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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!
I think you may be right. We spent the weekend completely cleaning and rearranging his room. He wants to transfer to Virginia Tech. He knows he can automatically do that in two years with a 3.0. But he wants to go sooner.
I think he’s ~finally~ motivated.
He actually said to me that he’s concerned about having to close every night this week because he needs that time to study.
I think high schools should be run more like community colleges.
I think high schools should be for remedial students and all half-decent students spend their last two years *at* community college.
That would’ve been good for me. The last two years of HS weren’t worth much, except for band I didn’t really do anything. It left me utterly unprepared for my frosh year at the U.W.
Afternoon folkses...
[sip]
Sayin’ hi from da aeroport agin.
Nah, just BETTER ones!
Speaking of better times. I got a lunch box on eBay. I put in a maximum of $30 and got it for $28.
More than I would have wanted to pay. But Star Wars has been an ongoing theme with him for 3-4 years now. It’s not likely to fade soon.
That said, I did say “keep your hands off that” to the light saber that the bookstore clerk said would be “about $100, after the discount.”
$100 is a pretty good deal for a lightsaber. If it works.
:-)
Yeah, but it’s a b!tc# to get parts.
Ouch!
I think the light sabers have come up a lot since I was little. I remember them selling light sabers that were basically just a plastic tube mounted on the end of a flashlight.
Times have changed....
They still sell those in the toy section. This was a special edition. I’d read somewhere about them, but hadn’t seen one until the other day when we were in the book store.
I think it was the lightsaber that really sold me on the movie when I was a kid. I think I was what, 13? I remember talking Mom into taking me and my friend down to drop us off at the theatre like three hours early, to get a good place in line on opening day. I just ~knew~ there would be huge crowds.
Turned out that he and I sat there in line, #1 and #2 for about two hours before anybody else showed up.
Heh. But it was worth it. I remember just being utterly blown away. But the lightsabers were totally over the top.
But even the standard ones have all kinds of little buttons and things.
What does a special edition do?
These are a little sturdier, and the “blade” is not retractable. I think they’re more for the Star Wars geek than they are for the kids.
You can get one online for ~only~ $99.00.
http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=406004
I remember waiting in line for the second two films. Not the first.
But yeah, it was a revolutionary movie experience. Hard to explain to theboys. They just think movies have always been like that.
Well...if it really makes the sounds...that’s worth something!
I always thought that was about the coolest thing about ‘em.
In my quest to expand my UK vocabulary for Nano, I learned a new word today: quango. A quango is a QUasi Autonomous National Governmental Organization. Kinda like the Post Office. Everyone else probably knows this word, but I learned it just today. :)
Yah, it was revolutionary. It took many days of whining to finally convince Mom and Dad that they really ~had~ to come out and see this movie. “No, really, Dad... this movie is something you just ~have to~ see! It’s going to change movies forever! It’s not like anything else!” yadda yadda... but I finally talked him into it.
He pretended to like it. But I don’t think he got it. But I think he does now, hindsight being what it is.
I told Jr. last night that this winter I want to do movie marathons with the new tv and the new furniture. Taking a winter day to watch all six in order could be fun.
New one for me!
I’m not sure exactly how I’d work it into casual conversation, though...
Another word I've almost learned is "tat" which, from context, I understand means cheap, tacky trinkets and carp that tourists buy. And a "yob" is a thug.
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