The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition

Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)

Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.

[ksen]

Hi LCS, good to see you! I hope I haven't missed you yet.

Bear is trying to fill in for you and he has Thread Implosion Day (I-Day) scheduled for 8/14/03.

[My back yard]

Athelas. (the word I've been trying to remember all morning.)

[ksen]

Rats, I think I missed him....

[HairOfTheDog]

If you're gonna sleep this late, you are gonna miss a few mini-dramas.

[ksen]

Athelas.

?

Ok, I'll play......um.......!

Barbisol!

[ksen]

Heh, I wish I was sleepin' this late.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Time to get the pumpkin pie ready...?

[2Jedismom]

Oh I hope so!!!

Keep me posted!

[mstar]

"Athelas..'kingsfoil', it's a weed...it may help to slow down the poisoning."

I think I could use some Athelas. Dentist just called to let me know he just reviewed my x-rays from the dential exam last week and I need work on a decaying root canel. I'm not happy. That and the linky cabinets...I need a vacation.

[ksen]

Looks like a new word is about to enter the FR lexicon: "Spefic."

[trini]

"Spefic" would fit nicely in the keywords... :-)

[SuziQ]

SINCE WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY RECENT PICTURES

Yeah, yeah, love those subtle hints! ;o)

[Corin Stormhands]

Stop reading other threads!!!! We're still down 2,200 posts!!!

(okay, read the other threads, but make 'em follow you back here to post)

[mstar]

"canal"..if the "Spelling Nazis" are here, I'll just leave. Go watch paint dry or something. It's more comforting.

[HairOfTheDog]

CART MASTER:

Bring out your dead!

[clang]

CUSTOMER:

Here's one.

CART MASTER:

Ninepence.

DEAD PERSON:

I'm not dead!

CART MASTER:

What?

CUSTOMER:

Nothing. Here's your ninepence.

DEAD PERSON:

I'm not dead!

CART MASTER:

'Ere. He says he's not dead!

CUSTOMER:

Yes, he is.

DEAD PERSON:

I'm not!

CART MASTER:

He isn't?

CUSTOMER:

Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.

DEAD PERSON:

I'm getting better!

CUSTOMER:

No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.

CART MASTER:

Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.

DEAD PERSON:

I don't want to go on the cart!

CUSTOMER:

Oh, don't be such a baby.

CART MASTER:

I can't take him.

DEAD PERSON:

I feel fine!

CUSTOMER:

Well, do us a favour.

CART MASTER:

I can't.

CUSTOMER:

Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.

CART MASTER:

No, I've got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.

CUSTOMER:

Well, when's your next round?

CART MASTER:

Thursday.

DEAD PERSON:

I think I'll go for a walk.

CUSTOMER:

You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn't there something you can do?

DEAD PERSON: [singing]

I feel happy. I feel happy.

[whop]

CUSTOMER:

Ah, thanks very much.

CART MASTER:

Not at all. See you on Thursday.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah, yeah, love those subtle hints! ;o)

I am ~nothing~ if not subtle! ;~D

[SuziQ]

You shoulda done that Monty Python thing in several posts. Help the implosion, so to speak.

Speaking of which, y'all be sure and leave a forwarding address when you move. I'll be in MT, and may not have a computer with internet (GASP!) so I may have to catch up with y'all when I get back on the 19th.

[Corin Stormhands]

Go watch paint dry or something.

Maybe OT could post some pics. She's having fun with colors this week:

[ksen]

I'm working on an FR Glossary. Here's what I have so far....

FR Glossary

---

1.) Spefic: Sometimes mispelled as “specific.”
2.) Series: Something that is full of gravitas.
3.) Hugh: Gigantic, event with a lot of impact, Mr. Grant’s first name.
4.) Shower: What is done just before major news is about to hit.
5.) All your…[insert word here]…belong to us: Chinese
6.) Moose: Something that bites your sister and, at times, likes cheese.
7.) Clymer: Jerk, and/or a reporter from the New York times.
8.) Vey: Sometimes translated as “very.”
9.) Bushbot: Rabidly Pro-Bush, Republican groupie. Usually recognized by their blue hair.
10.) Bush-Basher: Rabidly Anti-Bush when able to pull themselves away from consuming left over Y2K spam.
11.) Religion Wars: FRCalvinists vs. whatever group they happen upon.
12.) Bimp: Peter Seller’s “bump.”
13.) Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey: French
14.) Wine: What one does on a thread that when their argument has been demolished, sometimes served with cheese.

[My back yard]

Um, Caries.

(try a google search for Tolkien and Barbisol. hmmm, an example --

The First, or Sugar-Coated Age.

Feenamint was the greatest of the Auld Elves in arts and
lore, but was also the most stingy and unprincipled. He wrought
the Three Baubles, the Sillibilli, and filled them with maple-
sugar candy from the Two Trees, Lotsaluk and Telephon, that gave
tooth decay to the land of the Velour, Apathetic Guardians of the
World. )