The Hobbit Hole XXXVII - ...Down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed!

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...
• Nineteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...
• Twentieth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XX - And take the hidden paths that run...
• Twenty-first Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXI - ...Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
• Twenty-second Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXII - ...Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe
• Twenty-third Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIII - Let them go! Let them go!
• Twenty-Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...
• Twenty-Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXV - Fare you well! Fare you well!
• Twenty-Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead
• Twenty-Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVII - And there are many paths to tread
• Twenty-Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXVIII - Through shadows to the edge of night
• Twenty-Nineth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XXIX - Until the stars are all alight
• Thirtieth thread: The Hobbit Hole XXX - Then world behind and home ahead...
• Thirty-First ThreadThe Hobbit Hole XXXI - Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today!
• Thirty-second thread: The Hobbit Hole XXXII - Sweet is the sound of falling rain
• Thirty-Third thread (Our coming-of-age thread): The Hobbit Hole XXXIII - And the brook that leaps from hill to plain...
• Thirty-fourth thread: The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...
• Thirty-fifth thread: The Hobbit Hole XXXV - ...is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
• Thirty-sixth thread: The Hobbit Hole XXXVI - O! Water cold we may pour at need... (currently missing)

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

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[Corin Stormhands]

Anybody have a link to the “ultimate rant?”

[TalonDJ]

Honestly I think Elements will do plenty. Depends on what you want it for I guess

[Corin Stormhands]

Hmmmmm...maybe it’s a user problem.

[TalonDJ]

PM me a link to the button.

[TalonDJ]

Never mind I see it. er, yeah Elements can do better. The ‘age’ is your solid background and the font.

[Corin Stormhands]

Yeah, like I said, it was after midnight when I did it. I can get a little more creative with it tonight.

Of course I checked and there were already 128 other “Joe the Plumber” designs on CafePress.

[Lil'freeper]

Don't ditch the elements entirely. It's hardly obsolete. Instead, invest in an awesome font or two. Study trendy designs, colors, target the audience, etc. There's all sorts of design and color trend 'forecasting' websites, blogs, etc out there.

Ok - *constructive* criticism: I don't see 'old software', but I do see an 'old blue', and 'old yellow' and a very dated font. All easily edited. These are subtle things to which some people respond quite strongly, and not at a level that they necessarily understand or can articulate. It's how youts these days are programmed.

And I mean programmed.

[Rose in RoseBear]

My mother was a third grade teacher through most of her 30-year career. Can you tell?

This is an example of a shopping list of hers, dashed off in pencil and in a hurry:

I can tell she wrote it in a hurry because the capital B in "Bath" has a closed loop, and the U and R in "Insure" are not perfectly distinct.

[Overtaxed]

Every time I see “TB” I think of tuberculosis. Tell big ol’.

[Lil'freeper]

I did. He chuckled.

Dice-K just saved the day.

[Lil'freeper]

Dice-K just gave it all away.

This is going to be an unpleasant evening in this freeper household.

[Overtaxed]

Another homerun. Is the Babe Ruth curse back or is the goat opening up a franchise.

[Lil'freeper]

And it just gets worse.

[Overtaxed]

I think I’ll be finishing up that bottle of turkey now.

[Lil'freeper]

I dunno. I might go lock myself in the guest room until this is overwith. Maybe work on some plot holes in the nano.

[darkangel82]

The doormat of MLB up 5-0 and about to go to the Series. This is crazy...

[Lil'freeper]

Man. Papi just got booed.

[darkangel82]

It’s been years since I’ve heard Fenway that silent.

[Overtaxed]

Do they still sing the blues in Chicago...

~sip~

...when baseball season rolls around...

~hic~

[DBrow]

My first Hobbit post, prolly not the last...