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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: ExGeeEye
That perked me a bit :)
6,501
posted on
04/30/2004 12:57:31 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(I've applied for nine Iraq job openings with Halliburton. Money co-located with mouth.)
To: Darksheare
The first one was my wife's previous cat "Zepplin".That's what I named my hermit crab when I was about 10--LOL!
24 pounds--that's a big cat!
To: HairOfTheDog
I guess every so often there's one bound to catch you off guard. Usually they're more obvious, fortunately. I imagine some pranksters who discover FR get addicted to pranking it, just like normal people get addicted to FR in a normal way (or at least semi-normal! :)
To: Overtaxed
OUCH.
My mom's previous cat would do that.
Or she'd howl and charge.
6,504
posted on
04/30/2004 1:06:23 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Fortune for the day: Somewhere there's a size 10 steel toe boot with a troll's name on it.)
To: Fedora
LOL!
The missus had two hermit crabs named Skitty and Mystie.
(My comment: They look like darned Outer Space Spiders. The nephew now calls them Space Spiders..)
Yes, the cat is insane and HUGE.
Makes it pretty difficult to keep a straight face while placating her.
6,505
posted on
04/30/2004 1:08:14 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Fortune for the day: Somewhere there's a size 10 steel toe boot with a troll's name on it.)
To: Fedora
(or at least semi-normal! :)"So whose brain was it?"
"Abby...someone."
"Abby...who?"
"Abby...Normal."
6,506
posted on
04/30/2004 1:08:29 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(I've applied for nine Iraq job openings with Halliburton. Money co-located with mouth.)
To: Overtaxed
The 30s Dracula and Frankenstein are two of my favorites. The original Mummy and Bride of Frankenstein are also top-notch. Some others I like from that period: The Black Cat; The Raven; White Zombie; The Invisible Man; The Wolfman; Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman; Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein; King Kong.
To: Fedora
Did you ever see an "Invisible Man" movie where the title character is the hero American agent thwarting Nazi plans to bomb NYC?
I saw it exactly once.
6,508
posted on
04/30/2004 1:10:32 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(I've applied for nine Iraq job openings with Halliburton. Money co-located with mouth.)
To: ExGeeEye
To: Darksheare
(My comment: They look like darned Outer Space Spiders. The nephew now calls them Space Spiders..)LOL! You could do close-up camera shots of them and make it into a bad horror movie! :)
To: Fedora
"Yes! He was...my boyfriend!"
6,511
posted on
04/30/2004 1:14:30 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(I've applied for nine Iraq job openings with Halliburton. Money co-located with mouth.)
To: ExGeeEye
I haven't seen it, but would that be
Invisible Agent? The summary sounds interesting:
Spurred by an unfriendly visit from Axis reps, Frank Raymond (Jon Hall), the grandson of the original invisible fella, realizes his duty is clear. That is, he must turn over the formula for his grandfather's invisibility serum to the U.S. government before the Nazis get hold of it, and volunteer his invisible self as a secret weapon to obtain classified Nazi secrets. So The Invisible Heir turns Invisible Paratrooper and jumps behind enemy lines to wrangle with their high command, make time with delectable counterintelligence agent Ilona Massey, make monkeys out of a gaggle of Nazis, and uncover the Axis plans to bomb New York City! Tonight! With or without Giuliani! This is the third in Universal's series of '40s takes on the invisibility theme, and a dandy one it is. While the dialogue may strike some as being afflicted with flattened affectation, and the antics invisibility is wont to entice may seem silly, this flick is done up in the atmospheric horror mode that Universal perfected in the mid-'30s to mid-'40s, sporting many finely tuned moments of dark intrigue to complement the screwy business. Cedric Hardwicke adds weight and style to the Nazi side, while Peter Lorre portrays an agent of the Japanese (!)--amazing to say, he looks quite the part, but he sounds for all the world just like the child-killer he played in M. And Ilona Massey is supreme Nazi-bait.
To: ExGeeEye
To: Fedora
Sounds like it! I even remember there was a Japanese character, who was shown (from the rear) committing
seppuku as one of the final scenes!
At the age I was when I saw it (under 12, certainly) I wasn't paying attention to actors' names etc.; I remember first noticing the family resemblance between Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Robin Hood) and Sir Miles Hendon (Errol Flynn, The Prince and the Pauper) when I was 10 or 11.
So it could very well have been Peter Lorre.
6,514
posted on
04/30/2004 1:22:00 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(I've applied for nine Iraq job openings with Halliburton. Money co-located with mouth.)
To: Fedora
Ilse: "He would have an e-NORM-ous Schwanstucher!"
6,515
posted on
04/30/2004 1:24:37 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(I've applied for nine Iraq job openings with Halliburton. Money co-located with mouth.)
To: ExGeeEye
I'll have to see that one!--I like movies like that, and Peter Lorre is a great villain. Here's another movie along those lines I've been meaning to see, made the same year and starring Bela Lugosi as an ally of a Japanese secret society:
Black Dragons
A World War II Nazi plastic surgeon travels to Japan to perform face-lifts on Japanese spies, making them appear as Americans. After the doctor is almost killed, he plans an elaborate revenge plot on America and the Allied forces.
To: ExGeeEye
LOL! That was classic. I also liked Wilder in Silver Streak.
To: ExGeeEye
Just weary, I think. Last night wasn't the greatest. Rough night out? ;-)
6,518
posted on
04/30/2004 1:34:19 PM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: RosieCotton
I'm one of those bachelors with a used bed (actually a homemade bedstead and air mattress) and one, count'em one set of sheets and stuff. I also have my local laundromat do my stuff up for me, which sounds extravagant but actually works out to only $5.00 more per month than I would have spent on quarters, detergent and dryer sheets. Yesterday morning I took my one, count'em one set of sheets and stuff to the laundromat, and yesterday evening they hadn't been done yet. I left a couple pieces of my mind there (have to watch that, now, lest I lose it all), went home and slept, if you can call it that, on the sofa. Not the best choice. I was up at 1, again at 3:30, and finally at 7, an hour later than usual.
So...tired...
6,519
posted on
04/30/2004 1:50:21 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(I've applied for nine Iraq job openings with Halliburton. Money co-located with mouth.)
To: RosieCotton
Certain types of "rough nights" could be considered among the "greatest". ;)
6,520
posted on
04/30/2004 2:02:15 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(I've applied for nine Iraq job openings with Halliburton. Money co-located with mouth.)
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