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- From: chucks@uars2.acd.ucar.edu (Chuck Smythe)
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.214423.22656@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry
- References: <1992Dec31.050130.24366@sophia.smith.edu> <1992Dec31.175313.25919@athena.mit.edu> <1992Dec31.183207.25805@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:44:23 GMT
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- >1. When you go to a bookstore with a friend, are you usually carrying
- >more books when you leave than your friend is?
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- Yes
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- >2. Do you wake up the morning after, unable to remember how many books
- >you bought or how much you spent on them?
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- Yes
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- >6. At Christmastime, do you buy your loved ones books that you want to read?
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- yes
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- >7. Have you ever given up on a book before you started it?
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- yes
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- >8. Are you unable to walk through a mall without stopping at a bookstore?
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- yes
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- >10. Do you ever buy books simply because they were on sale?
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- yes
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- >12. When at a garage sale, is the first thing you look at the books?
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- yes
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- >13. Have you ever been fired from a job, or reprimanded, for reading?
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- yes
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- >14. Have you and your immediate family ever "discussed" your
- >book-buying and reading habits?
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- yes
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- >15. When you watch TV, do you always have a book in your lap for slow
- >parts and commercials?
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- always.
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- >16. Do you "watch" television sports with the sound off?
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- Again, always
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- >17. Does panic set in when you find yourself in a barber's chair or
- >under a hairdryer with nothing to read?
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- As nothing to the panic when I head for the bathroom empty-handed.
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- >18. Have you ever become suddenly deeply interested in an obscure
- >topic and immediately bought six or more books on that topic?
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- several times.
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- >19. Do you ever lie about how many books you've bought?
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- Quiet! My wife thinks I'm spending the money on dope.
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- >20. Do you devise grand and devious strategies for getting your books
- >into the house to avoid your spouse's or family's scrutiny?
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- Not at all. I have concealed pockets in my coat liner.
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- >24. Do you have at least six books next to your bed?
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- Who doesn't?
-
- >[Janice's note: I scored 17. Can anyone beat me?]
-
- ......only 16. Thank God. I have it under control. I can take it or leave
- it......
-
- And a shining new year to you all
-
- Chuck Smythe
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