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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:
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, Well 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: Fedora
Heh, I'm willing to stand up for myself, it's just I'm almost certain I couldn't poke anyone's eye out (I'm really sensitive about eyes) and I'd probably never hit the right spots anyway... I'd go for the groin or knees if possible. My idea is get him down, then run for it, screaming if possible.
Such pleasant thoughts! And it's bedtime now. Got done with the homework, yay.
6,061
posted on
04/28/2004 8:07:40 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: Bear_in_RoseBear; HairOfTheDog
Awww... try this link instead! It doesn't have the nearly-naked figleaf-covered Japanese guys, but at least you'll be able to hear the song...You leave me no choice but to reach deep into the Abyss and summon--her:
To: JenB
Yay on the homework!!!
Yes, it's hard for most people to poke someone's eye out--I'll tell you a story about my experience with that another time. Groin or knees are good targets. The main point is, like you say, to get them down long enough to run and scream.
And with such pleasant thoughts, have a good night! Manga/Anime day tomorrow? :)
To: Fedora
Hey howdy and good evening everybody!!! Had a very long day today.
Did I miss anything?
6,064
posted on
04/28/2004 8:21:52 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Wneighbor
Howdy there... :-)
6,065
posted on
04/28/2004 8:22:19 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
Hey sweetie! How was your day?
6,066
posted on
04/28/2004 8:26:09 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
To: Ramius
Did I miss anything? Don't know. Didja miss me? :-P
6,067
posted on
04/28/2004 8:27:09 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
To: g'nad
everything, and I mean everything, can be a weapon... And you have to be ready to kill the guy with what you have on hand. Not that you're gonna do it, you have to be prepared to do it.
A few years ago, I swung around a few cars scattered across an intersection after some drunk pulled some stupid stunt with his car. I figured better to be outta there than get hit by someone. One less car in the cluster.
A few miles up the road, I pull in to a gas station, and start filling up. The drunk pulls up, and screams at me, "I otta beat your (*%#%$ ass! Nobody does that to me!" (Whatever "that" was.)
My first thought was, "crap, just my luck, he's got a gun." My second thought was, "if he gets out of his car, I have to find something to kill him with". My subconscious decided that a spritz of midgrade in his face, followed by using the hose and nozzle like a flail, would suffice. Fortunately for both of us, he used a few more nasty words on me, and then roard off. I hope he ran into a ditch before endangering anyone else.
The other guy is in a drug or booze-enhanced state, and has this fuzzy idea he wants to hurt you. You, with a clear mind, have to have a definite plan to kill him, if you're to come out on top. If you can't run away with certainty, plan to take him down as quickly and permanently as possible.
6,068
posted on
04/28/2004 8:28:00 PM PDT
by
300winmag
(FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
To: Fedora
To: Wneighbor
It was long... had a tough meeting with da boss. Made a tactical error by talking too much. We're basically on the same page, but he wants dates and deadlines for things about which there are simply too many unknowns... and I made the mistake of saying that. I went into Rumsfeld mode... there are known unknowns, and unknown unknowns...
[sigh] That added a good hour to the meeting. :-)
Then I took our new hire out to dinner to chat a bit.
6,070
posted on
04/28/2004 8:31:16 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Wneighbor
Completely missed you today. :-) [sigh]
6,071
posted on
04/28/2004 8:33:11 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: HairOfTheDog; g'nad; Wneighbor; JenB
They let you do this in class? or is this part only taught in a theoretical sense?When we practiced poking to the eyes for that move, we practiced a quick flick rather than a full gouge; either will work, but mainly the point is that if you attack their eyes while they're holding your wrist, it will divert their full attention from their hold on your wrist, making it easier for you to break their grip--hard to concentrate on holding someone's wrist if you're focused on protecting your own eye.
On the bear hug thing, if your head is facing them you can bite like g'nad says, and also knee them in the groin; or if they're behind you, you can bang the back of your head into their nose or your elbow into their stomach or your butt/hip into their groin (believe it or not the butt is a great weapon if you slam it into somebody's groin, esp. with the edge of the hip). Also, ideally, you want to get out of a hold like that before they ever secure a full grip, because it's a lot easier to prevent a hold than to reverse it. The first thing to do if you feel someone trying to grab you like that is to lower your center of gravity by bending your knees, the goal being to get your hips lower than theirs so that you have a leverage advantage. After that the specifics vary depending on whether they're grabbing you from in front of behind. For instance if they're behind you, if you circle one of your feet behind them and place your knee behind the back of their knee, you can destabilize their balance. While doing this reach up behind them and grab some hair and pull back, and they'll be very off balance, plus their neck will be open for a strike with your free hand. If they're grabbing you from in front, remember they're grabbing you as if you were facing them straight-on, so if you change the angle slightly by turning your hip orientation a few centimeters and/or moving your shoulders so that one is lower than the other, their grip will slip slightly. Then you will have enough room to reach down and grab their balls--we called this technique, "Plucking the cherries from the tree" :)
To: Ramius
Howdy! You missed lots of evil links that Hair and Bear posted :) And some hat/fedora-bashing.
To: osagebowman
I can see it'll be a bit more useful as a working knife but the original HH is a lot easier to Snap-Click; Snap-Click. :-)You'd love the CRKT Snap Lock then, with the swinging blade. "Click-click" in either direct with the reversible pocket clip. Just remember to have a T4 Torx bit. :)
6,074
posted on
04/28/2004 8:36:37 PM PDT
by
300winmag
(FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
To: Ramius
Well, good you had somebody to go to dinner with. Hope that was at least enjoyable. My rule of thumb for meetings is to keep my mouth shut unless I have to AND give everyone else "the look" who is talking too much about nonsense and keeping me in the meeting longer than I wanna be there.... which is about 30 seconds into the thing.
I am a bad meeting employee! Instead of meetings, since I'm the head of department now, when we need to talk my two people and I go eat. Gets everything done all at once. Boy am I glad I don't have your job where that little bit won't work.
6,075
posted on
04/28/2004 8:36:58 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
To: 300winmag
Good comments. Scary situation there with the gas station! Glad it didn't escalate. What's really sobering about stuff like that is how you can be minding your own business when something like that suddenly happens.
To: Ramius
Completely missed you today. :-) [sigh]Awwww...
6,077
posted on
04/28/2004 8:38:40 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
To: Wneighbor
heheheh...
6,078
posted on
04/28/2004 8:40:27 PM PDT
by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
*blush*
*wink*
6,079
posted on
04/28/2004 8:41:55 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
To: Ramius
Oh, I forgot, did you check your freepmail?
6,080
posted on
04/28/2004 8:42:42 PM PDT
by
Wneighbor
(Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
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