he said, and he foamed at the mouth."
Re-editing the book back into Heller's own conversational idiom took about six weeks in early 1961, and led to a delayed release date. Before the copyediting problem, Heller and Gottlieb had been on track for a late-summer release; after the delay, Heller was given his choice of mid-October 1961 or January 1962. He opted for October, putting the novel on the threshold of the holiday marketing season.
This delay led to even more unexpected trouble through a bizarre coincidence of titles. In January 1961, Leon Uris's new novel, Mila 18, was announced for summer publication; given Uris's best-selling reputation, a new title for Catch-18 was inevitable. For two weeks in January, Heller and Gottlieb tried a number of new titles. Catch-11 was promising--the vowel following the consonants in "Catch" had the right sound, but the title had an extra syllable; besides, it was too close to Frank Sinatra's new movie title, Ocean's Eleven (1960). Heller came up with Catch-14 next, and tried to convince Gottlieb that it was the right number in a letter dated January 29, 1961:
The name of the book is now CATCH-14. (Forty-eight hours after you resign yourself to the change, you'll find yourself almost preferring this new number. It has the same bland and nondescript significance
of the original. It is far enough away from Uris for the book to establish an identity of its own, I believe, yet close enough to the original title to still benefit from the word of mouth publicity we have been giving it.)
Gottlieb was not happy with 14--the central concept of the novel was "Catch-18," and for everyone at Simon and Schuster, it had been "Catch-18" for more than three years. After a halfhearted attempt at accepting Catch-14, Gottlieb had a late-night flash of conviction and came up with the title which has long since passed into the language: "22, it's 22! And I remember calling up Joe and saying, 'It's funnier than 18!' But of course the fact is that no number is funnier than any other number, it's complete self-delusion. But once we were convinced it was funnier, then it became funny."
Both Heller and Gottlieb soon realized just how well the new title represented the structure of events in the novel--the soldier who saw everything twice, Yossarian's disastrous second target pass during the Bologna mission, and the chaplain's déjà vu are key examples of the novel's doubling structure. But all this came later--as Gottlieb observes, "We were just desperate publishers looking for a title."
Catch-22 was published on October 10, 1961, but an aggressive marketing campaign was already reaching beyond reviewers to a wide circle of writers, literary critics, and even to competing publishers. The day after publication, advertising manager Nina Bourne and Bob Gottlieb published "What's the Catch?" a full-page five-column ad in The New York Times recapping the intellectual fan mail that was streaming into Bourne's office. A second, full-length two-column ad appeared in the November 3 Times, and after Christmas short, eye-catching bullets by Morris West, Kenneth Tynan, and Nelson Algren appeared every few days under the paper soldier logo designed for the dust jacket by Paul Bacon. Six months after release, a status report on the emerging "Catch Craze" appeared across an entire page and a facing column of the April 29, 1962, New York Times Book Review. But this ad was different--most of the columns documented a new wave of letters from grassroots American readers who discovered Catch-22 through the word-of-mouth endorsements that were beginning to create a long-term market for the novel.
In spite of praise from an ever-increasing number of critics, writers, and mainstream readers, Heller was about to face a Yossarian-like challenge that would soon force a major change in the text of his novel. He had relied on his own wartime experiences in a Mediterranean-based B-25 bomber squadron for plot elements, but his use of fictitious character names, unit designations, and base locations minimized the potential for lawsuit. In fact, none of the aviators who inspired the characters in Catch-22 ever voiced objection. But in the late spring of 1962 someone not portrayed in the novel threatened a lawsuit because he thought he was. He shared the name of Heller's "Anabaptist" chaplain, Robert Oliver Shipman, referred to for the most part throughout the novel simply as R. O. Shipman.
The Shipman character had already developed a literary identity, and Heller did not want readers to be confused by different versions of the book. Heller had never known the real Shipman, but the coincidence of name and certain background similarities led to a name change to A. T. Tappman--another seven-letter name that avoided resetting the entire book. This significant change appears in the sixth and subsequent printings of the Simon and Schuster text, and in all printings of the Dell mass-market paperback edition released in the fall of 1962. Later printings of Jonathan Cape's British first edition also picked up the change, but the Transworld mass-market British paperback has continued to use the original name for decades.
