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After all these decades, I still wander around muttering "tanstaafl."


#139184 02/16/05 05:17 PM
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is the favorite of many and a good place to start, I think. But do stay away from his later works, expecially The Number of the Beast, unless you enjoy living through an old man's second adolescence.


#139185 02/16/05 05:29 PM
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Actually now that I think of it I think The Number of the Beast was the name of the book I had read.


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>stay away from his later works, expecially The Number of the Beast..

was this a sly reference to my listing Job and Friday? ;)
-joe (Job) friday


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"unless you enjoy living through an old man's second adolescence.


...and what characterizes an old man's second adolescence as compared to, say, a middle-aged man's second adolescence? I deal with adolescents all the time and heaven forbid any adult return down that road!


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what characterizes an old man's second adolescence

Ummm, that'd be the age of the man …


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