The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...

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[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Still round the corner we may meet...

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...

New verse:

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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[Ramius]

Already got the patent on Badgers. Though, there is some research that shows that Wolverines are more effective for keeping users from making unauthorized field mods. If if proves effective, I'll let you know...

[Fedora]

No... whatever you do... don't reboot. that's what *they* want you to to. You need to get a Badger... and then slowly open the cabinet of your computer...

Oh, good! Since I'm in Wisconsin, I have a Badger handy (actually in the martial arts community, my nickname is Badger):

The Badger

Base of Operations: Barneveld, Wisconsin

History: "The Badger is Norbert Sykes, a Vietnam veteran suffering from an extremely rare multiple personality disorder: Seven great personalities in one. The personality most frequently inhabited by Norbert, indeed almost exclusively preferred, is the Badger, a self-styled crime fighters who rides the highways and by-ways of America, meting out bloody justice to jaywalkers, ticket scalpers, indifferent teenaged fast food clerks, in fact, any damn body he feels like because he's CRAZY!

Badger lives with Ham the Weather Wizard in a castle south of Barneveld, Wisconsin. Ham and Badger met while both were inmates at a state mental hospital. Through cunning and chicanery, Ham has amassed a considerable fortune."

Badger is the story of an insane hero. The man who would become the Badger was christened Norbert Sykes. Sykes was an abused child, suffering for years at the hands of his step-father Larry. Then as an adult he went to Viet Nam where he spent several months as a prisoner of the Viet Cong. His fragile sanity finally snapped, and he adopted several distinct personalities to cope with the traumas in his life. One of these is the Badger, a vigilante who believes that God is a Badger called Myrtle (like I said, he's not sane) - this is now his dominant personality, and the one with the best knowledge of martial arts. Back in the US he was institutionalised for a while, after he was caught by the police beating up some punks who had annoyed him, until another inmate Ham, a 4th century Welsh druid (it's a weird and wonderful strip at times, and can be as insane as the character), explained to him how to fake it long enough to get discharged. Badger now works for Ham as an odd-job individual (and given the nature of what Ham is, they can be exceptionally odd jobs). He met his wife, Mavis Davis, during a far Eastern martial arts contest.

Powers/Abilities: "Badger is an expert at hand-to-hand combat. He began his training in Shorin-ryu but has since gone on to master dozens of obscure, esoteric, arcane, not to mention abstruse martial arts, the likes of which you seldom hear about. He can also talk to the animals - just like Dr. Doolittle. Only with better results."

[Wneighbor]

Badgers and wolverines are not critters we have around these parts. Think a bobcat would work?

[Ramius]

Hi Rose!! :-)

[Ramius]

No... we got those too. The bobcat fur seems to get stuck in the fans. Big problem.

Cougars though... now THAT is a whole new world of predator. They're a great predator. Everything living that has ever learned that Mountain Lions are a predator species is now dead and lion food. Nothing living has ever lived long enough to report back that Mountain Lions are something to worry about.

Pretty good strategy, really...

[HairOfTheDog]

Cartoons just ~needn't~ be anatomically correct.

[Ramius]

I'm not sure what you got. But I'm pretty sure there's pills for it. :-)

[Wneighbor]

Mountain lions we got. Now how to figure to get it in the case.... hmmmm.... interesting engineering challenge! I've missed those in this teaching job! :-)

[Fedora]

ROFLMBO!

[Fedora]

I'm not sure what you got. But I'm pretty sure there's pills for it. :-)

Only thing that seems to help is Flintstones Vitamins.

[Ramius]

Getting them into the case is the hard part. Until that last screw is put into place, it's like they're all claws and gouges... hate that part.

[Wneighbor]

I'm not sure what you got. But I'm pretty sure there's pills for it. :-)

Don't know if you've noticed or not, but whatever it is he's got is also infecting a few other Hobbit Hole Dwellers! Bear's got it... so's Rose but her symptoms are quite as noticeable. They're tryin' ta give it to Jen too.

[Wneighbor]

Getting them into the case is the hard part. Until that last screw is put into place, it's like they're all claws and gouges... hate that part.

Cat fight huh? Perhaps I'm more suited to that than you. Want video? :-D

[Wneighbor]

Rose, are you listening in on our favorite master seaman's technical expertise here tonight? :-)

Is this the kind of thing you're allowed to tell the Dell customers? :-)

[Ramius]

bwaahahhaha... Uhm... I don't know if I want that or not...

[Wneighbor]

okay. no video for Ramius.

Hey! Did you see I posted a new photo of my grandbabies today? :-)

They are pretty! The one on the left is my clone! :-)

[Wneighbor]

They are here. :-D

[Ramius]

Not fair... I have nothing bad to say about Dell support. Pretty good stuff, that.

It's Dell *parts* that I get all hot about. Different division. It's particularly unfortunate that they seem to have located the parts group on Mars. Maybe Saturn. They're hard to get anything out of... :-)

[Ramius]

Saw that... massively cute. :-)

[Wneighbor]

No fair you!!! I didn't say you said anything bad about Dell support! I was just wondering if Rose knew about all these little secrets you have about badgers and wolverines! I know she would be fascinated! :-)