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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: Scott from the Left Coast; All
Desperation may be the key tactic to this!

LOL! Maybe so... I've seen some pretty desperate posting taking place when there are 3 or 4 going after the Precious at the same time!

Well, I'm going to take my triple-naught Precious and call it a night... good night all!

37,021 posted on 10/24/2002 7:21:56 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear
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To: Sam Cree
I believe the asthma and respiratory problems she fought helped her to develop her personality, which is the type that won't easily give up.

I can believe that. Our son was born 10 weeks early and weighed 2.5 lbs. For the first year we dealt with acid reflux, so we spent that whole year smelling like spit-up. The asthma is also related to being premature.

But he's been spunky from the beginning. He was delivered early because of my wife's blood pressure. She was in the hospital a week before he was delivered and had to wear the fetal heart monitor. But he didn't like it so he'd kick until it moved...which also meant they could no longer hear his heart beat...

That's pretty much his personality.

I know he can still do great things in spite of, or even because of asthma. We're adapting, but we've still got a lot to learn.

37,022 posted on 10/24/2002 8:31:14 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: 2Jedismom; HairOfTheDog; JenB; Bear_in_RoseBear; SuziQ; RosieCotton; ksen; g'nad; Sam Cree; ...
Josh and I have been watching the movie and eating popcorn.

I watched part of the movie tonite and then had to go to rehearsal. If I can stay awake I may go finish it.

But I noticed something tonite I hadn't before. When Bilbo drops the ring on his floor as he's leaving the Shire, the ring falls to the floor with a loud thud rather than a "ping" you would normally get from dropping a ring on a tile surface.

Symbolic of the ring's nature or sound-fx mistake?

Discuss...

37,023 posted on 10/24/2002 8:37:58 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear; Sam Cree
And it's Corin who's not supposed to eat ice cream, not me!

$#$%@, caught again....

37,024 posted on 10/24/2002 8:39:31 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Sam Cree
Congrats Sam!
37,025 posted on 10/24/2002 8:40:44 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Sam Cree
I just opened a letter, two of my drawings have been "selected for exhibition" for the "64th Annual National Exhibition of American Paintings and Photography" by the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, whoever they are.

Mazel Tov, Sam!! What a talented group we have here in the Hobbit Hole!!

37,026 posted on 10/24/2002 8:40:56 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ; All
Thanks for saving me from a funkle Suzi! Now I'm gonna hit the bed. G'nite all!
37,027 posted on 10/24/2002 8:44:03 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
the ring falls to the floor with a loud thud rather than a "ping" you would normally get from dropping a ring on a tile surface.

I think I saw something about that in one of the 'making of' videos on the DVD. It is supposed to represent the evil in the ring; the heaviness of all the malice of the Dark Lord. Or something like that!

37,028 posted on 10/24/2002 8:45:03 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Corin Stormhands
Symbolic of the ring's nature or sound-fx mistake?

They definitely meant for that. Notice the same heavy thud when Gollum drops it in the prologue. I read that they put a big magnet under the floor to make it seem heavier and to eliminate any possible bounce.

37,029 posted on 10/24/2002 8:46:41 PM PDT by ecurbh
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To: ecurbh; SuziQ
Thanks. That's what I figured. I just hadn't noticed it before...of course I think this was the first time I watched it without the thirteen-year-old...maybe I could concentrate.

G'nite again. Gotta sleep...

37,030 posted on 10/24/2002 8:56:57 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
It had to fall that way to be true to the book. I was looking for it the first time I saw the movie.
37,031 posted on 10/24/2002 9:06:52 PM PDT by DonnerT
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To: JenB
It's really, really not good policy to announce in history class that the test was easy, the class shallow, and the coursework a waste of time...

See? That's one reason I wouldn't go back to school now. I'm ornery enough now to tell those professors what I think of their courses. :)

37,032 posted on 10/25/2002 3:11:34 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: All
Good Morning, everyone. It's Friday!! And we get a whole extra hour this weekend.
37,033 posted on 10/25/2002 3:28:29 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
And we get a whole extra hour this weekend.

yeah...but you have to get up an hour earlier to hunt...

G'mornin' OT, good ta see yer smilin' face

37,034 posted on 10/25/2002 4:30:29 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: SuziQ; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed; HairOfTheDog; ItsOurTimeNow
Won't a sock full of sand achieve the same purpose?

no ma'am... a sock full of sand spreads out the impact over too large an area to break a large bone... good for causing non lethal contusions, or, if applied to the side of the head, can knock a person out... it would crush a nose, knock out teeth or split an eye, but you'd have a hard time fracturing the cranium... you might cause a hemotoma inside the cranium, but we wouldn't want that... the subject would lose conciousness too quickly...

37,035 posted on 10/25/2002 4:49:39 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad

37,036 posted on 10/25/2002 4:52:49 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: g'nad
I was thinking of you yesterday while watch a program about vigilantes on The History Channel yesterday. :)
37,037 posted on 10/25/2002 4:54:09 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
I was thinking of you yesterday while watch a program about vigilantes on The History Channel

now why would a program on vigilantes make you think of g'nad?...

37,038 posted on 10/25/2002 5:00:55 AM PDT by g'nad
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To: g'nad
now why would a program on vigilantes make you think of g'nad?...

Dunno....funny isn't it? :)

37,039 posted on 10/25/2002 5:02:25 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: carton253
Hey Smeagol, how did the mid-term go last nite...btw, feel free to kick yer prof in the family jewels and tell him it's from me...
37,040 posted on 10/25/2002 5:05:17 AM PDT by g'nad
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