Hardy Boys

I collected most of the Hardy Boys books, an impressive line-up of the work of Franklin W. Dixon.  After obtaining almost all the titles, I found out that there was no such person as Franklin W. Dixon, and that it was a pool of authors who had written the series.  It was also about this time that I began to get right into collecting Captain W. E. Johns' Biggles series.  Coupled with these two factors, and my growing distaste for some of the latest Casefiles titles that had begun to be published, I became thoroughly dissilusioned with the the stories of the two Hardy brothers, Frank and Joe.  I sold off almost the entire collection at about 50c to $1 per book.  And it wasn't until a couple of years ago that I began to wish I hadn't been so quick to disolve the collection.  Anyway, I do have a few books left, including a nice old copy of  The Secret of the Old Mill, and  The Twisted Claw.  I took a photo of the Twisted Claw, because it's such an interesting, destroyed book.  It is also very old, published in 1939, number 18 in the series.  I've also included photos of the inside flaps, as the writing is so old-fashioned...  "They can drive a car and pilot a speedboat" Chuckle...

So well dressed, and not a hair out of place

I reccomend these books to all young boys (say, 9 - 14yrs).  They are inestimably more worthwhile than the postmodern, politically correct, sexually perverted children's books that they are churning out these days.  With 301 books in the series, I wouldn't reccomend attempting to collect or read them all.  Some of the books in the Casefiles series are ok, but I did find some of them pretty racey and far more sinister, to say the least.

Complaint Laid Over Offensive YouTube Attack

www.stuff.co.nz picks up on the libellous video on YouTube, which attacks veteran pro-life campaigner, Christchurch-based man, Ken Orr...

"The video was posted a week ago by prochoicenz as a "message to Ken Orr right-to-life.org from the women of Aotearoa New Zealand".
It shows women giving the fingers, with messages such as "p... off" and "Mind your own f...... business".
One image is a photo of Orr with a gun pointing at his head.
By yesterday the video had been viewed more than 500 times and sparked 13 comments, ranging from support to calling it "defamatory rubbish".
A rebuttal video has since been posted as a message to Ken Orr "from thousands and thousands of (alive) babies and children in New Zealand", saying "you're our hero".
Created by a Canterbury University student who goes by the name theboygiggles [sic], the video shows lots of smiling babies and thanks Orr for his campaign.
Orr said he was sent a link to the original clip by a friend and decided to lay a complaint. Last week he met a senior constable who said he would investigate.
The video was a response to a High Court judgment released this month that said there was "reason to doubt the lawfulness of many abortions authorised by certifying consultants", he said..."

View my rebuttal video here. Oh, and Rebecca, please get it right. It's theboybiggles (which in case people are wondering, is the title of the first book in Captain W. E. Johns' Biggles series)

Scrubone also blogs on this. In his post he also states "I would adopt a baby myself to save it from an abortion, without hesitation". I stand by him and would do the same if at all possible.