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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!
That's because bettas are able to breathe air, in addition to getting oxygen through their gills. So those little globes that kill goldfish are OK for bettas.
As I guess you know, the male bettas are very territorial, and make their displays for the same reason that male birds do, to drive off other males. They are often called Siamese Fighting Fish, because some folks used to pit them against each other, just as in cockfighting and dogfighting. I think that this sort of thing is legal, where fighting roosters or dogs isn't.
Oh, many Happy returns for you and your ‘birthday boy’ Seamus.
Cool Birthday snaig!
We suggested that we go back and start with the first one and we'll read it with him.
Ah, OK. That makes sense! That's why they tend to hang out near the top of the bowl some of the time, no? He did that part of the day...almost out of the water.
He sure is pretty.
So, how are you about ‘The Golden Compass’ book and movie. Has anyone actually read it? From what I’ve been reading it is an abomination, and certainly NOT for children.
I’m not familiar with it.
I just finished reading the trilogy, actually. Yeah, it's quite anti-Christian... anti-religious, really.
I know Jen said she’d read it, and found it very dark and disturbing. The anti-Christian elements were fairly subtle in the first book, but got stronger and stronger as the series went on.
A few months later, when I got to go to the nearest real bookstore (a B. Dalton's 100 miles away...) I bought every Zelazny paperback that looked like it might be a part of the series. Since I couldn't remember the titles that were in the series, I wound up with the four books that had been published up to that point, plus three other Zelazny books that had a similiar cover design.
I still have them all.
I got through the first five (half?) of the Amber books and had to take a break. Maybe I’ll finish ‘em at thebeach next summer.
One major caveat: I've dealt with this company before. They have an extremely bad record for customer service. Mostly, if an item is not in stock, they never tell you, and you never see your money again. If an item is in stock, the deals are usually super.
I also have to add that they appear to be improving their service slightly. It took them only one week to answer my email, and say that an item was on backorder. I'll cut them some slack because I haven't been severely burned by them in the past, and the deals can really be great if they have the stuff.
Oh dear...
Well, it’s now well after ten on the left coast, so I guess family isn’t gonna call. I guess I’ll talk to ‘em on the weekend anyway.
*sigh* I just looked up the years of publication for the series... I was 13 when I first read Hand of Oberon.
Memory is the second thing to go...
Roger that.
Well, folkses... I wasn’t expecting it, but today I got seated on the jury for a trial. A big one, looks like. Supposed to last two or three weeks.
My boss is really not going to like this.
Openings are tomorrow, and the storm should be in full flow by the time they let us out.
I guess this is when we find out if the engimaneers on the new bridge did all their numbers right.
Can you tell us if its civil or criminal?
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