This controversy remained a private matter, and the Simon and Schuster staff soon turned to more public marketing milestones. The house advertising effort culminated a year after release with a full-page eight-column "Happy Birthday Catch-22" ad in the daily New York Times. As with the other ads, it had the unique style that Nina Bourne had learned from Richard Simon himself--the idea of bringing the reader inside the publishing house to learn the story of the novel. It was a personal approach, like writing a letter to a friend, or, as Bob Gottlieb observed, like "bringing the public--bringing the reader in on it. You were talking to people instead of inventing things, coming out with real feelings about a particular book." The ads--an impossible undertaking at today's costs--were more heartfelt than calculated, but in the end, the Catch caught on.
And as the word spread, public and academic interest in the novel continued to grow. The postmodern experimental structure was worthy of critical investigation, and the satire engaged students (and professors) who were skeptical of the postwar military establishment. But the chance for Catch-22 to become a contemporary classic, and for the "Catch" phrase to pass into our culture, grew from universal aspects of the plot. As Nelson Algren noted in his June 23, 1962, Chicago Daily News review, Heller's burlesque of the military leader is also a burlesque of the business leader, or the leader of any bureaucratic
machine. Syndicated columnists beyond the book world also came on board for Catch-22, including Richard Starnes, Murray Kempton, and Ralph Gleason. Starnes--a conservative political columnist writing for the conservative New York World Telegram--offered proof enough that the novel's universal relevance could break through ideological biases. In fact, by overcoming the odds of the publishing business, Heller fulfilled Starnes's early prognosis for literary immortality: "Yossarian will, I think, live a very long time."
JONATHAN R. ELLER is professor of English and senior textual editor in the Institute for American Thought, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts (IUPUI). Portions of this essay appeared in his article "Catching a Market: The Publishing History of Catch-22," Prospects 17 (1992), 475-525.
Sam Merrill, "Playboy Interview: Joseph Heller," Playboy (June 1975): 59ff.
W. J. Weatherby, "The Joy Catcher," Manchester Guardian, Nov. 20, 1962.
Kenneth C. Davis, Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1984), 200.
A copy of Gottlieb's editorial report, dated Feb. 12, 1958, is in the Catch-22 Papers, Brandeis University.
Richard Greeman, "Joseph Heller Lionized by Critics for His Novel of War and Mankind," Fire Island News, July 14, 1962.
Robert Gottlieb, interview with the author, New York, June 12, 1991. Heller's slightly different version appears in Josh Greenfield, "22 Was Funnier Than 14," New York Times Book Review, Mar. 3, 1968. Subsequent quotations by Gottlieb are from the same interview.


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Henri Frederic Amiel once wrote that "For those who know how to look and wait, a modest garden contains more instruction than a library." For the past six months, Parks & Recreation's 18 Master Gardener candidates have been "looking and waiting," as they learn the fundamentals of gardening and horticulture. Last Friday, May 14, the third class of Master Gardeners graduated, joining the ranks of the 35 Master Gardeners already working for Parks & Recreation.
Parks & Recreation's Master Gardener Program was created to enhance and increase horticultural knowledge throughout the agency by providing thorough horticultural training to a handful of gardeners and field workers in each borough. Experts from the Brooklyn Botanic Program teach the six-month course, instructing students in botany, turf and soil management, pest and disease management, pruning, and landscape design. The course is free to qualified Parks & Recreation employees who apply for instruction. With 35 Master Gardeners graduating in the last two years and 18 more this year, Parks & Recreation now has a total of 53 Master Gardeners working in parks. This year's graduating Master Gardener class included Helaine Basher, Amber Catha-Jones, Joseph Cosenza, Elaine Crowley, Adolph Delgado, George Grateron, Byron Holt, Jeremy Kemp, Bryan Milne, Matilda Mosleh, Carmen Montes, Myrna Ramirez, Ella Ray, Josephine Scalia, Cory Serisky, Carl Snipes, Charles Szatkowski, and Susanna Vendetti.
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OK, i've admitted if for all of us, so lets share a memory from before we were old.
I thought about this the other day, and this is just my dorky way of getting to tell it...
When I was very young...age 1 to 7 we, (me, mom, and my sister) lived with my grand parents and their other 12 children.
I was my grandfathers favorite, for some reason a usually dirty, curly haired blonde stole his heart. Looking back, I realize my actual survival probaly depended on it.
For reasons that he took to the grave, he call me Pete...the rest of my family referred to me as Linda Jo....we are southern.
My grandfather had heart problems, and to my knowledge never worked in my lifetime, and he died when I was a very young woman.
