Textbooks for sell – $20
A Writer’s Reference by Diana Hacker Fifth Edition (ISBN: 0312412622)- $20
Steps to Writing Well by Jean Wyrick Ninth Edition (ISBN: 1413001084)- $20
Are you SURE you’re done with those books, Sparky?
Thanks for the submission, Thaddeus!
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All are now available as t-shirts and other things! (The llamanun mugs contain the YSaC group prayer on the back.)
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Perhaps Sparky’s selling them because they didn’t work!
I’m thinking Sparky dropped the class.
I may need to purchase these because it took me three read-throughs to figure out what was incorrect about the post.
I may need to change my screen name to NeverToBScholarly.
It’s early, don’t worry about it.
ToBScholarly could be considered a future-tense name also. Perhaps you are not scholarly at this precise moment, but you will be.
Ugh, too early for snark.
Coffee for drink???
I haven’t been to this site in about three weeks, since I left for a vacation around the north of India (as opposed to going to the south, to the same city, to visit family, like I’ve been doing since I was two). I have no snark to offer, I’m just so glad I’m back…
*sniff*
I missed you all so much!
Ok, composing myself. Ahem. Sorry about that.
Welcome home, Lareina!
Welcome back!!! I confess that, while I couldn’t exactly place all who aren’t here, I felt a cold, gaping void at those who have gone missing from YSaC.
Glad to see your face again!
I just figured it was a super-long test match and that you’d be back among the non-cricket fans as soon as you could.
wow Lola, does this mean you’re one of the few Americans who get cricket?
sweetbiscuit,
I have several friends who are Brits, one of whom is a rabid cricket fan. (He tried teaching me to bat whilst staying with me.) I also listened to streamed BBC (usually Radio 4, but also World Service) with regularity, and pay attention to the match results because if a test is on, I know I’m not likely to hear from my friends very much. I don’t get it very well, but I have a bit of a grasp. More than most Americans, anyway.
Oh, and my boss (Guyanese) is also rabid. We have a population of both East and West Indians in NYC and in the spring you will see them at the parks in their whites, bowling. You can buy cricket kit in Jackson Heights, Queens, due to the large South Asian population there.
Well, two of my favourite players did retire over Christmas, so I may have spent some time weeping in a corner and screaming things like ‘Shane, you gorgeous bastard, how could you do this to us?’ and ‘No, Iain! Don’t leave! England doesn’t deserve you!’ and such at the TV, but that only took, like, a week and a half.
I’m certainly not a rabid fan but Boxing Day is only Boxing Day when it starts with a surf, then brekky watching the start of the Sydney to Hobart, and the rest of the day lying in front of the telly watching the first day of the Test while eating ham sandwiches and having the occasional ice cold beer (not Fosters – no one I know in Australia drinks Fosters).
*sigh* *now very homesick for Oz*
If you’re travelling in a cricket-playing nation, I highly recommend going, although the One-Day matches usually have alot more action, and of course, they also have a winner, which is never guaranteed in a Test.
Wow, Lareina, that sounds quite scary. Glad you weren’t there. We just don’t get that much BBC news here (should look at the website more often).
If we end up in Mumbai (a mooted next job) I’ll be in touch re a girl-date at the cricket 😉
edit: hmm, this was meant to come in below Lareina’s comments about cricket in Asia…….sorry about that.
Welcome back.
sweetbiscuit, it’s funny you should mention that, because I had originally planned to be in Delhi for the last one-dayer of the India-Lanka series that just finished. My cousins and I were going to try and get tickets. Then we changed plans and wound up being in Rajasthan that weekend, which is just as well, because the pitch at the Ferozshah Kotla Ground was so badly prepared that they had to call off the match after the Sri Lankan batsmen had spent about half an hour ducking, swerving, and getting hit by wildly bouncing and spitting balls before Sangakkara decided enough was enough and refused to let his team continue. Needless to say the crowd at the Kotla did not take this at all well, and it wound up being a full-scale, chair-smashing, fire-starting riot (!)
Yeah, fairly glad I missed that one. The worst thing that happened at the Pakistan-NZ game I went to in November was the brutal mauling and evisceration of a giant teddy bear wearing a hat. Oh, and Vettori getting concussion on account of being smacked in the jaw, but that was an accident.
I know these aren’t for keep, they’re for sell, but I wonder if I can keep them long enough to read through once before I have to sell them again?
Geez, giving the guy a brake, knot every won is eddukated enuff too no it’s spose too bee “Text-books Fore The Selling – $20”
That’s, “Tex-books Fore Sail-20$” you mean.
No, no it’s “Text book’s For Cell – $20..00,,
What sort of phone does a turtle use? A Shell Phone! LOL *wipes away fake tears of hysterical laughter* I crack me up.
sea that “their” is y your also intimi-dating!!!!!!!!!!! your awl two whys!!!!!!!!!!!!
Orthography fell.
In his/her/its defence, they could have a very thick accent and are unable to hear the difference between the words ‘sell’ and ‘sale’. And, as everybody knows, it is Internet Rule #13A, section III that clearly states ‘all CL ads must be transcribed into the accent of the author.’
