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The Hobbit Hole XXXVI - O! Water cold we may pour at need...

Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 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: Rose in RoseBear

I wuvs thenewcar...

It needs a bath right now, though. Poor little thing.

The other bonus is that I’ve seen my nieces three times in the last two and a half weeks, ‘cause it’s not as big of a deal to run up there. Cool. Probably will go up again next Sunday or the Sunday after that. - brother’s birthday is the 22nd, so they’ll likely do something for him on the weekend.


561 posted on 05/13/2008 6:36:17 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: 300winmag

Ooops... I think I forgot you. See above. :~)


562 posted on 05/13/2008 6:36:39 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Hey now... ;-)


563 posted on 05/13/2008 6:36:59 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Heh... Hang in there Rosie! :~)


564 posted on 05/13/2008 6:38:18 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: 300winmag; TalonDJ; Ramius; g'nad; Corin Stormhands

Man uses gun to scratch back; shoots himself

12:15 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

By KIMBERLY DURNAN / The Dallas Morning News

FORT WORTH — A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself.

Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker around 3 a.m. Sunday morning in his home in the 3500 block of Montague Street, when he got up from the table and walked into another room, said Fort Worth police Lt. Kenneth Dean.

“He told officers he had an itch on his back and grabbed the first thing he could get a hold of, which was a revolver,” Lt. Dean said. “The gun went off.”

Espinal went back and told his buddies that he shot himself. “They didn’t believe him until they saw the blood coming down his back,” Lt. Dean said.

Espinal was taken to an area hospital where he was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.


565 posted on 05/13/2008 6:45:47 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
Vrooom!


566 posted on 05/13/2008 6:48:56 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Slide.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
“He told officers he had an itch on his back and grabbed the first thing he could get a hold of, which was a revolver,” Lt. Dean said. “The gun went off.”

But was the itch still there? This sounds more like Wiley Coyote.

567 posted on 05/13/2008 6:51:07 PM PDT by 300winmag (Deterrence is an activity, destruction is a profession)
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To: 300winmag

That’s a good question. :~)


568 posted on 05/13/2008 6:52:12 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: 300winmag

That was my comment on the thread... That I bet that it still itched.

Dopey people. What an idiot. Everybody knows that to scratch your back you use a rifle, not a handgun. Yeesh.


569 posted on 05/13/2008 7:04:56 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius; HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton; LSAggie; SuziQ; Lil'freeper; JenB; g'nad; osagebowman; All

Abby Cat is not walking well. We lifted her off the couch tonight and made her a bed on the floor, but she hasn’t moved. She hasn’t eaten in a day or two, and as far as we can tell she hasn’t been to the litter box. When she “walks” she’s not putting any pressure on the leg.

Wife is going to try to take her to the vet tomorrow. Reality is, we can’t afford more surgery (heck, we couldn’t afford the last one).

Nana will possibly go back to the nursing home on Friday (of course that means three more days of paying to hold her room...ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching). I hate to be so mercenary about this, but we just can’t take many more hits.

I’m going to bed. I got way too little sleep last night.

See y’all in the a.m.


570 posted on 05/13/2008 7:11:25 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (What if Tony Almeida is the 12th Cylon?)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Hope Abby cat is OK after the vet visit.

And Nana too.

Good night! Get some rest. :~)


571 posted on 05/13/2008 7:14:43 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: Corin Stormhands; HairOfTheDog

WRT cat issues... I’m having a similar issue with Josie. Month or two ago she quit eating much if anything. Was clearly sick and unhappy (more than usual). Thought for a bit that it might be the end for her... But she snapped out of it and suddenly got better. Gained weight back.

Taking her to the vet is not an option. No way are we doing that. Ever. Again.

But this weekend I noticed that she’s thinning again. I think she’s not long for this world. She’s old, and more crotchety than usual (which is a lot) and doesn’t move around much.

She’s taken now to sleeping on top of my computer upstairs. Very bad. I’ve cluttered it up with pointy sharp things to keep her off it. And sticky tape.

I’m going out of my way to make thase days as nice as I can. Gave her some tuna this weekend. That stuff is crack-fer-kitties.

But Josie isn’t going to last much longer. I think she’s on life #9.


572 posted on 05/13/2008 7:44:55 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
FR sure is nice and bright on my brand new 20" widescreen LCD monitor!

The "Large Print" version!

573 posted on 05/13/2008 7:57:23 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
Actually, the print is small, but there's a lot of it! ;-)

I'm running at 1680 x 1050 pixels, about two-thirds bigger than my old resolution.

574 posted on 05/13/2008 8:01:24 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Slide.)
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To: Ramius
She’s old, and more crotchety than usual

I'm not sure that's even *possible*, man...

Seriously, though...sorry to hear that she's not doing well.

575 posted on 05/13/2008 8:04:58 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: Squantos; TalonDJ

I’ve “heard” (don’t know this from personal experience) that Tapco (http://www.tapco.com) makes a good U.S. made, aftermarket single and double hook AK trigger group.


576 posted on 05/13/2008 8:07:21 PM PDT by hiredhand (Check my "about" page. I'm the Prophet of Doom!)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Well, gee...hope she’s doing better tomorrow!

Tonight, I’d almost trade. Cisco just had a late-evening bath on account of he rolled in Something Unspeakably Nasty. Even now he still smells like very dead fish thinly disguised by coconut shampoo. I think a part of the aroma is being propagated in vapor form, if you catch my drift, so there may not be much more that I can do.

And Tam still won’t shut up.

At least Halvah’s good. Dim as a 2 watt light bulb, bless her heart, but she’s good.


577 posted on 05/13/2008 8:08:52 PM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: Ramius

Sorry to hear about that. My cat hates the vet too, and they hardly did anything last time.


578 posted on 05/13/2008 8:09:13 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: Ramius

Yeah - I thought it was near the end for Josie last month, but I told dad to wait until she was so weak it wouldn’t be a big nightmare to get her to the vet, if she needed to go.

Trouble is, until she finally dies, she’s like sharing the house with a grouchy psychotic. I fear for Dad and Dona sleeping in fear with her on their feet. That wound she gave Dona was something else. Crazy cat. You should almost take her up with you to your place...


579 posted on 05/13/2008 8:09:22 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
I think it's a dog:

Research on "Komondor" seems to show a guard dog with his own ghillie suit:


580 posted on 05/13/2008 8:57:52 PM PDT by 300winmag (Deterrence is an activity, destruction is a profession)
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