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What a moran.

Right now I'm reading "The Know-It-All" by AJ Jacobs, all about his quest to read the Encyclopædia Britannica from A to Z. It's actually quite amusing.

"Sometimes I would wake up and start reading at three in the morning because I was so excited"


Here... have a couple bottles of these...



Washed down with a bottle of this:


It'll greatly improve the quality of your life.

Being able to go to look up a word in a dictionary and read only the one definition you went looking for shows a lack of curiosity. This, however, is excessive.

calbert: "turns out the zebra did it"

He lies; it was the zymurgist.

Tonight I hope to be an unbepissed wine-knight.

I read the entire Golden Book Encyclopedia in the 5th grade. It was awesome. I loved the surreal covers. This may explain the misguided way I view he world.

Did you know a baby salamander is called an eft?

I just had sex with a pineapple

\it was good
\\yeah thats right, I slash the wrong way

I've read the dictionary too.

Not much of a plot, but the author has a wonderful vocabulary.


//got nothin'

I read the dictionary when I was little. Mainly because I was bored, and had read all other books within my reach at home.

/yeah, I was that kid when I was younger

librophilia?
dictomania?

"Sometimes I would wake up and start ________ing at three in the morning because I was so excited"

jimpoz: Right now I'm reading "The Know-It-All" by AJ Jacobs, all about his quest to read the Encyclopædia Britannica from A to Z. It's actually quite amusing.

THAT is an awesome book. I read it last year.

My favorite book is my dictionary. I don't read it like a novel, but it's my most useful tool (hah hah, yeah, whatever), and it really provides a lot of info. Of course, I have a humongous, overly priced, and unabridged dictionary.

/bookaholic

I would suspect many farkers have done this. OCD.

earth: I've read the dictionary too.

Not much of a plot, but the author has a wonderful vocabulary.


//got nothin'

Made me laugh!

Allow me to offer him my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.



/ I am anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous if I have caused anyone any pericombobulation.

He loved what he was doing. I've wakened at 3am to play some video games before work.

jimpoz: Right now I'm reading "The Know-It-All" by AJ Jacobs, all about his quest to read the Encyclopædia Britannica from A to Z. It's actually quite amusing.

a book about a guy reading books? Sounds like a page-turner

I have a friend who read the dictionary (probably not the Oxford though) when she was younger because no one told her not to.

But she is a bit of a grammar-nazi, so maybe it wasn't a good thing.

FTFA
Somewhere near the word "avenge" he experienced alarming physical proof that spending ten hours a day squinting at a dictionary is unhealthy when his vision turned grey for several hours.

\\WOW

\\want to slash wrong way too

rcain: "Sometimes I would wake up and start reading at three in the morning because I was so excited"


Here... have a couple bottles of these...



Washed down with a bottle of this:


It'll greatly improve the quality of your life.

Ummm...send me some?

/no, really

BuckTurgidson: Allow me to offer him my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.



/ I am anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous if I have caused anyone any pericombobulation.

DO you know he did the voice for the audio HHGTTG?

I bought it on CD this summer, to keep me awake as I drove my brood across the country.

His stutter almost drove me mad.

FTFA "There are moments of humour, usually unintentional, such as 'unbepissed', which means 'not having been urinated on

\\wow

A long time friend of mine once came to visit me for a few days. My father owns a Encyclopaedia Britannica collection. The dude read them A-H page by page while he stayed with us...
I'm a nerd, and I used to grab a random volume and read some random pages, but like a novel? That's crazy!

Tachikoma: I read the dictionary when I was little. Mainly because I was bored, and had read all other books within my reach at home.

/yeah, I was that kid when I was younger

I read the dictionary and encyclopedia as a child as well. Not because I was "that kid," but because it gave me something to do while hiding away in my room so as not to piss of my loving alcoholic father by doing something... you know... childish... and have to listen to his incessant verbal abuse until he'd pass out at 3:00am, and have to go wait for the bus at 7:00 the next morning (x 3-4 days per week).