I guess, frequently my grandmother would run us out of the house, the rest of the family was either working or in school, so i would be the only kid at home..
we visited to local "filling station", and local small town grocery, where I would get a small coke and a bag of peanuts. Sometimes just driving to visit what to me, were other old men. Of course at that time, he was about my age, or younger.
Fast forward 20 years, i was working as clerk at the local K-mart store. I saw a old man shopping alone, upon closer inspection, I recognized my grand fathers friend....Hoyte Mangrum, by name.
I went and spoke to him, asking if he remember me...
He twisted his gray head....looked me right in the eye....shook his head, then he eyes brighten up and he said, "well, i'll be damned...Are you Raymond's grand daughther Pete?
It was like my grandfather was suddenly standing beside me, saying hello, Pete, I'm still here.
As fate would dictate, my grandfather died on my 18th birthday, at that moment, I couldnt imagine anything worse, my birthday would never be the same, every birthday would be marred by the memories of losing my grandfather.
Now, all these years later, my birthday, is our day, mine and grandpas. All these 30 something years later, who remembers the day my grandfather died....I do, because its my birthday...or OUR day.
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Jun 28 @ 6:06PM
I will give a green cookie for a unique subject. To go beyond that at the moment requires some thought. I have posted a lot of experiences, especially from childhood. Many, and they are my most popular genre (if you could call it that) have been coined "Tommy tales".
Ironically,I mentioned in disagreement with Softie on the changes on AMD,
Pervia Where are You
the following:
I don't see it that way as much I see it being "the old farts" running out of creative material. Everybody has their own style or styles, and there is usually a limit to how much we can put out there before it becomes a repeat. This particularly true when we chronicle aspects of our past. Once we have put it out there, we've covered it and there may be nothing interesting to follow up with that hasn't already been shared.
That kind of sums up where I find myself in commenting on this blog. Maybe I can come up with something that is not rerun conversation, but at the moment, I can't
Jun 28 @ 6:15PM
Oh WoW, some of the Tommy stories could well be repeated!
Oh, give me your version of your first day of high school
I'm off to fat class...be back later
Jun 28 @ 6:27PM
Oh WoW, some of the Tommy stories could well be repeated!
Thank you very kindly. I like good old rerun movies myself. Hell, I watched
on G4 this afternoon. Here are some "Tommy tales":
Beyond being a cry baby, my brother was also a big time tattle tale, snitch, stoolie, squealer and in the slang vernacular of the time, a fink (now there's a word you haven't heard in decades). I often wanted to take him out back and discuss the matter with him. But if I did, he would squeal and the old man would have a piece of me. At the time, my dad was a 6'3" 230 pound high school football coach. It goes without saying that there was no upside in the tradeoff.
Then one day a light came on. "I've got it!" It was ingeniously simple and guaranteed to work. "That little whiney fink is going to get what he deserves." I said to myself. It was simply a matter of being patient and waiting for the right time. Over the course of a month I would grin continuously imagining him getting worked over by my mom when my plan went into action.
My late sainted mother was a supermom. Look up meticulous in the dictionary and you will see her picture next to the word. One Saturday morning it was raining and she loathed that, as she had to put up with us being in the house all day. I don't recall where my dad was, but he wasn't around. She was not in a good mood and I didn't know why. But I knew to stay out of her way because she was marching around the house, not walking. You know the mother's march, it's the gait that they have when they are coming after you and just about ready to beat your ass for something you did that they just found out about. She wasn't mad at either of us, yet. But all of that was about to change!
[Now let me tell you, people, as I type this, I am still laughing my ass off 45 years later]
My room was at the end of the hall. Halfway down the hall was my brother's room and directly across from it was the bathroom. My mom had went in to clean the bathroom. I could see my brother in the hall doing that dance that kids do when they have to pee. "You can wait, damn it!" Ooh, cursing! Lovely! This is it! It was my lucky day as a few minutes later the phone rang. She marched to answer it in the kitchen and my brother shot into the bathroom to recycle some Kool Aid. I walked towards the kitchen and could tell it was my grandmother on the phone. Perfect, that will give me five to ten minutes. I then heard the toilet flush.
I noticed that my brother was in the corner of his room with his back to the doorway. He was completely immersed in his tinker toys. I quietly slipped into the bathroom, grabbed the proverbial water glass, filled it about halfway with water, then I sprinkled it on the toilet seat and floor. I dried the glass off with the hand towel. I stuck my head out of the doorway and listened. She was still on phone and a quick glance into his room revealed that he was still in the corner. Justice being administered was only a few minutes away.
