| 13 FEB 2006 at 2:41pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Just like you - change the subject when the going gets rough...
And just rub it in that it's a Honeymoon spot. Oh, wedded bliss! [smiley=love.gif]
[img]http://www.mindspring.com/~markparrish/Mumbles.gif[/img]...yeah, cheers, thanks a lot.
Originally Posted By Alan Thorn (13 FEB 2006 2:32pm)
Some interesting trees in that image; showing signs of a violent past at some time.
Yes sir, Mr. Thorn. Probably ardent love-makers climbing the trees to make out - then having a row.
Poor trees.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 13 FEB 2006 at 3:00pm |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By colpet (12 FEB 2006 9:25pm)
The Silmarillion is my favorite of all the books. I read the last 6 volumes of HoME; it was not an easy read. However, in Sauron Defeated (Vol 9) The Notion Club Papers is a fascinating glimpse of Tolkien's more contemporary writing of a man who retains an innate memory of the drowning of Numenor. Sort of a time travel meets middle-earth.
While everyone else bickers, let me pitch in by saying that you have no idea how much it turns me on that you know that. Nothing is quite as attractive to me as someone who knows as much about Tolkien's work as myself.
Such a shame that most people I've met have only ever seen the movies.
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| 13 FEB 2006 at 5:14pm |
anthonyJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (11 FEB 2006 7:26pm)
Now, are you trying to tell me that you're at a party and you'd really like to find a partner and you simply start at the first female on the left and work your way clockwise? There isn't someone who'd take your fancy across the room and send you scurrying off in her direction first? Cos I don't believe you.
Well, it's been a while, but I don't remember having an internal list of factors in my younger days that I would use to exclude women. What would be the point of that? After a few tequilas and chasers, most of the things on the list would not be discernable to me anyway, except as part of some sort of introspective recap the next morning: "amn, did that woman have dreadlocks or were we just listening to a lot of Bob Marley?"
Perhaps one potential disqualifying factor would be if one of my friends pointed out a woman that he had been with on a prior occasion. I say only a potential disqualifier because you could still go for it, but, chances are, afterwards you will have to take a lot of boastful riding from him about how he "went first" while you had to "settle for seconds" and other sorts of trash talking. Sigh, I really do miss college.
Originally Posted By Mark (12 FEB 2006 1:59am)
In that case, I would have went to a pizza supply fixtures store, bought the largest wooden pizza paddle I could find, stripped his ass bare-naked, flipped him over with the paddle, and scooted his ass-crack with a cold-water hose with a high-pressure nozzle - and then left.
I assume you would have been willing to do this to perform some type of public service to promote universal hygiene in men, and not because you actually like doing these kind of things.
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| 13 FEB 2006 at 6:55pm |
colpetSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | While everyone else bickers, let me pitch in by saying that you have no idea how much it turns me on that you know that. Nothing is quite as attractive to me as someone who knows as much about Tolkien's work as myself.
Such a shame that most people I've met have only ever seen the movies.
In my small real life sphere, many have not even seen the movies - too long, boring. As a Tolkien fan you try so hard to convince people of the genius of the stories. People look at you like you are crazy (bad enough that you play adventure games for hours on end at the computer). The movies were great, but I really wonder how many viewers were inspired to pick up the books.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 13 FEB 2006 at 8:11pm |
indibillIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I KNEW I would hear from you. Please, your Highness, tell them not to scar my face.
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| 13 FEB 2006 at 10:33pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mark (13 FEB 2006 1:13pm)
Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 1:04pm)
It's a shame we don't have any 50yr old single ladies here for you to chat up...
Well, at least I have you. But you're not single, so the point is moot.
I'm not bloody 50 so the point is completely lost...... >
[img]http://www.mindspring.com/~markparrish/Mumbles.gif[/img][font=Serif]...damn cradle snatcher.... trying to flirt (and failing badly) with a younger chick....
Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 1:04pm)
[font=Serif]Have you thought of advertising?
Never. I'm too cheap for self-promotion.
What a nice attribute with which to reccommend yourself to the wider world of women.
Anyway - I have quite the reputation, dear.
yes, grumbler extraordinaire, par excellence!
As being a tight-fisted old ham-hock.
We'll add it to the list but I have to warn you, bravery up a stepladder barely cancels it out. Women are impressed by savings ability but not scroogyness. Yes, I know that's rather contradictory, but that's women for you.
Alan
Seaside trees always look windblown down here.
Mark - sex in a tree? You think that's romantic? I think we may have found the error in your dating strategy (apart from being stingey, mean and grumpy).
Anthony
That was a ....er..... [s]uplifting and inspiring[/s] ...er ... [s]interesting[/s].... er.... insightful snippet from your past you shared with us. Please, don't feel under any obligation to do it again.
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| 13 FEB 2006 at 11:38pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By colpet (13 FEB 2006 6:54pm)
While everyone else bickers, let me pitch in by saying that you have no idea how much it turns me on that you know that. Nothing is quite as attractive to me as someone who knows as much about Tolkien's work as myself.
Such a shame that most people I've met have only ever seen the movies.
In my small real life sphere, many have not even seen the movies - too long, boring. As a Tolkien fan you try so hard to convince people of the genius of the stories. People look at you like you are crazy (bad enough that you play adventure games for hours on end at the computer). The movies were great, but I really wonder how many viewers were inspired to pick up the books.
Yeah, you try to get LotR movie viewers to read the books, and they generally get this pained look and say something along the lines of "Ugh, how many pages is that? That many? No thanks!"
