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05-02-2006, 09:27 AM | #241 |
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One hates to niggle over characters nicknames but
the delay in voting out + + Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith should come to an end. After all, just how many horses to be shod can be on the island?
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05-02-2006, 09:37 AM | #242 |
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++ The Miller
Crabby old fellow; always argued against the Parson to boot (always liked the parson, I did .... now see who votes to get the parson gone....). |
05-02-2006, 12:39 PM | #243 |
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I am much impressed by Anquirel's anti-dog campaign, being a cat person myself, but I think I shall temporarily suspend that particular line of reasoning and go with one that has frustrated me no end in all my readings.
++ Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith Honestly, I wish Tolkien had stuck with Old English and not got all messed up with Latin and impossible consonant clusters.
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05-02-2006, 12:54 PM | #244 | |
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Anyone read old Geoff Chaucer? Then you'll know why ++THE MILLER must go.
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05-02-2006, 01:27 PM | #245 |
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Ah yes, the gloomy fellow with the weird Latin name and the misleading pseudonym.
+ + Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith Grouchy dispositions and unpronouncable names make for dull viewing.
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05-02-2006, 03:28 PM | #246 | |
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I was going to vote for Sunny Sam, but then I saw this:
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++ THE MILLER
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05-02-2006, 08:07 PM | #247 |
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Mwahahaha... and so dies the last surviving member of the Dorkins family. Where's an evil smiley when I need one?
++Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) For his anakronistic use of a blunderbuss. Off to Mordor with ye! Edit - I would've voted for the Miller, lmp, to make good on my promise, but it seems that he'll be going anyways. Another day, then. Last edited by Alcarillo; 05-02-2006 at 10:08 PM. |
05-02-2006, 11:08 PM | #248 |
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End of Day the Twenty-Second
It would seem that the twenty-second day was "Worldwide 'vote for a Farmer Giles character' Day" and at the end two of the Farmer's acquaintances got the boot:
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith: 3 votes The Miller: 3 votes Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) : 1 vote And so, Sunny Sam and The Miller were also fed to the Dragon, who was by now getting quite fat. Day the Twenty-Third finds 22 remaining contestants: The Major Minor Works Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Gram, his dog Chrysophylax Dives The Parson Master Cook Rider Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie Smith of Wootton Major Nell Queen of Faerie Niggle The More Minor Minor Works Goldberry Badger Old Man Willow Goodman Maggott Fíriel Roverandom The Wizard Artaxerxes Moon-dog Mr. Day Archie Teddy Bruno
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05-03-2006, 01:02 AM | #249 |
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Oh dear.... I missed an entire day...
Alas- and alack! Hmm... I do like that anti-Roverandom that was on the boil... and I am definitely a cat person as opposed to a dog person... ++ Roverandom
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05-03-2006, 05:35 AM | #250 |
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+ + Moon-dog
The loss of a minor character in the More Minor Minor Works shouldn't be more then a minor minus.
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05-03-2006, 06:45 AM | #251 |
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++GRAM, Farmer Giles's DOG
There. Everything going swimmingly...
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05-03-2006, 06:53 AM | #252 |
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My goodness, why is everyone so doggone determined to get the dogs gone?! I guess it's time for me to step back into the action here and vote for some very mean flora to combat the fauna faction. (Though I must admit, Tuor's clever wordplay almost had me voting with him just because it's so cute.)
++Old Man Willow Come on, if we get rid of him now, he'll be out of harm's way before more people come into these here woods!
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05-03-2006, 07:36 AM | #253 | |
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I think it would be possible to argue that Master Cook was a dog. ++ Master Cook Rider
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05-03-2006, 09:42 AM | #254 |
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++ Moon Dog
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05-03-2006, 10:10 AM | #255 |
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For maximum dog-eviction
--GRAM, ++ROVERANDOM
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Pseudolus : Very good! Can you say "Titus the tailor told ten tall tales to Titania the titmouse"? (And watch for a cameo by the third Doctor Who- JP) (with perhaps the best line of the movie/play).
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05-03-2006, 11:18 AM | #257 |
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Warning: Extremely weak name-based reasoning ahead
Although I am a dog person myself, I cannot resist the lure of voting for a title character ...
+ + ROVERANDUM Rover and dumb? A dumb and insolvent car manufacturing company or a dumb dog? Either way, he should go.
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05-03-2006, 04:45 PM | #258 |
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Two O's in Roverandom. Hoowl!
And in light of the recent "this character is like me" voting schemes, I should note that good ol' little Rover was my result for the personality quiz.
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But, as you raised the point ... - - ROVERANDUM + + ROVERANDOM Random Rover? A Random Dog? etc etc Quote:
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05-03-2006, 05:37 PM | #260 |
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Cat people, unite!
++ ROVERANDOM And if you don't like that reason, I'll adopt a dislike of random roving argument.
