The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition

Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)

Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.

[Sam Cree]

That's cool, Hair, about the Wall Street Journal giving us a mention.

I subscribe to it, both hard copy and online, consider it to be maybe the best paper in the world.

Going to mention it to Jeanne, it'll reassure her even more, though now that she's met some of us, she's doing pretty OK.

[Sam Cree]

OK, have to go for awhile, check back later, I hope.

[HairOfTheDog]

I woke up to the Breaking news banner on MSNBC... but they were already showing the breakup. I didn't live through the uncertainty period. I called my dad and told him to turn on the TV, as is my habit when stuff happens.

[HairOfTheDog]

I am having to do a little cosmetic surgery on Frodo. His little standee needed some stiffening.

Waiting now for the glue to dry.

[JenB]

Gee, how many things were wrong with those three sentences, anyway?

[Overtaxed]

Uhhhh......yeah. I don't think I'll go there.

Nasa news conference in a bit....so they say.

[HairOfTheDog]

OK - Have turned the volume back up on the TV.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

oh... my...

So many responses leap to my mind, but this is a family thread...

I think you've taken the double entendre' title away from OT.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I need to put in a cross-fence

Definitely a better job than L&I...if you see a guy flyin' a sign that says "I work for Beer", that'll be me.

[Overtaxed]

She goes for quality....I go for quantity. :)

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Speaking of hyenas, those were cool hyenas in TTT.

Yeah, they remind me of some people I've dealt with this last week.

[Penny1]

I hadn't turned on the TV at all yesterday, and was checking in to the Hobbit-Hole before heading off to the office. When I saw the headlines on FR, I thought it had to be a hoax....I couldn't believe it was true, until I started reading through the articles that had been posted.

Unbelievably sad....

[HairOfTheDog]

Hi Penny. Yes, it is very sad indeed.

Why on earth are you headed to the office?

[Penny1]

I am not today, that was yesterday. This is just the first chance I've had to post anything....

Thankfully today I am NOT going in to that office! :o

[HairOfTheDog]

Ahhh... I am with you now.

You watching this briefing? It is far to technical for me to get much out of it, but the junior detectives at FR will be having a field day with all this new data.

[Penny1]

I am watching, but not paying much attention....shame on me! I don't understand that much, either. It will be interesting to see what Freepers do with the info...

[osagebowman]

Hair: paybacks? ecology.. hmm-doesn't sound like a payback sounds like a good deal.

[Corin Stormhands]

Hullo! We are back!

[Sam Cree]

Hi Corin, glad you're back. How was the driving weather?

[Corin Stormhands]

Hi Sam,

Weather wasn't too bad. We drove thru some snow in West Virginia, but not a lot of accumulation. Was cold and damp in Kentucky. But the sun was out here today and I'm betting that dratted groundhog saw his shadow.