"if you own anything that comes in a "box set" you're probably a dork"

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quote from a cute girl

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

*shrug*

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

what does she own?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

YHF I CLAIM MY FIVE CANS OF PBR

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. Your friends are hard on you, Jon.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

CUTE GIRLS AREN'T NOT STUPID!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

What about if you own something that comes in a "twelve pack?"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"If you really believe that you're probably a bitch"

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

she claims to be a dork.

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"If you claim to be a dork, you're probably a loser."

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet Brad Pitt owns the odd box set.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.outlookpress.com/images/qaf.jpg

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ask her if her dead grandparents are in a box set.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

smart ass you really shouldn't be talking shit i have an A+ MCSE- AND -CCNA also c++ cert what do you have, i work at ITT TECH As an Teacher.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no reason to believe she's wrong, I just think there aren't enough dorks in the world.

― Brian Wilson (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i own The Lord Of The Rings in a boxed set. Obv, I am a dork.

DOES THE 20 YEARS OF DISCHORD BOX MAKE SOMEONE A DORK OR JUST EMO?

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(also, LOTR books but not movies. i don't really buy movies.)

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I have intermittently owned boxed sets of Pilsner Beer.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i own a JOY DIVION BOX SET
also: battlestar galactica, buzzcocks, 20 years of dischord... uhhhh

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops, joke made already.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

so jon she was cute and not fat?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

dean, what is that from

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"i own The Lord Of The Rings in a boxed set. Obv, I am a dork."

i got one from my aunt for x-mas once. i never really read any of the books except for about 3/4 of the hobbit.

i own the alien quadrilogy dvd set.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

just overheard by a cute girl:

"For the record, I wouldn't say she was 'hot', I'd say she was 'underdressed'."

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://mail.rochester.edu/~jw002j/val-Picture677.jpg

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

MY SWEET ONION

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

if she was fat, I'd just shrug her off cause who cares what fat chicks think, right? but she was cute, and cute girls' opinions cannot be ignored.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

You guys do realize that Jon is just using us to write his clever retorts to the silly things that cute girls say, so that they'll think he's smart and have sex him with him, right? I bet he's getting laid thanks to my dead grandparents line right now.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I own more box sets than I can count....and I am a dork, but I know plenty of decidedly non-dorky invididuals that own them too. So nyah, so-called cute girl. Eat Hot Death! One day, your cuteness will fade....BUT BOX SETS ARE FOREVER, GODDAMMIT!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.studio-c.co.uk/maliciousdamage/graphics/chaos.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have both Nuggets box sets and the Zombie Heaven box set.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE VOL. 1 BITCHES

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

What about cute girls who own box sets?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a 12-CD disco box set and a 9-CD series of sitar-psych. not that i'm cute or anything.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

9-cds of sitar-psych?!! is it any good?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

No, but there's 9 CD's OF IT!

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

it would be a brilliant 6-cd set. there's too much new-age jambandy shit on it but the '60s tracks are impeccable.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

12-CD

Damn. After what point does "box set" graduate to "crate set" or "case set" or even "library?"

I think the biggest boxed set I own has 6 discs in it, and it's the Buffy DVD set for the second season.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't any TV show on DVD with more than a few episodes come in a "box set"?

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i really want more of the 10-disc (?) set of '60s british girl singers. i have the first one and it's dreeeeeaaammmy.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't any TV show on DVD with more than a few episodes come in a "box set"?

Pretty much. Most of them have 4 or 5 episodes per DVD (if they are hour-long shows), so a whole season kinda has to be more than one disc.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Right, so I also have Freaks & Geeks, Kids in the Hall, and Father Ted box sets. I AM DORKIMUS.

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not counting The Office as a box set, because although each season is two DVDs, all the actual episodes fit on one DVD, and the other DVD is just lame extras that they probably could have fit on the first DVD but they wanted to make it a two-DVD set to make more money and also why the fuck didn't they put the Christmas specials on there, are they that lame?
FEAR MY DORKITUDE. (I almost typed DORKITUTE, which I guess would be a geeky whore.)

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

haha is anyone on this board NOT a dork?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

a geeky whore

woody allen had a great story called "the whore of mensa" in one of his essay books.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you calling my girlfriend a dork?

