# Joyce loving dopers unite! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771 "2004-11-20T01:07:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771/21 "2004-11-21T00:25:58Z")
I thought this was a thread about Joyce from my bowling team. Nice lady. Good solid bowler. We put too much pressure on her having her bowl last . She shows up for every game, unlike the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771/22 "2004-11-21T00:34:37Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > So it was a common reference of Joyce and Mitchell to the Psalter of Tara? (The O’Hara’s being Irish and all.) Well, the place itself in _Gone With the Wind_. Seat of kings and all that. (Pride goeth before a fall, eh what?) The Joyce quote is more specifically about the Psalter, I think. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771/23 "2004-11-21T14:11:30Z")
I liked Joyce better than that blonde bimbo Suzanne, but Priscilla was my favorite of them all. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771/24 "2004-11-21T18:50:46Z")
This is so… disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771/25 "2004-11-21T19:24:28Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > This is so… disappointing. I’d think out your thread titles a little more carefully in the future . . . ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771/26 "2004-11-21T20:46:07Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > This is so… disappointing. Well, you’re gonna get that here. When I have a need to hash something out with folks who are way too far into Joyce, I take it to [alt.books.james-joyce](http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&q=alt.books.james-joyce&btnG=Search). Of course, UseNet is a more satisfying experience with a good newsreader (with a killfile for the spammers/crackpots), but Google’s web archive is handy for a quick look. There are some towering intellects that post to a.b.j-j, mixed in amongst the raving loonies. Even here, you would probably have better luck with a more specific topic. Of course, nothing beats a good boozing for a proper Joyce discussion, but they’re not always so easy to arrange, and often descend into a darts match. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771/27 "2004-11-21T22:28:07Z")
It’s kinda like if I were a big fan of '30s crooner Dick Powell, and started a thread called “Boy, How I Love Dick!” I’d be in for it. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771/28 "2004-11-22T01:09:57Z")
Heh. Blake Edwards made great use of Dick & Virginia in _Richard Diamond, Private Detective_. (And Powell’s voice, too, I guess.) Dick & Virginia. T’would fairly make Joyce grin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyce-loving-dopers-unite/275771.md?page=1)