Location: Bookshop!

[davidn]

I'm far more exhausted than anybody should be on a Saturday. Even though I like doing the semiannual book sale so much, that was the busiest one ever - we'd made over $15,000 by the end of the morning, and this is from sales of $1 and $2 books.

The thing above, doodled in a rare moment of downtime, amused one small child and traumatized another. I think that I had meant it to be one of the Mister Men - but unfortunately this, if anyone, turned out to be Mister Richard Whiteley.

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[kibet.livejournal.com]

It was actually his teachers that called him Richard, as before he went to school he went by John. The teachers, howeve, decided that there were too many Johns in the class and therefore decided to call him Richard.

Amusement/Trauma is a fine line with children. If they think 'What the hell?' then it can go either way.

[davidn]

My mind's been absolutely shattered by how many people I know from television aren't named what I think their names are. Bill Bailey, Simon Pegg, David Tennant... (and for that matter Paul (Bruce) Dickinson). I only discovered that about him when I looked up the article for the benefit of Americans...!

[kibet.livejournal.com]

I had to check all three of their names out to see what they really were. Some of them, I don't know how they came up with them.

I had a dream last night, after I woke up (in the middle of the night) and read your reply comment email. It was not related to the post though it seems but instead you had replied to the ODWYZKI Spambot as they had said it was me. When they then replied to one of my posts, they started mentioning people that I know which really confused me until i realised who ODWYZKI was and that it was not a bot after all, making me try and find the reply comments I delete without reading. That probably made no sense, nor did it for me.

[davidn]

I do know the one you mean - I hadn't realized other people were getting the same thing! I've had more and more spam over Livejournal over the last while and when Google+ opened it nearly convinced me to transfer over, but... it isn't quite the solution I've been looking for, yet.

And I'm always afraid of mistakenly deleting someone's legitimate reply if I read it wrongly or it's filtered by accident - that sounds like a dream that I would have had based on that fear.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first one I got I thought it sounded legit, with the exception of them claiming it to be such a wonderfully written post and it ended up being a one line entry of me saying that I should write more.

I think they have given up trying to make it sound not like Spam.

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

You'll be pleased to know I just went through all the Mr. Men and Little Miss books online to find out which one yours most represents. None of them were a good enough match, so I've decided to dub yours Mr. Demented.

(I'm sorry, in a fit of perfectionism I deleted and re-posted my comment just to make an incredibly minor correction. And again. Today is not a good day for proofreading.)