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

Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by 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.


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To: ecurbh
I was the Smart Nerd in high school...

I was captain of our school's High School Quiz Bowl team my senior year. This was a TV show put on by the local PBS station; 4 person teams from each high school in the region, competing to buzz in and answer questions. I was a member of the team my junior year, and captain my senior year.

By the fourth time I was on TV I had learned that I could wear tennis shoes with my suit, since our feet never appeared on camera...
60,681 posted on 07/30/2003 10:29:03 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (13 days to I-Day!)
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To: HairOfTheDog; Bear_in_RoseBear; Corin Stormhands

Here's To The Losers

 

Written by:  Robert Wells

Written by:  J. Segal

Arranged By:  Marty Paich

Album Title:  The Reprise Collection, Disc 2

Label:  Reprise Records

Recorded:  July 31, 1963

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Here's to those who love not too wisely, know not wisely, but too well

To the girl who sighs with envy when she hears that wedding bell

To the guy who'd throw a party if he knew someone to call

Here's to the losers, bless them all

 

Here's to those who drink their dinners when that lady doesn't show

To the girl who'll wait for kisses underneath that mistletoe

To the lonely summer lovers when the leaves begin to fall

Here's to the losers, a-bless them all

 

Hey, Tom, Dick and Harry, come in out of the rain

Those torches you carry must be drowned in champagne

 

Here's the last toast of the evening, here's to those who still believe

All the losers will be winners, all the givers shall receive

Here's to trouble-free tomorrows, may your sorrows all be small

Here's to the losers, bless them all

 

MUSICAL INTERLUDE

 

Hey, Tom, Dick and Harry, come in out of that rain

Those torches you carry must be drowned in champagne

 

Here's the last toast of the evening, here's to those who still believe

All the losers will be winners, all the givers shall receive

Here's to trouble-free tomorrows, may your sorrows all be small

Here's to the losers, here's to the losers, here's to the losers

Bless them all!


60,682 posted on 07/30/2003 10:29:06 AM PDT by ecurbh
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To: Corin Stormhands
But, the school has raised their rates drastically, so now, if she continues to work, she loses money (her salary wouldn't cover three kids in this school). The answer to prayer is that b-i-l appears to be okay with her staying home.

I think this is WONDERFUL news. And I am happy for your s-i-l!

60,683 posted on 07/30/2003 10:29:06 AM PDT by Wneighbor (U.S. Troops - Best in the World!)
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To: Argh
HAHAHAHAHHHAAA! Oh that is BAAAAAAD!
60,684 posted on 07/30/2003 10:29:06 AM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
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To: RMDupree
Thanks Ruthy. I was hungry for something with good mustard!
60,685 posted on 07/30/2003 10:29:28 AM PDT by Wneighbor (U.S. Troops - Best in the World!)
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To: RMDupree
Good luck on that interview!
60,686 posted on 07/30/2003 10:29:32 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: 2Jedismom
It does seem more than luck to me. Now, if I land the job - that's called an a plus miracle!!
60,687 posted on 07/30/2003 10:30:03 AM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
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To: Corin Stormhands
EEEEKK!! Don't do that!
60,688 posted on 07/30/2003 10:30:26 AM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
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To: g'nad
I went... and made a spectacle of myself...

I wouldn't expect any less from you g'nad!

60,689 posted on 07/30/2003 10:31:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
DID ~ANYONE~ in the hobbit hole go to the prom? - Are we ALL losers? :~D

I did! I did! Of course I was class president and planned the whole thing. (It still counts as geeky.)

60,690 posted on 07/30/2003 10:31:07 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (There was this one time....at band camp....)
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To: Argh
ROTFL! You can't make this stuff up.
60,691 posted on 07/30/2003 10:31:40 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: Corin Stormhands; ecurbh
You have a phone call...

Don't answer the phone ecurbh! Quick, make a copy of that tape! Just ignore those Hollywood suits threatening to sue film pirates....YOUR LIFE IS AT STAKE, MAN!!!!

That movie is STILL one of the scariest I have seen.....

60,692 posted on 07/30/2003 10:32:11 AM PDT by ksen (HHD;FRM)
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To: HairOfTheDog
They gots to call me first! LOL!

I want the job, so I plan on getting my suit out of the car (been keeping suit, heels and hose in there in case of last minute interviews) and heading over to their office to introduce myself and give them a color copy of the resume you designed for me!

60,693 posted on 07/30/2003 10:32:35 AM PDT by RMDupree (HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I was captain of our school's High School Quiz Bowl team my senior year.

So did you have a winning record?

60,694 posted on 07/30/2003 10:32:57 AM PDT by ecurbh
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To: HairOfTheDog; ksen; g'nad; ecurbh; Bear_in_RoseBear; 2Jedismom; RMDupree
DID ~ANYONE~ in the hobbit hole go to the prom? - Are we ALL losers?

Let's just say I was going. I was co-chair of the decorations even. But I had a "spiritual" awakening of sorts and decided dancing was wrong. Screwed up the rest of my high school experience.

Took me a full nine years to get completely away from that church. Thinking what I was like and what I let them tell me is really embarrassing. But it's one of the reasons I'm so likely to fly off the handle when someone criticizes my belief system.

I've been in a cult. I know what it's like to have it control your life. I ain't never goin' back.

/confession. I've said too much already.

60,695 posted on 07/30/2003 10:33:54 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I'm going on vacation in THREE days....)
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To: Lil'freeper
I was class president

Heh, I was class treasurer... it fit in better with one of my philosophies of life: to heck with power, just give me money!

60,696 posted on 07/30/2003 10:34:49 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (13 days to I-Day!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I've been in a cult. I know what it's like to have it control your life. I ain't never goin' back.

there are those that say the Assemblies of God are a cult. lots of those. my fambly thinks i'm in a cult now.

60,697 posted on 07/30/2003 10:36:20 AM PDT by Wneighbor (U.S. Troops - Best in the World!)
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To: ksen; Corin Stormhands
That movie is STILL one of the scariest I have seen.....

I don't watch scary movies...but I made the mistake of renting that one. It was nighttime, too. I did have two of my brothers there, but...

About halfway through the movie, when we were all getting awfully tense, the TV suddenly switched off. At the exact same moment, the screen door came loose (outside) and started banging against the house. We all sat in the dark arguing over who would get up and a) close the door and b) figure out what was with the TV.

The TV ended up coming on of it's own accord. I think we practically held hands all the way to shut the door outside. And we DID manage to finish the movie. Then my brothers both went back to their apartment and left me all alone.

I didn't sleep much.

60,698 posted on 07/30/2003 10:36:25 AM PDT by RosieCotton (HHD)
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To: ksen; ecurbh
That movie is STILL one of the scariest I have seen.....

It's on my Netflix queue.

60,699 posted on 07/30/2003 10:36:41 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I'm going on vacation in THREE days....)
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To: ecurbh
So did you have a winning record?

1-1 my junior year, 2-1 my senior year. It was a lot of fun once I learned to stop being nervous.

60,700 posted on 07/30/2003 10:36:42 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (13 days to I-Day!)
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