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The Hobbit Hole XXXI - Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!
http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ ^ | Sept 7 2006

Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!

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: SuziQ

I'm sorry, that is what I meant by dense. Lewis' books are usually not very thick, but you feel like you've had a 10 course meal after reading just one paragraph.


5,241 posted on 11/09/2006 11:26:15 PM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (Go back and do your duty even as I have done mine. I would rather die than be whipped.)
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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart

Well, you had generally more detail than I, have to post to you on one of the Middle East threads. I presume you're on one or more of those ping lists.


5,242 posted on 11/09/2006 11:31:58 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
I am just on SJackson's ping list. It's the only one I signed up for so far. If you can recommend any other, I would be very happy.

Okay, it's Friday morning here. I am off to the bank, the butcher, the store. I'm very hungry, so I need to go get breakfast.

Be back later.

5,243 posted on 11/09/2006 11:33:35 PM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (Go back and do your duty even as I have done mine. I would rather die than be whipped.)
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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart

Thanks for the book recommendations. I like historical fiction a lot. I read "Exodus", by Leon Uris years ago, but would like to pick up Wouk's books.


5,244 posted on 11/09/2006 11:36:04 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart

The ping list from Alouette is more voluminous than SJackson's -- see you at one or the other!


5,245 posted on 11/09/2006 11:49:02 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)
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To: SuziQ
Then you will love the Wouk books. There are really four in the series, but if you read The Hope and The Glory separately, it will not hurt anything, since he introduces a whole new set of characters and discards the others from the first two novels.

But in order, they should be: Winds of War, War and Remembrance, The Hope, and The Glory.

5,246 posted on 11/10/2006 12:49:04 AM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (Go back and do your duty even as I have done mine. I would rather die than be whipped.)
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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart; SuziQ
'Winds of War' and 'War and Remembrance' were both made into multi-part mini-series about 20 years ago, starring among many others Robert Mitchum, I think. They should both be available on DVD, I think.
5,247 posted on 11/10/2006 2:10:44 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I think . . .I think -- I guess I am.


5,248 posted on 11/10/2006 2:13:13 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
They were very well done. I like Jane Seymour better as Natalie than Ali McGraw and glad they made the switch.

That being said, War and Remembrance won the emmy that year for best mini-series. The emmy should have gone to Lonesome Dove.

5,249 posted on 11/10/2006 2:35:39 AM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (Go back and do your duty even as I have done mine. I would rather die than be whipped.)
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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart
'Lonesome Dove' was a masterpiece, much better than McMurtry's other stuff. It was glorious and sad, ribald and sombre, featuring people often ridiculous, brave, likable, and resilient at the same time, many with obvious and disappointing weaknesses. It was a magnificent display of the beauty and bitterness of life.
5,250 posted on 11/10/2006 2:50:35 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Wasn't it though. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones were magnificent. I spent the next six months quoting Gus McCrae a lot.

I read the book and thought it was spectacular. I did not care for any of McMurtry's other stuff either. I don't know. It was like he had only had one good novel in him. But it was a great one.

5,251 posted on 11/10/2006 3:00:06 AM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (Go back and do your duty even as I have done mine. I would rather die than be whipped.)
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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart
Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones were magnificent.

As were Angelica Huston and Diane Lane, among many others. Originally McMurtry wrote the story with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda in mind for the roles played by Jones, Duvall and Robert Urich.

5,252 posted on 11/10/2006 3:28:22 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I agree with you about Houston and Lane and how could I forget Robert Urich's contribution. What about Chris Cooper as July Johnson. He was top notch. Ricky Schroeder and Danny Glover also. I loved those characters.


5,253 posted on 11/10/2006 4:01:00 AM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (Go back and do your duty even as I have done mine. I would rather die than be whipped.)
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To: 300winmag

Well, mine takes 6 C-cells. I need to look into this more. We carried these instead of both a stick and flashlight, one less item on the belt was a good thing.


5,254 posted on 11/10/2006 4:46:03 AM PST by LSAggie
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To: ExGeeEye
Good job - you've hit on many of the reasons I like Rummy. I particularly loved him during press conferences when he'd shut down stupid people asking stupid questions. My inner Chloe lives for stuff like that.

My criticism of him come down to the budget allocations within the DoD. Yes, he 'modernized' the current force and is pushing an ultra-modernized future force. But what is not being asked is how much more modernization could have happened if the Army was fully funded. I'm not comfortable discussing the particulars in the open forum but vital programs - essential to modernization - keep getting chopped by Congress. Year after year after year after year. Even the work on the future force is getting cut back. Who is getting the funding? The Air Force. They dominate at the joint level and Rummy never broke free of that influence.

Yes, you go to war with the Army you've got. But you have to equip the Army to fight the war you've got. We've got a guerilla war now. Guerilla wars are not won with air superiority. They're won with boots on the ground.

Rummy did a lot of good. A LOT of good. My prayer is that Gates can build on what Rumsfeld started, but apportion the funding to the services according to who is doing the heavy lifting.

5,255 posted on 11/10/2006 5:17:44 AM PST by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: LSAggie

What's with everyone being up so early?

Happy Friday, all.


5,256 posted on 11/10/2006 5:23:12 AM PST by JenB (12027/50,000 - www.nanowrimo.org)
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To: JenB

OB was up at 3:45! It happens every once and awhile. Wednesday morning I was up at 4:00 just to check the election returns 'cause I hoped they weren't as bad as they were when I went to bed, but, unfortunately, they were worse.

Happy Friday to you, too!!


5,257 posted on 11/10/2006 5:37:54 AM PST by LSAggie
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To: JenB

Happy Friday!

It's raining again.


5,258 posted on 11/10/2006 5:40:03 AM PST by RosieCotton (NaNoWriMo: 18751/50,000)
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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart; SuziQ

Any thoughts on Leon Uris' "The Haj"? I just re-read it, and was so saddened by the duplicity of the United States and Britain towards the fledgling Israel.


5,259 posted on 11/10/2006 5:46:04 AM PST by LSAggie
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To: LSAggie

Morning!

~sip~

Looks like I picked the wrong day to rake leaves.


5,260 posted on 11/10/2006 6:26:44 AM PST by Overtaxed
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