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I own boxsets by: The Misfits, Echo & the Bunnymen, XTC, Public Image Ltd., the Police, Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground, the Stranglers, New Order, Kiss, the Clash, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Savage Republic, Dischord Records, the Stooges (yes, I own the utterly ridiculous Complete Funhouse Sessions), Motorhead, Simon & Garfunkel, a few punk compilations and even the Hanna-Barbera Pick-a-Nick Basket box set. Non-dorks, look upon me and know fear.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I R JOKING!

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got a Hitchcock box set, a Bergman box set, the Cure B-Sides and one of the Nuggets. That's assuming sets of TV DVDs don't count, in which case the My So-Called Life/Buffy s.1-6/Dawson's Creek DVDs damn me to eternal dorkdom.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i am eye-ing the caetano veloso 40 CD box from Brasilia. Not that there's any doubt but I am definitely a dork.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

woody allen had a great story called "the whore of mensa" in one of his essay books.

"Get to the point."

"I'm on the road a lot. You know how it is - lonely. Oh, not what you're thinking. See, Kaiser, I'm basically an intellectual. Sure, a guy can meet all the bimbos he wants. But the really brainy women - they're not so easy to find on short notice."

"Keep talking."

"Well, I heard of this young girl. Eighteen years old. A Yassar student. For a price, she'll come over and discuss any subject - Proust, Yeats, anthropology. Exchange of ideas. You see what I'm driving at?"

"Not exactly."

"I mean my wife is great, don't get me wrong. But she won't discuss Pound with me. Or Eliot. I didn't know that when I married her. See, I need a woman who's mentally stimulating, Kaiser. And I'm willing to pay for it. I don't want an involvement - I want a quick intellectual experience, then I want the girl to leave. Christ, Kaiser, I'm a happily married man."

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The investigator character in "Whore of Mensa," Kaiser Lupowitz, also appears in a story called "Mr. Big" wherein he's investigating, if I recall correctly, the death of God.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

DAWSON'S CREEK?

jeepers!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

(Oh, and in the above excerpt "Yassar" should be "Vassar." I guess the place I did the cut & paste from was google proofing or just typing funny.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Do not hate on the Creek.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw this thread title and all i could think was: "Them's fightin' words on ILX!"

I win all dork prizes though. I own the Once And Again first season box-set!!! (or maybe I win the gaywad prize for that.)

I just bought the Rat pack Collection on VHS at the thrift store for 5 bucks. You know, Oceans 11, etc. It's sealed though, and I think I'm gonna keep it like that. How dorky is that!!??

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

a friend bought me the Alias first season dvd box... should i open it and watch it???? he said i'd like it ??!?!?!?!

ps: the only other TV boxsets i have are the twin peaks season 1, twin peaks seasons 2+3 (from spain), and a gatchman 8xDVD from japan. although i have been pondering a used copy of the ken burns baseball set.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

SC, do you mean Here Come the Girls? I have a couple of them, maybe we could do a CDR trade or something.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

SC, do you mean Here Come the Girls?

yes! which ones do you have?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I NEED DEGRASSI DVD BOX SET ASAP OK THX BYE

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Are we counting box sets we own physical copies of or ones we have on mp3/avi?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG YES DEGRASSI WHERE CAN I FIND YOU???

dean, I have the first, like, 6 or so episodes in a VHS set but haven't been able to find any on DVD.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost) which is worse?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"if you own anything called a "box set" that comes in "mp3/avi" you're probably a giant dork" - c/d

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I was THIS CLOSE to buying a Saved By the Bell boxset the other day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the first SBTB box. It's okay. Stumbling across episodes on TV is much, much better.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

dork wouldn't properly describe you if you did, jordan. I think we'd have to invent a new word.

xpost OMG dean you are a total flailer!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

dean, I have the first, like, 6 or so episodes in a VHS set but haven't been able to find any on DVD.

Yeah, Amazon had the complete HIGH and JR HIGH vhs box sets for a while, but $300 was a lot to me, back then. I regret it. I could've made so much money selling DVD set bootlegs....

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a dusty old Wagner LP boxset. He's overrated. I thought he'd be more evil.

― andy, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite box sets I own are: the Miles Davis Quintet (w/ Herbie Hancock Tony Williams et al) one that my alco/klepto ex-roomie gave to me as partial rent payment once & Mr. Show seasons 1 & 2 which I borrowed from someone who subsequently disappeared off the face of the Earth forever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Joy Division's heart and Soul, The Velvet Underground complete thing and 1-2-3-4 (The Punk Box Set).

