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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: Wneighbor
Well, maybe not today. I've got a bit of hobbit in me when it comes to those types of adventures...
32,521 posted on 05/09/2003 12:50:33 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (WWBB - What Would Bill Bet?)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Well, I freep from work. Right now I'm freeping from work on my vacation - they called me to come up here and meet with a prospective student. It's air conditioned here. It's hot at home. And I think after living without airconditioning most of my life I should not be turning the thing on in May. But, it's hot enough that I will stay up here just a git longer before I head back to the sauna.
32,522 posted on 05/09/2003 12:51:17 PM PDT by Wneighbor (aka Mrs. Field)
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To: Corin Stormhands
lol! it's a vowel... to be placed on the end of a noun or adjective to signify indefinite... a book, a chair...
32,523 posted on 05/09/2003 12:51:26 PM PDT by carton253 (You are free to form your own opinions, but not your own facts.)
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To: Wneighbor; ksen; Bear_in_RoseBear; SuziQ
Hey! X-Men arrived today. I'm really likin' NetFlix

And the Mrs. just told me that, after lunch on Sunday, she would prefer that I take the boys to Kings Dominion...

32,524 posted on 05/09/2003 12:51:57 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (WWBB - What Would Bill Bet?)
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To: Corin Stormhands; carton253
I need new glasses. I was tryin' to figger out why you were using the damnation for yer arabic...

you and me both, i got stuck on that for a minute.

32,525 posted on 05/09/2003 12:52:28 PM PDT by Wneighbor (aka Mrs. Field)
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To: Wneighbor
I grew up without air conditioning. But now I can't imagine living without it.
32,526 posted on 05/09/2003 12:53:21 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (WWBB - What Would Bill Bet?)
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To: Wneighbor
sorry for the confusion...
32,527 posted on 05/09/2003 12:53:42 PM PDT by carton253 (You are free to form your own opinions, but not your own facts.)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I know you've mentioned it before but I don't know what Kings Dominion is...... tell please.
32,528 posted on 05/09/2003 12:53:51 PM PDT by Wneighbor (aka Mrs. Field)
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To: carton253; Wneighbor; g'nad
lol! it's a vowel...

Well, I guess that's just part of my depravity...

32,529 posted on 05/09/2003 12:54:11 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (WWBB - What Would Bill Bet?)
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To: g'nad
Hey g'nad! Glad you had the time to check in. We, er, ah, I mean, the gals were starting to miss ya.
32,530 posted on 05/09/2003 12:54:15 PM PDT by ksen (HHD;FRM - Entmoot or Bust!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
But, airconditioning in May? It's still spring!

Of course it also got up to 99 here yesterday.

Not a good outlook for August.
32,531 posted on 05/09/2003 12:54:46 PM PDT by Wneighbor (aka Mrs. Field)
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To: Wneighbor
Oh, sorry. Kings Dominion is an amusement park. Owned by Paramount. Like Kings Island, Carrowinds, etc.

Park wise we prefer Busch Gardens (which is also close) but we pick KD because KD has a water park right there in the park.

Side story: Virginia has what is commonly referred to as the "King's Dominion Law" which says public schools may not open until the Tuesday after Labor Day. Some counties have applied and received exemptions. But it was named the KD law becuse of their lobbying for it (along with the rest of the tourism industry).

32,532 posted on 05/09/2003 12:58:38 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (WWBB - What Would Bill Bet?)
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To: Wneighbor; carton253
Sheesh! Radio host is talking to a woman on a cell phone who is driving through the midst of the storm, not the tornado warning area, but still. She's telling him how bad the driving conditions are.

For Pete's sake woman! Put down the phone and drive!

32,533 posted on 05/09/2003 1:01:07 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (WWBB - What Would Bill Bet?)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Well, I like that King's Dominion law! I wish we had one. We used to always start school the day after Labor day. This year Myranda had to go back on like August 7 or something. Besides the fact that I don't like it, can you imagine the bill for paying for that air conditioning here in Texas?!?!
32,534 posted on 05/09/2003 1:02:36 PM PDT by Wneighbor (aka Mrs. Field)
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To: Corin Stormhands
For Pete's sake woman! Put down the phone and drive!

all i can say to that is

DITTO!

Smeagol must be off figuring out about how damnation works.

32,535 posted on 05/09/2003 1:04:46 PM PDT by Wneighbor (aka Mrs. Field)
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To: Wneighbor
I am supposed to be learn vocabulary... but does this crazy book use the vocabulary of the lesson... no.... they are introducing words I don't know.

That's right... I don't know them because arabic is not my mother tongue.

Sometimes I get so frustrated.

32,536 posted on 05/09/2003 1:06:14 PM PDT by carton253 (You are free to form your own opinions, but not your own facts.)
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To: Wneighbor
But the problem is, up here we have to build in enough snow days that school doesn't get out until the middle of June. It's a trade-off.

We barely made it through this year without having to add days at the end of the year. We missed two days for the snipers and then a bunch of snow days.

What gets me is the years when we don't have snow days, and they have to give the kids the time off that they've built into the schedule. A few years back we missed no days for snow, so they gave them a five-day weekend for Memorial Day. Then they were supposed to come back for an additional two weeks and end "on time."

It was a stupid move. NOBODY accomplished anything after that break. The kids were already in summer mode.

Of course my county is also the county that scheduled Martin Luther King, Jr. day as a make-up day. Then, when they started getting heat, the School Board actually said (and I am not making this up) "Well, if it's an important day to you, you will not be counted as absent."

Over 40% of the kids didn't show that day.

32,537 posted on 05/09/2003 1:07:59 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (WWBB - What Would Bill Bet?)
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To: carton253
Sometimes I get so frustrated.

Oh, I've never done that!

there's still that hell thing for lying isn't there?

Oh, okay, that was one of those damnation lessons for you.

32,538 posted on 05/09/2003 1:08:28 PM PDT by Wneighbor (aka Mrs. Field)
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To: carton253; Wneighbor
That's right... I don't know them because arabic is not my mother tongue.

No. No. No! You don't know them because you're a racist. See? That's why you're having trouble...

32,539 posted on 05/09/2003 1:09:11 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (WWBB - What Would Bill Bet?)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Of course my county is also the county that scheduled Martin Luther King, Jr. day as a make-up day. Then, when they started getting heat, the School Board actually said (and I am not making this up) "Well, if it's an important day to you, you will not be counted as absent."

It will not surprise you that this doesn't surprise me will it?

They've done the same thing with MLK day here. I've not heard anybody complain yet. But, we've been in the backward parts of Texas you know.

32,540 posted on 05/09/2003 1:11:19 PM PDT by Wneighbor (aka Mrs. Field)
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