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The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
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Posted on 09/02/2004 2:18:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

...Pass them by! Pass them by!

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: Wneighbor
Guess which elf in your midst just got tickets for the Ann Coulter Breakfast Briefing at the Ft. Worth Club a week from today? I am doing a happy dance. :-)

Anybody going to be taking a Hobbit Hole knife, just-in-case?

1,081 posted on 09/08/2004 6:06:40 PM PDT by 300winmag (FR's Hobbit Hole supports America's troops)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

So... Bear... how long until our millionth post?


1,082 posted on 09/08/2004 6:06:56 PM PDT by JenB (...and a heart for a pair of wings)
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To: 300winmag

If'n you're going to give Ann anything, it oughta be a cheeseburger. Or six.


1,083 posted on 09/08/2004 6:07:32 PM PDT by JenB (...and a heart for a pair of wings)
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To: JenB

ROTFL..


1,084 posted on 09/08/2004 6:11:55 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Republicans are better at balloons - It's a simple kind of competence. ~Chris Matthews)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Or cookies. Lots of cookies, and not the Hobbit Hole kind.

Ugh, I had to help someone today who looked like an Ann Coulter clone and acted like she's a rank better than the rest of us grad students (because she's a junior instructor rather than "just" an assistant) and so her problem was more important than anyone else's... I ended up laughing at her (behind her back) because her problem was something she, as the teacher for the intro Java course, should know, it was about setting up her programming enviroment!


1,085 posted on 09/08/2004 6:15:49 PM PDT by JenB (...and a heart for a pair of wings)
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To: JenB
how long until our millionth post?

Hmm, I dunno, haven't been keeping up with the statistics. It took more than two years to get to 250k though, and that was when we had a lot more posts/day.

1,086 posted on 09/08/2004 6:17:08 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (In Texas, it's called "walking".)
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To: JenB
If'n you're going to give Ann anything, it oughta be a cheeseburger. Or six.

Heh, was thinking the same thing earlier.

1,087 posted on 09/08/2004 6:18:02 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (In Texas, it's called "walking".)
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To: ExGeeEye; Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed; HairOfTheDog

Evening All; EGE: great post, it could happen you know.

Corin; Good Lord, prayers for concerned.

How you can keep that many balls in the air at one time is beyond me.

Overtaxed; sniff, LSAggie felt the same way when she gave up her KS plate for MO. Well, congrats on becoming a 'legal'.

Hair; still qualifies as a 'good landing' in my book, all the occupants of the plane walked away from it.


1,088 posted on 09/08/2004 6:29:07 PM PDT by osagebowman (HHD -)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

It's so nice to have you Hobbit Hole guys working to keep us womenfolk happy with our body-images ;-)


1,089 posted on 09/08/2004 6:30:46 PM PDT by JenB (...and a heart for a pair of wings)
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To: JenB; All

Good evening! Popping in for a few minutes before bed...seems like my life has been awfully hectic lately.


1,090 posted on 09/08/2004 6:36:33 PM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: osagebowman
*Sniff* It was the only license plate I've ever had.
1,091 posted on 09/08/2004 6:36:50 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: RosieCotton

Good evening! My life's been hectic too.

How's your reading material holding out? I wanted to suggest you give Discworld a try - start with, oh, "Guards Guards" is easy reading and starts off the most enjoyable suc-series... "Hogfather" is really good but you have to read "Soul Music" first and it's more Christmas. Terry Pratchett. You like English humor, don't you?


1,092 posted on 09/08/2004 6:40:07 PM PDT by JenB (...and a heart for a pair of wings)
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To: JenB
Checking in for a sec (I'm seriously crashing after this)

How about:

"Laurelindorenan lindelorendor malinornelion ornemalin...Taurelilomea-tumbalemorna Tumbaletaurea Lomeanor, which is what they used to say."

1,093 posted on 09/08/2004 6:42:18 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (I’ll have to check with my Zionist overlords before committing to any new cause.)
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To: Ramius
LOL--one of these days I'll tell you about the summer of '85...

As a teaser...my home, when it was new, was "the cupboard under the stairs" of that big old house...actually a sizable closet, much larger than Master Potter's.

1,094 posted on 09/08/2004 6:45:26 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (I’ll have to check with my Zionist overlords before committing to any new cause.)
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To: JenB

I finished Passage and I'm looking for something new. But...there's only one Discworld book in the Vermont Colleges library system, and it's a non-request...as in I think they don't allow you to get it via intralibrary loan. Probably paperback.

Any other suggestions? I'm still kinda in the mood for time travel, but it would have to be something quality. Wish I hadn't just finished re-reading Time and Again.


1,095 posted on 09/08/2004 6:47:10 PM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: JenB
If'n you're going to give Ann anything, it oughta be a cheeseburger. Or six.

Hmmm... Ann is single. Has good career in order... Dang! And... I can make cheeseburgers!!! It's a match!

[whew] Just in time... those yacht club fees are pretty steep...

1,096 posted on 09/08/2004 6:49:08 PM PDT by Ramius
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To: Ramius

You'll have to hire a hefty bodyguard, though.

Lotta male FReepers'll be after your hide.


1,097 posted on 09/08/2004 6:50:33 PM PDT by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: JenB; Ramius
You remind me of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, when Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett crash the airport country club and wake up a besotted Jim Backus...in flight, Jim asks for an "old-fashioned" and says "just push the button marked 'booze'."
1,098 posted on 09/08/2004 6:51:15 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (I’ll have to check with my Zionist overlords before committing to any new cause.)
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To: JenB

Dumplings. Big steaming dumplings with gravy.


1,099 posted on 09/08/2004 6:52:35 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (I’ll have to check with my Zionist overlords before committing to any new cause.)
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To: RosieCotton

What did you think of Passage? It makes me cry every time.

There's a sequel to Time and Again, you know. Can't recall the title. Michael Crichton's "Timeline" was like the poor man's version of Doomsday Book. "Lest Darkness Fall" by L. Sprague de Camp is a classic - not precisely time travel; it's a "Conneticut Yankee" genre. If you're willing to give Heinlein another try, "The Door into Summer" involves time travel (though not into history) and is a really good book, if dated.

Too bad about Discworld. "Night Watch" is a truly brilliant book, but you have to read "Guards, Guards", "Men at Arms", and "Feet of Clay" at the very least... there are a couple others that help with the understanding...

Oh, willing to try some space opera? Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles Vorkosigan" series is brilliant. If you can find it, try "Cordelia's Honor" or "The Warrior's Apprentice" (you're more likely to find this in the "Young Miles" omnibus than as a stand-alone). This series is worth the time for two of its member books, "Memory", which is run of the mill until it takes you for a rather emotional loop, and "A Civil Affair" which is... Jane Austen. As science fiction.


1,100 posted on 09/08/2004 6:54:39 PM PDT by JenB (...and a heart for a pair of wings)
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