The Farce is Strong with This One.
Cheers!
Posted on 08/23/2011 8:05:43 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
If Tea Partiers are Hobbits, then Rick Perry is Bill Ferny.
Cheers!
With a foreword by Gwaihir the Windlord.
FReepmail to get on/off this low-to-moderate volume list.
Cheers!
Many fail to remember that the Hobbits end up kicking some serious butt in the end. Call be a hobbit, makes me proud.
well done. Calling us Hobbits is going to bite them in the butt.
Guys like you and me are out there in the shire polishing our swords right as we speak.
Lord of the *PING*s
Hobbits are cool but I think of Tea Partiers as being more like a bunch of little Yodas.
The Farce is Strong with This One.
Cheers!
1420?
Family, neighborhood, community, country. It destructs and constructs in that order (since we don’t have tribes).
Other things could get in the way, though.
Hear Hear!!!
Go read the LOTR trilogy, and it will make sense.
Wait until Juan figures out how far left his buddy Barry is. He’s going to be so disappointed.
All of these events, IMHO, warrant a party...
Mar 1st - Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
Apr 21st - Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike
May 21st - Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
May 23rd - Jews of Syria & Austria expelled
May 25th - Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
Jun 7th - Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchate of Aquileia.
Jul 14th - Battle at Vitkov Zizka’s hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia
Aug 5th - Duke John VI of Bavaria visits “Christ’s bride”/virgin Liduina
Dec 1st - Henry V of England enters Paris.
From Lord of The Rings (after the downfall of Sauron and the Scouring of The Shire):
Altogether 1420 in the Shire was a marvellous year. Not only was there wonderful sunshine and delicious rain, in due times and perfect measure, but there seemed something more: an air of richness and growth, and a gleam of a beauty beyond that of mortal summers that flicker and pass upon this Middle-earth. All the children born or begotten in that year, and there were many, were fair to see and strong, and most of them had a rich golden hair that had before been rare among hobbits. The fruit was so plentiful that young hobbits very nearly bathed in strawberries and cream; and later they sat on the lawns under the plum-trees and ate, until they had made piles of stones like small pyramids or the heaped skulls of a conqueror, and then they moved on. And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.
In the Southfarthing the vines were laden, and the yield of "leaf" was astonishing; and everywhere there was so much corn that at Harvest every barn was stuffed. The Northfarthing barley was so fine that the beer of 1420 malt was long remembered and became a byword. Indeed a generation later one might hear an old gaffer in an inn, after a good pint of well-earned ale, put down his mug with a sigh: 'Ah! That was proper fourteen-twenty, that was!"
Cheers!
What more needs to be said?
You’re so right, McCain unknowingly complimented the Tea Party and the comparison to Hobbits was a good one.
To my fellow Tea Partiers, I say
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
Which brings to mind one other important point: when the work of casting down the Great Enemy was done, it was still necessary to labour in order to overcome his works and to restore light and beauty to the world.
And thanks for the ping, GW.
(If Senator McCain reads FR, I hope he realizes the quote in post # 18 is a compliment to Tea Partiers. lol)
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