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xhunterko
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 Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! I'd recommend it. I thourougly enjoyed it when Rick let me- *mff gets dragged off into a dark corner*
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Zander
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! *sits down and eats popcorn* Yeah! show it to him!
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RandomGeekNamedBrent
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! feel free. I think I've seen at least two Twilight Zone episodes that ended similarly. if they can reuse plot lines, you can definitely feel free to borrow it. also, I enjoyed it.
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Sleet
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale!
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rickgriffin
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Not surprised one of you guys decided to start this thing
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Psykeout
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! This is his unimpressed face.
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Sleet
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Tonight I'm going to work on making those trope links two-way, so people find the Argo page when they wiki walk, then get intrigued, and buy it. TV Tropes advertising! The unimpressedest face!
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! This is my mentality for anything put on TV Tropes ever.
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RandomGeekNamedBrent
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! the most unimpressed face of all.
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Shho13
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Finally got a chance to finish the story, and I know you have heard it a million times, but I gotta say, you really outdid yourself Rick. I really, really enjoyed this book. All I can say about how much I actually enjoyed it, is that I haven't been that glued to a book since I read The Great Gatsby, my favorite book ever.
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Sleet
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! With any luck the TV Tropes page will bring more readers, but I would also like to request for help in fleshing it out or finding pages that can link to it!
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valerio
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! managed to convince one of my coworkers to buy a copy. Still a few days to wait for my part...
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! As one of the ferret's alpha readers, I greatly enjoyed it.
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Tha Housefox
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Same here. That won't stop me from buying it anyway.
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Vespier Leo
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! I really need to read this. I just have to find that card of mine... It has to be around my room... Somewhere..
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Argent
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Rick: it should probably be "What senses do is create...", not "what senses do are create...", because while "senses" is plural, "what senses do" is singular. Also should probably be "enormous numbers" rather than "enormous amounts" because "pathways" are enumerable.
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valerio
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! BOUGHT!  Now off to finish 'Under the Dome', then it's GOOD reading time, yay!
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rickgriffin
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! The first one--yes, thank you, those are always the hardest to pick out even when reading out loud. The second one, though, is debatable. Amount/number and mass nouns don't always correlate to if something can actually be counted (you say amounts of money, not numbers of money), and in this case I prefer it to sound like a mass noun.
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Linguistics are not Mira's forte. And she made Lily. So...
I noticed that too, but I figured that was just the reason.
While we're nitpicking, aluminum doesn't form a ferrite or pearlite phase like iron does, so it can't alloy with carbon in the same way to make a steel, which "alumi-steel" is most likely supposed to be. I could be interpreting the term wrong, though.
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Liam
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! I shall call you Dr. Sleet from now on. There might be a way to bypass this, though.
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rickgriffin
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Since when have things ever been called by what they precisely are? I never claimed it was an aluminum-iron/carbon alloy, just that it's called alumi-steel.
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! That makes me curious to know what it actually is, though I'm pretty sure you don't have an answer for me. I also considered the possibility that it's just a name chosen to be marketable, but in that case it would be capitalized.
Unless it's been genericized, I guess! Kinda like aspirin.
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Coins are enumerable. Banknotes are enumerable. Money isn't. You don't have "one money". You can have fractions a cent on an account or on credit (eg, 1/8th cent stocks, gas at 3.569, fractional exchange rates, etc).
But I'm with you on "alumi-steel". Brand names and jargon don't have to make sense. You don't make Girl Scout cookies out of Girl Scouts. Well, I hope you don't.
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Also see Star Trek's "transparent aluminum".
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valerio
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Read it and loved every moment of it! *hats off to Rick*
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! That doesn't stop me from applying a mass-noun quantifier to something I want to suggest is innumerable in the same sense as other mass nouns are. Language is mine to command!
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! I just bought this on my Kindle.
Guess how I'm going to spend the next half hour?
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Guess it will be a pleasant time? 
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Plans for iBooks anytime soon?
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! It SHOULD be in the apple bookstore by now, but as far as I can tell I have no possible way of making a URL link to any of those. EDIT: Diss found it http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/argo/id451090139?mt=11
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Yay! :3
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Has anyone else looked at the "Customers with Similar Searches Purchased" section when buying the "Argo" e-book from Amazon.com? The first item recommend item was what appeared to be a carrying case with an Argo logo on it. Sure, the logo name is very common but the carrying case is not. It is, in fact, a pet carrier case for air travel. Useless trivia aside, I enjoyed reading the short story "Argo". It was never boring for me. Good Job, Rick 
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Argo? Sounds pretty chill! ... my post count is low, as was pointed out to me by Rockstar Raccoon. Heh. But, no Argo sounds awesome! I'll have to download it sometime.
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Bought it, read it and gotta say, really good story. Good job Mr. Griffin.
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Foxstar
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! I may be a Alpha Reader, but I also bought it. Lovely story.
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DanTwelve3
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Re: My new short story Argo, now on sale! Argo is really good, with some serious philosophical ideas contained within these pages. Thoughts about existence like these have driven men well and truly mad. The story is thoroughly enjoyable every step of the way.
$1.29 feels like a steal.
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