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[turps]

I've been talking about this elsewhere and am curious.

Mikey's comment about the conch shell, do you get what he means?

( sorry for the bad quality btw, but this is the specific section I wanted )

I was reading elsewhere today and came across comments that said his conch shell comment proves that he's a weirdo that says stupid things. And really, the reference can't be that obscure surely?

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[anoneknewmoose.livejournal.com]

I never really thought about the conch shell comment, but if anything just figured Mikey was being silly. (FTR, I took Pre-AP/AP Englishes all through high school in south Texas, and no one I know ever even had the possibility of reading Lord of the Flies for school. I know it's about some sort of society of boys on an island that goes wrong? But that's about it. It's not much en vogue these days.)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It's been cool reading about the people who have and haven't read the book.

Mostly I got annoyed at the comments on another site that said saying such a random thing showed he was stupid, which I thought was a ridiculous thing to say. It's also made me wonder how many references I've missed over years, I bet there's been thousands of good jokes that just flew over my head.