Now let me pause the action to explain that my mom was what we termed a syllable slapper. Now, I don't know if you have had the pleasure of encountering one of these creatures or not. Basically, you get bitched at while you are being slapped. One syllable equals one slap. Swear words result in a much harder slap.
She finished the phone conversation then marched down the hall and turned into the bathroom. In two seconds she marched out of the bathroom, across the hall, and into my brother's room. He didn't hear her coming. I leaned out of my room just as the first blow rained down upon his head from behind without warning.
"I (slap) work (crack) and (smack) slave (slap) and (crack) no (smack) body (slap) ap (crack) pre (smack) ci (slap) ates (crack) a (smack) GOD (WHACK) DAMN (WHACK) thing (slap) I (crack) do (smack)…." As I recall, the woman had quite a bit to say.
I finally couldn't take it anymore and had to go into my closet and shut the door. It was just too much humor for me. I didn't care to hear that old, "You think it's so funny, I'll give you something to laugh about" routine.
Within a year, the same sort of justice would be administered. But how I set him up this time was to put a Kleenex in the pocket of a pair of dirty pants of his that were in the hamper. It was even better than the last one as she was cussing like a sailor when she was working him over.
I told him this story about 20 years ago and he got pissed and recalled it quite clearly. He never knew in either case what he had "done". After all, you certainly didn't want to ask what it involved even if you didn't know.
Jun 28 @ 6:30PM
I was probably thirteen and my brother (the ultimate cry baby) was ten. I had looked at the TV Guide and saw a movie coming on at 8:00 that I knew my dad would want to watch. My brother and I were laying on the floor in front of the TV. At around 7:45 I said softly to my brother, "There is a movie coming on channel nine and it is all about you."
Just before the top of the hour I said, "Hey dad, what do you want to watch now?"
"Well, let's see." He picked up the TV Guide. "Oh, there is a good movie coming on channel nine."
"Oh really? What's it called?"
"The Ugly American"
My brother jumped up. WAAAAAAA! "It's rude to call somebody ugly!" He then ran off to his room. My parents looked at one another puzzled. I turned the TV to channel nine with a smirk and we didn't see my brother the rest of the night.
Here is another one from about the same era. I had a knack for thinking up something that I would find funny, then either saying or doing it later when I could or it was appropriate. As I recall, I got the basic idea from an episode of
where at a dinner, someone removes a lid from a serving dish and it revealed the head of Uncle Arthur portrayed by Paul Lynde.
In junior high, I would get home from school before my brother did. I got in around 3:30 and he would arrive around 3:45. My mom was a housewife and almost always at home. One day I came home and she was gone, but had left a note, as always, on the coffee table. It more or less said that she had to go to the store and would be back before 4:00. Cool, opportunity presents itself.
My brother's routine was always the same. Come home, go into the den and turn on the TV. As you entered the den from the living room, the kids' TV was to your right and in front of it was a rug about five feet long and three feet wide. Before entering the den, you had to take off your shoes as scuffing the floor was a felony. You also had to confine yourself to staying on the rug. To the left as you entered the den from the living room, was large desk.
I went into the kitchen and got some paper napkins and doused them with ketchup. I then went into the den, crawled into the chair well, and popped my head up from behind the desk. I placed the ketchup splattered napkins around my neck. After coming up with this idea, I had practiced looking dead in the mirror. Basically, I opened my eyes as wide as I could with a blank stare and opened my mouth slightly while sticking my neck and head as far forward onto the desk as I could.
Well, right on schedule here comes Tommy. He plops down on the rug, turns on the TV and is watching it for about a minute. Then something off to the side caught his eye. It is yours truly, Mr. Murdered. He turned his head slowly and casually, then there was a rapid double take. He then cried out with weirdest sound I ever heard from a human as he jumped up and dashed out of the den, then through the living room and I heard the front door quickly open and close. I got out from under the desk, wiped up a few ketchup droplets. Then I quickly went into the kitchen and put the napkins in the trash, exercising care to bury them so as to leave no evidence.
I peeked out the window and watched. He was on the front porch blubbering unintelligibly. I ALMOST felt bad about it, but it was just too damned funny. He finally settled down, but he would not come back into the house. He just stood there looking kind of bewildered.
