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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Price and Meador are other possibilities. I knew a girl in high school named Dean Price Meador. Southerners tend to use these types of names as first or middle names a lot.
Heh, when I get e-mails forwarded saying someone famous said something in particular, I ALWAYS check Snopes2.com. I do that with Amber alerts, too. Invariably, the e-mail in incorrect, and I’ll just reply to let the sender know that. I usually don’t forward things anyway, but I would NOT forward anything without checking on it first,
Heh...then again, in “The Third Man”, the main guy was named Holly - Holly Martins
As another character pointed out, it’s a silly name.
But in the book version, his name was Rollo. I’m not sure that’s much better. :-\
Hollister
Hillman
Hinckley
I rather like those...especially Hollister. No good nicknames for *any* of them...
*rubs hands together*
I love being mean to my characters...
I’d have just kept on yakking, whether I knew the person or not, but that’s just me. ;o)
Those were my Italian Grandfather's first and middle names!
I rather like them.
Marion is also the Duke’s real name.
I rather like it for that reason. My grandpa was the world’s biggest John Wayne fan, almost to the point of fanaticism.
Basil Carrington Hillman, IV
I have decided to use the word “peckish” somewhere in my novel. I just ran across it in a Scots paper.
We had some British TV channels for awhile on the base in Germany.
There’s a brand of biscuit (Penguin) who has peckish in their slogan. “Feeling p-p-p-peckish? Have a P-Penguin!” Or p-p-pick up a P-penguin.” Something like that.
I got really sick of the commercial, but the word isn’t a bad one. ;-)
Ooh, I like it!
Funny that. When I think of John Wayne, I think of my grandpa. They had the same swagger.
If you haven't seen them, you really must! Especially "The Wrong Trousers".
"Have you see this chicken?"
Please recommend what sort of scope to put on the thing, bearing in mind the desire to magnify the target a bit and put a reticle over it, without reminding the shooter with every shot precisely how inaccurate his Chinese knock-off of a Soviet glorified club he's trying to send bullets out of.
Thanks!
I think the first time I heard “peckish” was in the Cheese Shop sketch on Python.
[Sip]
Afternoon, folkses... Jury duty here. Hurry’n up and waitin’.
There's tons of aftermarket stuff out there to pimp your SKS. The trick is to avoid spending more than the original cost of the weapon. For a scope, look for something Chinese, 4x or lower magnification. Most of them come mounted on a replacement top cover.
Tapco and others make all sorts of plastic replacement stocks. You might want to consider a side-folder.
For a bipod, look for something plastic and detachable. A genuine Harris would cost almost as much as the original rifle.
what he said...
http://www.tickbitesupply.com/stocks.html
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