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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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Maybe the Americans involved with the movies were the reason?
I noticed it with this last movie...because they were in town and all. They weren't allowed to go in. It bugged me.
Silly thing to notice, I guess!
***"And the English are usually more sensible about alcohol than we are, anyway."***
Not necessarily. Check this out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298632/posts
Meant to ping you to 6823
Not sensible with their alcohol (and who let the soccer hooligans dress like Santas?), sensible about their policies.
Ok, I need a trip to B&N. Prolly won't be back before you go to bed, so good evening! See ya tomorrow!
Oh, yeah, pray for me that I do a good job with my presentation tomorrow, wouldya?
That must have been a good sized doggie bag, hey, you don't have a dog.
I'll add it to the TPL! ;-) Though maybe the T doesn't apply here.
Good evening!
eh, I don't think so. You do have a cat and did we share with Miss Kitty?
Welll...not yet. Kitties shouldn't have chocolate and I don't know if she likes cornbread or not.
True on the chocolate, on cornbread, well, Annie eats it, believe it or not.
I'll have to offer and see what happens. Miss Cat will sometimes eat rice and pasta.
The Karankawa Indians here in Texas used the wood of a native tree that was latter dubbed 'bois d'arc' (commonly pronounced 'bow-dark') that has a yellowish dense wood. It is known to have long thorns on it and the females grow these huge knobby balls that were known as 'horseapples'...they were supposed to be good at keeping the roaches away. Anyway, I grew up with one of these trees in my backyard...fortunately we had a male, which never gave fruit and it made the best shade tree. One had to be cautious about going out barefoot. Those thorns were PAINFUL! But I became adept at stepping around them. We tried burning some of the wood after we had to cut down one of its extensions, but all it did was spark and sputter and smoulder, even after we waited two years to burn it. I have read the Karankawa made something equivalent to the English long bow.
Evening, it's also called Hedge and Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera). It's quite remarkable wood. Very dense, extremely resistent to bugs and disease. Fence posts can last 100 years and still be good when dug up. Apparently the original range was Oklahoma and parts of Texas. Transplanted and grown by the Osage Indians near their villages. Highly prized for bows, examples have been found in the Dakotas. My best shooting bows are made of osage.
Humorous exchange on an archery forum located here:
http://forums.eders.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=008000
Start with the 4th poster down, Silverado.
Wasn't sure it would be a good idea to copy the thing directly to our thread.
Gotta go now..
I'm back early. They had the new Rurouni Kenshin, weeks early! Yay! Now I have a nice way to relax this evening!
Is that DVD or manga?
Manga. I have all the dvds, which I will loan you if my friends and I ever make it all the way through.
I'm excited, because it's starting to get into the really cool "Kyoto arc" storyline, and then after that it starts the storyline that never made it into the anime.
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