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People who insist on pronouncing "GIF" with a Dutch hard G should stock up on lozenges!
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That would be terrific, Rocky. And I'll bring along some peanut butter.  
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mmmmmm peanut butterrrrrrr :yummy:
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Peanuts better. I still have all my little Peanuts paperbacks, even though I have my favorite years of the strip in the Complete Peanuts hardcover volumes. Sentimental value. 
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Wish I had mine. They were so much fun.
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Yeah, I had to leave most of my comic books and books behind when I moved to Europe. Ah well, I still have the memories. And brought a few of the best ones with me.
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Good thinking, Ibby. There's always that handful of extra special ones which simply cannot be left behind!
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Thanks, Fanfie. Indeed. And I think many of us have had some particularly memorable comic books get us through tough times!
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Fabulous and Sparkly!
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I stopped buying comics about five years ago. I went into my old comic book store about a year ago and I remembered how I always felt awkward and out of place there because I didn't read the most popular titles, I didn't buy figurines, and I didn't play RPGs. I would sometimes have to wait for ten minutes to get a staff member's attention for them to get my pull list.
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Sorry to hear that, Rocky. I can definitely relate.
I wonder if the previous generation of comics fandom felt as disrespected 20-30 years ago as ours does today.
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I stopped buying comics about five years ago. I went into my old comic book store about a year ago and I remembered how I always felt awkward and out of place there because I didn't read the most popular titles, I didn't buy figurines, and I didn't play RPGs. I would sometimes have to wait for ten minutes to get a staff member's attention for them to get my pull list. Yeah, some stores really help perpetuate this stereotype that to enjoy comics you have to belong to this whole subculture, which then ends up excluding the people who don't.
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Some fans (of anything) can be so proud of their fan status that... well... yeah. Every place I hear the word "noob" getting tossed around, I just tune out.
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"Noob" rhymes with "boob," which unfortunately describes the public behavior of far too many fans.
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If you do not know who Lester Spiffany is, then you are a noob.
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If you do not know who Tiffany Spiffany is, then you would be well advised to spend lots of time exploring the Bits forum.
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There's lots of gold in the Bits forum!
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"I don't think that all of them are stupid!"
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I didn't know Tiffany was a nun!
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They have a pretty crazy dress code at Mayavale University!
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There's a dress code? Could have fooled me!
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My favorite episode of Keeping Up Appearances ends with Hyacinth and the vicar's wife find our Rose in a storage closet where the vicar has fallen on top of her. Rose looks at them and says, "It's all right! I'm going to be a nun!"
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The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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I tuned into a farce this afternoon, where a girl had fled her house after an argument, creating numerous scenes of misunderstanding as she spent the night at a grand neighbours house... in her pyjamas. Pompous mother of neighbour ended up being caught holding the argumentative instigator's trousers up, as he was using his belt as a muzzle for his angry dog.
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I like the Commonwealth spelling "pyjamas" better than the American "pajamas." That Y looks so cool there.
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I saw in an old book ?sofa? spelt as ?sopha?. It took me a minute to figure it out.
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I like the "y"s in "Pyngwyn" myself 
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