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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Started conversation Mar 16, 2004
Bernard Black is my role model!
An anti-social alcoholic chainsmoking bookshop owner who hates to sell books! 
well everyone has to have something to aim at 
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MuseSusan Posted Mar 16, 2004
Very interesting--is this someone you know personally? I suppose it takes a lot of effort to achieve that.
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Mar 16, 2004
Sadly not a RL person but a character in a UK sitcom, currently the only thing on TV I watch
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nada Posted Mar 16, 2004
And a lovely role model I'm sure he is!
I could never sell books if I owned a book store...I would keep changing the hours it was opened, put restrictions, make rules, anything to protect my books.
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Mar 16, 2004
Bernard just swears at them, lives in filth (not sure I could do that) and mistreats his assistant Mannie 
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tanzen Posted Mar 16, 2004
I always wanted to own a bookshop...
...and by the sounds of it, that all I'm missing 
!
(except I would try to be nice to my assistant )
(PS - Hi everbody !)
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nada Posted Mar 16, 2004
Hi Tanzen!
And yes, I would love to own a bookstore as well. I suppose almost anyone on h2g2 would...
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MuseSusan Posted Mar 16, 2004
I would love to own a bookstore, but it wouldn't be very profitable. I would keep taking books for myself, and then if anyone walked in who looked like they enjoyed reading, I would start giving them free books. Then if anyone walked in who looked like they DIDN'T like to read, I would start giving them free books to encourage them. But it would be a very pleasant way to go bankrupt.
There is someone in real life who's kind of like that Black guy. His name is The Gord (www.actsofgord.com) and he runs a video game store in Canada. He seems like a pretty good guy, except that all the stupid people who shop in his store have turned him bad. (Read his stories. 
) So I think the best way to become like your role model is to own a bookstore first, and then it's only a matter of time.
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tanzen Posted Mar 16, 2004
That's a pretty good point 
!
Maybe we should gather together all the people geographically and co-own stores all ove rhte world...
...I'm really suprised that such a large assembly of people haven't tried to take over the world yet....
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MuseSusan Posted Mar 16, 2004
If anyone can do it, we hitchhikers can!
I volunteer to head the Schenectady chapter (not that that's saying much).
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tanzen Posted Mar 16, 2004
Well, if we can't do it through our smarts ...sheer numbers should be able to do somethin !
...I volunteer NOT to lead the Melbourne chapter...I'm not good at being in charge of people....
(except ion harem situations of cours )
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MuseSusan Posted Mar 16, 2004
Just because Kurt Vonnegut talks about Schenectady in all his books doesn't tell you anything! (Actually, come to think of it, it tells you a lot!) But I'll also head the California chapter (that's where I live when I'm not in college), and there's lots of ignorant masses there for us to conquer, muaaaahaahahaHAAA!!!!!!!!
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Mar 16, 2004
Theres a lot of stupid people out there, most of them phoning me 
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tanzen Posted Mar 16, 2004
Anyone that Kurt Vonnegut writes about is ok with me...
(poo-tee-tweet)
Yay! Bring on the revolution 
!
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Mar 17, 2004
Present company not idiots, you're all welcome to phone me and run up enormous phone bills
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tanzen Posted Mar 17, 2004
That's why God invented calling cards dear !
Having said that, you'd be praying for an annoying complaint if I ever happened upon your number
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Mar 17, 2004
I get those already
What I suspect I'd have is an irate teamleader telling me to stop chatting and take some calls from customers so do it, except I don't think you can call us from overseas
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