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The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Smart aleck..


1,421 posted on 08/25/2007 6:48:23 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: g'nad

Well that looks like fun!


1,422 posted on 08/25/2007 6:49:09 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: g'nad
this is part of the climbing maze... they're 5 stories up... they didn't even bat an eye...

You'd just have to kill me.

I had to be escorted from the St. Louis Arch, and that's inside...

Corin don't do heights.

1,423 posted on 08/25/2007 6:50:33 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: g'nad

Unh...I think that part of the maze would be where I got stuck.


1,424 posted on 08/25/2007 6:50:47 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: HairOfTheDog
Heh, yep, pretty much! ;-)
1,425 posted on 08/25/2007 6:51:21 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
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To: Corin Stormhands

I think I could do that thing, because you can’t fall out of it, it’s not really heights. But I can’t walk a balance beam.


1,426 posted on 08/25/2007 6:52:40 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: Corin Stormhands

And yet, you want to go to the Grand Canyon...


1,427 posted on 08/25/2007 6:53:56 PM PDT by JenB
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To: Corin Stormhands; RosieCotton

heh... they didn’t act like they were bothered at all...

I didn’t see any grownups out there...


1,428 posted on 08/25/2007 6:56:44 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands

I could do it too... fer the same reasons... I ain’t askeered uh heights... ain’t really afeared uh fallin’... its the sudden stop that gives me pause...


1,429 posted on 08/25/2007 6:59:03 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad
I didn’t see any grownups out there...

I once saw a mom who had to go in the playland habitrail thing at McDonalds... The kid went in it, went to the top, and refused to come down. Just sat there waving. :~)

1,430 posted on 08/25/2007 7:00:54 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

hehheh... bet he got thebeatin’ of his life... he woulduh if’n he were mine...


1,431 posted on 08/25/2007 7:01:55 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: JenB
And yet, you want to go to the Grand Canyon...

From the floor of the canyon.

Seriesly though, standing on the side of the Canyon looking down is far different than being up on a high structure. I could never do that clear walkway thing they're building.

1,432 posted on 08/25/2007 7:02:29 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

We like to travel, but missing our nice bed is the one thing we don’t like about it. It’s just comfortable!


1,433 posted on 08/25/2007 7:02:33 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: g'nad

She was FURIOUS.

The rest of the restaurant thought it was hilarious.


1,434 posted on 08/25/2007 7:02:51 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: g'nad

Cool! Got them kids working with power tools and such!


1,435 posted on 08/25/2007 7:03:20 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
We're looking forward to it... our current bed has needed replacing for quite a while!
1,436 posted on 08/25/2007 7:04:44 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I could never do that clear walkway thing they're building.

I could get yuh out there...

1,437 posted on 08/25/2007 7:05:05 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: HairOfTheDog; g'nad
When Jr. was little a kid actually broke an arm in the ball pit of one of those things. Rescue workers had to cut thorugh the netting to get him out.

~My~ younger child, on the other hand, walked into Starbucks tonight and said "I want a Double Chocolate Chip Frappachino."

Thankyouverymuch Sister Mary Hamburner. We would NEVER have bought one of those for him. Now it's ~his~ Starbucks drink.

He was ~not~ allowed to finish it this evening.

1,438 posted on 08/25/2007 7:06:19 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

sure they did... cuz it wasn’t their kid...


1,439 posted on 08/25/2007 7:06:29 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad; HairOfTheDog

Even if my brain knew that logically I couldn’t fall, I still couldn’t handle being able to see straight down like that.

In the museum back home, part of the second floor has glass panels. Once upon a time it was to allow light through (it’s a really old building), and they’re opaque, not see-through...but I still can remember being terrified of stepping on ‘em, no matter how many times we were told they were actually stronger than the wooden parts.

Actually being able to see straight down? Huh-uh...don’t think I could do it, not without a lot of hesitation.


1,440 posted on 08/25/2007 7:06:38 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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