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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Beats me.

Funny thing happened today. Well, funny to me, at least - it'll probably bore the pants off of you. Which is good, if you're female - send the pics to the usual address.

Anyway, when I got on the train today, I sat down, and simultaniously with me a guy sat down opposite me. Now, I usually open up my bag right after I sit down, to get my book and start reading, and I did that today, too. So I open up my bag, and I see him reaching for his bag also. I reach inside, and grab my lovely pocketsized paperback edition of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash - quite a good book, actually, but that's wholly besides the point I'm presently trying to make.

As I open it up at the page I'm at, I see what the guy opposite me was reaching for - he pulls this humongously big-ass whopper of a book out of his bag, a book about HTML-coding and stuff like that; at least a thousand pages, each and every one just about the size of an a4 sheet of paper. I just look at it for several seconds, amazed at the sheer hugeness of it, then look him in the face, and say ..

"Ok, you win."

We had a laugh over that.

And no, there was nothing homo-erotic about the entire thing so Ess Tee Eff You!

Cheers

ps: Put your pants back on.

9 Comments:

Blogger Silence said...

So you feel you have a small one. Not something I really needed to know.

10:06 pm  
Blogger Martin said...

Like I said - pocketsized, mate, pocketsized.

Cheers

10:12 pm  
Blogger Silence said...

Whatever floats your boat.

10:25 pm  
Blogger Pep said...

My tome can beat the shit out of your tome anyday!
Oooh, feel that testosterone rush!

:p

12:11 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Martin, seen this?

9:23 pm  
Blogger Martin said...

Excellent, thank you!

Cheers

12:42 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Martin,

This is watercrystal. I came here to ask for your moderator's help. I found that I could not sign in the bookforum. It seemed so strange. Since I didn't know where to ask for help, I had to send this comment without any relation to your blog. (yes, I tried every way, email address,blah, blah, but still couldn't get in. )

Thank you very much!

watercrystal

[size=1]Please delete this later to keep your blog clean/integrate.[/size]

6:33 am  
Blogger Silence said...

I think it's because you have changed your name at the forum, you probably need to log in with the new name, unless you have already tried to do so.

8:25 am  
Blogger Martin said...

Hay's probably right.

Cheers

3:14 pm  

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