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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: 2Jedismom
HA!
22,581
posted on
03/28/2003 8:06:50 AM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
(May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.)
To: HairOfTheDog
Exactly. Ari's got to be an elf. Aside from the troops and Pres. he's my hero of the week.
Hey, you know everything there is to know about finding stuff on the web. I was trying this week to see if I would email him a pat on the back for the exemplary job he's doing but I couldn't find anyplace to direct the email.
To: Wneighbor
Can't find it either...
There are contact phone numbers here where you might get a switchboard where you can ask! - I dunno!
Contacting the White House
22,583
posted on
03/28/2003 8:17:44 AM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
(May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.)
To: HairOfTheDog
I found the phone numbers too. I thought about calling. But, I've got some kind of brain malfunction or something when it comes to phones. Hate 'em. Hate 'em with a passion. I know its freakin' weird. Maybe I'll screw up my social nature and do that today though. Ought to.
It sure would be better if Ari would just come out of his Freeper closet and let us know so I could just tell him "Well done" here.
To: g'nad
Hey!!
What's a TOC?
22,585
posted on
03/28/2003 8:24:26 AM PST
by
2Jedismom
(‘And those who have not swords can still die upon them.')
To: 2Jedismom
It's what happens with my clock after it TIC's.
To: Wneighbor
Crap! - 2J is doing a dang pop quiz and I didn't study! Hope she doesn't call on me.
22,587
posted on
03/28/2003 8:26:43 AM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
(May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.)
To: 2Jedismom
Tactical Operations Center... a tactical command post... Army jargon...
Marines just call it a CP...
To: HairOfTheDog
Well, I hope I get credit for answering gnad's question cause I wasn't here for about 9 days and she'll probably decide to ask me a question from when I was absent.
To: HairOfTheDog
Watch, now 2J's gonna ask one of the rest of us what a CP is.
To: g'nad
Oh! Ok! Our chaplain keeps referring it and I hate to sound stupid to someone I just met, so I never asked him!
22,591
posted on
03/28/2003 8:29:11 AM PST
by
2Jedismom
(‘And those who have not swords can still die upon them.')
To: Wneighbor; HairOfTheDog
---blowing raspberry at your and Hair...;-)
22,592
posted on
03/28/2003 8:30:06 AM PST
by
2Jedismom
(‘And those who have not swords can still die upon them.')
To: Wneighbor
Shhhhh.... She's gonna make us write sentences on the chalk board.
22,593
posted on
03/28/2003 8:31:35 AM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
(May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.)
To: 2Jedismom
yeah, but bet you laughed first.
To: HairOfTheDog
Speaking of which, I'm going to get started with School, then go get the finishing touches for these care packages.
I think I'm going to be able to get some phone cards...I'm going to Sam's to check in to it.
22,595
posted on
03/28/2003 8:35:44 AM PST
by
2Jedismom
(‘And those who have not swords can still die upon them.')
To: All
Newt Gingrich
The allied effort to liberate the people of Iraq (news - web sites) is opposed by a vicious, murdering, torturing dictatorship. Dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), willing to kill Iraqi civilians, uses them as human shields, threatening to kill men, women and children if they do not obey.
The allied coalition risks the lives of its own men and women to save Iraqi civilians. Its forces fight tirelessly to deliver humanitarian aid to the Iraqi civilian population as rapidly as possible. They target their weapons to minimize collateral damage.
Despite these challenges, the coalition forces are setting historic records of achievement. They covered twice as much ground as Desert Storm without the benefit of a 38-day air bombardment to soften up the opposition. Within a week, they are nearing Baghdad, a record Rommel, Patton, Schwarzkopf and other commanders would have envied.
Chicken Little, watching the news 24 hours a day, is thinking a week is too long. After all, Saving Private Ryan took less than three hours. Chicken Little is tired of real reality TV and watching the patriotic, hardworking, dedicated professionals who risk their lives for freedom.
While Chicken Little sits on the couch and complains, his cousins in the media report that 50 destroyed Iraqi tanks to one American tank being damaged is a sign of poor military planning. Similarly, they report that because one convoy delivering supplies to the Third Division out of a hundred was briefly shot at, there must be a serious threat to our supply line.
As a historian, I can report with some cheer that this is a remarkably successful campaign. The Americans, the British and their allies are nine days into liberating Iraq, a country the size of California, not just expelling Iraqi troops from Kuwait, which took 46 days. We are going to win.
A hateful regime will be gone, and except for Saddam, French President Jacques Chirac and the media analysts, almost no one will have had the sky fall on the them.
Former representative Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., House speaker from 1995 to 1999, is a member of the Defense Policy Review Board, a Pentagon (news - web sites) advisory group.
22,596
posted on
03/28/2003 8:46:40 AM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
(May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.)
To: HairOfTheDog; Wneighbor
A HA! Elves fear nothing, but they do sense fear when encountering a Balrog. :)
However, out of respect for Balrogs, I take my comparison back. There is nothing that ugly in Middle Earth.
22,597
posted on
03/28/2003 8:51:18 AM PST
by
RMDupree
(HHD: Pray for our President, our troops and the innocent civilians!)
To: 300winmag
Scuzzy-looking motorcyle gangs need donuts too! LOL!
22,598
posted on
03/28/2003 8:52:02 AM PST
by
RMDupree
(HHD: Pray for our President, our troops and the innocent civilians!)
To: HairOfTheDog
This is great. I'm printing it for some of my students who are being obstinate about believing the mediots. I'll pass it out next week with normal class handouts.
To: RMDupree
Scuzzy-looking motorcyle gangs need donuts too! LOL! AMEN!
and ya'll might be surprised how at the number of conservatives among us.
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