/And yes, I did know that baby salamander is an eft
//Dear old dad can DIAF

Okay, I just walked around and found out how many dictionaries we have.

Twelve.

Including the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, the GArfield Dictionary, A Child's First Dictionary (by Usborne, I think), and a few more.


I'm a sick, sick person. I probably need some sort of dictionary (hah hah, whatever) intervention.

This is an accomplishment worthy of floccinaucinihilipilification.

-In younger days I would spend a lot of time in the dictionary. You'd look up one word and inevitably stumble across other interesting words you didn't know along the way. Same thing with the encyclopedia. Yeah, I was known as 'The Professor' in elementary school. Real babe magnet. You ever notice how thinking back to when you were a kid, you didn't realize how short you were cuz you spent most of your time with other kids? And airline food, what's up with that?!

jonr: while he stayed with us...
I'm a nerd, and I used to grab a random volume and read some random pages, but like a novel? That's crazy!

so obviously he was telling you you're not much for good company.

/I keed.

Amigajoe: -In younger days I would spend a lot of time in the dictionary. You'd look up one word and inevitably stumble across other interesting words you didn't know along the way. Same thing with the encyclopedia. Yeah, I was known as 'The Professor' in elementary school. Real babe magnet. You ever notice how thinking back to when you were a kid, you didn't realize how short you were cuz you spent most of your time with other kids? And airline food, what's up with that?!

Is this a quote from a book? Or a movie? Or are you being serious?

Because honestly, this is the same exact reason I get happily swamped with fifteen Wikipedia windows open.

I'll ruin the ending for him:

*SPOILERS*
Zyrian: n. a Finno-Ugric language of the Permian group, having written documents from the 13th century.

My in-laws are great folks, but they do not have a single book or magazine in their entire house. I discovered this one morning when I was th first one awake and wanted something quiet to occupy me. Actually ended up reading the Milton Keynes phone book.

\now that's bored
\\not the whole thing....

I read a dictionary one time. It was good.

Hah! Last word in my dictionary is "ZZZ, used to represent the sound of a person snoring, also 'zzz'."

It is an awesome book (mine's in one volume, requires a giant magnifying glass) but there's no need to read the whole thing. Just use it as a reference work occasionally, you will appreciate it just as much if not more that TFA guy.

"Then there are the words that give me a small and vicious pleasure, like 'bayard', which is particularly apt for our rabid election season. It describes a person who has the self-confidence of the ignorant."


/THIS

Add me to the list of people who read the dictionary. I wore out 2 of them. Not because I'm some kind of genius, but because my memory sucks. And as dumb as I am today, I was really dumb back in the day.

Wasn't this guy on NPR months ago?

Also read "The Professor and the Madman." (pops)

I wonder if he paused when he got to 'dork'?

assburgers

Selfabortion: Also read "The Professor and the Madman." (pops)

Now that's a good book. The guy that contributed some huge percentage of the original entries of the OED (was it 40%?) cut off his own penis with a pen knife while in the loony bin because of molestations of the little gremlins that would abduct him at night.

I was expecting that to be an actor from Supernatural.

When I was a kid we had a set of World Book Encyclopedia, circa 1962 and so bought about the time I entered first grade. After I learned to read when I'd get home from school I'd make myself a peanut butter sandwich and pull down a volume at random and page through it, stopping at whatever caught my interest. I penciled in Nov 22, 1963 for John Kennedy.

Good times....

granolasteak: Is this a quote from a book? Or a movie? Or are you being serious?

-Sad, but true Meine Freund. I'm not a Wiki fanatic, but do sometimes find myself looking up random stuff. It's actually a great place to find info on various bands. Look up the story behind Smoke on the Water.;-)

By the way, I still have that set.

abb3w: Being able to go to look up a word in a dictionary and read only the one definition you went looking for shows a lack of curiosity. This, however, is excessive.

calbert: "turns out the zebra did it"

He lies; it was the zymurgist.

I'll drink to that!

Did it turn him into a sesquipedalian (dictionary pop) ?

Approves.

/hotlinked to combat the white devils