In few minutes my mom drove up and I came out of the house. "Hi,mom! Need some help bringing in the groceries?" My brother started making all of these funny faces watching me but never said anything. He just went back into the house. Until dinner was served, he watched TV in the den and I just stayed in my room giggling.
After dinner, I went into the den where he was camped out and, grinning, sang him a little song that i had made up a week or so previously to commemorate this event. It was based upon the theme to the old TV show
Mister Ed
A corpse is a corpse, of course of course
You never heard of a talking corpse
Talk to Mister Head
He gave me the dirtiest damned look as I turned and left the den immediately after serenading him.
Jun 28 @ 6:45PM
We got a Tommy Tale today!
OMG!!!! Your mother had her hands full with the two of you. But I know well the "Mother march"...seen my Mom do that plenty of times. Usually she was pissed off at one of us girls. Drove her crazy...she had 3 daughters, and all three of us had no fear of climbing trees, playing in the ditch, catching snakes, spiders and other creatures. And her "march" was usually the result of one of us bringing our "prizes" into her house. She wasn't a "syllable slapper", her favorite with us was, "wait until your father gets home from work". Didn't really work on any us....as we knew Dad got home from work well after we were put to bed.
One day, my younger sister and I were playing, and saw Dad go under the house through a crawl space entrance. One of those little pieces of information kids store for the occasion when they get bored. Well, few days later, same sister and I are outside playing, (my youngest sister at this time was a little over a year old..so she was in the house with Mom at the time), and we decided to "explore" under the house. OMG!!! I couldn't not believe how many toads were under there! My sister and I were in heaven catching toads....and in the midst of all of this..we heard our mother calling for us. Yep, we tried to stay quiet, but, we kind of forgot that in order to get under the house, we had to remove the cover to the entrance. Yep, Mom saw it, got down on her knees and looked in there and she could see us....I remember her saying in an extremely stern tone using both names...mine "Dawn Marie, both you and sister get out of there right now!" With my Mom, when the middle name was used....we knew were in some serious trouble. But, my sister and I also knew Mom didn't care for snakes, toads and such...so we knew she wouldn't come under there to chase us out. So...I popped off and told her we weren't ready yet...to which she told me the infamous, "Wait until your father gets home!". We thought we had it made....she left, we resumed playing under the house. And I swear, it wasn't too long after that, my sister and I heard, "Get your asses out here NOW!!"....ummm..yeah...that wasn't Mom's voice that time....that was Dad!
We didn't realize he had started a new shift....and yes...both of us had sore butts and got grounded for a week for that little adventure.
Jun 28 @ 6:47PM
awwwww Whisperin! That is the sweetest story! Is it your Birthday? If so...Happy Birthday Pete! If not...Happy Birthday Pete! It might as well be since you remembered and told us this story.
I loves my Grandfather too! My Mom's dad. He told great stories of bears and the wilderness. He lived in DC and we would visit often. When he came to visit us, my brother and I would play tricks on him cause of the way he answered the phone. Back then if you dialed 1411 (i think that was the #, can'tremember for sure) it would ring cause it called your own number. He would answer by saying Bellow...not hello...and it cracked me and my brother up.
I don't know if he knew we did it, but he was a good sport if he did.
Jun 28 @ 7:19PM
Great story, Sugar!! Just goes to show that if mama ain't happy, nobody is happy.
When you get your first and middle name called you are in trouble. When you get your first, middle and last name called, you are in BIG trouble!
Every mother who is married knows how to play the "wait until your father gets home card." The first thing he asks after work is something to the effect of, "How did your day go today, dear?" For your sake, it had best be a positive answer. This was always the same entrance greeting as his day was the same or he didn't want to discuss it. If the answer to the question is not "fine" or, worse, like "Do you know what your son did today?" The result would be swift justice with a kangaroo court.
My dad was a high school coach with the size and attitude of John Wayne.
The worst was when the trial was postponed until after dinner. He arrived home at 5:00 dinner was at 5:30 sharp. Then it was like dining in a prison hall, nobody said shit.
But usually, he would lay back a little and read the evening paper. Then bellow my name (I was in my room awaiting execution). "Haven't you got something to tell me, mister?" "Mister" was the indicator a felony and serious ass whupping. He would ask what you did, and why you did it. Then the kangaroo would hop on the answer; BOOM (backhand to the mug), "Forgot, hell, maybe this will help you remember!"
The man could get mad but never lost his temper. In hindsight, that kind of discipline was what I required. I was never abused. I am a better person because of it, but it was not my fondest childhood memories!
