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The Hobbit Hole XXV - Fare you well! Fare you well!
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Posted on 10/15/2005 7:13:08 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Fare you well! Fare you well!

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: JenB

So how long do we have to wait for a Robby the Robot who can manufacture fine bourbon?


3,341 posted on 11/01/2005 6:42:01 PM PST by Overtaxed (It was a dark and stormy night)
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To: Lil'freeper

Does that say you wrote 4735 words today? Wow!


3,342 posted on 11/01/2005 6:42:04 PM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Overtaxed

Well, if you program it to make bourbon, not that long. If you program it to tend bar and provide intelligent conversation, well...


3,343 posted on 11/01/2005 6:42:51 PM PST by JenB (NaNoWriMo Word Count: 3,800)
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To: ExGeeEye
Heh... I remember when the first pics of the Martian sky sent back from the first Viking lander came out in shades of blue. Turned out NASA/JPL had applied the wrong color filter to the photos, and they had to re-do them all to get red.
3,344 posted on 11/01/2005 6:45:24 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear
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To: TalonDJ; Bear_in_RoseBear; JenB; Overtaxed; All
"Life? Don't talk to me about life."

"I've seen it; it's rubbish."

'Night all.

3,345 posted on 11/01/2005 6:48:49 PM PST by ExGeeEye ("So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that's it hangin' on the shed!")
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To: JenB
He has to bottle it in pints.

Haven't you ever seen Forbidden Planet?

3,346 posted on 11/01/2005 6:52:42 PM PST by Overtaxed (It was a dark and stormy night)
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To: TalonDJ; Lil'freeper

Overachievers...gotta hate 'em. ;-)

I think I'll break 2000 and then goof off for the rest of the evening.

And Bob still hasn't finished his flashback, so that's good, I guess.

Poor Bob...dumped for the evening in mid-flashback.


3,347 posted on 11/01/2005 6:56:11 PM PST by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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To: Overtaxed; JenB
Haven't you ever seen Forbidden Planet?

It's a classic... one of the best SF movies of the 50s & 60s.

3,348 posted on 11/01/2005 6:57:07 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear
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To: RosieCotton

I've made it to 2432.

The badger has appeared. :-D


3,349 posted on 11/01/2005 6:59:34 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RMDupree

I think I'll have a badger named Guido - kill two birds with one stone.

Bob is still reading his scam e-mail. I'm tryin' to get the wording right.


3,350 posted on 11/01/2005 7:00:48 PM PST by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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To: RMDupree

What's the target number of words again?


3,351 posted on 11/01/2005 7:02:01 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: Ramius

50k.

*grimaces*


3,352 posted on 11/01/2005 7:09:44 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RMDupree

Well... yer well on the way. If you need a few more at the last minute you just make somebody sing "La la la la la la la la..." and "la la la la la la..." over and over again...

:-)


3,353 posted on 11/01/2005 7:17:29 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: Ramius

*laughing*

Well, it's better than writing "She was very, very, very upset at the very, very, very late guest to her very, very ,very important party."


3,354 posted on 11/01/2005 7:19:15 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: RMDupree

Taken in small bites, it isn't so bad, though.

Of course, I may be singing a different tune by week three. That's typically when I begin to question why I think I can write even daily communication type stuff, let alone interesting stories.

OK, up to 2100. May or may not write more tonight. I'm trying to resist the urge to edit...


3,355 posted on 11/01/2005 7:21:00 PM PST by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
That sounded really old, until I realized I'm almost as old as that...

I AM older than that! ;o) I remember hearing that when I was a teenager.

3,356 posted on 11/01/2005 7:21:35 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Ramius

La la la la llama?


3,357 posted on 11/01/2005 7:21:36 PM PST by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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To: RosieCotton

I'm hoping something exciting comes up soon or I'll bore myself to tears.


3,358 posted on 11/01/2005 7:22:43 PM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
"They're Coming To Take Me Away".

An earworm I DON'T need!

3,359 posted on 11/01/2005 7:23:03 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: RMDupree

My trouble is that I *like* setting up a story...description and general character introduction is fun. But after I'm done that, I generally have one or two plot points I wanna hit, and then an ending...and nothing in between. So I ramble, and bore even myself to tears. Which is why my little sister's story last year ended up at over 60k, for a story that really should be more like 35k. Ugh.

Posted my excerpt. Now get to read other folks'. ;-)


3,360 posted on 11/01/2005 7:25:21 PM PST by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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