OK a THREAD ON DU IS TURNED INTO A BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lost-in-nj]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7865820



Who remembers OSCAR!!!!?????


This is so cool!!!!



:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:





lost

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. LOL

Maybe you can get Oscar to sign a copy for you.

[lost-in-nj]

2. Well at least the

author!!!!!



lost

[grantcart]

17. lol

[MuseRider]

3. WOW!

I bookmarked that thread and go back to it now and again because it was so amazing.

This is really cool!

Hey Oscar will be a star now! LOL.

Edit to correct a dumb mistake

[lost-in-nj]

4. YEAH Oscar!!

lost

[MuseRider]

10. So many old names

on that thread, many I miss to this day *sigh*. Still after all this time I crack up reading it.

[lost-in-nj]

15. yup

so many friends
not here
anymore

:(

yet

Oscar is timeless

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Will someone please explain for us new folk. n/t

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. Here ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=624815

Thanks, lost.

[lost-in-nj]

7. Welcome hon

:hug:

this really is a great thing.....


:hi:

CONGRATULATIONS


lost

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Oscar is the name of a pet...

...that was the subject of an epic thread.

Is that right?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

11. Yeah.

Sounds so simple, and yet ...

[MuseRider]

13. So how does Oscar

feel about all of this?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

14. He's magnificently indifferent.

:*

[ColbertWatcher]

16. Congratulations. n/t

[A-Schwarzenegger]

27. Thanks, CW!

Not technically a pet, more like a live-in intruder.

[MuseRider]

12. Congratulations!

That must be one hell of a book. :toast:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. It is definitely a book.

Thanks, Muse!

[Hissyspit]

20. Oscar the DU Mascot! Hooray for him/her/it!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

29. Thanks, Hissy!

And from him/her/it, too also.

[HEyHEY]

9. Hey! That's great!

congrats!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

57. How'd I miss you, HEyHEY! Thanks!

:hi:

[myrna minx]

18. A Huge K&R.

I am so happy about this! :applause: :woohoo:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

30. Thanks again, myrna.

Me, too.

[myrna minx]

19. Kick for the great news! n/t

[rug]

21. I was hoping the Salami Is Better Than Clinton would be the first DU thread turned into a book.

[Arugula Latte]

22. Personally, I thought "The War of The Olive Garden" would have made a good tome, as well.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

31. I'm patiently looking forward to both a them.

:*

[TrogL]

61. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN OLIVE GARDEN!!!!11111

Olives like really dry acidic soil and tend to make the soil even MORE acidic to the point where nothing else will grow there.

Olives grow in groves when cultivated and lonely hilltops when not.

[GardeningGal]

23. FANTASTIC!! C'mon people - rec this thread

This is a first!!!!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

32. Lotsa DU folks, if not most, came along after that peculiar thread had slipped into the archives.

There's another thread going in the Lounge where it all begunned.
Thanks, GardeningGal!

[tyedyeto]

24. Big Oscar fan here....one of the best ever series of threads

Newbies to the forum should check out all Oscar threads. Don't know what you're missing til ya do.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

33. Thanks, tye.

:hi:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

25. A true classic in the making

I want an autographed copy. :D

[A-Schwarzenegger]

34. Hopefully he'll know how to write by then.

:)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

40. Write, scratch, root...whatever it takes.

I'm not a picky person. :D

[TrogL]

62. I always suspected he was telepathic and telekinetic

[uppityperson]

26. k&r for Oscar and A-Scwartz! Very cool!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

35. Thanks, up!

:)

[uppityperson]

37. I must admit that I was skeptical of you when I first joined DU.

WHY would anyone name themselves after arnie? But then I got to know you, and read about Oscar, and it all became clear. I didn't know and shouldn't assume anything. This book is seriously very cool.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

41. I'm still skeptical of me.

I actually got briefly banned twice, wrote both times to Skinner
to straighten it out & got let back in. The ironiacalness must had
brought scads of alerts, and then I got mistook for somebody
previously banned, but I denied all charges & returned like
MacArthur to the beaches of Fresno.

[madinmaryland]

36. Wow! He has Gorn and published a novel!

:wow:

Hi Gorn!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

42. Er, eh, I think I ought to know this Gorn or of him

but dont think I do? :)

[progressoid]

38. I remember Oscar!

I'd buy that book!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

43. That book would be bought by you!

:hi:

[Eyes_wide_ open]

39. Nope didn't see it before as

I just found this place and this is my virgin post, however I just read through that thread and like, WOW MAN!!! Congrats ... kind of wish I'd been around for that.

History making too, that thread. Looks to me that Oscar was more or less personally responsible for introducing the "terrorist fist jab" to America ... how can it be that Fox News hasn't uncovered that bit of info yet?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

44. Thanks & welcome!

More like "terrorist pancake inhale" if you knew him.

[Nostradammit]

45. "My amateur vet friend"

I still laugh when I think about that line. I read that thread as it was going down and it's
one of the great regrets of my life that I didn't chime in. I remember not wanting to ruin
something that was that funny with anything less than a perfect comment.

Congratulations! Say "hi" to Oscar for me...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

47. I think there was an "amateur nuclear physicist" in there too.

Or maybe that was a later version. Thanks, Nostra!

[Garbo 2004]

46. That's utterly fantastic! Whooeee! Congrats to the author!

The Oscar thread has got to be one of the all time greatest on DU. An inspired creation. Oh this is great! I'll be looking forward to it. :woohoo:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

48. Thanks, Garbo.

Oscar took a lot of cues from Greta.
(Van Morrison has a great song about her, too.)

[K Gardner]

49. I have just whittled away my entire morning reading about Oscar in various

threads across the DUniverse. At first, I felt like I'd stepped into a Robin Cook/Stephen King novel. Then I felt like I had a new family member.

Well, the last I heard, Oscar was on a Greyhound. Is there a chapter I've missed, or is he still in transit?

Do I have to buy the book to find out what the project was and if it was ever finished?

Oscarites want to know !

[A-Schwarzenegger]

51. Ha!

The project involves a kind of Frankenstein like
experiment of the animal's that is sort of beyond
words to describe but somehow did get described!

[Blue_Tires]

50. wow....i had long forgotten about that thread

congrats to the writer

[A-Schwarzenegger]

53. Thanks, Blue!

:)

[bdamomma]

52. you know I read the whole thread about Oscar

and it's intriguing congrats.:thumbsup:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

54. Intriguing's healing!

Thanks! :)

[lumberjack_jeff]

55. My favorite thread ever.

I am worried some
neighbor will report him or me. He came home later with
a bag of oranges which he jumped up on the roof with.
He's sitting up there now eating them and looking at
the stars. I wonder about him. I wonder about me. I
wonder about you.

I wonder about my dog. Last night when one of the kids came home, the dog got startled and sprayed like a skunk. Ick. Does Oscar have any descendants?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

56. He shall! He must!

Thanks, lumber.
His offspring expect to appear in the sequel that I expect.

[Blue_Tires]

58. ttt n/t

[Redneck Socialist]

59. Congrats A-S. The Oscar Chronicles remain some of the best DU threads ever. n/t

[A-Schwarzenegger]

60. Thanks, RS!

:hi: