The New Hobbit Hole

[Overtaxed]

Ooooh.....TCM is showing "Duck Soup" (Marx Brothers) tonight at 8:00 Eastern (2 hours from now). So if anyone out there is interested.....

[2Jedismom]

I'm copying The Two Towers, read by the Inglis guy, unabridged. It's 17 hours long.

[2Jedismom]

The computer has to "read" the original disk, then I have to put in a blank disk and it copies the original to it. I have 14 disks I have to do this with. Some take longer than others. I'm on the 7th one right now.

[HairOfTheDog]

OK - well 17 hours is a lot of tape. I see... carry on! - Make sure you send your $2 to the Tolkien Estate. and $2 to the publisher, and $2 to the book store... Lets see, how many people are you stealing from?

just kidding

[2Jedismom]

They aren't tapes! They are audio CDs. I'm recording audio CDs onto audio CDs!

I'm stopping for while. Steve'll be home directly and I'm going let my burner rest.

[Sir Gawain]

Orcs Replace Stormtroopers as Least Effective Minions

HOLLYWOOD (DPI) - Movie experts today declared that orcs are the least effective Minions of Darkness, displacing Imperial Stormtroopers from the top spot they'd held for a generation. "The inability of stormtroopers to hit the broad side of a bantha from point-blank range is well-documented, but it also must be remembered that they did play a role in the destruction of Jawa transport and the capture of Leia's shuttle," film expert Dwight Greenleaf explained. "About the only way an orc could do you harm is if its severed head fell on you." (Reported by Joseph Moore)

[HairOfTheDog]

Great story Sir Gawain! "About the only way an orc could do you harm is if its severed head fell on you." - Hey that is a real risk!

[HairOfTheDog]

OK - CDs.... I am just trying to stay on the high horse because I am debating here: DIGITAL COPYING RULES MAY CHANGE

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

"About the only way an orc could do you harm is if its severed head fell on you."

I don't think Boromir would agree.

[HairOfTheDog]

He would undoubtedly disagree... but he isn't objective. I think the score is like 200 to 1.

[HairOfTheDog]

Help me. I FReeped all blasted day and didn't get anything done. I am in a real debate on the news side. Been awhile since I got suckered into that!

[HairOfTheDog]

How did it go getting your preview to play? - Any luck?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I am in a real debate on the news side. Been awhile since I got suckered into that!

I almost posted to a thread on the news side last night just before bed. Had the posting screen up and everything. But... I would have been disagreeing with a denizen of the Hobbit Hole, and it would have been a big mess. So, I held back, and went to bed instead.

I'm thinking of posting to Alkhin's 9/11 Remembrance thread... gathering my thoughts, deciding whether they're worth posting.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think it is OK to disagree with a hobbit denizen if you are nice! - Or if you don't want to be nice - Throw a Balrog at them! hehehehe

I got emotionally sidetracked from writing down rememberances today, and that would have been a better way to spend the day. I would like to write something down too, before I forget what I did and thought that day.

[HairOfTheDog]

How is "Duck Soup"?

[Overtaxed]

Just quacks me up! I like the song that goes something like

If you think you pay high taxes now
just wait 'til I get through with it

And then there's the famous mirror routine.

[HairOfTheDog]

I haven't seen it! - And I missed your post somehow until tonight, too late to watch it with you.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Oh, I wasn't in the mood to be nice, so it was probably better that I held my tongue... or my typing, rather.

[Overtaxed]

And then there's the part when they start singing

I've got guns. You've got guns.
All God's children got guns.

etc.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Thanks for mentioning "Duck Soup"! I was able to watch the first hour anyway... got to see both the song ("when I get through with it") and the mirror routine... hilarious! :)