Apparently this is a common problem for students who used Steps to Writing Well. From Amazon reviews:
I’m thinking… Community college, ENG 092 textbook.
Is that a racist remark there, Graham?
I’m sure it is.
RACIST!!! *calls Jesse Jackson*
I’m going to presume the angry mob in front of my house is your doing…
Prolly Al Sharpton, actually. That dude gets everywhere.
In my defense, I didn’t come up with the idea for community colleges.
I chosed it. He chosed it. She chosed it. We chosed it. They choosed it.
I always have to think about that last one. It’s just never sounds right.
I still say that using more than one exclamation point at the end of a sentence is a sign of a demented mind.
Too true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop breaking the damned style sheet.
Why not? I already broke the spell-check and Gravatar this morning. Why not the whole internet
Only if you promise to simultaneously twirl your moustache and laugh evilly in the manner of a camp movie villain.
He he, you broke the internets.
In Soviet Russia, style sheet you………
Okay, so my husband and I are always making words or sounds out of license plates on other cares while driving. We use 1337 (leet) translations and whatever it takes. Last night we saw this one: 5UXR412 . SuxRaiz. When I stopped laughing, I said, that’s what the posters featured on YSaC have been hit by! Sux Raiz! Everyone, duck!
*puts up deflector shields*
I live near Seattle, Wa, home of the internets and l337g33k$. I have seen such plates as ‘ag-bullet’, *silverbullet* ‘UCD4C’ *use the force* PWNTNUB *seriously* and WOWGIRL
My personal favorite is mine on a red Volvo wagon, which reads RDOFLYR
http://xkcd.com/550/
It’s only tangentially related, but it tickles me.
Yeah, it tickles me when that happens, too. But only for a few minutes.
You liek forming babby?
One of the Best Worst pickup Lines I’ve ever heard was ‘wanna go halvsies on a baby?’
That’s a lot of commitment right off the bat… original, though. At least as effective as most pickup lines, I would imagine.
He made me laff, which is far better than an ass-grab, which only makes me have bloody knuckles.
Noted.
These are also translated into the language/style of the reader.
When I was a small, we saw a plate: USNORET
My dad, a chief petty officer, saw “U.S. Naval Officer, Retired”.
My 12 year old eyes saw “U Snore, ET!”
And once, a few decades ago, I was revving along in the fast lane, when a HUGE, fast moving truck came up behind me. The plates, “3VOM”, clearly indicated I was to “MOVE”!!!
Ed Snyder. Paging Ed Snyder. Your well-deserved card punch is waiting for you, Ed Snyder.
He said he was going to be late today. He told me to go ahead and have you punch this card right here. I’ll just transfer it to his when he get’s back, yeah. It’s cool, he said it’s cool.
In Soviet Russia, card punches Ed!
*Tips hat to Ed*
*Puts hat back on*
*snort*
Sailor-Cat might be my favorite.
It’s the uniform. Guys in the service always get a ton of tail.
My turn *snort*
I first read Lola’s comment as “guys in the service always get a ton of fail” and found myself in agreement.
The fire service too. Not that I would know… *ahem*
You like me. You really like me.
Yes, we love you. Medium-rare with lots of old collected Taco Bell packets.
Used packets?
In Soviet Russia, commenting doesn’t suck at you!
LOLA, get your butt up! I know it’s noon there, as well. No excuses, missy!!! We await your sarcasm,
Yeah, what she said! You tell her, Meredith. And here’s your card, all punched. I know Ed wanted it that way.
Yeah, uh, he sure did.
:::stuffs punchcard in pocket quickly and begins whistling…very innocently:::
*coughs in embarrassment* I didn’t mean to sleep ’til noon, sorry! Stumbled here soon as I could.
*points up comments* I already posted, but not too snarkily. I am, however, well-rested and, as situation warrants, will be full snark ahead.
Wow, I have the power to summon people to the internets. I feel like…some kinda…internet…wizard or somethin.
(That should all be said in a Strongbad voice, btw)
Should you not know who this is:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html
“The system is down. The system is down.”
“Strongbad, How you gonna check your email with those boxing gloves on?”
I could go on and on but luckily for you all, I will not.
Know what I wish I could say to these sucky posts?
“BELETED”
LOL Wild coinky-dink, I just delivered a Homestar Runner calendar to a friend. It was his Christmas present, because he LOVES Trogdor the Burninator! He even has the t-shirt. 8) The world is so wonky!
I have three Mathematics textbooks for sale-$350:
1. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 3rd Updated Edition (Book & CD-ROM) by David C. Lay (Hardcover – Sep 1, 2005)
2. Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail by Danica McKellar
Buy them together for only $350 or I could sell them separately. $120 for the Algebra book and $37 for the Danica McKellar one (it’s missing the cover though cuz I like her picture).
I love that Danica McKellar avoided the teen-actor life crises route and instead decided to make math cool and not scary for girls. (I sucked at math, so that carries a lot of weight with me.)
Please tell me number 2 is not really a book. Aaaauuuugh! I just found it on Amazon. Why, dear God, why?
