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The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
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Posted on 04/06/2004 6:53:09 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Still round the corner we may meet...
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by! |
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well! |
Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed! |
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To: Ramius
Well... 13 always was my lucky number...
1,301
posted on
04/12/2004 5:48:46 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Ramius; HairOfTheDog
Dangit. Denied.
1,302
posted on
04/12/2004 5:49:29 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
Not this time!
Funny thing about this conference, is the top-secret nature of the content! All had to sign a confidentiality agreement that we would not share the story passages (the subject is reading comprehension) or any of the questions, not allowed to bring a purse or briefcase into the room, all notes are shredded every day.
Evidently there is a big underground market for fifth grade test answers!
1,303
posted on
04/12/2004 5:52:42 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Now I've said too much...)
To: HairOfTheDog
[sigh] Yahknow... it's really evidence of a miracle that any child gets edumacated in this state at all.
I remember learning geometry *in spite* of my teacher. Trig and Calc were just classes in how to play blackjack.
1,304
posted on
04/12/2004 5:57:54 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: HairOfTheDog
Fifth grade teachers....shudder!
I still haven't gotten over the "Right to Know" presentation when they hired a 5h grade teacher to tell us chemists that certain chemicals were dangerous.....duhhhhh!
To: Overtaxed
All fairness aside... it was fifth grade when I learned of the coolness of Dr. Tolkien. Our fifth grade teacher read us "The Hobbit" in class for a couple of weeks. That's when I picked up the bug for all things Tolkien....
1,306
posted on
04/12/2004 6:01:51 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
You didn't have Vasereno for Calculus? I liked his test questions: "So, a 30 pound salmon bites the fishing line and runs due east at 15 fps. There is 1000 feet of line on the reel..."
As I recall, I got kicked out of Trig EVERY DAY. Which was cool, because I got to go to both lunch periods that way. What was the teacher's name? Guy, sandy curly hair.
1,307
posted on
04/12/2004 6:03:00 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Now I've said too much...)
To: Wneighbor
Hello...??? [knock knock... ] Anybody home???
1,308
posted on
04/12/2004 6:03:38 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: HairOfTheDog
They didn't have calculus when I was there. I had Liukko for Geometry and then Trig and a stupid class called "Math Analysis" that was supposed to be calculus but wasn't. All we learned there was blackjack odds. I'm not kidding. Every day we passed out decks of cards and we played blackjack. there were no quizzes and no tests, and no homework. I do remember a few days we spent analyzing Loretta "boom boom" Hammer's measurements. The measurements were spectacular.
I had Vasareno for Physics. He was cool. He wasn't doing math classes when I was there. But I learned a lot more math from him than I ever did from Liukko.
1,309
posted on
04/12/2004 6:10:07 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Overtaxed
Heh...
1,310
posted on
04/12/2004 6:10:54 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Now I've said too much...)
To: Ramius
Dude, you had cool teachers. How were they not sued to death?
1,311
posted on
04/12/2004 6:11:20 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: 2Jedismom; Corin Stormhands
Cool! New chickens, and Corin's back too! Feels like old times!
Good evening!
1,312
posted on
04/12/2004 6:12:20 PM PDT
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live)
To: 2Jedismom
It took every ounce of will power I had to not buy to ducklings today at the feed store....
With Gidget, it just wouldn't work out! But I like ducks and the ducklings were so cute! And goslings! Now an adult goose would prolly do fine against Gidget, but getting it to adulthood is the challenge.
1,313
posted on
04/12/2004 6:17:10 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Now I've said too much...)
To: JenB
They were cool... but I learned no math, except for the grandeur of "boom boom's" measurements. I had to wait for college to actually do calculus.
There were a few really good teachers there, though... Vasareno was one of them. There was another really good physics teacher too, though his name escapes me for the moment. The physics group was nice enough to grant me and one of my buds (Hair: remember Chris Baron?) our own room for a special project where we were trying to build a real-life Rail Gun. Back then, though, it was called a "mass driver".
We never did get the Rail Gun to work just right. But we got DARN close. We just didn't have the budget to do it right.
1,314
posted on
04/12/2004 6:18:58 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
Oh dear... you mean, you were a geek in high school? Neat!
1,315
posted on
04/12/2004 6:22:14 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: Ramius
Hi darlin! Myranda and I just got home from my work! I met my dad halfway and she's up here with me for the next 2 days! We are about to have girl talk for hours and hours! :-)
How was your weekend? My weekend was better than my Friday. But, my Monday is superb! :-)
Myran is here now, she is catching up with some old pictures I had found in my massive photo organization project and set aside for her.
*scratch* *scratch* *scratch*
1,316
posted on
04/12/2004 6:23:59 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. It's a whole other country... and we support OUR president!)
To: JenB
you mean, you were a geek in high school? Neat! Sadly... I was a geek in high school WAY before it was cool.
1,317
posted on
04/12/2004 6:24:25 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Wneighbor
Howdy howdy! :-)
Glad to hear that things have gone from better to superb... :-)
1,318
posted on
04/12/2004 6:26:00 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
Not having attended high school, I wouldn't know, but I still don't think it's cool to be a geek. However, in my book, geeks rock. Plus, they rule the world.
1,319
posted on
04/12/2004 6:28:04 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: Ramius
yeah... Cato originally said "Carthago delende est"... "Carthage must be destroyed"... Rome then utterly destroyed the city and it's inhabitants, then salted the land... brought a 200 year period of peace... I think they were on to somethin'...
*sip* cheers...
1,320
posted on
04/12/2004 6:36:59 PM PDT
by
g'nad
(Fallujah delende est...)
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