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Old 07-02-2008, 01:22 PM   #71
Flint
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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus View Post
When I go to a movie alone, I always take a book.
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 View Post
You could read, say, The Green Mile at a screening of The Green Mile, all the time shouting "The book is better!"
Hilarious. You could keep blurting out things like "That doesn't happen in the book!"

Or even better things like "This person/event is a combination of two or more people/events from the book, condensed here for the purposes of communicating the major plot elements in a shorter period of time!"
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