Jun 28 @ 7:47PM
When you get your first and middle name called you are in trouble. When you get your first, middle and last name called, you are in BIG trouble!
Oh yeah, I remember that! Both my sisters and myself have heard that a time or two while growing up.
Mom wasn't afraid to spank our asses when we acted up...but seemed like Dad's whoopings hurt just a tad more...so we took it more serious coming from Dad. No, we were not abused because all three of us girls can count on one hand how many times Dad actually had to spank our asses. That was usually when other "remedies' were tried with no success.
Actually, the one method that usually worked the best on us was the infamous "you're grounded"...that was "the end of the world" to my sisters and I. Being grounded consisted of being in the house for the entire time of the grounding, no friends over, no phone privileges, just staying in the house. And to 3 kids who would rather be running the fields or riding bikes and spending the day outside playing with friends...that was torture. I remember busting out the windows of the church across the street...it was my younger sister, and 4 of the other neighborhood kids. The minister of the church caught us in the act and told our parents. I remember when Dad told us we were "grounded till further notice", both my sister and I BEGGED for a spanking....being told we were grounded till further notice did not sound appealing at all! That was a miserable summer for my sister, myself, and our poor mother who had to put up with us begging, pleading, whining, and yes, the occasional tantrums to get out of the grounding. Mom finally relented about the first week of August and let us play outside with friends.
Jun 28 @ 8:48PM
One of my best memories is going to Jess Miller's fillin' station. I found a pix of it among the slides and it will be one that I will have made into a snapshot to hang on my wall.
It was a tiny red brick building with ivy vines growing all over it...just one room that was heated with a potbellied stove. The place was old, even back then. The windows were clouded with age.
I was just tall enough to see inside those old glass candy cases...also smudged and cloudy with wood and cigarette smoke.
The floors were old wooden planks. Shelves were lined with cans of oil and all kinds of stuff I couldn't identify and all of it looked dusty and old.
But there are two things I remember the most. One was the red pop cooler. It had sliding doors on top and it was filled with water and chunks of ice...and bottles of red pop, grape pop, orange pop, coke 'n pepsi and root beer. I could barely see inside 'cause the top of it was about nose level to me.
And speaking of nose...the smell of that place is indelibly ingrained into my memory. The mixture of wood smoke and wooden floors 'n dust 'n cigarette smoke. It smelled old but it wasn't an offensive smell....just kinda mysterious yet homey.
And I remember the smell of that ice water. Well water has a smell, kinda like iron 'n minerals and mixed with chunks of ice it had a rain or fresh air smell. I can't describe it but it is stuck forever in my nose and conjurs up brain pictures of my hands in icy water and hearing those glass pop bottles tinkle together as I worked hard to make up my mind which one I wanted the most.
Another thought to go with this. This was a time when many funerals were conducted in the home. Jesse's wife, May, died and I have a little recall of the funeral. She was the first dead person I saw...I was probably 6 yrs. old...and I remember the open casket in the living room. I don't remember the service, just lots of people around and lots of food and it all seemed so strange to me to have her in a big box right there in the house like she was just a part of the decor'. I can remember staring and staring at her and trying to understand this thing called death.
Jun 28 @ 9:58PM
She was the first dead person I saw...I was probably 6 yrs. old...and I remember the open casket in the living room.
That would have tripped me out, never experienced it and glad that I didn't!
But seemed like Dad's whoopings hurt just a tad more...so we took it more serious coming from Dad. No, we were not abused because all three of us girls can count on one hand how many times Dad actually had to spank our asses.
I can assure you, Sugar, that if I was a girl, the whuppings would have been much less severe, if at all. I don't know if he could dealt with girls to tell you the truth. But with boys, it was mano to mano, and in no uncertain terms! He had that shit down as tight as a drum!!
Jun 28 @ 10:06PM
I am sure family members could write a book of Rhonda Shea stories from when I was younger. I think I heard my first and middle name more than I heard just my first name. I was always in trouble with one or another female in the family as I was a rebellious tomboy and in NC in the 1950s and early 1960s that was not acceptable behavior. The one that stands out was an incident involving my grandfather's horse and a new pink dress.
Every Sunday afternoon the family woul gather over at my Grandparents house. That was a royal command in our family. If you missed it you had better be in the hospital, out of town or dead. My mother made me wear a pink organza dress this Sunday and I was told to sit in the house or if I was too hot I could sit on the front porch but I was to act like a lady. Like a seven year old wants to hear that.
