I promise, it's fiction...FICTION

[Magpie]

... to 'inspired by a true story'

... at most.


Maybe.

But with all the details changed.

You mean just like the normal "inspired by a true story" movies?

[Racket_Man]

Oh and I am SO stealing that for my siggy.

Thanks I feel honored now that I have a Siggy quote

Mick? Is that you? No wonder you have sympathy for the devil!

Nope kinda close but no cookie. see below note HE was considered for the "roll" at one time if memory serves me correctly

"Science fiction, double feature. Dr. X, will build a creature!"

YES someone got it. but what is IT?????? (hint involves nasty things with Brad and Janet)

[Dave1982]

Folks, when Peppergirl said to keep this thread free of religious commentary, that was not a green light for political commentary. Some of the posts are getting close to the Fratchline.

EDIT: The offending post has been removed. Carry on then, just remember to keep it Fratch-Free

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

SC: "No, that's not right. It doesn't belong in fiction. What are you, stupid? Don't you know that they just want you to believe it's fiction?? It's a cover-up!"

OF COURSE it is a cover-up!
It's like when they say that Batman doesn't exist while I saw him WITH MY OWN EYES yesterday night on television FIGHTING A SHARK!

[NateTheChops]

YES someone got it. but what is IT?????? (hint involves nasty things with Brad and Janet)

It's astounding...time is fleeting...madness...takes it's toll...

[Kristev]

Don't have a time warp now.

[Racket_Man]

(Hey Riff what do you think of my THING??????) It's astounding...time is fleeting...madness...takes it's toll... (69 cents PLEASE)

Toucha Toucha TOUCHA ME I want to be dirty.

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

in Tesco's here in the UK, Richard Dawkins latest book (god doesn't exist, bible is fake, etc) was marketted as being a perfect easter present.

...in a way it is. In a very warped and therefore really funny way.

The reason? "The Wind In The Willows" was placed in the "Children's literature" section...
Yup, I kid you not. On the other hand she looked a bit crazy. I only wish her rant had been coherent enough for me to hear which section SHE believed that book should be in...

I am 35 and I do like that book, but then again... what do you think, zoology? Or religion, along with The Lord of the Rings and Watership Down (my Gospel-substitutes)?

I want my lightsaber, dammit!

SSSSSSSSSSSH! That's a cover-up too!

[Seshat]

You mean just like the normal "inspired by a true story" movies?

Mayyyyyyybe.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Me: "Yes, that's where it is - you did want Dan Brown's DaVinci Code, right?"
SC: "Uh-huh, but that's not the one I want. I want the non-fiction one."
Me: "Are you talking about Holy Blood, Holy Grail? He got a lot of source material from that, and it's in Religion. I can take you there."

I liked Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and the sequels. I read it when it first came out some 20 years ago. Because of that, I could never bring myself to read Dan Brown's book.

... and a book on tying knots.

I have that book! The Ashley Book of Knots.

Had a coworker ask, straight faced and dead serious, if Star Wars was based on a true story.

When the first Star Wars movie came out, one of the taglines said it based on The Adventures Of Luke Skywalker. I probably irritated a few bookstore clerks trying to find that non-existant book.

[LillFilly]

Whenever I find copies of Protecting Your Teen from Today's Witchcraft: A Parent's Guide to Confronting Wicca And the Occult in the discount store, I turn them all upside down and hide them under the lowest shelf

[Thuringwethyl]

When I worked at the bookstore I would always find gay erotica tucked among the Bibles. This would happen all the time -- I would usually just take them out, scan them, and reshelve them, muttering darkly to myself all the while.

Note: My store had a policy that we had to scan everything we put away in case it was on a promotion or needed to go back to the publisher. Also, some books were not classified logically. It would really irritate me when people would just shove titles around as it created much more work.

One closing I was straightening out my section when I overheard my coworker talking to some of the others.

CW: "It always bugs me how religious people are so uptight! They need to loosen up once in a while".
CW: *snickers to self*
CW: "I usually put gay erotic in the Bibles just to mess with their heads!"
Me: *rising up from the neighboring aisle like an avenging angel* "YOU! IT WAS YOU!"
CW: *startled* "Thuringwethyl?!"
Me: "I've been cleaning up after you for months now! Keep the books where they belong or I shall be forced to beat you with this super-soft plushie!" *brandishes plushie threateningly*

So....yeah.
On a separate note I'm actually surprised people are able to find the satanic bible in their bookstores. Our cop(ies) were always missing, presumed stolen.

[cinema guy]

On a separate note I'm actually surprised people are able to find the satanic bible in their bookstores. Our cop(ies) were always missing, presumed stolen.

Of course - anyone who paid for it wouldn't be a worshipper of evil would they?

"And lo, Satan came up from the pit and passed to his disciple, several unholy commandments.:

Thou shalt kill.

Thou shall covet they neighbours wife.

Thou shalt lie.

Thou shalt use my name in vain.

Thou shalt be a sucky customer.

But don't steal from bookstores."

[dragon_wings]

So....yeah.
On a separate note I'm actually surprised people are able to find the satanic bible in their bookstores. Our cop(ies) were always missing, presumed stolen.

My ex seems to ALWAYS be able to find the lone copy of the Satanic Bible. I don't know how she does it.

[dalesys]

Excerpts from Mall Purchase Night (Rick Cook)

...Sometimes it was a joke, like the person who kept moving How to Make Love Last Forever from the Relationships section over to Fantasy.
...
"They take some of the books from New Age and put them under Nature and Ecology."

They stepped around the aisle-end dumps of Love Your Planet to Pieces and Earth: Love It or Leave It.

"See. Down here on the shelves with birds and animals. Lore of the Unicorn, Dragons, Kingdom of the Fairies, Guide to the Little Folk. It's always the same books"

"Is that all they do?"

Peter thought a minute. "Well, no. They take the books on advanced physics and its relation to eastern mysticism and put them over in Humor."