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  The Dice Man - Uncyclopedia
Dice men can often be spotted in shopping centers and pub car parks, rolling dice, wandering around in circles and crawling under chairs.
Grass's book emphasises the dangers of basing your life on dice rolls, such as forgetting to bring your sandwiches to work, having to staple a tiger to a coffee table, or even (just imagine it!) - casually forgetting to put on your CV that you were once in the Waffen SS.
The influences of The Dice Man had implications reaching as far afield as Washington D.C. On its release, "Plumbing the Depths, A Warning for all Germans", was an instant success.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/The_Dice_Man   (1315 words)

  
 IBRG - Bone Rolling History [page 1 of 3]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Etruscan dice found near Rome and made about 900 B.C. are similar to the dice of today, with the opposite faces adding up to seven: 1:6, 2:5, 3:4.
SPONSORED BY Sophocles claimed that dice were invented in Greece by Palamedes, who taught the game to the soldiers at the siege of Troy 3,000 years ago.
Tacitus wrote of the Germani in A.D. "They practise dice play, at which one will naturally wonder, soberly, and quite as if it were a serious business, with such hardihood in winning and losing, that, when they have nothing more left, they stake their freedom, and their person on the last cast of the die.
members.aol.com /dicetalk/history1.htm   (748 words)

  
 rolldice - rolls virtual dice Linux Man Page
The dice strings passed on the command line contain information on the dice to roll in a format comparable to the format used in fantasy role playing games.
The dice string doesn't have to be in the format that I outlined above, but this is the nicest order for me. It will try to parse any different string containing the same sections in the best way it can, and will throw out anything that isn't one of the sections below.
The first number is the number of dice to roll, and the second number is the number of sides the dice have.
www.penguin-soft.com /penguin/man/6/rolldice.html   (466 words)

  
 The Dice Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dice Man is a comedic novel published in 1971 by George Cockcroft under the pen name Luke Rhinehart and tells the story of a psychiatrist who begins making life decisions based on the casting of dice.
Along the way, there is sex, rape, murder, "dice parties", breakouts by psychiatric patients, and various corporate and governmental machines being put into a spin.
The song "Such A Shame" by Talk Talk was inspired by The Dice Man, which was one of lyricist Mark Hollis' favorite books.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Dice_Man   (469 words)

  
 The Dice Man Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The dice begin to dictate every decision in his life from what to eat, who to date, whether or not to commit rape (he does) and whether or not to commit murder.
As a psychiatrist, Rhinehart begins to use the dice in his decisions for his patients, and openly encourages them to use dice in their own decision making processes, which creates a craze and a cult for dice-teachings, and causes great offence to the school of Psycho-therapy in which Rhinehart works.
Rhinehart himself becomes uncontrollably addicted to his dice, just as a gambler would, and effectively ruins his material life, his job, income, etc, but he finds the randomising chaotic process liberating.
www.shvoong.com /books/satire/129227-dice-man   (435 words)

  
 Metroactive Stage | 'The Dice House'
Ratner calls his Dice House a "research center"--think cult--"for randomized living," and his cure for all neuroses is to let the patients' decisions be dictated by a roll of the dice.
The shaving scene (when the dice instruct Polly to shave Matthew's pubic hair) is ingeniously staged, lending a squirmy kind of humor to Polly's great line "These dangly bits are a devil." Peter Canavese, with his expressive eyebrows and subdued gentry manner, managed to make Mr.
And the ruddy, bearded Dr. Ratner, who is using the dice to "unshackle [himself] from the chains of conservative" dress, first appears in a Scottish kilt, next in leather chaps, and finally in a tangerine evening gown.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.19.03/dice-0325.html   (468 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dice Man: Books: Luke Rhinehart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
"The Dice Man" is a dark comedy, violent and hilarious at the same time; an upbeat precursor to the much grimmer "American Psycho" (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis, and the similarly satirical "The Elementary Particles" (1998) by the French author Michel Houellebecq.
As an author, for example, he lets the dice decide what he should write in his fictional autobiography with the title "The Dice Man" and what not; and the dice decide when he should lie and when not.
In sum, "The Dice Man" is recommended for readers who are willing to suspend the sense of their own importance for the sake of enjoying a fictional world, and to tolerate an alien system of morality for the time it takes to read this original and amusing satire.
www.amazon.com /Dice-Man-Luke-Rhinehart/dp/0879518642   (1577 words)

  
 Luke Rhinehart
Stage adaptations of THE DICE MAN itself are currently being developed in France and in Spain.
And finally, a half dozen musicians have created dicing songs in the last several years, and in the summer of 2006 two rock musicians are touring the U.S. using dice to make their destination decisions.
WHIM is a comic-philosophical sequel to THE DICE MAN, but this time instead of a Lucifer loose in the world in the form of Luke, we have an innocent embodiment of Chance in the character of Whim.
www.lukerhinehart.net   (836 words)