But I guess I am a dork.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmmm....

We have a variety of box sets in my house, most of which I will claim to be my husbands dues to high embarassment factor:

So we have a...

Dean Martin Box set
A smashing pumpkins box set
billy joel box set (see what i mean)
in living colour box set
godfather box set
spike lee box set
alien box set
beatles anthology box set
all futurama box sets
star wars box set

...and probably other stuff packed away in boxes

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i forgot the mr. show box set and ben stiller show box set

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

...and probably other stuff packed away in boxes

Like, a boxed set of boxed sets? A metabox set?

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah cept the packaging ain't so sweet on the boxed box sets. We're sort of preparing to move :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

the whore of mensa is a great story and what a great title too.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i really want more of the 10-disc (?) set of '60s british girl singers. i have the first one and it's dreeeeeaaammmy.
-- stockholm cindy (theundergroundhom...), June 16th, 2004 7:18 AM. (later)

oh yeah that sounds goood..

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't like box sets much because they announce their status as consumer fetish objects a little too proudly, but also because when you are moving (which i seem to do often these days) they are annoying to pack, since there is no uniform box set size. i have like 30 or 40 of them though (sigh). i've long since given up thoughts of NOT being a dork, so the thread question matters not to me.

i really want more of the 10-disc (?) set of '60s british girl singers. i have the first one and it's dreeeeeaaammmy.
-- stockholm cindy (theundergroundhom...), June 16th, 2004 7:18 AM. (later)

are you talking about the "dream babes" series or something else?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

as rosemary said, it's the here come the girls series.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, i get that confused with "where the girls are." not to mention "early girls."

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"where the girls are."

i have this too!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't like box sets much because they announce their status as consumer fetish objects a little too proudly,

but ams they're FULL OF MUSIC!! surely this makes up for their shortcomings?!

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Here come the girls is AMAZING!

(I do not have any box sets, I don't think, actually. But I'm obviously a dork).

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

jody you have ALL of the "where the girls are" series? do you have some kind of girl group fetishist expense account?!?!

is the last volume of "here come the girls" really titled "girls don't come" as per amg???

the fifth (?) volume of "dream babes" is awesome: "folk rock & faithfull".

but ams they're FULL OF MUSIC!! surely this makes up for their shortcomings?!

but five individual CDs are also FULL OF MUSIC. also those ultra-cheap (and small) JSP and Proper boxes rule over the deluxxxxx major-label things.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(am - I dunno about last, but one is. And it has the best version of needle in a haystack EVAH)

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

jody you have ALL of the "where the girls are" series? do you have some kind of girl group fetishist expense account?!?!

i just have one of the discs on mp3. i WISH i had a girl group expense account!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

My SCTV box set arrived today. Maybe I'm a dork and maybe not, maybe the cute girl is a dumbass and maybe not. The world....will never know!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

jon's type of cute girl is almost definitely a dumbass

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

did i say that out loud?

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

no, you typed it on the internet.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

unless you read along as you type.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps that's why i was asking?

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

you don't seem to be in the best of moods today mr ams

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I just counted... I have 33 audio box sets and a half dozen or so DVD box sets. And I need more!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

is the last volume of "here come the girls" really titled "girls don't come" as per amg???

Yes. It's a Sandie Shaw reference.

RPM also has a US version of Dreambabes, Girls Go Zonk!!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

you don't seem to be in the best of moods today mr ams

-- the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsoun...) (webmail), June 16th, 2004 4:35 PM. (electricsound) (later) (link)

i think my tone of deadpan silliness didn't come across. i would say "hugs" except i'm not twee like that.

i'm in a fine mood.

(x-post)

yeah i keep seeing "girls go zonk" in the stores. i can't buy any cds right now, sadly. what does it mean to go zonk anyway?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

>ZONK<

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://touchinglives4him.homestead.com/files/faint.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The rule of thumb is box sets of books. I therefore win.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I have all the futurama box sets too and IM NOT APOLOGISING FOR IT. I also have the Cocteau Twins ep's cd box set.

Also, I am cute.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

if we put all of our boxsets together do we get voltron??

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

does this girl *want * you to be a dork or not?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah thats the crux of the ish, shurly?

