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The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
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Posted on 04/21/2005 6:44:57 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.

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: Corin Stormhands

Yeah, different folks, different plans. I loooove this summer already.


4,501 posted on 05/18/2005 7:40:09 PM PDT by JenB (Brain the size of a planet, and they have me opening doors...)
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To: JenB; HairOfTheDog; RMDupree; Sam Cree; g'nad; Ramius; All

g'nite

I won't be around tomorrow. Gots a bored meeting in the People's Republic of Charlottesville.

Then tomorrow night we're seeing "Contact." Part of the Broadway series we've been doing.


4,502 posted on 05/18/2005 7:42:01 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://www.cafepress.com/wardsmythe)
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To: JenB
Nooo, the SF is cheesy! Every time travel cliche' there is, almost. The visuals were state-of-the-art for 1984... just can't beat Ray Harryhausen-style stop-motion animation! ;)
4,503 posted on 05/18/2005 7:42:08 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Niters then! :-)


4,504 posted on 05/18/2005 7:43:49 PM PDT by Ramius (I'd rather be lucky than good.)
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To: Overtaxed

I had gotten it from Netflix a few months ago. I love it.


4,505 posted on 05/18/2005 7:59:28 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Ramius

We've watched all the Team America special features, and there's some vey funny stuff in there. Now it's time for the movie.


4,506 posted on 05/18/2005 8:05:17 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

You shouldn't watch it. It shouldn't be viewed by anyone.


4,507 posted on 05/18/2005 8:07:35 PM PDT by Ramius (I'd rather be lucky than good.)
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To: 2Jedismom
Don't beat yourself up about it. It'll be easier to hear it in the morning since all the 'hard-core' folks won't be there.

Our kids are going tomorrow afternoon. Joseph gets out of school at 3:45, so Paul and Clare are going to wait for him. I might just have to go with them! ;o)

4,508 posted on 05/18/2005 8:07:44 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
all the 'hard-core' folks won't be there.

Oh, but looking at all of the freaks fans is part of the fun!

Well, it is for Rose and me, anyway.

4,509 posted on 05/18/2005 8:12:15 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

But that's the beautiful thing with time travel.... see which cliches they get, which they miss. At least they didn't try to throw in causality.


4,510 posted on 05/18/2005 8:17:56 PM PDT by JenB (Brain the size of a planet, and they have me opening doors...)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Coworker and I were discussing when to go to get the most "freaks" so we can tease them. I think I'm going to pretend to be Jar-Jar Fan1....

Fans are most of the fun at any fannish event. I mean, I'm not going for the acting, after all.


4,511 posted on 05/18/2005 8:19:23 PM PDT by JenB (Brain the size of a planet, and they have me opening doors...)
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To: SuziQ; 2Jedismom

The talk around da waterin' hole is that maybe this is one that parents might wanna check out first before taking kids under... say... ten or so. I have no idea, but reports are that this one is somewhat darker than the others.

Not sure what to make of that.


4,512 posted on 05/18/2005 8:21:05 PM PDT by Ramius (I'd rather be lucky than good.)
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To: JenB; Bear_in_RoseBear

I must be about the only person on the planet that wasn't all that put off by Jar Jar. :-)

[ducking]


4,513 posted on 05/18/2005 8:22:47 PM PDT by Ramius (I'd rather be lucky than good.)
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To: Ramius

You are a sick, sick, sad excuse of a human being.


4,514 posted on 05/18/2005 8:24:18 PM PDT by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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To: RosieCotton

Yoosa not jussa whistlin dixie... :-)


4,515 posted on 05/18/2005 8:25:58 PM PDT by Ramius (I'd rather be lucky than good.)
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To: Ramius

Admitting to not minding Jar-Jar is just not something you should come out and admit in semi-polite society!


4,516 posted on 05/18/2005 8:34:56 PM PDT by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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To: JenB
I'm guessing tonight, or maybe Friday or Saturday night, would be best time for freak viewing.

My favorite time travel story appeared in a comic book, Marvel Two-in-One #50, to be precise. At the time, MTiO was a "team-up" comic, featuring the Fantastic Four's Thing (Ben Grimm) teamed up with some other Marvel hero.

At the start of the story, Ben's teammate Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) has developed a new serum to cure Ben of being The Thing. They try it out, but it fails; looking at the results, Reed ponders that it may have worked if Ben had taken it soon after his original cosmic ray-spawned mutation.

Left to himself, Ben decides to take the serum and use Dr. Doom's time machine to travel back in time, meet his earlier self, and give himself the serum. Of course, his earlier self doesn't trust a mutated monster bearing gifts, and a big fight ensues. Fortunately, the current day Ben is stronger than his earlier self (a result of his continuing mutation) so he wins and forces the serum onto his less-mutated self, curing him. Ben then travels back to the present, waiting for the change to take effect.

When he doesn't change back to human, he seeks out Reed (aka the Smartest Man in the Marvel Universe) and asks him why didn't it work? Reed responds that you can't really change the past, all you can do is spawn a new alternate timeline; that in fact, the very act of travelling into the past generates such an alternate. So, it did work, on the now-alternate-timeline Ben; present-day-Ben is stuck as he is, however.

That explanation makes so much sense to me, that I've adopted it as my personal explanation of time travel: yes, it can be done, but no, you can't really change anything, you just generate a new alternate timeline.

By the way, in Marvel Two-in-One #100, Ben travelled sideways in time to find out what happened to the Ben that he cured... it wasn't pretty at all...

4,517 posted on 05/18/2005 8:37:04 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all)
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To: RosieCotton

I know... I know... but he never really bugged me all that much. But then again... there isn't much that really bugs me. Just liberals. Beyond that... I'ma pretty eeeesy goin'. :-)


4,518 posted on 05/18/2005 8:40:26 PM PDT by Ramius (I'd rather be lucky than good.)
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To: Ramius
Heh, one of the funnier moments in South Park: The Movie is when the soldier standing next to Chef does his JarJar impersonation, just before the big battle starts.
4,519 posted on 05/18/2005 8:41:46 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

I have this theory that time travel is possible, but there is only one timeline, and it is the compendium of all time travel that has ever, or will ever, happen.

At least, that's what my future self came back to tell me, after giving up trying to fix a bunch of stuff. :-)


4,520 posted on 05/18/2005 8:44:54 PM PDT by Ramius (I'd rather be lucky than good.)
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