The New Hobbit Hole

[RMDupree]

Sorry, Corin!

Apologizing in advance for my next snaig - hopefully sntached from your grasp! HAHAHAHAA!

[John Farson]

An interesting article in the LA Times:

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"The films were well underway before we came into government," Clark says. "It was a giant loophole and actually cost the government and taxpayers a ton of money."

Jackson bristles at this. "It's like you're running to the finishing line and you shoot yourself in the foot," he says. "New Zealand can earn serious money, and the situation is not being assisted by shutting down tax breaks, especially considering what Australia and Canada can offer. I think it's an appalling piece of policy."

Still, it's clear that Jackson has become a national treasure here. "You can't overestimate what Peter has done," Harley says. "He's changed the scale of people's ambitions."

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Jackson doesn't sound like a liberal to me!

[RMDupree]

Jackson states:...and the situation is not being assisted by shutting down tax breaks...

You said: Jackson doesn't sound like a liberal to me!

I respond: I agree with your assessment wholeheartedly! :)

[vikingchick]

Here's the link: First editions of LOTR Trilogy worth $43,000......abebooks

Wow!

[Sam Cree]

"Like a muscle-car with wings!"

You, as a pilot, would know more about this than me, but those fighters with radial engines had, I believe, two complete rows of radial cylinders, one right behind the other...alot of power there, almost like having 2 motors on the nose. No wonder they make a cool noise. They are loud.

Do you happen to know how many cylinders would typically be in this kind of an engine?

Oh, I just looked it up, 2 rows of 9 cylinders, for a total of 18, generating 2000 hp. The thing could fly at 426 mph. First one in service, May 1941. Could reach 40,000 ft.\

[John Farson]

If you like bands with odd instrumentation check out Flogging Molly. They are a celtic/punk band. They've posted a video here. (those on low-bandwidth connections can listen here)

[HairOfTheDog]

Ahh! - I was about to cut and paste your mail message! - Wow! is right! - Any Hobbit Hole dwellers siting on a pot of gold?

[HairOfTheDog]

Not a liberal when it comes to his hard-earned money! - Heavy taxation of honest work has converted more than a few! I can sympathize with him (I think, even though I am not nearly in his tax bracket!).

[g'nad]

You are the sweetest guys I know.

hey! what about stinky?... (sniff)

[HairOfTheDog]

We had one radial plane at school, a DeHavilland Beaver, the workhorse of the Alaska trade, though ours was on wheels. Huge loud powerful rattletrap it was! - Like stumping in a Hum-Vee!

Radial engines leak oil like crazy. Running or not. Heh. And when they sit, all the oil drains to the bottom cylinder... so before starting her up, we had to top off the oil and hand-turn the prop a couple times to pre-lube everything.

[HairOfTheDog]

You are in a whole 'nother category g'nad!

I love y'all today, you know that!

[ksen]

Clark probably figures any money that doesn't come into the government as costing the government and the taxpayers "a ton of money." PJ should just pick up shop and move.

[Lil'freeper]

From what I understand our own States could learn this tax lesson, too. Aren't our own policies driving production companies to Canada? It seems like everything is filmed up there these days.

[g'nad]

Love yuh too Hair... yer quite a woman... horses, guns, planes, red meat, Tolkien...

I'm draftin' a post about somethin' that happened to me the other day... I'm thinkin' the title should be Things not to say to a State Trooper at a checkpoint, or maybe just "I thought I was gonna die...

[HairOfTheDog]

Both of those are excellent titles! - I can't wait for the story behind them!

[HairOfTheDog]

'Gollum's Song' Music Video!
12/09/02, 12:34 pm EST - Xoanon

Take a look at the 'Gollum's Song' music video! The Emil'ana Torrini song is featured on 'The Two Towers' Soundtrack (out in North America December 10th). The video features a whole assortment of clips from TTT, nothing new unfortunately, but here it is! (right-click "Save Target As")

-LARGE (11.8MB)
-MED (2.2MB)
-SMALL (970K)

[HairOfTheDog]

I have now seen it.... It is a collection of scenes from the first two trailers... not necessarily pertaining to the song. :~\

[Sam Cree]

"Joshua after 9/11, because he was afraid to go out in the backyard for fear a plane would hit him"

'Course I worry alot that, because the U.S. is being threatened mortally by Islamist terror, that all Western civilization is also threatened. But what really gets to me emotionally is that that also means that at some level, perhaps very directly, the physical lives of my children, as well as their freedom and happiness are also being threatened.

[Sam Cree]

I was fishing with a couple guys in my club over the weekend, nice guys, but on the left politically (liberals, I guess), and they let me know that they don't really feel that America is being seriously threatened. Makes me think that shortsightedness or maybe blindness is part of being a liberal.

[carton253]

Benjamin Netanyahu would say that your friends in the golf club's understanding of history goes to breakfast...