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The Hobbit Hole XXXV - ...is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

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!

See also: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net

Web page for our moot reports and troop support information!




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Also: It's JRR Tolkien's birthday today!

Thread here: Tolkien’s Birthday: Raise a glass!

1 posted on 01/03/2008 6:36:04 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Hooray! New digs! With a lovely couple come to visit!

And on the good professor’s birthday - very fitting indeed!

~sip~


2 posted on 01/03/2008 6:40:41 PM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Happy Birthday, J.R.R.!


3 posted on 01/03/2008 6:41:43 PM PST by Rocko ( "Where's the global warming? It's freezing in here." -- Bob Dylan)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Well, I guess JRRT's birthday is as good a day as any to start a new thread...
4 posted on 01/03/2008 6:42:30 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; Rose in RoseBear; Overtaxed; osagebowman; LSAggie; 2Jedismom; 300winmag; ...

Ping to new thread... Welcome especially ExGeeEye and his new MissusGeeEye :~)


5 posted on 01/03/2008 6:43:05 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
Hi, all!
6 posted on 01/03/2008 6:43:10 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [Didja have a merry Christmas? Are ya havin' a Happy New Year so far?])
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To: HairOfTheDog

In before 10, something ain’t right!


7 posted on 01/03/2008 6:45:16 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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To: Rose in RoseBear; All

Good evening.


8 posted on 01/03/2008 6:45:37 PM PST by darkangel82 (And the band played on....)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Er, that’s an interesting title.


9 posted on 01/03/2008 6:45:57 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

Well, it’s what came next :~)


10 posted on 01/03/2008 6:46:39 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Rose in RoseBear

Howdy, Rose! Haven’t seen you around in awhile!


11 posted on 01/03/2008 6:48:23 PM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: HairOfTheDog

New thread... And I didn’t even know there was anything wrong with the old one.


12 posted on 01/03/2008 6:49:00 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius

I guess it was crowded and cluttered... folk were starting to complain. :~)


13 posted on 01/03/2008 6:50:30 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Hey, we’re now delegates to our county convention. Heh.


14 posted on 01/03/2008 6:51:12 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

You are? Cool!


15 posted on 01/03/2008 6:53:07 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog; JenB

Considering all the cold and snow folks are getting...it’s kind of comforting.


16 posted on 01/03/2008 6:55:59 PM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: HairOfTheDog; JenB

Considering all the cold and snow folks are getting...it’s kind of comforting.


17 posted on 01/03/2008 6:56:00 PM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Yeah, nobody else wanted to be so we volunteered. It’s in March.


18 posted on 01/03/2008 6:56:03 PM PST by JenB
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To: HairOfTheDog
Somewhere in one of my innumerable boxes of stuff, I have a vinyl album - remember those? - that has Tolkien reading poems and singing songs (including this one) on the front, and on the back he reads "Riddles in the Dark."



Some dude is selling this one on eBay - it's the only image I could find, so I guess I'll pimp his auction in return for yoinking his pic.
19 posted on 01/03/2008 6:58:01 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: JenB

Good for you. I don’t have the stomach for politics right now.


20 posted on 01/03/2008 6:58:17 PM PST by darkangel82 (And the band played on....)
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