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The New Hobbit Hole
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Rocko
You're welcome!
Sometimes I'm a poet, but I don't realize it.
To: HairOfTheDog
Cedar beds are great, covers go in the wash. Depending on your dog's age, you may want to consider sheep skins, tanned but unshorn. Got a pair of them years ago and they seem to help as our dogs get older.
To: Rocko
Hey Rocko, I haven't seen E.T. yet. I am supposing you recommend that I don't rent it, then?
To: HairOfTheDog; g'nad
sneakses that start 40 posts out? Actually g'nad started 46 posts out. O tempora! O mores!
To: Overtaxed
Never been there and therr're no elves that I know of, but at least they're capitalist tacky!Last time I was there they had fireworks and lots of guns! (I heard a rumor that the guns are gone, but I am not sure). They also have North Carolina style barbecue. You know, the bad stuff!
To: Corin Stormhands
You invited rats over for company? Naw...my sister did. Nice folks, but still mixed up demoRATS.
To: Sam Cree
Here is Return of the Hunters by Pieter Breughel the Elder, painted in 1565. Doesn't look like they were too successful, but nice painting
To: Sam Cree
This guy's paintings really remind me of the film, FOTR. Interesting too that the hunters have bows and spears, but no guns, which were still more than a little unwieldy, not to mention expensive.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
They also have North Carolina style barbecue. You know, the bad stuff! Hehehe....you mean the good stuff! Eastern or Western Barbecue?
To: HairOfTheDog
Showed my sister the dreaded Bilbo Video...and we're watching the Star Trek marathon on Sci-Fi channel. I'm expecting Spock to break out in "Bilbo! Bilbo!" any minute now.....
To: Sam Cree
I haven't seen E.T. yet. I am supposing you recommend that I don't rent it, then?I HATED it.
To: ksen
I noticed that you did not mention that great Florida attraction Gatorland. Busch Gardens is about as far away (in the other direction) as Kennedy Space Center, has the theme of an expedition to Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa, lots of thrill rides. For your interest, one of the larger new places is 'Great China', not exciting, but very interesting, I hear. I will not be going there, it is run by the Red Chinese government.
Not to be overly defensive about Disney, which Eisner has been doing his best to ruin, but most of you seem to be confusing Walt Disney World with the Fantasyland portion of The Magic Kingdom. Fantasyland is only 20% of The Magic Kingdom, and the Magic Kingdom is only one of 4 separate theme parks, and 4 water parks, plus various other attractions, all within Walt Disney World, which is signifigantly larger than the borough of Manhattan, in NYC.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; Overtaxed
"Doesn't look like they were too successful, "
I can't figure out whether they have large squirrel like animals on their backs or just equipment.
LCS, I suppose there were guns around then, though perhaps not too many folks had them? I like their collection of motley looking dogs, reminds me of my strays.
I believe the "Little Ice Age" was going on when this was painted...sure looks cold anyway. I am fascinated at the look into the past that we get from works like this that were actually painted in those days. It's one of my favorite paintings.
To: Rocko
ET sucked. It sucked almost as much as, say, working 9 hours on a project that should have taken four, on Labor Day when not even the Chinese restaurant where I wanted to get my lunch was open, and on a lovely sunny day when I have so much else I'd rather do. I hate Mondays.
Sorry, I shouldn't take that out in a post to you... I barely know you!
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To: Overtaxed
you mean the good stuff! Eastern or Western Barbecue?Well it was red and sticky sweet, you tell me. Nothing like our great Florida Barbecue!
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Well it was red and sticky sweet, you tell me. Western. Also known as Lexington style.
To: JenB
That's okay; we insensative ET-haters need to stick together.
To: Sam Cree
I believe the "Little Ice Age" was going on when this was painted...sure looks cold anyway. The 'Little Ice Age' started about the same time as the Black Death (now THAT was a bad century). It was still going full blast as of the period of Dickens' London, which is why Scrooge could throw snowballs, never happen in today's London. At the end of the 19th century the Hudson was still regularly freezing over at NYC. It appears to have ended, but maybe we are heading for what the historians call the Climate Optimum, otherwise known as global warming. (The last time we had one of these, there were farms in Greenland). Nearly all of the temperature increase in the last 100 years occurred at the beginning of the 20th Century, which was really just the end of the 'Little Ice Age'.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Even if Disney World-or whatever it's called- wasn't the ....ahem....PC mess that it is, I still wouldn't want to go. I don't like fighting crowds.
To: Overtaxed
Also known as Lexington style.I guess that means that Eastern style is the one with vinegar in it? Shudder!
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