But I Wanty my Booky!

[Ironclad Alibi]

Never mind. I know. Meh. Seen it. Seen worse.

So have I. You have my condolences.

[PepperElf]

believe me there are scarier things than felching out there.

the same co-worker who (i'm not sure why) told me the definition so many years ago... also liked websurfing at a particular rotten site & showing us the photos. I still remember the one with the jar of jam and a potato

[El Pollo Guerrera]

UB: Look WankyAuthor, we haven’t touched your manuscript. Not only because it isn’t due on the schedule for 6 months, but also because I read the first page and decided then and there to send it back to you for significant re-writing. I particularly noticed that in your Introduction you do not appear to know the difference between the Battle of Loos and the Battle of the Somme. For an author of a book on the First World War I consider that a handicap. Good day.

"Hey, you can't critisize me... I'VE WRITEN A BOOK ABOUT IT!!!"

[ArcticChicken]

Ya'll just blindly google a term that someone's used as an insult?

Look, I've never really been squicked out by a term someone's used on this site before. I know better than to look up certain things, but this has never been a site where I run into things that are really icky, by my standards. I knew it was a risk, and I chose to gamble with what little innocence I have had remaining.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I've finally found something to traumatize my cousin with.

[Ben_Who]

Okay. This guy is totally new. Scary new.

My first book was sold in February of 2005 to a small-press publisher who jerked around for the better part of two years before throwing it back in my face as a bad deal, and me as a pushy author. Fortunately, I was able to turn around and sell it to another publisher who I'd developed a relationship with in the meanwhile. Even then, it took six months to hit shelves.

My second book has been floating around in the outer reaches of editorial limbo for the better part of four YEARS, inching its way up the schedule of a publisher with cataclysmic financial issues.

This guy is, sooner or later, going to find out that many publishers have a "The author is being a dick" clause, which, unless you can bring in numbers like Le Carre, will soon ensure that you're a total pariah at any house that will take your stuff. Even the publishers and editors that I pal around with and watch the footie results and exchange Chrimbly gifts with will never see the rough side of my admittedly unpleasant temper - not because I'm scared they'll dump my arse, but because there's such a thing as "being professional", and for me and my publisher friends, when it's business, it's ALL business.

The very idea, the affrontery, of someone phoning up a publisher a MONTH after signing a contract and making unreasonable demands just about knocked me out of my chair. Here we have a perfect specimen of a man who not only has no idea of the definition of "professional," but has no clue about how a publishing schedule is arranged, which means that he has no clue about the job he's doing. Time to go over his manuscript with a fine-toothed comb and see if his research on the novel is as shoddy as his research on the publisher.

And then see if the publisher still wants it.

Love, Who?

[freaktard]

[yes, he actually said felching, all innocents please google it for a good time]

I hate you.

[BookBint]

It's so nice to have made so many enemies in one day! At least no one has admitted knowing what f****ing is from personal experience...

[Mikkel]

It's so nice to have made so many enemies in one day! At least no one has admitted knowing what f****ing is from personal experience...

It isn't a word that will EVER be used about my personal experience . I've never thought there was a need for a word for that.
I looked it up at wikipedia, it's explained in neutral words there. Still disgusting, though, if you are squeamish, don't! Really, just don't look it up!

[Broomjockey]

So have I. You have my condolences.

Thanks. I can't even remember when I was innocent enough for that one to phase me. =\

this has never been a site where I run into things that are really icky, by my standards. I knew it was a risk, and I chose to gamble with what little innocence I have had remaining.

this is why they discourage people from gambling. House wins.

Even then, it took six weeks to hit shelves.

My second book has been floating around in the outer reaches of editorial limbo for the better part of four YEARS, inching its way up the schedule of a publisher with cataclysmic financial issues.

Geez, 6 weeks? That's incredibly quick. Had it already been through design/layout? It must have gone to the printer shortly after they got it for it to be on shelves that quickly. As for 4 years, man, I thought we were slow at averaging 18 months or so.

[PepperElf]

i can honestly say i've only required :bleach: here once, and it wasn't actually over anything posted here... but rather from seeing a funny photo posted, going to the site it came from and searching for more funny photos with the filters off...

i won't say what made me want the bleach exactly, just that, it involved self mutilation.

[Mark Healey]

i take it we'll never see this book on the best seller list

Don't count oni it. Two words: DaVinci Code.

[Eric the Grey]

Nope, not gonna google it...at least, not until I get home from work.

Wikipedia is a good, usually neutral source for stuff like this.

A little advice to those that are reading this thread and have yet to do it: Do NOT look up the definition of 'FELCHING' if you have recently eaten.

I did, and while yes, disgusting, but it didn't really phase me. I've seen and heard of worse.

I can't believe you people. Ya'll just blindly google a term that someone's used as an insult? *goes in search of a pointing and laughing smiley*

Oh, but where the fun in not doing so?

And yes, we do need a pointing and laughing smiley.


Eric the Grey

[Nyoibo]

Mmmmmmm Santorum...

Forgot about Santorum.

You know, there really isn't anything in porn that can shock me any more, sometimes I miss my innocence and think I should have had a memorial service for it.

[friendofjimmyk]

So, this thread has been up since the 15th. I read it, passed over it with minimal concern. But yet, there it is at the top of the list again. When I read the title, I thought of Russel Brand's "My Booky Wook", which I just recently finished and it was quite a funny read! I enjoyed it.

So, I opened the thread again and thought maybe someone else thought the same thing to! I read the OP and remembered that I didn't google "felching" the other day, I must've gotten sidetracked as I often do at work....so...I googled it.



I think I need a hug!

And I'm not easily grossed out!

[friendofjimmyk]

Forgot about Santorum.
.

*sigh*

I think I need to go crawl under the sheets on my bed and hibernate for a few months...

On a note related to Santorum....I used to read Dan Savage's column all the time and LOVED it. I am not in a city where its published. I'll have to go and peruse his website.