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yellowtractor
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« on: February 08, 2010, 10:25:13 PM »

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Sorry.  I've been resisting this for months now; I just had a weak moment.

Carry on.
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i think is good for every one only the think is that we will always scares about that.
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2010, 10:36:28 PM »

Moby Dick was a fvckhead.  Srsly.
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2010, 10:36:58 PM »

Call me Fish Meal.
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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2010, 10:37:40 PM »

Don't you ever fricking call me Ishmael.
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« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2010, 10:41:54 PM »

Don't you ever fricking call me Ishmael.

Queequeg?
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« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2010, 10:42:37 PM »

I thought this was the Anti-Mite Flail Movement thread?

Grad school prof:

"I had a student ask me, 'Mr. Cox, is Moby Dick a book about sex?'"

"Whadda you think?  A book called Moby DICK, about a SPERM whale, taught to you by a man named Mr. COX?  Goddam right it's a book about sex!"
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« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2010, 10:46:16 PM »

Don't you ever fricking call me Ishmael.

Queequeg?

Tashtego?  Dude!
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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2010, 10:47:43 PM »


"Whadda you think?  A book called Moby DICK, about a SPERM whale, taught to you by a man named Mr. COX?  Goddam right it's a book about sex!"

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for this.  I needed a LOL tonight. 
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« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2010, 10:49:26 PM »


Starbuck?  Claggart?  Capt. Vere?


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« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2010, 10:49:37 PM »

I'm not terribly fond of Jonah either.
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2010, 10:55:00 PM »


"Whadda you think?  A book called Moby DICK, about a SPERM whale, taught to you by a man named Mr. COX?  Goddam right it's a book about sex!"

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for this.  I needed a LOL tonight. 

I recommend pages 414-5.
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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2010, 10:57:35 PM »

"Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men."


The mind dizzies at the thought of the myriad social moments in which this sentence might be successfully deployed.
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« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2010, 10:59:59 PM »

Yar!  And I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the horn, and round the maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up!
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« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2010, 11:01:13 PM »


"Whadda you think?  A book called Moby DICK, about a SPERM whale, taught to you by a man named Mr. COX?  Goddam right it's a book about sex!"

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for this.  I needed a LOL tonight. 

I recommend pages 414-5.

Good old Herman sure did have a thing for sperm.
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« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2010, 11:10:57 PM »

There is far too much emphasis on Dead White Whales in academia.
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