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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!

See also: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net

Web page for our moot reports and troop support information!





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To: osagebowman
A young skeet shooter in California was an instructor, his name Robert Stack, yup, ‘Eliot Ness’ from the old Untouchables TV show.

Robert Stack was some sort of national skeet or trap champion before the war. He served as both a gunnery instructor and Big Name in Hollywood.

1,461 posted on 08/25/2007 7:38:56 PM PDT by 300winmag (Life is hard! It is even harder when you are stupid!)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Cool! We’ll be interested to know how you like it, and what your sleep numbers are :-)


1,462 posted on 08/25/2007 7:45:15 PM PDT by LSAggie
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To: osagebowman

I’ve been getting tomatoes this year! ‘Course the ones that grow out of the cage are kinda raggedy and squirrel gnawed. Next year I need to make a better looking cage.


1,463 posted on 08/25/2007 7:58:53 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Get my corn from a jar.)
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To: g'nad
Here's my ugly-looking tomato cage. The tomatoes have since grown up through the chicken wire.


1,464 posted on 08/25/2007 8:02:39 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Get my corn from a jar.)
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To: g'nad
sounds like PMS...

Ya know? It does. LOL

1,465 posted on 08/26/2007 3:50:39 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: g'nad
they're 5 stories up... they didn't even bat an eye...

Good for them! That looks like fun!

I have a delayed adrenaline response for stuff like that.... I'd have no problem going over, I'd just get the shakes once I was *safely* other other side. It makes no sense.

1,466 posted on 08/26/2007 3:57:14 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I could never do that clear walkway thing they're building.

It's built! Needs landscaping, though.

In my mind, being at the canyon is overwhelmingly surreal that walking out on that thing would not significantly add to the effect. You don't have to be anywhere near the edge to "feel" the height. It's strange. What is most interesting to me is the fact that the people who ignore the handrails the most, that is, the idiots who climb out on the rocks on the other side of the rails, are overwhelmingly European tourists. There was a streak there in college where the Germans kept falling in. Very strange. They'd have to SAR out one or two every summer.

1,467 posted on 08/26/2007 4:04:24 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: 300winmag
Pardon my naivete, but.... what makes a riot gun a riot gun? Is it a particular design or did it have to be used at some point during a real riot?
1,468 posted on 08/26/2007 4:06:04 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper

I gotta get out there sometime. Wow.


1,469 posted on 08/26/2007 6:01:46 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB; Lil'freeper
I gotta get out there sometime. Wow.

Well, I gotta get back to the Canyon, but not that walkway.

As I said last night, I had to be escorted out of the Arch in St. Louis. When we were in Aspen one summer, we took the cable car up to the top. Jr. was three and on my lap and kept saying "look Daddy." When we got out I told the Mrs. I was walkin' down. She found a ranger who drove us and some other folks. He said it happens all the time.

It's a totally irrational fear. I ~know~ I'm not going to fall. But it can induce an all out panic attack for me.

1,470 posted on 08/26/2007 6:05:22 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Yup, I sympathize... have felt very vague tendrils of the same sort of fear but not much thankfully.

If we get to do Canyonmoot, you can stand and take pictures of those of us on the walkway :)


1,471 posted on 08/26/2007 6:07:23 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB
Canyon moot?

I'm so there.

1,472 posted on 08/26/2007 6:09:50 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper

Gotta ask Corin....


1,473 posted on 08/26/2007 6:10:51 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Lil'freeper
Pardon my naivete, but.... what makes a riot gun a riot gun? Is it a particular design or did it have to be used at some point during a real riot?

A riot gun has specific features. It has a short, cylinder-bore (unchoked) barrel, and usually lacks some of the more refined cosmetic features of a sporting shotgun. It's designed for close-in work, mainly using buckshot or slugs.

While it would work well for hunting upland game, it was usually employed to eliminate or keep in line two-legged vermin.

1,474 posted on 08/26/2007 6:13:54 AM PDT by 300winmag (Life is hard! It is even harder when you are stupid!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I know this is how our place operates. How about yours?


1,475 posted on 08/26/2007 6:19:06 AM PDT by 300winmag (Life is hard! It is even harder when you are stupid!)
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To: 300winmag

Heh...that’s about it.


1,476 posted on 08/26/2007 6:20:02 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: JenB; Lil'freeper
Gotta ask Corin....

I'd mentioned about a year or so ago that I want to raft the Canyon, and was plannin' to do so for my 50th (next summer). I'm not sure I can pull it off by then.

I was at the Canyon the summer I graduated from college (1980) and vowed to come back and hike it. That ain't happening fer sure. But I'm determined to get back some way, some how, some time.

1,477 posted on 08/26/2007 6:22:06 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: Lil'freeper

Huh...I dunno how exactly I’d feel about that...

Good morning, all!

*yawn*

I stayed up too late, following the grammar thread.


1,478 posted on 08/26/2007 6:29:03 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: Corin Stormhands
Rats! Another "unlinkable" graphic. Try this:

Dilbert

1,479 posted on 08/26/2007 7:12:34 AM PDT by 300winmag (Life is hard! It is even harder when you are stupid!)
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To: RosieCotton; g'nad; 300winmag; ExGeeEye; Ramius; TalonDJ; Lil'freeper; SuziQ; Sam Cree; ...
Must see video:

Badass Marine

1,480 posted on 08/26/2007 7:12:53 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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