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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: ksen
What is this "Trading Places" you are talking about?I never heard of it either, Kevin. I'm not sure we should thank everyone for bringing it to our attention, though.
To: Corin Stormhands
UGH! Look who I got....
To: ksen; HairOfTheDog
I think I'm refusing to take the test until I get a handle on who the characters are.
To: ksen
Basically, you switch houses with your neighbors for 48 hours and re-design one room of their home with $1000.00, one carpenter, one designer and all of the elbow-grease supplied by you, your spouse or friend, and the designer. Of course, you can't go back to your house until it's finished.
Then, you get to see what they've done to your once-lovely room and decide which things you are going to change immediately. Sometimes you cry, sometimes you laugh, sometimes you want to kill the designer.
To: HairOfTheDog; RMDupree; g'nad
I am not sure whether to be more deeply disturbed that there is such a personality test, or that you know where to find it! I'd rather be Amy Wynn that Doug...
If any one of the designers is "elfish" it would be Doug, and of course the new guy...Edward...
To: ksen
Basically, you switch houses with your neighbors for 48 hours and re-design one room of their home with $1000.00, one carpenter, one designer and all of the elbow-grease supplied by you, your spouse or friend, and the designer. Of course, you can't go back to your house until it's finished.
Then, you get to see what they've done to your once-lovely room and decide which things you are going to change immediately. Sometimes you cry, sometimes you laugh, sometimes you want to kill the designer.
To: Sam Cree
Hi, Sam, welcome back from your trip!
I'm with you, I'm not sure I buy all of the numeric relationships that the Pyramids are supposed to have either... I agree with you, if you fudge measurements and keep dividing/combining you can get pretty much any numerical relationship you want to get.
However, I do agree with one of the themes of the book, which is that the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are actually a lot older than current archaelogy gives them credit for. The theory of dating the Sphinx to the last zodiacal age of Leo makes a lot of sense to me, for instance.
I didn't know that about sunflowers, but I once read a book about Chaos Theory. I wasn't able to follow a lot of the math, but I did learn from it that a lot of natural processes follow "chaotic" patterns. That is, a lot of what seems chaotic in nature actually follows a complex number sequence or formula, such as the Fibbonacci sequence. Very interesting stuff!
To: ksen; Corin Stormhands; HairOfTheDog
To: RMDupree
What the...?
Gremlins and the double post.
To: Sam Cree; HairOfTheDog; ksen; RMDupree
To: g'nad
I have no idea... Corin, who is this?... No way you came out as Ty. He's the cool one. He's one of the carpenters. Amy Wynn is the other.
I shoulda manipulated the test a little better.
To: Corin Stormhands
No way you came out as Ty. He's the cool one I answered the questions straight up...I don't know anything about the show so how could I manipulate?...
you're just jealous cuz my coolness and your femininity have been exposed...
To: Sam Cree
I never heard of it either, Kevin. Me either.
Lunch time....mmmmm....Bambi chili.
To: Corin Stormhands
[giggling]
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Thank you
the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are actually a lot older than current archaelogy gives them credit for
Yes, I agree that he's convincing on that. Just the radically different building styles would make you think so, not to mention the traditional and documentary evidence. I wonder what Blam's opinion is.
I hadn't known that Charleston is such a beautiful and historical city. I have a new respect for South Carolina. I might actually take my wife there for a weekend, I'm pretty sure she'll want to go on the ghosts of Charleston tour.
To: Corin Stormhands
To: g'nad
I was just thinking that sitting perfectly still, hidden up in a tree, with a bow, sounds like something an elf might do.
I spend a lot of time doing that also, though I'm not skilled enough to use a bow, I prefer my black powder rifle.
I agree that you are a dwarf, though. But, come to think of it, Gimli and Legolas were best of friends.
To: HairOfTheDog; 2Jedismom
Okay, speaking of changing the subject...
2JM, my wife got an email this weekend from a mom concerned about the short story list for her 10th grade class. The mom doesn't want her daughter reading Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne because she gets nightmares.
My wife wrote her back and told her "you can't teach American lit without Poe and Hawthorne."
The woman didn't complain about Faulkner...
To: Corin Stormhands
Oh please. If a sophomore in High School can't handle Edgar Allen Poe in this day and age, with movies like Scream and Hannibal that they all go to see with their friends anyway, there's obviously something wrong with the daughter of this woman.
More likely than not, the daughter doesn't want to strain her brain reading Poe or Hawthorne so she concocted her "nightmare story" so that mommy would save her from the evil Homework Boogy Man.
To: Corin Stormhands
I guess Steven King would be out of the question then....
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