The Duffer Award!

Who Should Win The Duffer Award?

  • black_cloak

    Votes: 7 46.7%

  • holyboy666

    Votes: 5 33.3%

  • Dernhelm

    Votes: 3 20.0%
  • Total voters
    15
  • Poll closed .
Considering all the things that GG takes without asking (me, my buffalo, anything I tell her not to take, etc.), you don't need to worry. No one will judge you. Probably.
 
Then again, is judging the worst thing that can befall you here on TDL? (This is a rhetorical question. Anyone giving an answer will suffer the answer immediately. Unless the answer is no, which would actually be correct, and I don't know if one can suffer from a two-letter negation. Also, answering no would require the addition of 10thingy, which would cheer my poor little heart, which is suffering so much abuse these days through the absence of food in the fridge, brains in the head, not to forget all the book-burnings, as well as the burning of Moscow, and every time my student says "We must to do that?" my eye twitches painfully. I must teach my face not to comment on everything people do.)
 
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Glenburne said:
Considering all the things that GG takes without asking (me, my buffalo, anything I tell her not to take, etc.), you don't need to worry. No one will judge you. Probably.
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*ears perk up* What's this? Is there something you're telling me not to take?

Miss Freckles said:
Then again, is judging the worst thing that can befall you here on TDL? (This is a rhetorical question. Anyone giving an answer will suffer the answer immediately. Unless the answer is no, which would actually be correct, and I don't know if one can suffer from a two-letter negation. Also, answering no would require the addition of 10thingy, which would cheer my poor little heart, which is suffering so much abuse these days through the absence of food in the fridge, brains in the head, not to forget all the book-burnings, as well as the burning of Moscow, and every time my student says "We must to do that?" my eye twitches painfully. I must teach my face not to comment on everything people do.)
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You can have a kitchen created for you and everyone donates everything in the world to it.

Oh wait.
 
No GG, I'm not telling you not to take anything. Yes, that is a double negative. No, I do not care.

Freckles, your sorrow is misplaced. You should still be grieving the burning of the library of Alexandria, or the tragedy that Aristotle's lecture notes on comedies were apparently misplaced.
 
I keep telling you to do things because I am good at it.

Follow your star, and all that.

Never mind that the guy who told Dante to follow his star was...a little self-absorbed.
 
Glenburne said:
No GG, I'm not telling you not to take anything. Yes, that is a double negative. No, I do not care.

Freckles, your sorrow is misplaced. You should still be grieving the burning of the library of Alexandria, or the tragedy that Aristotle's lecture notes on comedies were apparently misplaced.
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So you're telling me to take something?

Once upon a time I wrote a story with a new library of Alexandria. And I had it burn down. I'm not sure my librarian friends have forgiven me yet...
 
I forgive you. But I'm a very bad, very cynical librarian who thinks Banned Books Week is mostly a bunch of nonsense.
 
Sopespian said:


But it's so much fun to pretend that censorship is the worst thing ever!
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The dirty little secret is that the American Library Association puts out "most challenged" book lists, not "banned" book lists. Because it's rare for a book to be banned from an individual library, and if it is, it's usually a school library, not a public library. Also, people can get pretty much any book they want in the U.S. thanks to Amazon and the fact the organization with real censoring power, the government, basically doesn't do it.

And don't get me started on the whole "We don't censor, we just don't buy books that don't get good reviews" garbage.

Gondorgirl said:
Mainly I like the excuse to read A Wrinkle in Time.
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Very good point. Also Harry Potter.

Looking at "most challenged" book lists always reminds me of the fact that it's mostly the most popular books that draw complaints, not the ones with the most questionable content.
 
This conversation reminds me of a subplot in a video game I once played wherein a character lobbied to get books banned from his library with the ulterior motive of having all those raunchy books that were banned to himself.

That was a weird subplot. But his hypocrisy was funny.
 
I read this thread thinking, "I don't have a lot to say about censorship."

Then I read Sopes's latest post and thought, "I really don't have anything to say about that, ever."

Not that it matters. Whenever I post my opinion, the mods immediately replace it with posts expressing an ardent wish to impale something.
 
Thank you. Your sympathy means a lot.

EDIT BY GLEN: Freckles actually means she wants to impale something.
 
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