Dorky guys are cool.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i r dork b/c i own boxsets of:

echo and the bunnymen
the cure
merle haggard

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS GIRL LIKES ME A LOT. SHE CALLS ME HER "YANGPA"

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

That's nice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know how many box sets I have. I don't want to count. It's lots. A quick look at nearby spines reveals I have at least 15 Mosaic box sets alone.

Also I have this big dog

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd400/d422/d42202cf632.jpg

24 CDs worth. I'm pretty certain that's the biggest I own or ever will own. Music doesn't get any better, so it was worth every penny.

Couldn't care less whether any of that makes me a "dork". I'm just happy to have stuff to listen to cuz I love music.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually sold many of the box sets I have back a couple of months ago in that I had a moment of realization that I barely listened to any of them! I kept the booklets, though, and had long since disposed of the boxes themselves.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I want that 15-DVD orhowever many it is Flying Circus box set - that makes me REALLY dorky, dunnit?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it takes a certain kind of listener. I often get obsessive about stuff so it's no problem for me to listen to a 5 or 6 cd box over the course of a couple of days. And yeah, after that it tends to go back on the shelf for a year or more. But then so do a lot of single disc albums.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i listened to both rubble boxes in sequence a couple of weekends ago. it were great.

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i agree w/ broheems re: boxsets. it's all about when "a little bit just won't do."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I buy box sets INSTEAD of individual albums/singles/DVDs when I know both exist because either you cant get it all any other way (cf the cocteaus singles box set) or its way cheaper as a set than singly (my futurama and blackadder DVD sets).

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

they are cheaper. i got a box set of all three falling joys cds for $24 a couple of weeks ago.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

dork means penis.

― chaki_burger (chaki), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I want the Elvis box sets with the re-masters from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Are they worth it?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I got that Falling Joys set too Gem! :D

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

mary: the 70s box is a revelation. the stuff on the other boxes can be had in different, perhaps more satisfying, configurations. the 50s box is porbably worth it, missing only a few sun-era rarities (left off so they could force us to buy some future reedition, no doubt). the 60s box's selection is a little more questionable.

unless you mean the umpteen "outtakes" box sets--i think there are at least five by now, including the "platinum" thing which mixes big hit recordings with alternate takes, etc. i've always been very wary of those, or rather, i guess i just don't know who needs 40 CDs of elvis outtakes, anyway.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 17 June 2004 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a ton of boxsets

f.w. murnau boxset
buster keaton boxset
d.w. griffith boxset
fassbinder criterion box
bergman criterion box
dreyer criterion box
truffaut criterion box
hitchcock criterion gift box
mk2 resnais box
twin peaks spanish box
roman polanski r2 box
charlie chaplin r2 box
spector back to mono box
beatles anthology or whatever on laserdisc
nuggets 1 box
zombie heaven box
kubrick box

(i like movies)

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, Amst, no I meant the first ones you mentioned. I was going to start at the '50s and go forward, but perhaps as you should say I should start at the 70s

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002WUD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

and go back?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the stuff on the other boxes can be had in different, perhaps more satisfying, configurations.

Also, could you suggest the alternatives?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 17 June 2004 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the Beethoven cello sonatas box set. Now that's far over the dorky line and I don't care.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i got a box set of all three falling joys cds for $24 a couple of weeks ago

There is a Falling Joys box set? Where the hell have I been?

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with the seventies Elvis box set -- it's quite the selection and there are some amazing performances.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, totally.

i'm still sore over that '50s box " calling itself THE COMPLETE (except for a few songs--WHICH WE WILL OFFER IN 2010 AS PART OF ELVIS: THE COMPLETE [except for a few other songs] BOX SET!!!!) 50s MASTERS.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ask her if her dead grandparents are in a box set.

HOLY SHIT THAT'S AWESOME

― TheNewJMod (JMod), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, but THE COMPLETE 50s DOES have the acetate-he-recorded-for-his-mom (except nobody's really sure if it's really him), doesn't it??!

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

it has one of his amateur acetates, but not the other one!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 17 June 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Amst did you see my Elvis C/D revival on that other board? Please help!

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 June 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

no, i didn't see it yet, and i just saw your question about elvis on this thread. i'll answer it soon!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 June 2004 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

are you playing tic tac toe on ilx?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.loogslair.com/gameshow/rules/ttd1.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(sorry, that was pointless)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Wink Martindale was a god to me.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Say something interesting about "Deck of Cards" by T. Texas Tyler/Wink Martindale.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.winkmartindale.com/

!!!!!!

