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If Boards was a novel...

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  • 21-02-2013 1:00pm
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    P_1
    Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭


    ...what novel would it be and why?

    Personally I'd go with 'Animal Farm'.

    It started out as a casual idea but over time it got so big that commercial realities took over and it had to start playing the same rules as the other big commercial organisations.

    We have the founders who we don't really hear much from anymore
    We have the ambitious youngsters who now pretty much run things these days
    We have had a version of the Napoleon/Snowball schism
    We have a few old workhorses who just keep doing things for the benefit of the site
    We have everyone else
    And we have all users being equal but sometimes it seems that some users are more equal than others.

    Anyway AH, if you were to compare Boards to a novel, what novel would it be, and why?


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    #2
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    The Bible. Nothing makes any sense and people keep trying to blame everyone else. A good laugh though.


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    JohnFalstaff
    Registered Users Posts: 874 ✭✭✭JohnFalstaff


    A Tale of Two Cities... "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."


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    jonnyfingers
    Registered Users Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭jonnyfingers


    Fifty Shades of Blue


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    Lyaiera
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    JohnFalstaff wrote: »
    A Tale of Two Cities... "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."

    Perfectly cromulent phraseology.


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    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    it would be a nuts magazine and you know it.


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    Custardpi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    After Hours is probably more akin to "Lord of the Flies" than anything.


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    Lumbo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    After hours could be: How to win friends and slag off single mothers by Dale Carnegie


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    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    A novel that sums up Boards?

    Something to do with hermits?

    :pac:


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole


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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Ben Hur ....with a cast of thousands


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    9959
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    'The Bonfire of the Vanities'


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    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    My little pony.


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    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Pride and Prejudice


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    hawkelady
    Registered Users Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭hawkelady


    It would be "Animal Farm" ... The other one,,,, yeah you all know what version I'm talking about.... We are all sick sick people with no hope for us at all!!!!!


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    Anyone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    If Boards was a novel....I'd wait for the film.


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    Princess Zelda
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭Princess Zelda


    The House of Leaves tbh.

    A really random book with no defined genre. Some say it's a horror, some say a Love Story.


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    clairefontaine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭clairefontaine


    Butcher Boy.


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    #19
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    the dictionary.just a big load of words.


    Ps the zebra did it.


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    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    The Qur'an.


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    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    opinion guy wrote: »
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    Or Mullingar, Or Hackballscross.


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    #23
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Binnef after the first edition


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    RikkFlair
    Registered Users Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Finnegans Wake


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    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    A Time To Kill


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    War of the Worlds.


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    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Gorillas in the mist.


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    longshanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    1984

    The truth is what we say it is.
    You will believe what we tell you to believe.


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    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Ann and Barry.

    "Ann is stoned and has the munchies
    Barry is simple and from Tallaght, he has robbed a jam jar."

    http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w264/bobmeaney/aandb.jpg


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    SunDog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭SunDog


    Notes from Underground


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    dr strangelove
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭dr strangelove


    Dr Strangepost or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Mods


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