Posted on 01/27/2002 6:18:35 PM PST by John Farson
| New Zealander builds Hobbit hole A New Zealand man has built a Hobbit house. Carl Gifford, a stonemason from Wellington, says he used a 10-tonne digger to make the hole. He's put rocks either side of the front door and plans to install a chimney and lantern on top. He told the Evening Post he was embarrassed as he was constructing the home. He said: "I must admit I was hiding as the cars were driving past. I thought, 'These people think I'm an idiot'." The house is part of a series of stonework mounds, designs and sculptures dotted around his land. "I'm just having a bit of fun. Things that were built by those ancient people like caves have always fascinated me." |
Hair, are we digging a new Hole?
It will be there shortly.
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.
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.
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!
Dan
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