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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: ItsOurTimeNow
Maybe they braid it?I don't think it grows THAT long! But maybe they curl and perfume it?
Good morning! Doing fine here, thanks... waiting to hear about a possible job. If I don't get the one I'm hoping for, I'll be starting work on another contract next Monday... will be glad to have the unpaid vacation over with!
One of my grandfathers used to make up slightly off-color lyrics and sing them to the "Mickey Mouse Club" theme to amuse us kids, so I come by my sense of humor honestly! ;)
To: All
Have to run out and do some more errands.
Before I go, let me set out lunch for all of those who may stop in.
I've grilled some filet mignon wrapped in bacon. There is some lovely portabella mushroom sauce to smother them in if you choose.
Crisp caesar salad and fresh baked rye bread are on the right. All the dress-up stuff is next to that.
For a light lunchtime dessert, I've baked up a batch of peanut butter cookies and a pan of fudgy brownies as well.
ENJOY! Be back later!
To: g'nad
pinging you to 36,642... not sure what happened there!
To: g'nad
uhm, 34,642...
is it lunchtime yet?
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
One of my grandfathers used to make up slightly off-color lyrics and sing them to the "Mickey Mouse Club" theme to amuse us kids, so I come by my sense of humor honestly! ;) I had a couple of uncles that were the same way... regailin' me with war stories, jokes and off color songs at an early age...I miss those old-timers...
Good luck on the employment... unpaid vacations blow...can I say that?...
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
heh heh...I got it... I was kinda wunderin too...
To: g'nad
Sheesh! Rush just announced that Governor Spendenning of Maryland has banned recreational shooting in four counties until the sniper is caught...what an idiot!
To: RosieCotton
LOL...now that begs the question:
If a hobbit was born with hairless feet, or if an older hobbit begins to lose his foot-hair...would he use a toupee? Get plugs? A Foot-Merkin? LOL
To: Corin Stormhands
Governor Spendenning of Maryland ...what an idiot! ummm...yer bein' redundant...
the People's Republic of Maryland tightens the screws even tighter on law-abiding citizens...PRM has the most gun laws/regulations/controls in the U.S., and this still happened...the idea that more gun laws are needed is moronic...di di didi dii...news flash....criminals are going to get and use guns, regardless of the laws... what a friggin' loser... don't get me started...
To: g'nad
WOOOHOOO!...G'NAD THREADKILLER STRIKES AGAIN...
To: g'nad
Does the governor of Maryland actually have dictatorial powers?
To: Sam Cree
No, but it's in the "best interest of the people", so residents are expected to just sit back and accept it.
To: Sam Cree
Does the governor of Maryland actually have dictatorial powers? the Komrade Governer and the PRM Politburo sure think so... thank God I'm in VA...(fer now)...
To: g'nad; Corin Stormhands
Where have you guys been? They had that Spendenning of Maryland story posted twice last night.
To: All
Gwaihir's offspring spotted!
A super-sized bird in Alaska
By PETER PORCO
Anchorage Daily News
October 15, 2002
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A giant winged creature, like something out of Jurassic Park, has reportedly been sighted several times in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks.
Villagers in Togiak and Manokotak say they have seen a huge bird that's much bigger than anything they have seen before.
A pilot says he spotted the creature while flying passengers to Manokotak last week. He calculated that its wingspan matched the length of a wing on his Cessna 207. That's about 14 feet.
Other people have put the wingspan in a similar range.
Scientists aren't sure what to make of the reports. No one doubts that people in the region west of Dillingham have seen a very large rapto-like bird. But biologists and other people familiar with big Alaska birds say they're skeptical it's that big.
A recent sighting of the mystery bird occurred Oct. 10 when Moses Coupchiak, a 43-year-old heavy equipment operator from Togiak, 40 miles west of Manokotak, saw the bird flying toward him from about two miles away as he worked his tractor.
"At first I thought it was one of those old-time Otter planes," Coupchiak said. "Instead of continuing toward me, it banked to the left, and that's when I noticed it wasn't a plane."
The bird was "something huge," he said. "The wing looks a little wider than the Otter's, maybe as long as the Otter plane."
The bird flew behind a hill and disappeared. Coupchiak got on the radio and warned people in Togiak to tell their children to stay away.
Pilot John Bouker said he was highly skeptical of reports of "this great big eagle" that is two or three times the size of a bald eagle. "I didn't put any thought into it."
But early this week while flying into Manokotak, Bouker, owner of Bristol Bay Air Service, looked out his left window and 1,000 feet away, "there's this big ... . bird," he said.
"The people in the plane all saw him," Bouker said. "He's huge, he's huge, he's really, really big. You wouldn't want to have your children out."
Nicolai Alakayak, a freight and passenger driver from Manokotak who was flying with Bouker, said the creature looked like an eagle and was as large as "a little Super Cub."
Comparison to an eagle, certainly. Super Cub? Probably not, scientists said.
"I'm certainly not aware of anything with a 14-foot wingspan that's been alive for the last 100,000 years," said federal raptor specialist Phil Schemf in Juneau.
Schemf, other biologists, a village police officer and teachers at the Manokotak School said the sightings could be of a Steller's sea eagle, a species native to northeast Asia and one of the world's largest eagles. It's about 50 percent bigger than a bald eagle.
To: Overtaxed
They had that Spendenning of Maryland story posted twice last night. I heard it last night on FOXNews... I went off on a wild rant... my wife sat there patiently till I was done...God bless her...
To: Overtaxed
Wasn't around last nite. I just heard Rush mention it...
To: ItsOurTimeNow
A giant winged creature, like something out of Jurassic Park, has reportedly been sighted several times in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks... Isn't Alaska a little cold for a flying reptillian?...
If it's a bird...you might be onto somethin' there...how long do the great eagles live?...
To: g'nad
I went off on a wild rant... I thought it was rather humerous...like I'd like to see him enforce it.
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