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

occasionally i'm reminded why i stick around this place

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

What is Bible Grace?

A failure to understand the grace of God with regard to the salvation of man has been fatal to many persons. There are those who believe that God in His mercy and grace will not permit anyone to be lost; consequently, they feel no need for seeking salvation. It is true that the most joyous thought a convicted sinner can have is that God has offered to give him salvation. It is necessary, however, for us to understand just how one is saved by the grace of God. By definition, grace is unmerited favor. God looked upon man as he had sinned and as he was with out hope in the world. Although man did not deserve it, God formulated a plan whereby man could be saved from his lost condition. Jesus expressed this in these words, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John, Chapter 3, verse 16). Thus, man has access to the grace of God through Jesus Christ. In Romans, Chapter 5, verses 1,2, the Apostle Paul declared, "Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope in the glory of God". In order for us to be the recipients of the grace of God which comes through Jesus Christ, it is necessary for us to know exactly how grace saves us. In Ephesians, Chapter 2, verses 8,9, Paul declared, "For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast". Here, we learn that in salvation both God and man have a part. God's part is to provide a way of salvation, or a means whereby man can be saved; this he does by His grace. Man's part is to accept the salvation which God so freely offers and this is done through faith.

Man believes in God and then accepts the conditions of salvation which are set forth in the scriptures. Faith saves when faith obeys. In Hebrews, Chapter 11, verse 30, we read, "By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days". The walls of Jericho fell by faith because Joshua believed what God said and obeyed his command. In the same way, our faith must cause us to obey what God tells us to do.

It is pointed out, however, that Paul declared in Ephesians, Chapter 2, verse 9, "Not of works lest any man should boast". It is true that no man can save himself by his own works, but he must work according to God's plan in order to be saved. We are told in Philippians, Chapter 2, and the last part of verse 12, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling". Also, James states in James, Chapter 2, verse 24, "Ye see then that by works a man is justified and not by faith only". It is interesting to note that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord according to Genesis, Chapter 6, verse 8, but that Hebrews, Chapter 11, verse 7, says "By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith". Noah was saved by the grace of God, through faith on his part which prompted him to obey God's commands. A person may be saved from his sins by the grace of God when he believes what God says and when he obeys the Gospel which is God's power unto salvation. Romans, Chapter 1, verse 16.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

A fine choice of readings from Wink!:

What's "UP"?

Drinking From My Saucer

What Andy Rooney Might Have Said!

A Teachers Quandary

"Our" American Culture

The Father Of Girls

Larry Miller's Views On Aging

No Charge

Roses For Mama

A Tribute to the United States by Gordon Sinclair. Also available in MP3 or Windows Media Player formats.

Miami Herald editorial by Leonard Pitts, Jr. Also available in MP3 or Windows Media Player formats.

Present Tense

"If I Knew"

"Two Thousand - Nine - Eleven"

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

Am I Older? Yes! But Wiser

Over 40 [Or Were The Fifties Really That Bad]?

The Senility Prayer

Don't Blame The Seniors

Staying Young

You And A Friend

An American

Opening Prayer - Kansas State Senate

Only In America

This is a true story. Do yourself a favor, and don't read ahead on this one

How Do You Know When You're Getting Old?

To My Child

"Softly As I Leave You"

Erma Bombeck's "If I Had My Life To Live Over..."

Wink's Meaning Of The Flag Folding Program

"Innocence Lost"

To A Sleeping Beauty

Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The Senility Prayer

i'd recite it, but where'd i put my glasses har har

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man, I just read that "'Our' American Culture" one and got a little sick in my stomach.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.winkmartindale.com/winks-store/images/big_book.gif

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gocontinental.com/photos3/martind.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wmyf.com/timages/page/winks_alb_cover.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

An all-inclusive slogan there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"hey, life, come here often?"

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry to be mercenary-like, but apropos of the girlgroup discussion above, if i have only enough money for one of these cd's, do those in the know recommend i get the dreambabes5 or the girlsgozonk! cd?? (i think those are my only options)

― dave k, Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I only own the James Brown box set right now, unless you count "69 Love Songs"

But I used to own the Bob Marley, Allen Ginsberg and Nuggets boxes.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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