After I was sure all the adults were busy I slipped to the stables to plaly with the horses. There was one I was never supposed to ride named Diablo. I handed him a lump of sugar and he was letting me pet him when I got the bright idea that I bet I could ride this horse bareback as I was too small to put his saddle or bridle on him. ( I rode before I could walk and rarely used a saddle) So I got on his back and he walked around the pasture a little so I thought this is no fun. I will ride him to the barn and back so I opened the gate and we started towards the barn. Then I got really brave and decided to show off a little for my cousins as none of us were supposed to ride Diablo and even the boys in the family were afraid to ride him. So everyone heard this horse coming around the house at a full gallop. My grandmother almost fainted, my mother was screaming at me that I was ruining my dress which I did when the horse reached the pond, stopped and I went flying over his head into the water. My grandfather's reaction? Rhonda Shea the next time you want to ride my horse just ask. I heard about the ruined dress all the way home, all that night and most of the next day as well as getting the cherry tree switch on my behind and legs. My dad just grinned every time someone brought it up and said That's my girl. My mother would just glare at him and grumble under her breath about me being just like him.
My mother stays lost in the past a lot now and was upset with me a few days ago. About what? Because I rode that horse and ruined my new pink dress. I had to remind her that was 49 years ago.
Jun 28 @ 11:00PM
OMG...Thank you for sharing your stories with me, and grandpa thanks you too....esp tommy
Jun 28 @ 11:57PM
I'll try and remember to write a story about it in the morning.. I'm exhausted today.. but I'll leave you with .. we knew it was bad when we heard mom screaming, "Sheila..Shawn.... SHIT!"
Jun 29 @ 12:25AM
lol...lets us hold our breath until morn....and OMG thank you for the stories, one and all...be thinking about the day you lost your cherrry, as that will be our next "tell and tell'
Jun 29 @ 7:04AM
i'm slow these days as i'm back to work.....have no wit this morning...oddly what you did was brinig MY grandfather back......i think i want to thank ya but course now i miss him.....btw have graeat day...he he he names gota nuff trouble remembering linda i think i 'saved you '' as comet
Jun 29 @ 7:35AM
be thinking about the day you lost your cherrry
That one has already been done a few times.
Jun 29 @ 7:48AM
well hell, WoW, i guess i was drunk and forgot!
Ok, lets try this....DO YOU REMEMBER THE DAY YOUR SIBLING WAS BORN?
Since im the baby of the family, and I mean the entire family...i dont have a story, but would love to hear about yours.
TMI...but my mom came from a family of 13, and somehow...i was the youngest grandchild until i was 17 years old, so i have lots and lots of subsubtute moms, as there were only three uncles in the bunch.
Jun 29 @ 8:32AM
be thinking about the day you lost your cherrry
That one has already been done a few times.
As I recall on all of the other times that blog was posted, more often than not, it wasn't a pleasant memory for the ladies, and it often involved being abused.
There is less than three years between us, so no, I don't remember it.
Jun 29 @ 11:45AM
I am an only child which means there was no one to point to and say they did it. LOL
Jun 29 @ 12:34PM
My before I was old, story.. well.. hopefully it will come out as a story... anyway.
Mom had gone to the 'big town' about 3 hours away for the day and I was babysitting my bro.
My baby brother, the inventor, had one of those old bangsite cannons that used the bangsite powder? Anyway.. One day he decided it would be a great idea to clean the chimney on our fireplace. So he gets a small coffee can and fills it with bangsite, puts the plastic lid on and pokes a hole for a fuse. He then sets it inside an upside down larger coffee can and touches off the fuse. 15 seconds later there is a very loud """BANG!!!!!!!""" and the larger coffee can is launched upwards to get stuck in the flue. Soot goes everywhere.. it looks like a mini nuke. Only black. Very very black. Very, very, I dunno how many veries I could type up here.. but let's just say very.. black.. everywhere. The furniture, the walls, the floor and even the ceiling are blackened. My little brother looks like a coal miner with only the whites of his eyes showing. Everything else including his teeth.. black. He's like 8 or so.. so I know he's not gonna pay the price for this.. no way.. not Momma's baby boy. So I call up my cousin who is tall to help me clean the ceiling.
It took us 8 hours to clean that room up.. but the funny thing is I was up on my cousins shoulders for a while cleaning the ceiling and in order to get around the light I had to be upside down... I left black footprints on the ceiling that would NOT come off. . no matter how hard we tried we couldn't scrub em off the textured ceiling.
