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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: carton253
The only gunshots I have ever heard was when I was in the West Bank in Israel.

I'd be happy to remedy that...

42,721 posted on 11/20/2002 11:22:09 AM PST by g'nad
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To: carton253
very good Smeags... here... have another fish...


42,722 posted on 11/20/2002 11:23:26 AM PST by g'nad
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To: g'nad; Corin Stormhands
the words "probe" and "crap" just do not belong in the same sentence...

Oops! Sorry 'bout that....how about "Tissumizer probe?" No. That's not much better. :)

42,723 posted on 11/20/2002 11:24:10 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Corin Stormhands
I'd be just as happy not to talk about it at all...

that's right... yer over 40... you get the roto-rooter treatment from the docs...

42,724 posted on 11/20/2002 11:24:36 AM PST by g'nad
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To: Overtaxed; Corin Stormhands
how about "Tissumizer probe?" No. That's not much better...

yer right about that...

42,725 posted on 11/20/2002 11:25:45 AM PST by g'nad
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To: g'nad
No thanks... just had taters and a pork chop for lunch. Can I let you in on a little secret. Smeagol doesn't like fish. It tastes fishy.

And you didn't ask who was firing at poor Smeagol on the West Bank...

42,726 posted on 11/20/2002 11:26:19 AM PST by carton253
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To: g'nad; Corin Stormhands
How about "probe", "crap", and "Elrond" in the same sentence?
42,727 posted on 11/20/2002 11:26:46 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: carton253
And you didn't ask who was firing at poor Smeagol on the West Bank

didn't have to... I figured it was open season on Smeagols in the Holy Land...

Really? Shootin' at you?

42,728 posted on 11/20/2002 11:28:14 AM PST by g'nad
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To: Overtaxed
How about "probe", "crap", and "Elrond" in the same sentence?

Got no problem with that... that combination sounds great together...

42,729 posted on 11/20/2002 11:29:09 AM PST by g'nad
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To: g'nad
No... they didn't even know I was there. I was part of a mission team, and we were helping out at the only Christian Church in the West Bank.

Anyway, the women were taking a break... and you could hear all this gun fire. I wasn't scared or anything. It was the first and last time I've heard actual gun fire.

There was also a bus bombing not far from where I lived in East Jerusalem.

The danger is there... it stays in the back of your mind... but you just go on.

42,730 posted on 11/20/2002 11:30:29 AM PST by carton253
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To: John Farson; HairOfTheDog
BTW, has anyone mentioned those strange Kinder egg commercials?

Oooh! I wants, I wants I wants! Kinder eggs are cool in any case, but WHOA!

For those of you who haven't seen them before, they're chocolate eggs (pretty thin chocolate) which break apart on the center line, and then inside there's a plastic container (kind of like those bubble containers they use for toys in vending machines) with a toy inside. I had quite a collection when I was in Germany since I used to pick up two or three a week.

You couldn't see what was inside - no indication - and there were usually several different series' of toys going at once. Some the toys were surprisingly high quality for what you would expect to find in a fairly inexpensive candy. Metal figurines and such. I would send a big crate of them to my younger siblings for Christmas, and they had complete sets for some series', I think.

At one point a few years back (maybe five years ago now), there was an effort to start importing them into the states, but someone decided they were daaaaaangerous because you had to open the chocolate rather than just stick the whole thing in your mouth or someone could choke. This in spite of the fact that they're marked all over the place with stuff saying "not for children under age 3" or something along those lines.

You can still get them in Canada, but they aren't the German ones, so I doubt they have LOTR ones. But I wants!

42,731 posted on 11/20/2002 11:30:52 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: carton253
Who would fire upon poor Smeagol?

Seriously, what happened there?

42,732 posted on 11/20/2002 11:32:14 AM PST by RMDupree
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To: carton253
That sounds scary enough for me.

Just the fact that you dared help fellow Christians marks you as a target in the pyschos minds.

42,733 posted on 11/20/2002 11:34:42 AM PST by RMDupree
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To: g'nad
Durin' Boromir's last stand, when he's got two arrows hangin' outta his chest, the Horn of Gondor is whole, but when we see him drop two his knees after the third (creased the lung and probably damaged the Renal artery) the Horn is clearly cloven... I didn't see anything the last two Uruks he dispatched did that would account fer that... comments?...

I have no comments, but I'm glad I'm not the only person to wonder about this. I'm happy they DO show the cloven horn, but I can't figger out how it got that way!

42,734 posted on 11/20/2002 11:34:51 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RMDupree
The uncloven Horn of Gondor went the way of Gandalf's original staff! LOL!!

It's on sale at Tolkien Town for the low, low price of $199.95....

C'mon down to Tolkien Town!

42,735 posted on 11/20/2002 11:36:14 AM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic
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To: ksen
I'm thinking the fall of Numenore. The Numenoreans were a perfectly ok bunch until Sauron came along and led them little by little down the path of darkness. Next thing you know they're worshiping the shadow and waging war in every direction, driven by greed for riches and eternal life like the elves which ultimately leads to their fall.
42,736 posted on 11/20/2002 11:37:29 AM PST by Lil'freeper
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To: Overtaxed
I have at least 2000 words of crap to get out this afternoon. My two little sisters are here all evening, plus I have choir practice, so won't have time tonight. And I'm gonna be gone all day tomorrow. Grrrr! Wish I could buckle down and just WRITE, but I'm not good at that.

On the bright side, this morning I contacted about every place in town who might potentially employ me.

On the not so bright side, they all said "sorry, nothing right now".

42,737 posted on 11/20/2002 11:37:42 AM PST by RosieCotton
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To: carton253
I've been shot at my share of times... pretty soberin' when you realize the other guy is shootin' at you... but I'm a Marine, I get paid fer that... you shouldn't have to deal with that kinda stuff...

Good on yuh fer the Missionary Work...

42,738 posted on 11/20/2002 11:38:57 AM PST by g'nad
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To: RosieCotton
For those of you who haven't seen them before, they're chocolate eggs (pretty thin chocolate) which break apart on the center line

They have something like that here in the States by Disney. They're called Wonder Balls.

Chocolate balls scored in the center, you break them open and they have Disney-character shaped sweet tarts inside with either a sticker or tattoo of a matching film character.

You never know what Disney movie you will find inside. My daughter loves them (even though I cannot STAND Eisner and the filth he has dragged Disney into).

These Kinder eggs sound far more fascinating, but unfortunately, the USA has become rather wimpified and everything is for the chillllrrrun.

42,739 posted on 11/20/2002 11:39:09 AM PST by RMDupree
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To: carton253
The danger is there... it stays in the back of your mind... but you just go on.

It amazes me the way Isrealis have done just that all these years. They just live their lives. I have another friend who also lived in Isreal for a time, and her adult children are still there. They have my respect.

42,740 posted on 11/20/2002 11:40:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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