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e pluribus unum
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Wow, I never even guessed that googling on Chuck Palahniuk's name would deliver me to such a thriving online community! It looks like there's a forum here for just about everything. What should I see first?

I've read Fight Club & Survivor... what other books do you recommend? And in what order?

And hey, how are you? And who are you guys and gals around this place? I'm a book collector, archivist and southern gentlemen. At least on good days.

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[QUOTE=e pluribus unum]

And hey, how are you? And who are you guys and gals around this place? I'm a book collector, archivist and southern gentlemen. At least on good days.[/QUOTE]

Are you a Colonel Sanders southern gentleman, or a Kevin Spacey Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil type southern gentleman?

Read Invisible Monsters next would be my advice.

I myself collect gentleman and archive southern books.

I have Cary Grant in a bell jar on my mantle, he's quite the conversation piece.

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Yeah then Lullaby, I wanted to eat that book with a knife and fork after I finished it. So then of course I read Choke. Sweet dreams.

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Hey! Only one of those is an orange! That's subversive!

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welcome

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[QUOTE=Parkaboy]Hey! Only one of those is an orange! That's subversive![/QUOTE]

I don't understand...
Obviously, you are referring to the quite lengthy show that is whoever-the-person-is's avatar (or so I assume)...maybe something to do with lesbians, too?

(Ahh...Their name is Orange. Celever.)

[QUOTE]Heh, that's pretty much exactly the way I got here, too.[/QUOTE]

Me too. actually, I think what I Googled was a little more obscure...

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dont believe the hype

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Well, my hype is, of course, all true.
Pluri, your name sounds familiar. Is it from anything? Like a book or film?

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e pluribus unum =out of many, one

you might have seen it here :
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"In Vino Veritas" In wine there is truth.

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[QUOTE=SkidMarxist]"In Vino Veritas" In wine there is truth.[/QUOTE]
i always wondered why they had that hanging up at the liquor store

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I know what it means, it's right under their name.
I know where I saw it now: Breakfast of Champions talks about Dollar bills...do they really have freaky eye pyramids? I'mma have a closer look next time I'm there.
...And a picture of Hitler on the thousand dollar bill?

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[QUOTE=Terminal Descent]I know what it means, it's right under their name.
I know where I saw it now: Breakfast of Champions talks about Dollar bills...do they really have freaky eye pyramids? I'mma have a closer look next time I'm there.
...And a picture of Hitler on the thousand dollar bill?[/QUOTE]
no dollar bills in the third circle of hell

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[QUOTE=Terminal Descent]I know what it means, it's right under their name.
I know where I saw it now: Breakfast of Champions talks about Dollar bills...do they really have freaky eye pyramids? I'mma have a closer look next time I'm there.
...And a picture of Hitler on the thousand dollar bill?[/QUOTE]

That's the all seeing eye. It's a Masonic symbol, which helps promote all sorts of conspiracy theories about the Masons and the Illuminatti having founded America as part of a huge, centuries long plot. Robert Anton Wilson like to write about this.

He also has a big white beard and looks like Santa Claus.

The eye has also been linked to the Eye of Horus, from Egypt. The Washington monument, another Masonic construct, is an obelisk, which were big in Egypt.

America is just one big conspiracy, plotted by the Dogon Spacemen, the Illuminatti and the CIA who now run Krispy Kreme as well. There's New Crack in them donuts by the way.

Anyway, it's all you Brits fault for not being able to keep your wacky colonists in line because your king was crazy as a shithouse rat and the common folk couldn't give fuck-all about the war.

So, when the UN and the spacemen take over the world, just remember you're all to blame for letting the sun set on the Empire.

Mad dogs and Englishman indeed.

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[QUOTE=Terminal Descent]I don't understand...
Obviously, you are referring to the quite lengthy show that is whoever-the-person-is's avatar (or so I assume)...maybe something to do with lesbians, too?

(Ahh...Their name is Orange. Celever.)

Orange is not a lesbian but enjoys lesbians, orange has a pineapple side and lime undertones. Orange is trying to hide her grape side but it always comes out [when drunk]. Orange doesn’t usually talk about herself in third person.

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what does it mean again? et pluribus etc

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[QUOTE=orange]

Orange is not a lesbian but enjoys lesbians, orange has a pineapple side and lime undertones. Orange is trying to hide her grape side but it always comes out [when drunk]. Orange doesn’t usually talk about herself in third person.[/QUOTE]

Is Orange clockwork like?

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Well since this seems to be the place to share how we came to the cult, I'd like to share my own touching tale. A friend of mine, who was big into Palahniuk long before me sat me down, and had me read Guts in the distinction essay. I read it, thoroughly enjoyed it, and decided that I wanted to read last month's essay. I did, enjoyed it, and then decided to see what was offered on the rest of the site, which led to registration, and more reasons not to sleep...

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DAMNIT I'm such an idiot. Welcome guys. Don't be afraid, you're going to go crazy sooner or later, just embrace it.

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[QUOTE=Parkaboy]Is Orange clockwork like?[/QUOTE]

Lets just say I know how to work the clock. And my eyelashes are on the top.

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Let's review what has been discussed in as little as 21 posts: introductions to this site, liquor, oranges, weird phrases, dollar bills, clocks, and a breif mentioning of lesbians. As Mcdonald's would say "I'm lovin' it"

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To be fair, man, I don't think the McDonald's corporation says that.
Only their tools.