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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 07:41 AM
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So what reading material do you have in your bathroom
Edited on Tue Nov-08-05 07:41 AM by Az
Two bathrooms here. Mainfloor we have Skeptical Inquirer, Discover, and Popular Mechanics (the 9/11 conspiracy issue). Upstairs we have Scientific American: Mind,Extra (FAIR's journal) and New Type(anime mag).

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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 07:43 AM
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1. The only mags I have are
National Geographic and The Indepenent, local indie weekly newspaper. If I read in the bathroom, it's because I'm taking a nice long soak in the bathtub. There i usually prefer trash and Harry Potter. ;-)
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 07:48 AM
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2. the writing on the wall.
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 07:52 AM
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3. Mine:
The Nation, The Progressive, The Economist, and a few books on PHP and MySQL.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 07:53 AM
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4. Watchtower.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 07:54 AM
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5. A book on trivia about U.S. Presidents,
"Nancy Drew's Guide to Life," and Wireless magazine.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 08:06 AM
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6. The latest issue of ARTNews and yesterday's paper
The other bathroom I rarely use, so it has no reading material.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 08:07 AM
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7. Urban Legends book, and People magazine..
We have no class here. ;) :hi:
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 08:11 AM
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8. American Prospects and the local Free Weeklies....
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Donovan61 Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 08:26 AM
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9. Car and guitar mags
No intellectual activity goes on there.
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 11:01 AM
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20. Same here.
Motor Trend and Guitar World, mostly.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 08:28 AM
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10. Skateboarding and surfing magazines
Old Farmers's Almanac, too.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 08:29 AM
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11. Runners World and "The Hunting of the PResident"
that's at home. At work I print off editorials and the like.
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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 09:51 AM
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12. Some of us don't need reading materials because we get enough fiber!
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 09:52 AM
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13. none
unless you like to read the packaging on health and beauty products or bathroom cleaning products....
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 09:54 AM
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14. The New York Times Sunday Crossword Omnibus Vol. 7
"Doing a puzzle" is a new euphemism in the Beast house.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 10:03 AM
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15. No need for reading there
Edited on Tue Nov-08-05 10:04 AM by Call Me Wesley
since I have a Home Entertainment Center and high-speed wireless access to at least two of the internets installed in my bathroom. :o

No, usually some magazines (Der Spiegel, Wired, etc.) and sometimes a good book when I'm constipated.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 10:42 AM
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16. Suetonius' Twelve Caesars, Norton Anthology of English Lit,
Various issues of New Yorker
Various issues of Funny Times
Daily Show's America, the Book
Oxford's Pocket History of Britain
Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Various Yoga Journals
Bennet Cerf's The Laugh's On Me
A Couple of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers
Rhino's "Everything You Know is Wrong"

Scattered among three Bathrooms
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 10:44 AM
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17. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair n/m
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Oceansaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 10:55 AM
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18. Readers Digest.......
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 10:56 AM
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19. Musician's Friend and American Musical Supply catalogs.
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:53 PM
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44. Ah, guitar porn
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 11:02 AM
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21. Washington Post Crossword Puzzles, Omnibus #2, 6, and 7.
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WeRQ4U Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 11:19 AM
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22. Patagonia catalogue, Pet Solutions supply mag, 101 Dumbest laws...
Sometimes there's a "The GOld Warehouse" cataloge. Downstairs we have Dwell, Metropolitan Home, and The University of North Dakota alumni review.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 11:23 AM
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23. Nothing in any of ours......
I talk to myself.........


:silly:
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malta blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 11:26 AM
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24. we have several bathrooms
Downstairs: NatGeo, Smithsonian

Upstairs: Archaeology, NatGeo Kids, Wine & Spirits
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 11:26 AM
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25. J.Crew catalogue. Collapse. Sports Illustrated
Times Book Review. Bills.

yes, I keep my bills in my bathroom. don't quite know why.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 11:26 AM
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26. Nothing.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 03:23 PM
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Freak.
:hide:
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 01:48 PM
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27. Bathroom Readers, of course!
Edited on Tue Nov-08-05 02:18 PM by Strong Atheist
Uncle Johns Bathroom Readers. Informative. Fun! True? Sort of like Ripley's.
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alarcojon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:45 PM
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38. I have an Uncle Johns too
as well as a Mental Floss condensed information reader. Plus a couple of old Nations.

