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

Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by 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.


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To: JenB
Hehehe....wonder why Asimov didn't think of that...
13,281 posted on 02/09/2003 1:28:47 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Um... he never had to deal with an insurance company?
13,282 posted on 02/09/2003 1:36:51 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
Guess not. Maybe the Missus did all the homeowner stuff or did he live in apartments all his life?
13,283 posted on 02/09/2003 1:39:32 PM PST by Overtaxed (Almost got Swallowtail Jig down)
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To: Overtaxed
Actually I think he lived in apartments.... NYC native and such.

Heinlein, on the other hand, knew about things like insurance and strikes and leaky faucets, which is one of many reasons why his books are so much better.
13,284 posted on 02/09/2003 1:41:07 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
Heh...apparently Asimov didn't have a firm grip on reality
13,285 posted on 02/09/2003 1:42:51 PM PST by Overtaxed (Almost got Swallowtail Jig down)
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To: Overtaxed
Well, no. Did you read his later novels? Almost as bad a descent into crap as *sob* Heinlein's...
13,286 posted on 02/09/2003 1:45:37 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
No...at least I don't remember them. I read the robot ones and the Foundation a loooooong time ago.
13,287 posted on 02/09/2003 1:47:04 PM PST by Overtaxed (Did you know that "crap" is profanity?)
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To: Overtaxed
Foundation was very good. Most of the rest of his stuff was not...
13,288 posted on 02/09/2003 1:49:54 PM PST by JenB ("Crud", then, Ms. Manners)
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To: JenB
I'll have to go back and read it. I forgot what happened! :)
13,289 posted on 02/09/2003 1:51:48 PM PST by Overtaxed (Well that's what they said on that movie thread.....they suggested "fudge" instead.)
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To: Overtaxed
Don't bother to read the last two... "Foundation's Edge" and "Foundation and Earth". They were absolute, uh, crud.
13,290 posted on 02/09/2003 1:56:00 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
As I recall it was a trilogy. He wrote later ones then?
13,291 posted on 02/09/2003 1:58:51 PM PST by Overtaxed (You know how old folks' memories are.)
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To: Overtaxed
Yes, he did. And they were bad. However the prequels were pretty good.
13,292 posted on 02/09/2003 2:02:18 PM PST by JenB
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
Heh It is all perspective isn't it? Ellensburg, WA where I went to school is notoriously windy. The Safeway store has a heavy ship chain hanging on a board with a meter on it.... This is an "Ellensburg wind gauge". I tried to find a picture, but couldn't...
13,293 posted on 02/09/2003 2:07:26 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: JenB
Found it! The "crap as profanity" discussion.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837933/posts?page=14#14
13,294 posted on 02/09/2003 2:20:21 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: HairOfTheDog; Overtaxed
HOD - "here, here, well said"

OT: well, if not wildlife habitat, how about considering an 'object-de-arte"?
Hmm. you say gave your brother the wood previously, he has a truck and a friend (that split it). I think I see a solution on the horizon... two guys and truck, tree removal inc. ;-)
13,295 posted on 02/09/2003 2:24:28 PM PST by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman
Hehe...yeah. The problem is getting anything scheduled...and he's never used a chainsaw either.

Married with four young 'uns .....

13,296 posted on 02/09/2003 2:31:18 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: 2Jedismom; RosieCotton
Okay...Swallowtail Jig on my D Meg.
13,297 posted on 02/09/2003 2:46:06 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
So get your brother and his kids over to help you haul the wood. Heck, give the kiddos handsaws and tell them you'll give them five bucks to chop it up and stack it. ;-)
13,298 posted on 02/09/2003 3:40:12 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
Hmm....might work for the oldest one. I don't think a two-year-old should wield a saw.
13,299 posted on 02/09/2003 3:47:23 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
Softie.
13,300 posted on 02/09/2003 3:49:44 PM PST by JenB
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