The New Hobbit Hole

To: Bear_in_RoseBear

I totally agree! When I read the book, after trying to make sense of the movie, I could not believe that it was the same story. I was hooked immediately. You should stop by my Dune site, to have a look at the Dune news that we have.

http://groups.msn.com/thelandsraad

31,961 posted on 10/09/2002 11:00:20 AM PDT by Paul Atreides

Bailey's is good in tea too, isn't it?

31,962 posted on 10/09/2002 11:00:28 AM PDT by Overtaxed

To: Paul Atreides; All

I'm not in a hurry, at the moment.

Oh, darn... Uh, I mean, welcome! Help yourself! It looks like I'm elected for lunch today, so...

How does cheese omelettes, bacon, and buttered toast sound to everyone?

31,963 posted on 10/09/2002 11:00:54 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear

LOL! Now THAT would be a sight to behold!!

31,964 posted on 10/09/2002 11:01:12 AM PDT by Paul Atreides

Bailey's is good in tea too, isn't it?

I think so. I'll volunteer to find out!

31,965 posted on 10/09/2002 11:01:30 AM PDT by RosieCotton

To: rightwingreligiousfanatic

You will have to finish the original books and then start on the prequels, written by Frank Herbert's son.

31,966 posted on 10/09/2002 11:02:22 AM PDT by Paul Atreides

To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Sounds great! I'll belly up to the table.

31,967 posted on 10/09/2002 11:04:06 AM PDT by Paul Atreides

Wow. Theres a lot more to be done around here than I realized. I had to call in the snowpants crew....

31,968 posted on 10/09/2002 11:05:06 AM PDT by rightwingreligiousfanatic

To: Bear_in_RoseBear

How does cheese omelettes, bacon, and buttered toast sound to everyone?

Sounds like second breakfast........yummmm.

31,969 posted on 10/09/2002 11:05:19 AM PDT by ksen

To: rightwingreligiousfanatic

Don't look now, but I think those guys are wearing galoshes....

31,970 posted on 10/09/2002 11:06:40 AM PDT by ksen

To: Overtaxed; Corin Stormhands

It was a child, mistaking acorns for small coconuts...they do look alike.

31,971 posted on 10/09/2002 11:07:37 AM PDT by Sam Cree

To: Paul Atreides

Thanks for the link! I will check it out. :)

31,972 posted on 10/09/2002 11:10:21 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear

31,973 posted on 10/09/2002 11:11:22 AM PDT by rightwingreligiousfanatic

To: Paul Atreides; ItsOurTimeNow

Welcome!

Our door is always open!

And if you don't find anyone here, it may be because we had a big lunch and needed a nap.... Just make yourselves and home!

31,974 posted on 10/09/2002 11:11:57 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Do I have to scrub all these rocks in the back 40?

31,975 posted on 10/09/2002 11:14:18 AM PDT by rightwingreligiousfanatic

Hey 2JM, the boys feelin' better?...

31,976 posted on 10/09/2002 11:19:09 AM PDT by g'nad

To: Sam Cree; Overtaxed

It was a child, mistaking acorns for small coconuts...they do look alike.

Sorry, I knew that. I was making an obscure Monty Python reference..."you're not riding horses, you're just banging coconuts together..."

31,977 posted on 10/09/2002 11:21:00 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands

To: HairOfTheDog; Corin Stormhands

Would a 20-post sneak be out of line with company present?

Corin wanted to know.

31,978 posted on 10/09/2002 11:22:01 AM PDT by ksen

To: Sam Cree; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed

From the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail...

GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse?
ARTHUR: Yes!
GUARD #1: You're using coconuts!
ARTHUR: What?
GUARD #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together.
ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through--
GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut?
ARTHUR: We found them.
GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land.
GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.
GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!
GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.
GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
GUARD #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I'm not interested!
GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow, that's my point.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that...
ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!
GUARD #1: But then of course African swallows are not migratory.
GUARD #2: Oh, yeah...
GUARD #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...
[clop clop]
GUARD #2: Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it together?
GUARD #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
GUARD #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!
GUARD #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
GUARD #2: Well, why not?

31,979 posted on 10/09/2002 11:23:04 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear

To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Thanks Bear! I post in your general direction...

31,980 posted on 10/09/2002 11:24:15 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands

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