  
 HOUSD - Just Don't Ask (2003-2006)
The Dice Man is Dr. Lucius Rheinhart (It is not a true story, and LR is a pen name) a New York psychiatrist who is dissatisfied with his unfulfilling, unexciting life.
After discovering satisfaction with the dice he extends it to his work (making dice decisions on how to handle patients) to family (helping his children and wife adopt the dicelife) to what he will concentrate on every year, all decided by the dice’s whim.
From the dice sponsoring Be-Like-Jesus day, with the normally arrogant Rheinhart being the messiah, quoting Deuteronomy during therapy to professing his love for all of his fathers living creatures.
www.housd.net /index.php?go=diceman   (753 words)

  
 Dice Your Way to Multiple Futures
The golden rule is that the dice must be obeyed; however, you still have ultimate control, because you decide when to roll and what options go into the lists.
By playing dice, you introduce random selection with a field of possible actions which are of interest to you.
Johan's Six-Sided Dice Page - an online tool to help you explore the possibilities of a life in which your decisions are guide by the roll of a dice...
www.wilderdom.com /games/descriptions/Dice.html   (466 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Andrew Dice Clay Live: The Diceman Cometh: Video: Andrew Dice Clay,Jarrett Lennon,Rhoda Gemignani,Fred ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The video I rented was "The Dice Man Cometh." Even the clerk at the register who so gracefully handled the transaction was amused by my selection (he told me the Dice Man was "f-in' hilarious, ya know?").
Not surprisingly, DICE was sued and fllisted by the National Organization for Women, which made a point of boycotting his shows and harassing any sponsors and advertisers of DICE.
While DICE must have made a lot of money for the year or two that he was popular, you sure do not hear about him on TV at all, so he was effectively fllisted.
www.amazon.com /Andrew-Dice-Clay-Live-Diceman/dp/6301945123   (1890 words)

  
 Luke Rhinehart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dice have always been colloquially referred to as rocks and the makers of Rolling Rock pale lager, sensing a good tie-in, launched a series of adverts based around the diceman theme, and even a Diceliving website (now defunct), and have since been associated with Luke's books.
Indeed, the rise from the dead of Rolling Rock in the late 1990s has partially been attributed to the rise of dicing at around the same time, fueled, perhaps, by Internet chat rooms where role-playing is common.
"The Dice Man" is an alias used by Richard D James, the Aphex Twin
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luke_Rhinehart   (927 words)

  
 Colin Gregory Palmer - Book Reviews - The Dice Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He starts to use dice to make more and more decisions for him, always including some repressed desires as options.
Rhinehart kept making his dice options wilder and wilder until sometime around when he gives killing his son a 1-in-36 chance, my suspension of disbelief gave out.
Rhinehart uses the dice to determine every aspect of his personality on a daily basis.
www.colingregorypalmer.net /books/reviews/rhinehart-the-dice-man.html   (447 words)

  
 Dice Man, The - Luke Rhinehart - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Dice Man, The - Luke Rhinehart : DICING WITH CONVENTION.
Battling against his fate, he makes a decision to use the roll of the dice to take his instruction from.
Dice Man, The - Luke Rhinehart : Porn-dice-ophy
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/dice-man-the-luke-rhinehart   (272 words)

  
 Alibris: Dice
With his cult classic The Dice Man, Luke Rhinehart offered the world a provocative antidote to dilemmas of choice and modern ennui: dice living -- making life-changing decisions on a roll of the dice.
WITH HIS bestselling novel "The Dice Man, Luke Rhinehart offered the world a provocative antidote to modern dilemmas of choice and ennui: dice living--making life-changing decisions on a roll of the dice.
Contemplating the randomness of nature, Ekeland extends his consideration of the catastrophe theory of the universe begun in Mathematics and the Unexpected, drawing upon rich literary sources and current topics in math and physics such as chaos theory, information theory, and particle physics.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Dice   (951 words)

  
 THE DICE MAN
This misconception is mainly due in part because he had released a track on the "Artificial Intelligence" compilation under the alias of THE DICE MAN (notice the differential separation of 'Dice' and 'Man').
With every move he makes determined by the throw of the dice, he rampages from one outrage to the next, from uninhibited promiscuity to murder...
The Dice Man is vastly entertaining - unashamedly sexy, painfully funny and terrifying by turns.
www.xs4all.nl /~slavlab/faq/diceman.html   (750 words)

  
 The Dice Man
I have just finished reading the Dice Man,and i have to say i was blown away.This book is tremendous,and i wish i had come across it years ago.I just wondered what other people thought of the book,i am really interested in your views.Thankyou.
I read Dice Man some time ago and found it very enjoyable, however I'm curious about your comment "i wish i had come across it years ago" - do you mean it's changed your life (as I seem to remember the book cover promises)?* ;D
The guy who wrote it was a psychiatrist who went on to create 'dice centers'.
www.booktalkforums.com /community/showthread.php?t=345   (511 words)

  
 SUNS: The Dice Man Returneth
Shortly after a somber CEO Jerry Colangelo held a press conference to announce the free agent's decision to leave the Valley for the Rockies, the Suns got a call from a distraught "Dice," who was having second thoughts.
The Knicks had high hopes that his inside presence, added to the outside duo of Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell, would equal a return to the playoffs.
But the newcomer is more than familiar with Suns Head Coach Mike D'Antoni, who was the head man in Denver the year he rejoined the Nuggets.
www.nba.com /suns/news/mcdyess_feature_040106.html   (1201 words)

