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The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

A new road or a secret gate...

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: Lil'freeper
It is only embarrassing if you leave behind any witnesses...
5,461 posted on 12/03/2004 3:13:07 PM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Corin Stormhands

It wasn't there when I posted to that thread two weeks ago!

Sheesh, it's the day for dragging up the past. Got pinged to a thread I posted to three years ago and told I was judgemental for saying tongue studs are a sign of brain damage.


5,462 posted on 12/03/2004 3:21:53 PM PST by JenB
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To: HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton
...we went to town to get the light house...

1. To town??

2. I came home to find that my cousin has found his collection of miniature lighthouses, pictures of lighthouses he has taken himself, a sort of cloth hanging about lighthouses, and a set of dishes and a dishtowel with a lighthouse theme, and scattered them thru the apartment...

3. ...and immediately left on a delayed and therefore shortened vacation...I will now begin to execute some of my redecorating plans for the place...

Rosie, I am so glad you're OK.

5,463 posted on 12/03/2004 4:01:50 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'm shattered, but it's nothing some sleep and a good freep wouldn't cure...)
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To: JenB
You got it exactly backwards.

Brain damage is caused by tongue studs.

5,464 posted on 12/03/2004 4:04:15 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'm shattered, but it's nothing some sleep and a good freep wouldn't cure...)
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To: ExGeeEye

Why do I get the feeling your redocorating plans are a little less, oh, metrosexual?


5,465 posted on 12/03/2004 4:04:32 PM PST by JenB
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To: ExGeeEye
I came home to find that my cousin has found his collection of miniature lighthouses, pictures of lighthouses he has taken himself, a sort of cloth hanging about lighthouses, and a set of dishes and a dishtowel with a lighthouse theme, and scattered them thru the apartment...

I am sorry brought up light houses in such a casual and insensitive manner. I had no idea your situation at home.

5,466 posted on 12/03/2004 4:04:46 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: ExGeeEye

See, that's what the article I posted on was about, some chick who got brain damage from a tongue stud infection. So I said it was the other way around... and now three years later some moron drags it up again. And pings me!


5,467 posted on 12/03/2004 4:05:19 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
Actually mine have more to do with rearranging the furniture. I want the bright lamp in the dark corner of the room, thanks.

Since apartment maintenance folks are possibly in here when I'm not, my fulsome collection of weaponry will remain closeted, rather than becoming the Museum of Slaughter they so richly deserve to be :)

(Since they are all but three ex-military weapons, I can only say that Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns while I've owned them).

5,468 posted on 12/03/2004 4:11:38 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'm shattered, but it's nothing some sleep and a good freep wouldn't cure...)
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To: HairOfTheDog; JenB
Lighthouses are almost as masculinely nautical as ships, I think...never understood why they became so popular in the girly parts of stores...

One of the pieces is a ship...the Nantucket Light-Ship.

I'm going to hang some stuff of my own, but it's more militaria (my own, thank you) and ancestral photos (our mutual Gt Gt Grandpa, of Civil War fame, and his lovely wife).

5,469 posted on 12/03/2004 4:16:00 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'm shattered, but it's nothing some sleep and a good freep wouldn't cure...)
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To: JenB
So you were right and some doof read you wrong and pinged you.

Take it for what it's worth:

Not Much.

5,470 posted on 12/03/2004 4:17:20 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'm shattered, but it's nothing some sleep and a good freep wouldn't cure...)
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To: ExGeeEye

Oh - OK then.... I like lighthouses too, I thought I detected a bit of a tone in your post about them.


5,471 posted on 12/03/2004 4:17:47 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
It's just that there are so many...

...and in both common rooms...

...there's no escaping them! Augh!

:)

5,472 posted on 12/03/2004 4:19:07 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'm shattered, but it's nothing some sleep and a good freep wouldn't cure...)
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To: ExGeeEye

I can see how they could be a little overwhelming and intimidating for a guy, if overdone. ;~D


5,473 posted on 12/03/2004 4:20:26 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
...and there's something bout the sudden onslaught of them, as well...
5,474 posted on 12/03/2004 4:21:18 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'm shattered, but it's nothing some sleep and a good freep wouldn't cure...)
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To: TalonDJ; HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton; 2Jedismom
I think they are talking about more things than the spring. "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."

But then again, things always break in threes.

Whew! Rosie, glad you came out okay! Between your first wreck post and the update, I was thinking..."Oh great...Rosie doesn't need her insurance rates to double for the next three years or so.

Then again, losing a wheel while driving makes breaking a garage door spring sound like not too big a deal. :)

5,475 posted on 12/03/2004 4:23:06 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: ExGeeEye

I'm actually just amused. Not irritated. After all, it wasn't a religion forum thread ;-)


5,476 posted on 12/03/2004 4:23:25 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
:)

I have learned it's best not to irritate you...

...tho it's perversely fun to imagine the fate of those who do it.

5,477 posted on 12/03/2004 4:26:27 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'm shattered, but it's nothing some sleep and a good freep wouldn't cure...)
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To: ExGeeEye

What? Me? What have I ever done?

*Is amused*


5,478 posted on 12/03/2004 4:33:10 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
oh...nothing...

:)

...but demolish with wit and good humour* the flawed and ill-considered semantic ramparts of your foe...

*Dunno why the Brit spelling seemed most a propos...

5,479 posted on 12/03/2004 4:36:05 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'm shattered, but it's nothing some sleep and a good freep wouldn't cure...)
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To: ExGeeEye

Ah, well... and yes, the Brit spelling may be more appropriate for me. Even if my heritage wasn't 98.5% British, my humour certainly is...

Thanks for the compliment.


5,480 posted on 12/03/2004 4:38:33 PM PST by JenB
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