Pat

Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA


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Walter the Farting Dog

August 7th 2009 02:47
This book is about a dog named Walter that has a bad problem - he farts a lot. The kids in the story, Betty and Billy, bring him home from the pound. They love Walter but their mom says he stinks, and he needs a bath. When they give Walter his bath they find out that it is his farts that stink.

Walter the Farting Dog


They do lots to help Walter stop farting, like take him to the vet, and change his food, but it doesn't work. Their dad says Walter has to go back to the pound.

The night before he has to leave Walter saves the family from two mean robbers. He lets a really bad fart, and the robbers can't even breathe. Walter is a hero, and he gets to stay with Betty and Billy.

We loved this book because it made us laugh a lot. Betty and Billy really loved Walter, and they didn't mind his stinky farts, we decided we wouldn't mind if our pets farted, but not as much as Walter. The pictures in the story were really funny too. Our favorite part was when the robbers couldn't breathe and when Walter passed gas right in the vet's face.

Lots of people are embarrassed by farts, but lots of people think farts are funny. We think you will love this book if you think farts are funny.
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Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot

August 6th 2009 02:43
I like this book because I like monsters and robots because they are funny. I also think Dr. Stinky's name is funny.

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot


Dr. Stinky made a robot. He was to destroy the city, but the robot played with Ricky instead. Then Dr. Stinky got a lizard and made it get bigger and bigger. It looks like they are fighting. But they are not.

I like action stories! I think that you will want to read this series, as the whole Captain Underpant's series is funny. This book happens to be part of that series!

If you like books that are funny and have action and good pictures to go with them, then you too will want to read this story!
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The Adventures of Taxi Dog

August 5th 2009 02:40
The book is about a dog named Maxi and his owner named Jim. Maxi got lost. Jim was driving his taxi and found Maxi. It was snowing and Maxi got into the taxicab. Jim became Maxi's owner. They went to a lot of places together. They drove to the airport and hospital. Maxi went home with Jim, and Jim gave Maxi dog biscuits. Read to find out the other places where Jim and Maxi drove the taxicab.

The Adventures of Taxi Dog


We like the book very much because we like dogs. We also like this book a lot because it is funny. Maxi put on a disguise for the customers. He looked funny. He put on a show so they would get tips. Jim is a nice guy because he takes good care of Maxi and feeds him. We like the illustrations because they made us laugh. When Jim and Maxi picked up the clowns, they were acting silly by standing on their head and rabbits were coming out of the magic hat. The pictures are made with oil paints over acrylics.

We recommend this book because it is funny. There are a lot of silly people in the book doing things that will make you laugh. We think this book is good for kids in kindergarten and first grade learning how to read.
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Letter Of The Day

July 24th 2009 03:09
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Billy Liar

June 30th 2009 03:59
Billy Liar is essentially Catcher In The Rye with Holden Caulfield's alcoholism and irrational flightiness replaced by afflictions of pathological lying and neurotic rehearsed comedy routines.

Billy Liar

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Good evening friends. This post is a little window into the world behind the scenes of this ultra-popular weblog - today we are talking about internet search traffic.

There's not a whole lot of consistency with the kind of searches which people do on Google to get here and read something stupid, but there's always one consistent little search term plugging away and doing its best to add to my meagre site traffic


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American Gods

May 5th 2009 12:30
Truly one of the worst books I've read in a long while. I decided to read it because of some comment about it made in an article in the Guardian newspaper. Not only does it read like it was written by a fifteen year old (absolutely serious with this point; it is technically a horrible piece of work), but it's a bewilderingly open rip-off of a colleague of the writer.

American Gods

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Flashman and the Redskins

April 13th 2009 09:31
The plot of this book follows on from the ending of Flash for Freedom (which I've read, but haven't reviewed for this website) and which details Sir Harry Paget Flashman's forced departure from a comfortable life in England and press-ganged into involvement in the slave trade.

[THIS IS THE PART WHERE YOU WOULD SEE A LOUSY PHOTO OF THE COVER OF THE BOOK IF THE ORBLE NETWORK ACTUALLY FUNCTIONED PROPERLY AND LET ME UPLOAD THE PHOTO RATHER THAN JUST SITTING AND WAITING HERE IN FRUSTRATION AS NOTHING HAPPENS, THANKS A BUNCH ORBLE


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Letter Of The Day

March 30th 2009 13:16
My short review of "Rides A Dread Legion: A Novel For Virgins" brought in a swag of correspondence. Here's the best of a bad bunch:

So.. Although the darkwar series suffers from a number of problems as many has pointed out, like inconsistencies, too short books, faulty character development etc, it still provides a good romp. And it did gather together a number of story strands to a fairly satisfying conclusion.

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1 - Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
by Alexander McCall Smith

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Comment by Pat
on Blogging - It's all about content . . . yeah right!

August 9th 2009 23:49
Yeah, that's right (well, apart from the self-description of academia) but that's not what I was talking about when I mentioned cut-and-pasting. Moreso the following:

"lol, check out this news story,

<cut-and-paste>

read more here at www.link.com, lmao post up some comments abuot what you think of this news story, thank you for reading my blog, orble 4ever!!!!!"

In my humble opinion, the prevalence of that kind of tripe makes the vast bulk of Orble worthless.

:^)

Comment by Pat
on Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot

August 6th 2009 04:33

Comment by Pat
on Blogging - It's all about content . . . yeah right!

August 5th 2009 02:36
The problem is that a lot of low-quality posts seem to draw more traffic than fewer high-quality posts.

Most of Orble is made up of cut-and-pasting news articles with a link and a throwaway opinion. And that's why most Orble blogs are worthless.

edit: Realised after posting this comment that it's just a gripe without any discussion. And yeah, that's kind of because there's nothing you can do about it. Apart from being completely excellent and blowing the internet's mind with great web-log postings!!

Comment by Pat
on Domain Blog

July 30th 2009 05:48
Yeah, I can see why you're very attached to the blog name 'Tennis', that's a bonafide ball-tearer imho.

Comment by Pat
on post

July 30th 2009 05:40
Yes! I love this internet content, keep up the posting!

Comment by Pat
on O.K. I've Officially Had It

July 30th 2009 05:38
Best wishes for a future which hopefully doesn't involve being angry at the internet.

:thumbsup::

ps. where can I find your book?!

Comment by Pat
on Can You Become Obsessed With Your Blog?

July 30th 2009 05:30
Nah, I'm a picture of restraint and thoughtful internet use. I'm practically the model internet user. Thanks for giving me this opportunity to comment on this important topic.

Comment by Pat
on Billy Liar

July 28th 2009 03:55
Ugh, just re-read this one and didn't make it past paragraph 2 with the double 'throughout'. No good.

Comment by Pat
on 8 year old rape victim disowned by family

July 28th 2009 03:02
I was talking about the very unreliable source.

For instance, the news.com.au story doesn't go on to discuss the father, whose been quoted as saying that he denies that the child was ever disowned, and is upset that he has had his child taken away from the next 3 months while investigations take place.

Now, I'm not saying that that's the true story, but it's unresolved at the very least. But I wouldn't stress friends, plenty of people don't mind a bit of uninformed opinion based on half the facts.

Comment by Pat
on 8 year old rape victim disowned by family

July 28th 2009 02:09
Hey, I don't want to get in the way of a hate-fuelled web-log rant based solely on the reprehensible tabloid journalism of 'news.com.au', please carry on.