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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.


TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
I converted one of my co-workers into a FReeper! She just pinged me to this funny thread:

Caption two melon heads

16,381 posted on 02/21/2003 12:16:26 PM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (HHD)
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To: Overtaxed
Because she's an illegal alien

I don't think she's an illegal alien. She was brought from S. America by a charitable organization that does this sort of thing. They don't bring a bunch of kids, but they do bring some for transplants, corrective plastic surgery, etc. I don't have any problem with it. I don't know that anyone else was 'denied' a transplant. Who gets them and when is mostly a crapshoot, anyway.

16,382 posted on 02/21/2003 12:16:47 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ
Yes... but it didn't register. I mean that caught me totally off guard. Watching it the 2nd time, you catch alot of the clues...but that one blew by me big time.
16,383 posted on 02/21/2003 12:16:57 PM PST by carton253
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To: Overtaxed
I understand.
16,384 posted on 02/21/2003 12:17:34 PM PST by carton253
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
I liked Bruce's character in Pulp Fiction too. I loved that storyline. Walken's character was hilarious.
16,385 posted on 02/21/2003 12:17:57 PM PST by Dawntreader (HHD)
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To: SuziQ
I knew the twist from the get-go because I kept hearing "With a surpise ending you won't forget" and "the plot twist was amazing" blah blah. Kind of gave it away. What else could the plot twist be? Then when I saw his wife wasn't interacting with him, nor the boy's mother I knew I was right.
16,386 posted on 02/21/2003 12:19:51 PM PST by Dawntreader (HHD)
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To: Dawntreader
I thought he should have won an Academy Award for that performance...
16,387 posted on 02/21/2003 12:21:11 PM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (HHD)
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To: Overtaxed
that Mahoney person has used the "m" word.

What I heard last night is that the band asked for permission to use pyrotechnics and the club owner had said ok. Whether or not the club was allowed to do that according to local ordinances, I don't know. It is just a horrible accident as far as I'm concerned. Why don't people just accept that accidents DO happen, and sometimes things are not really anyone's fault? But I didn't lose anyone in the fire, that I know of, so I guess that's easy for me to say.

16,388 posted on 02/21/2003 12:21:21 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
Oh, I didn't know she was an "illegal", are you sure about that?

I didn't check the sources, but they were saying that her family payed some coyote $5000 to get them into the country.

16,389 posted on 02/21/2003 12:22:33 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: SuziQ
On Fox this morning, the fire chief said that the club has passed its fire inspection, but it was not authorized by either the city or state for fireworks.

This really is a shame.

When I was a teenager, I remember watching the Beverly Hills Supper Club burning... 168 people died that night, so I understand what your state is going through.

16,390 posted on 02/21/2003 12:23:18 PM PST by carton253
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To: carton253; rightwingreligiousfanatic
What's wrong with tinfoil?


16,391 posted on 02/21/2003 12:24:14 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Peanut butter is rich in protein.)
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To: Dawntreader; SuziQ; carton253
I knew the twist from the get-go ...

Well, in my defense of being totally blown away, I watched it at 4:00 a.m. while holding the baby (that was in our acid-reflux days)

16,392 posted on 02/21/2003 12:24:34 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (HHD)
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To: SuziQ
What I heard last night is that the band asked for permission to use pyrotechnics and the club owner had said ok.

The club owner is denying that. And a co-worker just told me there's a club owner in New Jersey who said they were also surprised by the pyrotechnics...but nothing happened there.

16,393 posted on 02/21/2003 12:25:53 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (HHD)
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To: SuziQ
What I heard last night is that the band asked for permission to use pyrotechnics and the club owner had said ok.

Oh...Mahoney is the head of the charitable organization that brought the girl to Duke for surgery. He's saying that if she dies, Duke Hospital is guilty of murder....at least that is what this reporter person is saying.

16,394 posted on 02/21/2003 12:26:03 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
Yes, he is overlooked all too often. I'm really excited to see him in "Tears of the Sun".
16,395 posted on 02/21/2003 12:26:51 PM PST by Dawntreader (HHD)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear
That was the best scene in the movie... a real laugh out loud moment. I think Joaquin Phoenix was good in this movie.
16,396 posted on 02/21/2003 12:27:37 PM PST by carton253
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To: Dawntreader; All
ruh roh

Fire in San Diego at an oil refinery
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/848869/posts

My first thought? "domestic" terrorists...
16,397 posted on 02/21/2003 12:28:13 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (pass the tin foil please...)
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To: Corin Stormhands
"Well, in my defense of being totally blown away, I watched it at 4:00 a.m. while holding the baby"

That's ok then ;-)

16,398 posted on 02/21/2003 12:28:15 PM PST by Dawntreader (HHD)
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To: Overtaxed
Coyote? I'm not familiar with that term. Someone who smuggles in illegals?

Well, if she is "illegal" then the whole thing is a farce and people would be right to criticize, but if, on the other hand, as Suzi says above, it was a charitable relief effort undertaken on this poor girl's behalf, then I have no problem with that whatsoever. I have contributed to such causes in the past... Operation Smile, I think it was called. To help kids with cleft palates, etc...

16,399 posted on 02/21/2003 12:28:34 PM PST by rightwingreligiousfanatic (HHD)
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
Coyote? I'm not familiar with that term. Someone who smuggles in illegals?

Yes. That's right.

16,400 posted on 02/21/2003 12:29:33 PM PST by Overtaxed
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