BTW, You are VASTLY overcharging, I can get one new for $4.99.
That’s not overcharging. That’s CL.
In fact, you can get them — both of them — used on half or another similar site for less than a dollar apiece.
Maybe we should just rename CL “You Suck at Comparison Shopping.”
While I love the idea behind Danica McKellar’s book, I hate the title. Why, oh why, did they have to throw the bit in there about “breaking a nail”? It was an perfectly cromulent title until they got to that part, at which point it just started reinforcing the stereotypes they claim to be trying to break.
I’m sure it was an editor’s decision, but still.
+ More than I am allowed for utilization of “perfectly cromulent.”
I can’t believe that (a) no one else figured out that Ed is only advertising/describing 2 books and (b) that it took me this long to figure it out. Guess we were all distracted by the “math.”
PWNED! What’s next, individual prices being less than the… ach, PWNED again!
I was distracted by my broken nail.
Also, I misspelled “because.”
The author’s name in that first book really sounds like an alias. Or that she should be writing a different genre of books, Something for the CIA perhaps? Or Microsoft?
I’m sure the textbook sellser dropped the english class to focus more attention on his other class: Cat Math 102.
CAT MATH! CAT MATH! CAT MATH!
One must have the right priorities!
I want to take CatMath but my college doesn’t offer it. My advisor looked at me in a strange way when I asked if I could take it.
I believe they only offer Popular Dogma…
That was funny, right? Funny??
Oh, we all think you’re ‘funny’, Meredith. Now take the pills for nice Doc Johnson.
Oh MAN, when I take those pills all my special friends go away. And I like them. Especially the one with the taco hat.
Maybe Sparky got SparkNotes.
BTW: My guy likes football, and I was being “supportive” and watching it with him. It got SO much better when I realized the New York Jets were playing the Cincinnati Not-A-Lions! He doesn’t get it.
Haaaa! That’s great!
But now it’s the Beagles and the Cowgirls…. Sigh. Is the bye week over yet?
I thought the same thing when I put on my LSU shirt yesterday! “Oh, a lion!”
….and then I thought “I have GOT to get off of YSaC more often.” 😀
@Meredith….
o, yesssss. i live in cincinnati and finally a reason to smile about our team. thank you for that.
TOTALLY OFF THIS POST’S TOPIC! What happened at the FIRST YSaC meet-up? Nothing in the forums, nothing I saw on here, it’s been weeks, surely everyone has sobered up by now! WHO attended? Who got drunk and passed out? Who got married and are now living in a deserted Haight-Ashbury building?
Yesterday, the brew put Flying Saucer was mentioned. Turns out they are a chain, all over the country. I keep trying to think of ways to organize a meet up but everyone just go to the Flying Saucer nearest you. Then have someone there with a laptop and a camera, and find a way to let everyone see all the partying. Sigh. There are just too many details for me to really work it out.
We could just use the elaborate network of tunnels created by/for the reptilian aliens and all meet in New Mexico, or something.
Or the base on the far side of the moon.
Ooh, even better… that trip only requires astral projection!
Dude! There was a chick next to me on the subway last night who was reading a David Ickes book! It was about the reptilian aliens and how they Run The World!!1!1! I had to try SO HARD not to openly laugh. I’ve heard a lot in my time and – particularly living in a big city – try to be tolerant, but the lizard-people theory just does my head in and I can’t take it or people who believe in it one bit seriously.
(For anyone reading this who doesn’t know about this, ahem, theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilians
The fact that this theory builds on Hollow Earth (one believer: Hitler) is part of what makes me utterly unable to be respectful of it.
Wow… I just looked up David Icke and… this is a mental disorder.
The second rule of the underground reptilian tunnel network is: you do not talk about the underground reptilian tunnel network.
Seriously, I may be dumb, but the first time I heard of that theory was on flippin CSI. Or was it the original “V”? Didn’t know someone actually tried to pass this off.
I’m going with the “The world is run by aliens who look like the cast of Scooby Doo, and we are THEIR saturday morning cartoons” theory.
Wow, that just came to me. Pass me my pills HHNF.
The Fixx is in!
Sorry, lame joke. As you were, then.
I wanna get married and live in Haight-Ashbury. I’ll settle for getting drunk.
I wanna get married too, but I think sometimes that getting drunk might be better. If you don’t like it, it will go away after a while. And after some Alka-Seltzer and a good fry-up breakfast with coffee.
Yeah, and a good fry-up breakfast just keeps the men I know around. And then I get to do the dishes.
So. Nobody went to the meet-up, and that’s why nothing has been said about it. What a shame! 8(
-pokes head in comments and runs away-
All the snark has been used up =[
Nicole, don’t go! We saved you some snark over here!
It’s a little cold, but everyone knows that leftover Snark is delicious for breakfast! We’ll throw in a mug of piping hot Superiority, too!
It’s the internet. There is always limitless snark! Take as much as you want.
I can’t deal with things like this. I get so upset at the stupidity. No more Craigslist for me.
A few weeks ago I saw a busy executive looking for a personal assistant who was “fun and corky.”
I’m sure Corky from Life Goes On probably has nothing else on his plate.