So..say you became infamous for some reason, and the media was going through your stuff afterward.

[woo me with science]

What book currently on your shelf do you fear would appear on the evening news as having been your "favorite"?

[Duer 157099]

1. Not only my books, but all online posts too

It's scary to think about how everything would be interpreted after-the-fact.

[woo me with science]

2. Yeah, I'm sitting here looking at "Spam: The Cookbook"

and wondering why it is on our shelf.

We also have a horrible Mark Levin book that someone bought us because they knew, vaguely, that we are "political."

[sarge43]

6. And let's not get into tapes and DVDs

What the pseudo shrinks could do with those.

[bif]

3. I have one of the Bush bios

That my dad gave me. Haven't read it nor do I have any desire to do so. But it's on the shelf nonetheless.

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[sarge43]

5. Either Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin or

The Witch Book could generate an unnatural excitement in the chattering classes.

[PassingFair]

7. Yesterday a "liberal" caller who called into the Ed Schutlz show said:

"I don't know about YOU, but I don't have a
copy of Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto
in MY home!"

:hide:

I also have a copy of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".

:hide:

Guess I'm a left-wing, anarchist sicko.

[dimbear]

19. Physics and Quantum Mechanics books got to be scary.....

that's what it takes to make the big booms.

[Hayabusa]

8. A bunch of D&D books

They'll look at those, remember the 1980s and then they have their reason. It'll be another witch hunt.

[fizzgig]

9. my book about serial killers is pretty worn

as are my poppy z. brite books :yoiks:

[Bucky]

10. Well right now, sadly, Ralph Ketchum's 800 page biography of James Madison is on my toilet seat

The TMZ headline would be "Perv was into wankin' off to Constitutional theory"

I suppose I should hurry home after work now and go clean things up...

[woo me with science]

26. LOL.

Oh my god I have a Reagan book in there.

[rurallib]

11. It is about the reality behing the Reagan Myth

I think it was called "Tear Down this Myth"
then there are a couple on the lesser known history of Christianity and a couple atheistic books.

[taterguy]

12. I have a Ralph Reed book that was on a bookstore's Freebie shelf

It's been on my bookcase 18 months and I haven't gotten around to reading it

[Demoiselle]

13. Eeeeeuuuuyyyy! YUCKIE YUCKIE!

Doesn't it give off a noxious odor?

[seabeyond]

15. beat you. i have a dodson. lol. wedding gift 17 yrs ago. nt

[wickerwoman]

14. I hit the trifecta for morbid DVDs

Dexter, Six Feet Under and Pushing Daisies.

[Forkboy]

30. That's practically like owning Up With People DVDs compared to the stuff they'd find here.

:evilgrin:

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. It's easy to read into almost anything and twist it.

Just today, I was walking out the door at the group home in which I live, and commented on the show on television. A Star Trek: TNG episode, where the crystal creature eats the life off of a beautiful planet, killing Ryker's current interest and most of the settlers, right before his eyes. I said in passing, as it was just when the creature appears and then starts killing everyone, "You're all fucked!" and walked out. Well, some of my flatmates took it personally (SLAPS FOREHEAD IN DISMAY). I can see that I stuck my foot in my mouth, but I was talking about the TV show and what was just about to happen in the tv show. Looks like I have to stop making any comments like that (which they do continuously, "fuck them, bitch that, etc.").

You can't even make a comment these days without someone turning it into something IT IS NOT. People, switch to decaf.

I have to take responsibility for my own part, which is to change that, but shee-it. Really.

Edit: I wasn't looking anyone in the eyes or even saying it at or in anyone's general direction, FFS. It was at the tv. That anything has to be explained at all...(DU desperately requiring a facepalm emoticon).

[petronius]

17. The Bible (I have more than one). I also have the Communist Manifesto

However, once they get a look at my shelves, boxes, and piles of classic SF, they'll put me squarely in the 'mockable nerd' category...

[Chan790]

18. One written by my best friend's wife...

she's an analyst for DHS and has a Master's degree in the study of political violence.

I thought the question interesting so I called her to ask her this question: either The Turner Diaries or the binder of correspondence between Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. (Apparently Zarqawi was quite whiny about revenge for things that happened centuries ago and sent a lot of pissy letters bemoaning direct orders. His superiors disliked him intensely.)

[woo me with science]

25. Good choice.

That would be on cable for at least 3 days.

[Lil Missy]

20. The joys of Lesbian Sex

[Lil Missy]

21. The joys of Lesbian Sex

[Generic Brad]

22. They'd find frequent visits to DU on my browser history

I don't want to drag you guys through the mud, so I have vowed to publicly behave myself.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. They wouldn't know what to make of me.

They'd have found my copy of Qadaffi's Green Book, a lot of books about cats, a copy of the Book of Common Prayer, a field guide to turtles of North America, a couple of books by the Dalai Lama, and a book about Mayan mythology.

I'm obviously quite mad.

[woo me with science]

24. Especially the cats.

Everybody knows cats are evil.







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[superduperfarleft]

27. "The Cricket in Times Square."

"Obviously he reads at only a third-grade level..."

[Orsino]

28. I can explain all the Ranch dressing in the refrigerator. n/t

[Forkboy]

29. "How To Serve Man"