Welcome to DU, SA. Like the username! :toast:
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:48 PM
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40. Thank you for the welcome!
Edited on Tue Nov-08-05 02:49 PM by Strong Atheist
I am "out of the closet" when it comes to religion, at least here... and with friends and family, but never at work:scared:
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alarcojon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 04:27 PM
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51. You might want to check out the "Atheists and Agnostics" DU group
If you become a donating member, you can post to it - otherwise you can lurk.
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 10:43 AM
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58. Thank you!
:pals:

I have been lurking for a little over a year. I have sent in my donation, and intend to post in the A & A group in a short while!
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:12 PM
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28. A whole big stack
of penguin 60s (miniatures)
I work in a used bookstore, so the selection is always changing... right now I think I have in there...
Baldesar Castiglione - Etiquette For Renaissance Gentlemen
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam
Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
D.H.Lawrence - Love Among The Haystacks
Guy de Maupassant - Boule de Suif
Sir Thomas Malory - The Death of King Arthur
Ten Tales from The Decameron

& probably some others

Man, I remember when you couldn't get penguins at ALL in the states, even now I think they're pretty limited, no?
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:16 PM
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29. Muscle and Fitness, Mother Jones, Smithsonian, Utne, Atlantic, New Yorker
Damn I'm a yuppie :(
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MarsThe Cat Donating Member (978 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:21 PM
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30. None. it's not a reading room.
nt
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:29 PM
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31. My shower curtains says "London" and "Paris." Otherwise
I don't see a need for reading material in the bathroom. It gets wet when I take a shower, and I don't want guests to feel like they should hang out and be entertained there. Well, not that I'd mind entertaining certain guests in the shower... Oh never mind.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:29 PM
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32. None. The only reading I do in the bathroom...
is when I'm sitting in a nice hot bubble bath.
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:33 PM
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33. Dilbert, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes...
New Yorker, Nation, and Scientific American.
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:41 PM
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36. I like all of the
comics that you mentioned. BTW, Bill Waterson went to my college (Kenyon, in Gambier, Ohio)!
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:33 PM
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34. Just moved in so the books haven't had time
to accumulate in the main bathroom. At the old place we had several history books, a couple of books on ritual magic, and lots of cooking magazines. Here, so far, there's a two year old copy of Martha Stewart Living which I believe is being perused by husband for Thanksgiving dinner ideas.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:38 PM
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35. World Almanac, Who's Who in Baseball, and Auto Trader.
And a book on Glass-blowing.
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Parrcrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:42 PM
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37. Cheerleader porn.
:evilgrin:
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:50 PM
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42. Sounds good nt.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 03:21 PM
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48. Can I use your bathroom?
I really gotta go!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:47 PM
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39. Sunset, Cottage Living, the Sierra Club Magazine,
the Pottery Barn Catalog, and "1500 California Place Names."

Kill me now. :(
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:49 PM
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41. Runner's World, "Satanic Panic"
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SuperWonk Donating Member (355 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:51 PM
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43. Today's sports page.
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:53 PM
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45. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Never let you down.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 02:55 PM
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46. Car magazines, MST3K book,
Lately, I've been bringing my Clie in to play music and solitaire, though.
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 03:02 PM
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47. Dell Puzzle Magazine
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 03:23 PM
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49. Boring. Mostly catalogs.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 03:26 PM
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50. Plain blank toilet paper, write your own works
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 04:33 PM
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52. Nothing.
I kept a small bookshelf in the bathroom at my last place, but the bathroom in my new place is too small for that.
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 04:39 PM
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53. "Doing Battle" by Paul Fussell
Not sure why or how it wound up there, but it's always a good read--Fussell's a very interesting guy and quite the curmudgeon. I used to have "The Good Soldier Svejk" in the bathroom, but eventually made the switch...
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 04:48 PM
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54. No periodicals, just
The Doonesbury Chronicles, Wiener Dog Art and Bloom County Babylon.

I do most of my reading in other rooms.
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ucmike Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 05:49 PM
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55. we have 1960's era tile
white with brown splotchy details. if you squint you can see what looks like a chicken. now look around and you can find the chicken in every tile, floor to ceiling, corner to corner. sometimes its upside down.
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 05:50 PM
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56. Entertainment Weekly, The Nation, The NEw Republic
Vespa magazine, The Tao te Ching... light reading... keeps on piling up the magazine out bin overflows....
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-08-05 06:13 PM
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57. Is This One Of Those...
... "bodily function" threads that I keep hearing about?
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 10:46 AM
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59. Guitar books, magazines, etc...
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