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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Hmmm...should we buy these up for the Hobbit Hole Compound?
http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/fur/221614031.html
I'm not answering anything else.
Jelly shoes *sound* so comfortable. I remember otherwise.
Though really, although I know the list, really I was about five when all that stuff was in. So I guess I'm still *kind of* young... ;-)
Day glo ruled...
There's some lovely hilly farmland SE of here. I can just see it with a few bed/sitter-with-3/4 bath "hobbit holes" and a "Green Dragon". The theater would go there, I think.
They grow alfalfa, or something similar, out that way. The rolling terrain looks like it would be a rhymes-with-ditch on which to run any kind of farm equipment (reaper, baler, what-have-you).
I must have been a totally out of it child of the 80s because the jelly shoes and the "where's the beef" commercials.
I am curiously in pretty much the same situation.
1980 and 81 are sorta there, but foggy. 1982 is almost all gone. In fact... I'm not sure if any of the images I retain are real or fabricated. For some reason it was the last year in my life I was able to drink tequila without an instant gag reflex. I don't remember why. :-)
In 1983 I met Jim Morrison, in person, and... at least I'm pretty sure about that. The rest is kinda foggy. 84 and 85 were all about slogging through knee-deep snow to finish my degree. Again... I don't remember why.
85 to 89 all sorta run together with imagery that changes between washing pots and pans, painting big red ships, painting big white ships, and big green nasty waves crashing over my head. I do remember that stuff.
Everything since then has pretty much been a waste of time. :-)
This really ticks me off.
~Every~ single damn one of those is something I remember.
I still have a rubik's cube on my desk.
Except all of the sides are the same color.
The one way I was able to solve one of those durn things was by removing the stickers to rearrange 'em.
Having one that's one color could work, though. I *think* I could finish that kinda puzzle.
It becomes a puzzle that is at once solved and unsolved at the same moment. It's a Zen thing. I think Sun Tzu would have had one.
There's a metaphor in there somewhere. But I'm not into metaphors just now. :-)
I'm trying to decide if that's really profound and symbolic and that...or just confoosing. ;-)
That's the cool thing about Zen... it just doesn't matter. It's also a total load of cr@p.
It's all about balance and such. Force meets force, synergies from complementary energies... and whatnot.
What a load.
Everybody knows that the ultimate truth in life is to be found at the bottom of a bottle. I mean... duh!
:-)
I don't think I understand that, either.
Well, that goes without saying, of course. ;-)
*snort*
We had an exciting late afternoon. There has been a storm blowing here and the waves have been at least 6' or higher all day! It was very warm today, and we drove into Gulf Shores to pick up a package at the Post office and hit the Wally World for groceries. The sky was dark and lowering, and looking at it, it looked as though a tornado could form at any time.
When we got back, SirKit, David and I went down to the beach. The wind was blowing hard, but because the waves had been coming onshore and moving way up onto the beach, the sand was pretty well packed down. David played in the surf for a while and though we just stood there out of the water, the waves rolled over our feet, and about every other one was large enough still to splash up and soak us.
Then we went and sat in the hot tub for a while and listened to the wind howl. There has been a steady 25-30 mile wind all day, but there were some 40-50 mph gusts while we were soaking. It was just wild! Sir Kit found out later that we had been under a tornado watch all afternoon! I wasn't surprised.
Hallelujah!
I have only heard the term 'bed-sitter' in British dramas. Do they use it in your area??
Not to mention the freezing cold and snow that happens every winter!
That's terrific that you're so organized about the Precious! It will be so much easier when it comes time to reassemble it!
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