Dance with Dragons release date?

[TK-421]

The horse was a bloody pulp long ago.

Anyways, Boaz, you gave another cause to laugh today. Unfortunately, I do not seem to qualify for membership in your 40-Year Old Virgin who like to Paint Figs Club. Hope that therapy works out

[Patchface Killa]

Some authors don't flesh their stories out to the end before they start, and it doesn't necessarily make the story any better to do so. I know I already mentioned it, but Robin Hobb's fantasy series was pretty much made up along the way. If you know your characters through and through, and you now the situation and society you're throwing them into, it can all write itself. You already know how every character would react to any situation, because that character has a real personality in your head. Writing fiction is like acting with ink and paper.

[Culhwch]

[Shakes head]

Seriously.

Take your time George! If it's out next year, that'll be great, but, mate, if it isn't here till the year after, I'll still be patiently waiting. And if anyone tries to lock you in a room to stop you from visiting Spain, let me know and I'll round up Wigg, Boaz, Wert and TK and come and bust you out. Then we'll all go to Spain and live it up! Except for Boaz, who'll prefer to go home and paint some figs...

[viZion]

If someone didn't complain on these forums about the ADWD release date at least once a month I would start to worry. It's a tradition by now.

[TK-421]

Sound good Cul. Some sangria and a little sun would do me some good.

[Boaz]

Thi. I pain de Thpaniarth. I will thubmit to an inthpecthion right now.

[Wiggum]

It just irritates the crud out of me that people will complain about something that they love.

Unless it's your parents or significant other.

I hate seafood, always have, always will. I'm allowed to complain about it.

I will never complain about steak. I love steak, always have, always will.

If I go a week, six months, or five years without steak, I wouldn't complain about it when I finally did eat it.

I would simply sear it in Kosher salt, eat it with a smile on my face, and then take a contented rest.





I think I just won the Worst Internet Analogy Ever award.

[Boaz]

Originally Posted by Wiggum

It just irritates the crud out of me that people will complain about something that they love.

Unless it's your parents or significant other.

Very droll.

Remember back in 1989, President Bush was served broccoli at a White House dinner and he refused to touch it? He said, “I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.” Then his wife, Barbara, told him stop acting like a baby. That's priceless...

Picture Boaz and Wiggum in a Dr. Seuss parody...

Boaz: Would you eat shrimp on a plane? On a ship or on a train?

Wiggum: I would not eat them on a train, rhyming always hurts my brain.

Boaz: Could you, would with soft Jazz?

Wiggum: I will not eat them at all Boaz.

[Wiggum]

I so want to put up the youtube clip of the Reverend Jesse Jackson reading Green Eggs and Ham on Saturday Night Live.

Apparently can't post videos.

Best minute and a half you can spend on the interwebs

And does jazz ryhme with Boaz?

[Boaz]

It does in my world, pal.

[Culhwch]

Originally Posted by Wiggum

I so want to put up the youtube clip of the Reverend Jesse Jackson reading Green Eggs and Ham on Saturday Night Live.

Apparently can't post videos.

Yeah you can:



Off topic, I know. Back to the Martin-bashing! I hate the way he trims his beard! If he didn't trim it, that's five more minutes a month he could be writing! Do you know what that means? If he didn't trim his beard, then we'd have aDwD thriteen hours and forty-five mintues earlier! And don't get me started on him cutting his nails...

[Wiggum]

My world is right if there are two consecutive posts with a way to access that clip.

But back to Martin bashing:

What was he doing with that tiger cub anyway? He could have so spent those six minutes writing.

[the smiling weirwood]

But what if that tiger cub gave him the artistic inspiration to finish someone's POV chapter or story arc that he couldn't have gotten from days of regular writing? Think about the butterflies, guys.

[Wiggum]

Butterflies can't read.

[The Imp]

Originally Posted by Wiggum

It just irritates the crud out of me that people will complain about something that they love.

Unless it's your parents or significant other.

I hate seafood, always have, always will. I'm allowed to complain about it.

I will never complain about steak. I love steak, always have, always will.

If I go a week, six months, or five years without steak, I wouldn't complain about it when I finally did eat it.

I would simply sear it in Kosher salt, eat it with a smile on my face, and then take a contented rest.





I think I just won the Worst Internet Analogy Ever award.

Actually, I think it's the things we love that are more likely to cause a legitimate complaint. IMO, we're more emotionally invested in things we love and have higher expectations for them.

I love steak as well, but if you serve me a steak that is anything but medium rare and tender enough to cut with a fork I'm sending it back to the kitchen, to use your steak example.

Just because I love ASOIAF doesn't mean that I have to be happy about everything GRRM does, or doesn't do, or that I won't voice displeasure with the way he allocates his time. He took on a responsibility when he started the series, one that requires him to think of the countless people that are waiting for the new book(s).

I'm not a big believer in unconditional love