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Iceland's secret? Belief in elves..
TimesOnline [UK] ^ | April 14, 2009 | Bess Twiston-Davies

Posted on 07/18/2009 10:41:47 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Edited on 07/19/2009 2:42:58 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: coconutt2000
Yes, but people who hang out with hobbits are just weird.

Quite so...but then, being able to hang out with mythical beings is pretty weird by definition.

21 posted on 07/19/2009 8:36:34 AM PDT by GL of Sector 2814 (One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. -- R A Heinlein)
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To: coconutt2000; RosieCotton; Corin Stormhands; HairOfTheDog; 2Jedismom
Yes, but people who hang out with hobbits are just weird.

Watch it! I resemble that remark! ;o)

22 posted on 07/19/2009 8:49:28 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: eclecticEel

That’s clearly some sort of miniature orc, not an elf.


23 posted on 07/19/2009 8:59:45 PM PDT by Redcloak ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
"Clap if you believe in fairies, boys and girls."


24 posted on 07/20/2009 8:14:03 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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25 posted on 07/20/2009 7:30:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Slings and Arrows

The elves have left the building...


26 posted on 07/20/2009 7:32:18 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 181 of our national holiday from reality. - He really isn't one of US.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I want to believe...


27 posted on 07/20/2009 7:33:22 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 181 of our national holiday from reality. - He really isn't one of US.)
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To: SunkenCiv

John Delorean cut down a sacred Irish tree to build his auto plant.

Look how that worked out for him.


28 posted on 07/20/2009 7:34:35 PM PDT by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: GL of Sector 2814; coconutt2000
coconutt2000 ~ Yes, but people who hang out with hobbits are just weird.

GL of Sector 2814 ~ Quite so...but then, being able to hang out with mythical beings is pretty weird by definition.

Darks? They be dissin' you...

29 posted on 07/20/2009 7:36:34 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 181 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

> A belief in elves sounds ridiculous ... but in this country, a lot of people believe in ghosts or other spirit beings, which is probably just as ridiculous. (Or not.)

In New Zealand multimillion-dollar projects are delayed and modified because of “Taniwha” (Tanny-Fah) — a mythological Maori monster rather like a troll. It is taken very seriously by all.


30 posted on 07/20/2009 9:02:29 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: grey_whiskers

The ears wouldn’t be a problem.


31 posted on 07/20/2009 9:03:58 PM PDT by blam
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Taking things seriously ... you know, I will confess that when my husband and I bought our first house, I made our realtor do some due diligence about whether anyone had committed suicide in the house, or anything of the sort. She thought I was nuts for asking about it — but I had lived one summer in an apartment which I finally decided was haunted (and still think so, actually) and it was a very unpleasant experience! There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio....


32 posted on 07/20/2009 9:54:58 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (PETRAEUS IN 2012 .... Pass it on!)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

(grin!) you’re right about that!

A good friend of mine bought a house in a really nice neighborhood in Auckland about ten years ago. Lived there for a couple weeks and found that he had trouble sleeping. Found out shortly thereafter that one of New Zealand’s most famous Tommy-gun murders had happened IN THAT VERY HOUSE half a century previously.

Later searches found dings in the walls and floorboards where the .45 cal machine gun bullets had made holes and dents and had been filled in.

He and his wife still live there.


33 posted on 07/20/2009 10:24:16 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: eclecticEel

That’s a troll.. after a facelift.


34 posted on 07/21/2009 3:37:06 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Do they sleep better now?


35 posted on 07/21/2009 7:06:10 AM PDT by twigs
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To: twigs

(grin!) I’ll ask him tomorrow


36 posted on 07/21/2009 7:10:10 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

And a lot more believe in 0bama and rainbow full of plans. Who is the bigger fool?

Gunner


37 posted on 07/21/2009 9:12:18 AM PDT by weps4ret (Where is John Galt?)
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To: Salamander

Deciding to build an auto plant in Ireland in the first place...


38 posted on 07/21/2009 9:33:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

some of the terrain in iceland lends itself to any number of imaginings. The berzerkerhraun lava field is one of the most bizarre areas I have ever seen.


39 posted on 07/21/2009 1:15:11 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Slings and Arrows

Every Scandinavian knows there are definitely elves.


40 posted on 07/21/2009 7:19:00 PM PDT by Swede Girl
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