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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
Janet Reno's moving in to end the film.
Movie's over. Dang that hurt!
Well, I found the base of the snowglobe in the trash and covered with coffee grounds, thank goodness that was ALL it was covered with!! I also found this website that has parts for repairing a broken snowglobe. WooHoo!
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/windover/watglobandga.html
LOL!
"'Ladies Home Garments' is well-represented by cub reporter Robert Bland. Here we see him gathering information for his upcoming piece on zero-gravity girdles. Don't let that flint-hard exterior fool you! He's wearing a Warner bra, trimmed with delicate, peekaboo lace!"
"Dang that hurt!"
What Dr. Forrester would call "Deep hurting. . ."
It's over! It's over!
Good evening... just got back from going out to see "The Village". An odd little movie by M. Night Shyamalan.
Do they rent TV seasons on DVD? If they do, look for Babylon 5 on DVD... it's worth watching!
The Sword & Buckler Tradition - Part 2
There are accounts of sword and buckler practice having been a pastime enjoyed as a form of martial sport by commoners in both England and Northern Italy from the 1200s -1400s and it was also evidently a popular pastime in Germany. We also know “sword and buckler fighting remained a popular spectator sport, particularly in urban areas, well into the 14th century.” (Nicolle, Medieval Warfare, p. 252). The system was also common in judicial combats as one 15th century statement relates that in duels among commoners in France were “only fought with the buckler and baton...” (Gilchrist, p. 32) and in 1455 two commoners in Valenciennes were taught the use of the club and buckler for a judicial combat. . .It is known that English laws from as early as c. 1180 banned schools of fence within the city of London and Edward I, in the Statuta Civitatis London of 1286, ordered fencing schools teaching Eskirmer au Buckler (or eskirmye de bokyler) banned from the City of London –ostensibly to control villainy and prevent criminal mischief associated with such activities.[4] These edicts against the practice were aimed not specifically at swords and buckler fencing itself, so much as the whole teaching of martial arts to a civilian population. A skillful populace after all might be prone to using their arms in resistance against the civil authority. The restrictions were not at all intended to discourage fighting arts in general in England, but to prevent street-fighting among young “sword-men” bravados and to prevent any training in arms of common thugs and ruffians who did not have the desired social conscience to responsibly bear arms safely in good society. . . .By the 1500s the buckler continued to be recognized as a necessary tool of war as well as a foundational system for learning self-defense. Costume books from the 16th century also depict plebian urban youths around Europe wearing swords and bucklers. (Anglo, Martial Arts, p. 324, Note 111). The Bolognese master Achille Marozzo, in his famous 1536 fencing treatise, Opera Nova, made it clear the Spada e Brochiero (sword and buckler) as a foundational weapon suited to both war and common self-defense. . .
"Don't forget Fast-Talking Frannie and Automatic Slim!"
LOL! That was one of the MST3K classic scenes :)
You survived! But the memory of Red Zone Cuba will be forever seared into your mind--seared! :)
Need some Bailey's
I'm going to need a good brainwashing after watching this movie.
"it's all about the dangers of going to ~town~"
What's the thing with "town"? :)
I think I need to go on a hermit like vacation.
*sigh*
Ooh, that's a good idea! I'll have to check that.
I ended up renting "Welcome to Mooseport". Very funny, and a number of not-so-subtle moments that I took as Clinton slams
I need a good recovery movie. Maybe I should put on Ben Hur.
As I understand it, Hair doesn't like going to town.
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