Something that's always bothered me about the movies, as incredible as they were, they in no way match the power and beauty of the books. And here are countless people whose first and perhaps only impression of the story comes from the movie version. Kind of sad, I think. Especially when I consider how hard it is for me, someone who has read the books many times, to retain how I imagine the characters and places of the story to be now that I have seen the movie version. I can't imagine what it must be like to see the movie and then read the books. And all the differences would be a really shocker as well.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 12:17am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By colpet (13 FEB 2006 6:54pm)
In my small real life sphere, many have not even seen the movies - too long, boring. As a Tolkien fan you try so hard to convince people of the genius of the stories. People look at you like you are crazy (bad enough that you play adventure games for hours on end at the computer). The movies were great, but I really wonder how many viewers were inspired to pick up the books.
Not many. When the first part came out, I was disgusted to find out how many people didn't know it was a trilogy.
Not just a trilogy, but THE trilogy.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 1:21am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By anthony (13 FEB 2006 5:14pm)
...I assume you would have been willing to do this (pressure-wash a gnarly rear-end) to perform some type of public service to promote universal hygiene in men, and not because you actually like doing these kind of things.
Anthony - I just don't like to see poor animals suffer so.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 1:26am |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | I've tried to read the books but they are sooooooooooooo boring...
I know I've got a crappy attention span, but still I made an effort. I threw the stupid book across the room when I realised I'd been reading for about 200 pages and absolutely nothing had happened. And Tolkien was so far up his own arse, I can just imagine him sitting there at his typewriter saying "God, I'm so brilliant! This is a work of GENIUS!", while he writes a 30-page desciption of a button on Frodo's jacket... >
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 1:55am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Chris. (14 FEB 2006 1:26am)
And Tolkien was so far up his own arse, I can just imagine him sitting there at his typewriter saying "God, I'm so brilliant! This is a work of GENIUS!", while he writes a 30-page desciption of a button on Frodo's jacket... >
Not at all true. Personal vanity is illegal in England, isn't it? Tolkien was surprised by the success of the books, even somewhat concerned by their cult like status. The books for him were part of a life long hobby, part of a goal to create a truly English mythology he felt was lacking, and a sort of exercise allowing him to experiment with languages. I always got the impression that whether the books succeeded or not was of course desirable, but secondary in many ways; by simply putting the stories on paper he had accomplished his main goal.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 2:37am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 10:32pm)
I'm not bloody 50 so the point is completely lost...
A few months, give or take...
Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 1:04pm)
Have you thought of advertising (as a way)...to reccommend (sic) yourself to the wider world of women?
Oh, like through the internet or the WWW? No thanks. Too frightening.
Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 1:04pm)
...Women are impressed by savings ability but not scroogyness...
I'll keep that in mind.
"Oh, cancel those jobs! It's only your livelihood! Let's go on holiday! I have time off!"
"I'm sorry, dear, but I have obligations to meet during your time off."
"I HATE YOU AND NEVER WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU EVER AGAIN!"
And then I just there, thinking, "It never works; it never works."
Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 1:04pm)
Mark - sex in a tree? You think that's romantic?
Uh, well, at least it's somewhere rather different...
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 2:38am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | I was advised in my teens not to bother with these books - by someone who had read them - so I never did. I hired the first movie with great anticipation only to realise that it was so long and boring that I had to go to bed and finish it the next night. One of them even took me three nights to get through. [smiley=yawn.gif]
I was determined to see it right through to the end but I will never watch it again. I understand how important it is to the fans to have every little scene from the book in the movie but to be fair - they are two entirely different media and what works in a book doesn't necessarily work on film. They all needed editing. Badly.
I will never read the books. I don't need to - I've seen the movies. I know what happens to the ring and frankly, I don't give a damn.......
[font=Serif]sincere apologies to all those rabid Tokein fans I've just offended.... forgive me if you can. :-*
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 2:50am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mark (14 FEB 2006 2:37am)
Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 10:32pm)
I'm not bloody 50 so the point is completely lost...
A few months, give or take...
Actually 48 but I've decided to start saying 45.....
Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 1:04pm)
Have you thought of advertising (as a way)...to reccommend (sic) yourself to the wider world of women?
Oh, like through the internet or the WWW? No thanks. Too frightening.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady..... nothing ventured, nothing gained.....
Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 1:04pm)
...Women are impressed by savings ability but not scroogyness...
I'll keep that in mind.
"Oh, cancel those jobs! It's only your livelihood! Let's go on holiday! I have time off!"
"I'm sorry, dear, but I have obligations to meet during your time off."
"I HATE YOU AND NEVER WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU EVER AGAIN!"
And then I just there, thinking, "It never works; it never works."
You know, I'm trying to help you, I really am but you just keep making excuses. Are you sure you're not just really settled and content on your own. You know, no one to share the grits with, no one telling you where to put your dirty socks and how to leave the toilet seat? It can get mighty cosy doing everything your own way and not having to please someone else - lots of single people (men and women) are discovering that.
Originally Posted By Caroline (13 FEB 2006 1:04pm)
Mark - sex in a tree? You think that's romantic?
Uh, well, at least it's somewhere rather different...
Sex in trees is for monkeys Mark.... and birds.... and some bugs. Take a hint out of ShadowWalker's armoury of seduction and go for the luxury spa room, edible massage oils, romantic music and scented candles. (I've no idea if it's as much fun as it sounds but it sure looks romantic in the movies.) Just don't ask her to go 'dutch' with the bill, that's all.
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| 14 FEB 2006 at 3:25am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (14 FEB 2006 2:38am)
I understand how important it is to the fans to have every little scene from the book in the movie but to be fair - they are two entirely different media and what works in a book doesn't necessarily work on film.
On that point, at least, I do agree. The books had a certain special quality about them that didn't and couldn't translate to film, for a variety of reasons. Though part of me would have like to see the books reproduced on film word for word, make it about a sixty hour film.
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