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All the disparaging remarks made about the Internet are, I believe, made by people who have neither the time nor the inclination to use it properly.

I mean, it's been a slow night tonight, and do you know what I've done?  I've read the first two books in L Frank Baum's Oz series.  And for children's literature written at the turn of the century, they're marvelous stories.  No, really.  Where else do you get scenes of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman making not-so-subtle threats and dialogue like this:

( Marvelous Land of Oz, Chapter 8 )

How the hell did I miss this stuff growing up?