All was well for about three days til Mom looked up one day... a resounding shriek was heard all over the 70 acres we had to hide on... "Sheila!!!! Shaaaaaaawn!!! Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!, I'm going to kill you both.. right this minute.. come home now because you are going to die!" She'd found the black footprints. They are there, on the ceiling to this day.
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Jun 29 @ 12:37PM
When I was in Jr. High we were studying ratios. You know.. 2:4 etc? Anyway.. I decided to cook some pudding.. and for some unknown and bizarre reason I read 3/4 as 3:4... so I'm measuring things up ... as cups not fractions of cups.. and I put it all in a pan.. have you ever seen what cornstarch will do if you mix it with odd stuff? It's pretty amazing. I've not lived that one down yet. Mom makes a point of telling everyone about her daughter the "mad scientist" chef.
That's ok though, I got even with her when she was making Jello for the family reunion and I added sixteen packages of clear gelatin to her mix. You could bounce bullets off that stuff.
Jun 29 @ 12:45PM
Da squoil has some funny stories.
Jun 29 @ 2:14PM
at Skwirl!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jun 29 @ 10:56PM
OMG...Skwirl just reminded me of the time my brother made biscuits when we were camping. I have no idea how he did it...but those biscuits were so freakin' hard...that I decided to use them as baseballs and hit them with my bat.
This pissed my brother off royally...but I'm telling you...I tried like hell to split one in half and I couldn't.
Obviously...NO one wanted to chance eating them after my baseball demonstration...so the way I see it...I was preventing dental problems.
Anyway...that's my story...and I'm sticking to it.
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"I Gotta Cut Krypto"
The author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography argues with his editor about the Dog of Steel.
Unedited transcript of the July 12, 2012, phone conversation between Glen Weldon, author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, and his editor, Eric Nelson.
Weldon: Hello?
Editor: Hey, Glen. Got a minute?
Weldon: Hey, Eric. Uh, sure.
Editor: I just read Chapter 5, and I got to the Krypto stuff.
Weldon: OK.
Editor: … All the Krypto stuff.
Weldon: Yeah. [Chuckles.] Awesome.
Editor: Thirteen pages.
Weldon: … Excuse me?
Editor: You wrote 13 pages.
Weldon: … I uh, I don't …
Editor: About a dog.
Weldon: Ah.
Editor: Glen, who are you writing this book for? Who exactly is this person in your head who's prepared to wade through 13 pages about Superman's dog? It's you, isn't it?
Weldon: OK, let me just stop you right there. I think I see the issue. You are talking about Krypto as if he's just a dog. He's not just a dog, Eric.
Editor: Here we go.
Weldon: He is a dog ...
Editor: " … in a cape."
Weldon: Yes, he is a dog in a cape, Eric. And that … that is awesome. OK? Empirically so. That's just science. I mean … did you read that section? Really read it?
Editor: Oh, I read it. All 13 pa …
Weldon: Because it doesn't sound like you really read it.
Editor: I'm cutting it, Glen. Sorry. I gotta cut Krypto.
Weldon: [Sputtering.]
Editor: The contract says, "75,000 word manuscript." You turned in how many?
Weldon [mumbling]: … 150.
Editor: 150,000 words. And this book's about Superman—who he is, what he represents, how he's changed—so if we gotta cut something, then maybe, I don't know, 13 pages about his pet doggie might be a good thing to start with, I feel.
Weldon: [Silence.]
Editor: Hello?
Weldon: Let me walk you through it.
Editor: Oh, fer …
Weldon: Let me explain it to you while I have you on the phone. Why Krypto the Superdog is awesome. What he's there for. Why he matters.
Weldon: The year! 1955!
Editor: Oy …


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Pond being drained in search for missing Mo. woman
Monday, August 5, 2013
WARSAW, Mo. (AP) — A west-central Missouri pond is the focus of a continuing search for a woman who has been missing for more than three weeks.
Teams are draining the pond in Benton County this week in search for any clues in the disappearance of 72-year-old Hellen Cook. She was last seen July 13, when she walked away from a vacation home near Warsaw. She suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
The woman's shoes and scarf were found in late July near the pond.
KMBC-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1en5GbK ) investigators said they don't think Cook's body is in the pond but they want to be sure.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the pond was already scheduled to be drained this year.
Information from: KMBC-TV, http://www.kmbc.com
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