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New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
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| 1/26/02
Posted on 01/27/2002 6:18:35 PM PST by John Farson
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To: JenB
Ding! Ding! Ding! Bring on the trolls! :) Just kidding
To: Overtaxed
I get this feeling that we're totally invisible to the Powers that Be - it's an interesting feeling. But how come the trolls can see us?
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03/13/2002 7:50:07 AM PST
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JenB
To: Overtaxed
We are in the chat room if you want to join us!
To: JenB
Are the trolls immune to the ring? They would be the only ones besides Bombadil with immunity!
To: HairOfTheDog
I don't have Java Chat at work and we're not supposed to download programs. Guess I'll just have to work today. :)
To: Overtaxed
Ohh sorry - I will monitor you here - I am thinking of preparing a new hobbit hole post - will keep you pinged if I do.
To: HairOfTheDog
Okay. Sounds Great!
To: HairOfTheDog
Are you all still in the chatroom? If so, I'll try to get in there (for lunch, you know). Who cares about Big Brother! ;)
To: HairOfTheDog
Well, I popped in there, but no one's around, guess I missed the party...
To: Penny1
Sorry we weren't there - I'm now working. Perhaps this evening we can talk - I'll be back in my room around 8 (eastern) and would love to...
Hair, are we digging a new Hole?
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03/13/2002 11:17:48 AM PST
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JenB
To: Penny1
We must have passed each other in cyberspace. I've been playing around there, and no one was there. :)
To: Samwise
Yeah, I didn't stay there very long when i saw that no one was there. Sorry I missed you! And now I have to get back to work.... :: sigh::
To: JenB;Penny1;Samwise;All
I am working on a new hole.... How about this? I will save it as a word document and upload it to the egroup, and you guys can all look at it and edit it (I think it will allow that) I have begun to re-read the thread and find good quotes, either funny or profound things we have said in this ole hobbit hole. I only have a few picked so far. Let me know if you guys find quotes that should be included.
It will be there shortly.
To: JenB
"I get this feeling that we're totally invisible to the Powers that Be - it's an interesting feeling. But how come the trolls can see us?" It's a good thing. We do not cause any trouble. We aren't hitting the abuse button. We are congenial. We will be left alone. Really. No reason to jump ship and go where many won't find us. Personally my typing is too slow for chat rooms.
As to the troll question ... it is possibly curiousity. Wondering what we are discussing to keep it going. Once they come to check it out ... it is either add a bit of revelent commment or be tacky ... depending on the personality of the troll. Nothing person to us or Tolkein.
The lurkers and there are many. Just like on Free Republic, many lurk for a year or two before a first posting. The quiet majority ... enriched by the more erudite and sapient among us. Keep it up, please. My musings for what it's worth.
To: HairOfTheDog; JenB; BibChr
Well, it's over for my hubby's dad. We're leaving for a few days.
To: 2Jedismom
Your family has my prayers. Hope you all make it through ok.
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03/13/2002 12:23:17 PM PST
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JenB
To: 2Jedismom
Take care 2JM - We will be thinking about you.
To: HairOfTheDog
Change ... the only thing that stays the same is that things will change.
I love this thread. I go back and look for certains parts of things you all have discussed on it. Why move anything? We haven't been outlawed have we? As my Mother told me ... "don't borrow trouble".
Of course if you want to insure nothing will be lost put it on a floppy for back up. Look at Alamo Girl's stuff ... huge. She can and does find wanted items in moments. Pretty amazing.
I fret that if this thread leaves Free Republic then it won't be as vital as interesting and have such a possibility of attracting wide numbers of interested readers.
Do you think you would post to more than the two threads going here now? I've wondered what I am missing in the chat room. Chat rooms are not attractive to me. I like being able to come here any hour and catch up.
Enough.
To: Countyline
Thanks.
We are playing with the egroup place, and it is working for sharing files and resources very well in addition to the chat room when we just want to gab. The file and photo storage has been the biggest benefit so far. But all of us still spend most of our time here.
I am pushing the idea of setting up a new Hobbit Hole thread over in the GI area, so that as time goes on this thread does not come to be viewed as a nuisance (up to now we have simply been a curiousity). In appreciation of the hospitality FR has shown us by allowing us to be here, and in the spirit of the new posting guidelines, we should move our chit-chat over to the other side, and hope that it will continue to be a fun thread for all inhabitants. We are not going away, only adapting!
To: 2Jedismom
If you think of it, please extend my sympathies to your husband. I loved my dad and had a pretty good relationship, but I never had a clue as to how large a hole he'd leave in my universe when he left it.
Dan
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