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The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...
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Posted on 10/05/2004 3:33:41 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: RosieCotton
Sorry, it's rainy here today and that makes me grumpy. Rain when it's chilly is not fun.
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posted on
10/06/2004 8:38:36 AM PDT
by
JenB
To: HairOfTheDog
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:05:30 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(AAACK! Someone put blood in my caffeine system!)
To: JenB
One of the sub themes that occasionally shows up in anime is the attitude that only the 'strong' have the power to stand up and fight evil or change their destiny. It is an old attitude that no doubt is a hold over from samurai days which for the Japanese was only as long ago as our 'old west'. Some shows like Samurai 7 show 'normal' people starting to take a stand but there are other shows that I just have to stop watching (it bugs me too much) when the attitude that only the strong can defend themselves rears it's ugly head. It is an understandable attitude for a people that had not real concept of firearms. It is really the handheld firearm that lets any person with only the must basic training can have a reasonable change to defend themselves for any other individual no mater how big how strong or how skilled. Even in anime shows with guns you sometimes get the attitude that normal people are somehow powerless against the really powerful people.
Sorry to go off on a rant but it is a subtheme that can turn me off to an otherwise great show and it has become a pet peeve of mine.
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:05:51 AM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: Corin Stormhands
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:15:59 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
To: Corin Stormhands
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:25:47 AM PDT
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!)
To: Corin Stormhands
Halloween at the Stormhands'... ;~D
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:29:46 AM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(John Kerry... Almost as presidential as Jane Fonda.)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear; Corin Stormhands
I suppose it would be very, very unladylike of me to say...look at the gourds on her!...
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:31:22 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
To: HairOfTheDog
Where's that pukin' pumpkin pic?
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:31:53 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
To: JenB
I'd give you some of our sun...but I imagine it's even chillier.
It was about 27 when I got up this morning. Fitness hobbit chickened out...
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:33:04 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
To: RosieCotton; Bear_in_RoseBear; HairOfTheDog
Gives a whole new meanin' tuh "Trick or Treat"...
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:33:08 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(AAACK! Someone put blood in my caffeine system!)
To: Corin Stormhands
I ain't gonna touch that one...
191
posted on
10/06/2004 9:33:59 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
To: RosieCotton
Love the new digs!!! Can I put up some posters? Or will the Manly Hobbits and Manly Dwarves be offended?
See, I just got through updating my FReeper bio page...its completely plastered with pictures of Han Solo....heheheh....kinda like my room was when I was a teenager!! LOL
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:38:49 AM PDT
by
Alkhin
(He thinks I need keeping in order.)
To: Alkhin
Ah yes...Han Solo, the first guy I ever had a crush on...when I was maybe five.
I've always had a thing for self-assured, slightly sarcastic types. ;-)
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:41:31 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
To: 2Jedismom; Professional Engineer
elf-boy asks me everytime we pass the fire station if we can stop and meet the firemen. So, he has two days coming up where he doesn't have school. I called the fire station administration and tentatively have set up a tour for him on the 19th of this month.
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:44:04 AM PDT
by
msdrby
(remind me to drink more water)
To: Alkhin
195
posted on
10/06/2004 9:44:32 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(AAACK! Someone put blood in my caffeine system!)
To: RosieCotton
Ugh. Just spent forty minutes restore a file for a moron (undergrads can be called morons) who gave us the wrong dates yesterday and complained when he didn't get the file he wanted.
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:45:33 AM PDT
by
JenB
To: Corin Stormhands
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:46:07 AM PDT
by
RosieCotton
(He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
To: RosieCotton; Alkhin
Yup, Han Solo. Think I was 8 when we first watched "Star Wars". Vey nice.
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:46:37 AM PDT
by
JenB
To: RosieCotton
Now that improves my morning!
I want one...
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posted on
10/06/2004 9:46:57 AM PDT
by
JenB
To: RosieCotton
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10/06/2004 9:47:04 AM PDT
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JenB
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