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it was a NYT bestseller in 1966, 8 weeks at #1.
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And how many people have seen the movies vs read the book? A magnitude of hundreds of thousands I'd guess.
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fine. you're right. the world started in 2003.
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I didn't say that.
Number of people who enjoy the books before the movies: 1,000,000
Number of people who say they enjoy the books after the movies: 100,000,000
99% of people who say they like the books are really just fans of the movies.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: 99% of people who say they like the books are really just fans of the movies.
the books have sold more than 150,000,000 copies, over 65 years.
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And that only sells...
Add the people who have borrowed it, taken it from the library...
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You really think more people have read the books than seen the movie? You're sticking to that are you?
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No, I don't think that.
Try using less straw.
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You think there are more people who like the book than like the movies?
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Chris Losinger wrote: fine. you're right. the world started in 2003.
Fellowship was released in 2001.
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Quote: that new body of people 99% really only like the movies. There are many, many illiterate people in this world. Many of them in the USA.
I first read Tolkien in 1967 (The Hobbit) - I loved it.
Lord of the Rings wasn't read until 1970 - I loved it.
I read the hobbit to my son as a bedtime story over several nights - he loved it.
Being of the younger generation he didn't have patience for the Lord of the Rings books but we went to see the films together and thoroughly enjoyed all of them.
Hmm... I liked both the books and the films and accept that the level of detail and the level of "action" in film need to be adjusted to keep the majority of the audience involved. Not a problem.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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My first exposure to The Hobbit was in elementary school; my 4th grade teacher read it to us for about half an hour each day right after lunch (so 1966/1967). We didn't get through it during the school year; once it became obvious that wouldn't happen, I got it from the library and read it, then went on to The Lord of the Rings trilogy right after that. As soon as I got my first job, I really liked the books, but the movies just didn't have the same appeal. I thought they were OK, but don't really feel the need to watch them again.
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First contact to Tolkien was the book of the lord of the rings when I was 11. And I loved it. Read it several times over my teen years.
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Carpentry jokes: I don't think any of them wood work.
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Oh, that old saw!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You nailed it!
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Clearly you're board and just lumbering along in the puns department if hat's awl you could come up with. It's just plane silly since you've been our champfer these posts. A stain on your reputation?
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That has a veneer of truth.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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That one had me in knots! I'll have to log it for future use.
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We've only just begun, and then we will be on top of the world!
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You miter cornered the market with this one, but I wooden continue.
Hoo Ha!
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If I have 2 non-adjacent cells selected eg A1 and A4, hit Ctrl+C, and then Ctrl-V in a different application I only want the contents of A1 and A4 pasted into my document, not A1, A2, A3, and A4. Within Excel itself only the selected cells are pasted, but it barfs the selected values as soon as you try to go outside.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yep, known problem. What you can do is hide the unwanted cells/columns/rows before copying.
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...or just delete the unwanted stuff after copying.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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... or copy 1 at a time.
... or paste into empty cells in Excel (end of rwo) and then copy a second time to paste externally.
There are many workarounds. They're all ed.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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