Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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.
I just started, for some reason, reading a book that I read and thought was stupid 10 years ago, Fallen Angels, by Niven, Pournelle and Flynn. But this time (in my old age) I am finding it, although still stupid, hilarious, smart and entertaining.
Here's a passage from page 27 that might cheer you up, 2J, as it's on a strangely familiar subject:
Thor carried an Irish tin whistle because, as he put it,you never knew when you might need one. After a few miles had passed and the talk had died down, he pulled it from his pocket and began playing. His fingers fluttered through a few traditional tunes: jigs and reels and such; then he started in on some serious filking. Sherrine joined in the singing. They played the "Friggin Falcon," "Banned from Argo," and the classic "Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three."
"Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire"
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
Wow. I didn't know that Sam. That's an interesing bit of information. Rib eyes are my favorite. Myranda will be interested too. She's going to seminary in the fall and is always interested in Biblically related bits of news like that.
note to self, throw on another ribeye for samcree.
Must mean she's not really paying taxes too.
My Goldwater Republican turned Jesse Jackson DemonRAT step-dad says that. There's more to that story though...(put it on the Entmoot list, I won't type it here).
damnyankees...
Okay! Whose keeping the list!!!
The thing that really bugs me about this family is that in their family values, priorities and all they are very conservative. I've pointed out all the waste, graft etc. and they don't change that tune. I just don't get it.
I know what my grama would say, "well they're just not frum around here. just peculiar, that's all" (they're from Montana.) Somehow, I don't think that REALLY explains it the way Grama always tries to think.
The Mrs. and I realized that a long time ago. When Jr. was just 9 months old, we marched in the March for Life.
Then we realized that we were more effective going to vacuum and fold clothes for the crisis pregnancy center. We still contribute to the local one.
The abortion issue will not be "won" in the political arena. It's a matter of changing hearts.
One at a time.
Somebody get the dwarf a soapbox...
That reminds me. Jr. and I were shopping for a birthday present for my 5-year-old nephew a few weeks ago. In the LOTR toy section they have a plastic "Sting." It's battery powered so every time you swing it to the left or right it "clangs."
My neighbor (NOT W OF COURSE) thinks Alex is really all that. That's another thing on my list of things I don't get this morning.
Hope I start understanding something before I go teach class. Oh, well, if I don't the students will probably never notice.
Ditto what Rose said about that twang/drawl phenomenon in Texas. It just depends on where you are. My mom's mom's people all twang. The rest of the family drawls. Myranda had the most beautiful drawl as she grew up. Very much a southern lady drawl. Alas, 4 years of theater arts in high school have killed it. confounded school system.
I'm sorry 2J. Wish I could help. But even if I was there I wouldn't know what I was doing. We still have holes in the foyer ceiling and the wall of the master bath from the last time our shower leaked. (I don't do drywall either).
I know this doesn't make you feel better, but the neighborhood pool also has a hidden leak. We know it's up to the thousands to even look at it, so we're trying to figure out what to do.
Funny thing is, previous board members said for years it was groundwater, not a leak.
I felt vindicated last August when the ground outside our pool was the only wet ground in the entire county.
"It's a leak. We're in the middle of a drought. THERE IS NO GROUNDWATER."
I know that doesn't help. I just like telling that story.
Somebody get the dwarf a soapbox...
*Dwarf off the soapbox..... Elf doesn't need the box*
I heartily agree master dwarf. And each one of us are the ones who change the hearts. Everyday compassion changes more hearts than massive protests. Emphasis on the EVERY DAY. We're doing that with 2J's work on the 82nd Airborne. Little stuff goes a long way.
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