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The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

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!

See also: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net

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To: Alkhin
Ah, so she's wanting to be a Vetnary!
I assume y'all have watched most or all of "All Creatures Great and Small" by now! If not, then get thee to Netflix or some other DVD rental place and watch the series! It is a lot of fun, but unless you're familiar with the Yorkshire accent, you'll need to watch it several times to get used to it.
5,421 posted on 10/24/2007 4:37:17 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: whomever

5302 - 5320 = killin’ me. rofl


5,422 posted on 10/24/2007 4:50:15 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

*SNORT*


5,423 posted on 10/24/2007 4:58:00 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Lil'freeper

I’ll snif to that.

[Sip]

Evenin’ folkses...

Geeeez I wish I could talk to ~somebody~ about this thing. Its really aggravating.


5,424 posted on 10/24/2007 5:01:11 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: RosieCotton
My mother raised me to be pretty much convinced that almost *all* electric devices are just waiting for an opportunity to explode or catch on fire, and little noises like that add to that little voice at the back of my mind... ;-)

Girl, you need to get OVER that! ;o)

5,425 posted on 10/24/2007 5:03:00 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Ramius
Geeeez I wish I could talk to ~somebody~ about this thing.

Which thing? For me, it's this interminable baseball season.

5,426 posted on 10/24/2007 5:04:37 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I don't know if y'all got something similar to what we had overnight, but the last time I looked at the radar last night, there was an enormous green blob over the state of New York, headed our way.

We were pretty dry for most of the summer, too, but we've had town water restrictions for the last 7 or 8 years, since the last big drought we had.

5,427 posted on 10/24/2007 5:05:15 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Ramius

Take notes, give us a full rundown when you’re done! ;-)

If’n you’re allowed to do that...


5,428 posted on 10/24/2007 5:07:00 PM PDT by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Corin Stormhands; Overtaxed

Mmm. That recipe looks mighty tasty!


5,429 posted on 10/24/2007 5:07:26 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
I have VEY bad memories of typing class in Junior year

I loved typing. The guy behind me was such a flirt. Great fun.

5,430 posted on 10/24/2007 5:11:45 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

There were white Southern folks who didn’t use that word; not many, but some. I don’t remember hearing it much around my house growing up, so I never got into the habit of using it.


5,431 posted on 10/24/2007 5:12:53 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ; Lil'freeper; RosieCotton; JenB; TalonDJ; HairOfTheDog; Ramius; ecurbh; Overtaxed; ...
In other newz...Jr. was in a 5-car accident tonight:

Important facts:

1) He's okay
2) Not his fault
3) Minimal (at least we think) damage to his car, although he's hesitant to drive it (I understand).

Lady that caused the accident pulled out in front of Jr. trying to cross four lanes of traffic. Dark. Rainy. You know the drill. Jr. swerved to miss her, she hit his back passenger side and he hit a sign. Other three cars piled up trying to stop.

I suppose it could have happened the way she described it, if Jr. had been goin' about 125 mph.

Which, in his car, is about as plausible as Warp 9.

5,432 posted on 10/24/2007 5:42:23 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (i'm so adjective i verb nouns...)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Thank goodness he's ok!
5,433 posted on 10/24/2007 5:45:05 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Oh jeez. Its always sumpthin aint it?


5,434 posted on 10/24/2007 5:49:12 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Eek! Glad he’s OK!

I take it the other driver is claiming he’s the one at fault? :-\


5,435 posted on 10/24/2007 5:52:54 PM PDT by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Lil'freeper

Which thing is the jury I’m on. CSI type trial. Fascinating and horrific and tedious all at once.
In the jury room its getting harder and harder to ~not~ deal with what we’re seeing and hearing. They better do closings pretty soon so we can deliberate, or we’re gonna ‘splode.


5,436 posted on 10/24/2007 5:56:07 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: RosieCotton; Lil'freeper; Ramius
I take it the other driver is claiming he’s the one at fault? :-\

Yes, but the officer and the other three drivers saw it differently as well. I don't know if she got a ticket, but the report was written up that it was her fault.

5,437 posted on 10/24/2007 5:57:10 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (i'm so adjective i verb nouns...)
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To: RosieCotton

They do let us take notes but I don’t think we get to keep them. I think they’re destroyed after the verdict.

I’m not a big note-taker and I’m already almost about to ask for another legal pad. Others are on their second legal pads already.

The judge’s assistant guessed today when we had her in the jury room that we’d probably see closing args on monday. But that’s just a guess.

Best case I think delibs will go for a couple of days just to get through the material.


5,438 posted on 10/24/2007 6:13:16 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius
'sploding is not good.

I'm sitting on a committee that is supposed to fix everyone's problems. One of my proposed solutions is to get senior management to make a clear statement about how they expect a certain "process" to work and how they expect cooperation, flexibility, and support from all levels of the workforce toward that end.

A member of the senior management team looked me in the eye and said, "That'll never happen."

"Then your problem won't get solved."

"Uuuuuh, I don't think I understand."

"Muh point exactly."

I might be checking myself into a mental health clinic in time for NaNo.

5,439 posted on 10/24/2007 6:19:03 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Good, because the insurance would definitely try to pin it on him. My little sister was in an accident a couple years back, no physical way it could have been her fault (dude with a trailer decided to make a left turn around the left turn lane) and the insurance still tried to say it was 50/50 her fault.


5,440 posted on 10/24/2007 6:21:23 PM PDT by JenB
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