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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

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Still round the corner there may wait...

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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TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
KEYWORDS: fourmoreyears; keywordslackers; welovepuns
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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.


181 posted on 10/06/2004 8:38:36 AM PDT by JenB
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To: HairOfTheDog

182 posted on 10/06/2004 9:05:30 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (AAACK! Someone put blood in my caffeine system!)
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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.
183 posted on 10/06/2004 9:05:51 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Corin Stormhands

Only you...


184 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)
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To: Corin Stormhands

185 posted on 10/06/2004 9:25:47 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Halloween at the Stormhands'... ;~D


186 posted on 10/06/2004 9:29:46 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (John Kerry... Almost as presidential as Jane Fonda.)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear; Corin Stormhands
I suppose it would be very, very unladylike of me to say...look at the gourds on her!...
187 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)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Where's that pukin' pumpkin pic?


188 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)
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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...

189 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)
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To: RosieCotton; Bear_in_RoseBear; HairOfTheDog

Gives a whole new meanin' tuh "Trick or Treat"...


190 posted on 10/06/2004 9:33:08 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (AAACK! Someone put blood in my caffeine system!)
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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)
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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


192 posted on 10/06/2004 9:38:49 AM PDT by Alkhin (He thinks I need keeping in order.)
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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. ;-)

193 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)
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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.


194 posted on 10/06/2004 9:44:04 AM PDT by msdrby (remind me to drink more water)
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To: Alkhin

Don't start with me...


195 posted on 10/06/2004 9:44:32 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (AAACK! Someone put blood in my caffeine system!)
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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.


196 posted on 10/06/2004 9:45:33 AM PDT by JenB
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To: Corin Stormhands

197 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)
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To: RosieCotton; Alkhin

Yup, Han Solo. Think I was 8 when we first watched "Star Wars". Vey nice.


198 posted on 10/06/2004 9:46:37 AM PDT by JenB
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To: RosieCotton

Now that improves my morning!

I want one...


199 posted on 10/06/2004 9:46:57 AM PDT by JenB
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To: RosieCotton

spam.


200 posted on 10/06/2004 9:47:04 AM PDT by JenB
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