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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: HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands; JenB; SuziQ

Lot of strange threads tonight — guess the serious folks are at the beach! The blogger Wonkette says Mormons aren’t Christians in one of the weirder ones. Ever since Senator Craig hit the news only a few have had the stomach for serious commentary.


1,781 posted on 08/29/2007 9:07:56 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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To: RosieCotton

Didn’t mean to not ping you to my last post!


1,782 posted on 08/29/2007 9:10:29 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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To: RosieCotton; Corin Stormhands

Ugh is right... put in 12.5 hours today. Now for a pot pie, and some bourbon and Dr Pepper, and then to bed, so I can do it all over again tomorrow.


1,783 posted on 08/29/2007 9:13:22 PM PDT by ecurbh (Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.)
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To: ecurbh
Now for a pot pie

Thought folks are supposed to smoke that stuff!

1,784 posted on 08/29/2007 9:26:37 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

This is the Pacific Northwest. We’re progressive like that...


1,785 posted on 08/29/2007 9:50:18 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: Corin Stormhands

That. Was. Amazing. Somebody *gets* it. IKEA is not what it seems.


1,786 posted on 08/30/2007 2:53:10 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper

When I assembled Luke’s bedroom furniture, I said “no more.”

In other news, I have officially resigned as the family alarm clock.


1,787 posted on 08/30/2007 4:55:15 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: Lil'freeper

Isn’t IKEA the ones who won’t provide plastic bags to American customers because Americans pollute too much? Like anyone can tote furniture in a plastic bag.


1,788 posted on 08/30/2007 5:05:25 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed

Well, if the bag was big enough. And strong enough.


1,789 posted on 08/30/2007 5:13:06 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Overtaxed; Lil'freeper
Isn’t IKEA the ones who won’t provide plastic bags to American customers because Americans pollute too much?

I don't ~think~ so. I could be wrong, but I think I remember plastic bags from the one in Northern Virginia.

1,790 posted on 08/30/2007 5:56:43 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

I thought the president (owner?) of the company....somewhere in Scandinavia...went on an ugly American rant and vowed to remove plastic bags from American stores. The thread comments went pretty much :”I didn’t see a thing I’d have.”


1,791 posted on 08/30/2007 7:12:14 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed

Oh, maybe so. It’s been a while since we’ve been there. I must have missed that thread.


1,792 posted on 08/30/2007 7:13:00 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Here’s the thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788875/posts

He wanted to charge for bags.


1,793 posted on 08/30/2007 7:13:30 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed

Thanks.


1,794 posted on 08/30/2007 7:27:30 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: Overtaxed
I go to IKEA about once a year. Each year, I'm amazed at the people who shuffle around the IKEA showroom circuit. They're bored city people, dressed in sophisticated clothes with sophisticated haircuts, just shuffling. They point. They chatter. Sometimes they have "european" sounding accents. They shuffle some more. I think they think they're in paradise.

It's fascinating.

1,795 posted on 08/30/2007 7:27:58 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper

Heh. Do they leave carrying plastic bags?


1,796 posted on 08/30/2007 7:31:05 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Yes.

And they also try to tie big boxes of furniture to the tops of their Subarus and Volkswagens with that silly twine.

The lack of engineering sense boggles the mind.

1,797 posted on 08/30/2007 7:33:31 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper

No roof racks, right?


1,798 posted on 08/30/2007 7:38:32 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Bike racks, ski racks, etc.

You'd think that folks who ride or ski would have bungees or webbing handy, or at least have a concept that bungees and webbing are a bit more substantive than IKEA twine.

1,799 posted on 08/30/2007 7:41:39 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: Lil'freeper

IKEA twine isn’t even reusable.


1,800 posted on 08/30/2007 7:42:10 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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