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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: Paul Atreides
All the possible reasons are like grasping at straws!
I have taken them up on every other opportunity they have provided to take my money, and they are missing a good one here! :~D
Sure is quiet in the Hobbit Hole today....
To: HairOfTheDog
Sure is quiet in the Hobbit Hole today.... Aaaaaaggghhhhh!!
The power supply for my notebook died this morning! Gasp....gasp.....must...establish....computer connection!
Aahhh....desktop, sweet desktop.
To: Overtaxed
Problems today huh?
I should be outside clearing a place in the barn for a cabinet my brother is bringing down. Lazy is winning!
To: HairOfTheDog; Overtaxed; Paul Atreides
I hope this doesn't spoil next year. I was gonna call the manager to our local theatre and see if we could arrange to have a theatre rented out and show all three films.
35,644
posted on
10/20/2002 12:26:49 PM PDT
by
ksen
To: ksen
Yeah - It never occured to me that films are "pulled" and can't be shown. We can always small-screen the first two on DVDs.... maybe even rent one of those projectors that run off a PC.... but a pretty-good TV might give us a better picture than those projectors would give us. We'd have to check it out. I have access to one at work.
We are easy to please! Any ol' TV will do in a pinch!
To: HairOfTheDog
Yep! Problems.
I had a loose connection in the power supply line somewhere. I used to get by just jiggling the cord around. The jiggle thing didn't work anymore so I had to buy a new one.
To: Overtaxed
Yes, resorting to jiggling is often a solution that doesn't work forever. ;~D
Jiggling worked when the sound was going out on my old TV for over a year, though! Till one day when it would make sound no more.
To: HairOfTheDog
It would have to happen away from home. It would be rude to just leave early in the morning without saying good-bye.
To: HairOfTheDog
And that would have been neat. Hard on the butt, but neat!The best theaters in which to do the showing of the old and the new would be the ones that have tables and chairs so you can have wings and pints while watching! Then have a nice intermission between the two!
To: Paul Atreides
Could it be that they are afraid it might hurt the sales of the Special Edition DVD coming out? I can't imagine it hurting sales at all. I would think that any who would be willing to sit through BOTH movies at the same time would be such Tolkien geeks (present company included!!!) that they would already own BOTH the original and Extended versions of the DVD!
To: ksen
I don't know this for certain, but sometimes you can buy movie reels, I believe - I have a friend whose college anime club just bought the reels of
Spirited Away, so I assume you can do it somehow. Do these theaters have to turn in the films, or destroy them, or just stop showing them?
Gee, it would be really fun to rent a theatre like you suggest. How expensive, though?
35,651
posted on
10/20/2002 12:47:09 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: HairOfTheDog
We can always small-screen the first two on DVDs.... maybe even rent one of those projectors that run off a PC.... We used my brother in law's parish equipment one year for our reunion. He had one of those pull down screens (about 4' X 6') which we used with a projector run through a DVD player. It was great!
To: SuziQ; HairOfTheDog
Those projectors are great. I can't promise anything but... my dad owns one and I might, maybe, be allowed to borrow it. Depends. We'll see.
I'll be around later this evening. Have fun til then!
35,653
posted on
10/20/2002 12:57:40 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: HairOfTheDog; Overtaxed
Hi? Isn't anyone here? Or am I loopy with cough syrup and not seeing anyone when really there are lots and lots of hobbits here?
35,654
posted on
10/20/2002 5:23:22 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB; HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton
Where's the dot in the black for a certain nameless sneak who stole Rosie's Birthday Precious?
I think his is the dot that has the long pointer going down into the darkness!
Down, down, down into darkness...
You never know what you'll find online…
Yikes! Are you serious? I guess damage control takes on a whole impossibly new dimension.... I seriously underestimated the sense of humor quotient here and I am very sorry. I do that in "real" life too, so this feels eerily familiar. Suffice it to say I will not try for a "precious" EVER again! And I will try to find a way to crawl back into the light of your good graces...
To: JenB
We aren't here... In fact, you may not even really be here!
To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
Awww Vin.... Don't take it so hard.... by next week, we will have someone new to pick on... could be g'nad, could be me, though I can't imagine the grounds!
Did you have a nice weekend?
To: HairOfTheDog
Vin Win Vim.... Sorry master Dwarf for the typo!
To: HairOfTheDog
Not too bad. Watching a very sad movie with the family now, "Captains Courageous", so maybe that is influencing my mood. I do tend to take "things" hard. But it is nice to know where you stand in the firmament....
To: rightwingreligiousfanatic; JenB
On the bright side, I finished the Silmarillion and am absolutely enraptured by the incredible richness of the stories there. Will have to read and re-read it now that I feel like I "get" it. Now I'm reading Peace Like a River by Leif Enger. It's very fun so far, in a quirky Garrison Keilloresque sort of way....
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