  
 Dice Man Cometh, The - Andrew Dice Clay Live!
Dice Man Cometh, The - Andrew Dice Clay Live!
Dice doesn't offend anyone - he offends everyone.
The hottest comic of 1989 is ready to stretch the limits and head into dangerous territory to not only amuse, but provoke, excite and sometimes anger all those who listen.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/dice_man_cometh_the_andrew_dice_clay_live   (371 words)

  
 Andrew Dice Clay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dice Rules (1991) (story) (segment "A Day in the Life") (written by) (concert material)
Andrew Dice Clay: Assume the Position (1996) (TV)....
Andrew Dice Clay: One Night with Dice (1987) (V)....
www.imdb.com /name/nm0001048   (482 words)

  
 The Diceman - dice life and travel on the Discovery Channel
Travelling randomly has given us a unique opportunity to experience a very liberating way of life in which the pleasures of the journey have been as important as the destination and have been provided by chance encounters with people and places along the way.
There have been substantial rumours that the book which inspired the idea for the series, "The Dice Man" by Luke Rheinhardt, is to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster movie.
Earlier this year Russell spent a weekend at the home of the author of The Dice Man# whose continued support for the show has been fantastic.
www.diceman.co.uk   (520 words)

  
 Search for the Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
The original “Dice Man” was an interesting story, written in an autobiographical style, about a psychiatrist who decided to live a totally random life.
He achieved this by allowing the roll of a die (or, occasionally dice) to make decisions for him, from what to wear to how to act.
Twenty years later, however, there are people still interested in Luke Rhinehart, the “Dice Man” of the original book.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/search-for-the-dice-man-luke-rhinehart   (293 words)

  
 Books by Luke Rhinehart
Read a review of the Dice Man by Ishmael Smith from the website “Life Changing Books.”
"THE DICE MAN is a flly comic amusement park-of a book,replete with vertiginous roller coaster rides of the spirit,feverish omnisexual trips through the tunnel, of love, and crazy images reflected in the.
Dice living will be popular, no doubt of that."
www.lukerhinehart.net /DiceManReviews.html   (149 words)

  
 "Dice Man" - Shopping.com
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Dice K, The Diceman T-Shirt A Must have for any Boston fans.
www.shopping.com /xGS-Dice_Man   (777 words)

  
 Cooking Vinyl Dice Man Lopez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Artists > O - Q > Obi > Dice Man Lopez
"Dice Man Lopez's songs evoke frosty fiddler on the roof mornings and the pot-holed Mexican dirt roads … Punch and poignant, like a Romanian-come-Cowboy version of Coldplay." - Maverick ****
New Year 2003.; In the solitude of a little house in southern France Obi front-man and main songwriter, Damian Katkhuda, armed himself with a guitar and a Dictaphone of collected ideas and set about writing a collection of songs that would form the basis of the band's first full length album.
www.cookingvinyl.com /acatalog/Cooking_Vinyl_Dice_Man_Lopez_302.html   (298 words)

  
 Cynical-C Blog: The Dice Man
I just finished one of the most original books I have ever read called The Dice Man.
It is about a psychiatrist who decides one day to free himself of human unhappiness by killing off his "normal" self by making all decisions based on the roll of the dice.
It turns out that there are some people who practice "Dice Life" and even a DiceLife Blog.
www.cynical-c.com /archives/001143.html   (171 words)

  
 Manitowoc Ice at AbestKitchen.com
QM45 produces up to 95 pounds of ice per day in a cabinet that measures only 36" high, 19.69" wide, and 22.34" deep on 6" adjustable legs.
Air Cooled with dice (7/8" x 7/8" x 7/8") cube size.
Compact Series 130 ice cube machine is ideal for small-volume ice production.
www.abestkitchen.com /store/manitowoc-products.html   (585 words)

  
 Shock Records - DICE MAN LOPEZ - OBI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Debut album from this UK band whose acclaimed mini-album 'The Magic Land of Radio' of last year found a happy home on ABC Radio, who put the track 'Somewhere Nicer' on their national play list.
”Dice Man Lopez” picks up from where the band’s “The Magic Land of Radio” left off.
From the opening track “Fairground” (reminiscent of an old Russian folk song) to “Creatures” with its chiming, shimmering guitars, the fragile yet warming beauty of “Sweet Like Silver” and the sad and intensely beautiful “Plague On This House”, “Dice Man Lopez” is a triumphant return for the band.
www.shock.com.au /releases/info.asp?release_ID=125335   (158 words)

  
 The Dice Man movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
Revolves around a bored psychiatrist, also named Luke Rhinehart, who submits his life's decisions to the roll of a pair of dice.
This site has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film owners of The Dice Man and intellectual copyright holders of the movies mentioned herein and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
Director Mark Waters is to adapt the Luke Rhinehart novel The Dice Man for Paramount.
www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/d/diceman.htm   (200 words)

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