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05-03-2006, 07:42 PM | #261 |
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++Moon-dog
He's an alien bent on invasion! All the evidence points to it! 1. He lives on the moon. 2. He says: "I was the first dog that was ever called Rover, thousands of years ago." Aliens are notoriously long-lived. 3. The spells the Man-in-the-Moon uses are not spells, but alien weapons described from the point-of-view of an earth dog. Quick! Vote for the Moon-dog before he starts abducting poor little humans for his and his master's vile experiments! Save the planet earth from the alien menace! |
05-03-2006, 10:08 PM | #262 | |
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++Roverandom. Since I don't know who he is, my reasons have already been said by others.
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05-03-2006, 11:08 PM | #263 |
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End of Day the Twenty-Third
Every dog has its day, and it was "Get Rid of Those Doggone Dogs" day on the island. Still, at the end only one dog fell:
Roverandom: 5 votes Moon-dog: 3 votes Old Man Willow: 1 vote Master Cook Rider: 1 vote And so, Roverandom went home to live with the Little Boy and his family. What, you thought I was going to do something nasty to him? Dream on! Day the Twenty-Fourth finds 21 remaining contestants: The Major Minor Works Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Gram, his dog Chrysophylax Dives The Parson Master Cook Rider Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie Smith of Wootton Major Nell Queen of Faerie Niggle The More Minor Minor Works Goldberry Badger Old Man Willow Goodman Maggott Fíriel The Wizard Artaxerxes Moon-dog Mr. Day Archie Teddy Bruno
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05-04-2006, 06:04 AM | #264 | |
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+ + Archie
Unfortunately, Tolkien never made it clear whether he was named for Archie Bunker or the comic strip Archie In any case, to paraphrase Brian's grafitti on a wall in Jerusalem: Quote:
Btw, that centurion would have made one great motivational teacher!
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05-04-2006, 09:37 AM | #265 |
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Agreed. An Archie just doesn't belong in the Minor Works of Tolkien. What was he thinking?
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05-04-2006, 02:31 PM | #266 |
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I remain by my reasoning that flesh-eating flora should be destroyed posthaste and therefore again vote for
++Old Man Willow
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05-04-2006, 02:40 PM | #267 |
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Forward The Cause
++MOON-DOG
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05-04-2006, 03:58 PM | #268 |
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One down... two to go!
No, I don't hate dogs... I'm just not a dog person. I'm rather more sympathetic to Beruthiel than Celegorm- at least Beruthiel had good taste in pets, however crazy she may have been otherwise. Besides, it's fun having an issue. For purposes of realistic eviction, therefore: ++ Moon-dog I must grant, though, that the Anti-Archie Campaign has points of merit, and has my hearty endorsement.
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05-04-2006, 04:13 PM | #269 |
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++ Old Man Willow
For swallowing fellow competitors & holding them in rivers. Really, you can't be much worse of a teammate then that! As for evicting all the dogs, what's up with this!? These dogs have helped smell out what little there is to eat during this competition - what do you expect us to do when they're gone? Last edited by The Only Real Estel; 05-04-2006 at 04:16 PM. |
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But I want to leave the dogs alone today. And Tuor has made a convincing argument... ++ ARCHIE We don't need any Archie Bunker imitators here.
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05-04-2006, 06:45 PM | #273 |
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It is indeed difficult these days to avoid any stigma of anti-animal bias. If we forego cats and dogs, we still have dragons and bears to deal with.
In short, I suggest we for the time placate these domesticated carnivore lovers and consider how felonious was the act in which Archie engaged. Imagine! A bear--not, not one, not two, but three bears--hijacking an automobile! Admittedly the driver was a short a cylinder or two, but who can trust a bear who takes over the road? Especially now that the end of hibernation season is upon us. In short, I suggest we urgently run off the road: ++ Archie And I know just the ladies we can call on to carry out our carnage: PS. Old Man Willow is so misunderstood!
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End of Day the Twenty-Fourth
A bear, not a dog, fell on day twenty-four:
Archie: 4 votes Moon-dog: 3 votes Old Man Willow: 2 votes And so, Archie was shot and mounted above the fireplace. Day the Twenty-Fifth finds 20 remaining contestants -- and among them are exactly 2 dogs: The Major Minor Works Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Gram, his dog Chrysophylax Dives The Parson Master Cook Rider Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie Smith of Wootton Major Nell Queen of Faerie Niggle The More Minor Minor Works Goldberry Badger Old Man Willow Goodman Maggott Fíriel The Wizard Artaxerxes Moon-dog Mr. Day Teddy Bruno
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05-05-2006, 08:10 AM | #276 |
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Well, Steven Colbert should certainly be happy with
the results of the latest eviction. And with no bear to climb up it (although the dogs might find it useful) perhaps it is time to remove the evil tree. + + Old Man Willow
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On the off-chance that they do...
++murmursmithofwoottonmajormurmur A nice inconspicuous vote...
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Did you really think I wouldn't notice that, Ang?
++ Old Man Willow Never liked him - a bully who doesn't pick on trees his own size. Picking on hobbits. Inexcusable.
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Psst ...
+ + Smith of Wootton Major I was not here. You did not see me.
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