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.

[JenB]

Oh, we have Fifth Element on video. It's one of our films we don't watch when Mom is home because she freaks out. But it's about the funniest SF film ever, isn't it?

I love the part at the spaceport. And during the fight when the guy keep narrating - I think he's embedded! And Bruce Willis' 'diplomacy'. Plus Bilbo is the priest.

[Sam Cree]

How come Mom freaks out? Yes, it's funny, mostly, I think so too.

I like the second movie about those little monsters with big ears too. What were they called?

[Sam Cree]

Oh yeah, gremlins. Had a senior moment there.

[SuziQ]

How come Mom freaks out? Yes, it's funny, mostly, I think so too.

There are a few, shall we say, suggestive, moments in the movie. Plus there's a LOT of shooting and killing. "Anyone else want to negotiate"?

Always a lot of fun to watch!

[Corin Stormhands]

I recommend public tantrums to address greivances in situations like this!

Crap! I don't have the energy for a tantrum. I'll just have to stay...

[Corin Stormhands]

Galaxy...The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

So is this something I should want to read?

[HairOfTheDog]

And the grievance of today will fade then?

[HairOfTheDog]

Absolutely - You must read Hitch-hiker's guide! All four books in the trilogy.

[Corin Stormhands]

How much RAM do those things have, Corin?

Desktop has 512. Notebook 128, which we'll upgrade as soon as these magic beans we got in a trade for the big dog start to grow...

[HairOfTheDog]

You traded your dog for magic beans?

[Corin Stormhands]

And the grievance of today will fade then?

Remind me again what pi$$ed me off?

[HairOfTheDog]

[HairOfTheDog]

I forget.

[Corin Stormhands]

You must read Hitch-hiker's guide!

Okay, I just wrote 'em down on my "to read" list.

[Corin Stormhands]

You traded your dog for magic beans?

I can dream, can't I?

Hey, he's not limping. I think you may have been right. I gave him only one baby aspirin, but when the weather warmed up, he stopped limping. I'm going to see if I can find myself a feed store tomorrow...

[Corin Stormhands]

I was bad today.

This guy on another thread was complaining about a kid being in a cub scout uniform at a rally.

I told him to bite my Webelo.

[Corin Stormhands]

Okay, break's over. Got to get back to transferring files.

May be back later (or would that be earlier?).

[HairOfTheDog]

You must read it today! - I am surprised you haven't! - We have talked a lot about it in here! - Funniest thing ya ever read!

Here it is online if you want to read in a bit and see if it grabs you. I think it will!

.... The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Beginning:

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

This planet has --- or rather had --- a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.

This is not her story.

But it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences.

[300winmag]

Friday night movies? I'm glued to Fox News watching Third ID moving in to Baghdad. They called it "fighting their way in", but it looked more like a drive-by shooting gallery to me. Iraqi army vehicles just off the road a bit, being shot up as the column goes by.

I don't want to go to bed. But we're having a sleet storm, and I just hope power (or the phone line) isn't taken out.

[JenB]

Yes, but skip "Mostly Harmless". It's mostly pointless and dull.

Perhaps I should go to bed. It is after midnight.