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Tuor of Gondolin · 05-02-2006, 09:27 AM

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?

littlemanpoet · 05-02-2006, 09:37 AM

++ 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....).

Bêthberry · 05-02-2006, 12:39 PM

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.

Anguirel · 05-02-2006, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Honestly, I wish Tolkien had stuck with Old English and not got all messed up with Latin and impossible consonant clusters.

How infelicitous.

Anyone read old Geoff Chaucer? Then you'll know why

++THE MILLER

must go.

**The Saucepan Man** · 05-02-2006, 01:27 PM

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.

Celuien · 05-02-2006, 03:28 PM

I was going to vote for Sunny Sam, but then I saw this:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anguirel

Anyone read old Geoff Chaucer?

Yes, I have and I know what you're talking about.

++ THE MILLER

Alcarillo · 05-02-2006, 08:07 PM

Mwahahaha... and so dies the last surviving member of the Dorkins family. Where's an evil smiley when I need one?

++Ægidius 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.

Diamond18 · 05-02-2006, 11:08 PM

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

Ægidius 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

Ægidius 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

Formendacil · 05-03-2006, 01:02 AM

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

Tuor of Gondolin · 05-03-2006, 05:35 AM

+ + Moon-dog

The loss of a minor character in the More Minor
Minor Works shouldn't be more then a minor minus.

Anguirel · 05-03-2006, 06:45 AM

++GRAM, Farmer Giles's DOG

There. Everything going swimmingly...

Estelyn Telcontar · 05-03-2006, 06:53 AM

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!

Bêthberry · 05-03-2006, 07:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baldrick, Blackadder III, 2: Ink and Incapability

Definition of a dog: not a cat

I think it would be possible to argue that Master Cook was a dog.

++ Master Cook Rider

littlemanpoet · 05-03-2006, 09:42 AM

++ Moon Dog

I find myself most moved by the most mannerfully mindful mishmash in Tuor's mullings.

Anguirel · 05-03-2006, 10:10 AM

For maximum dog-eviction

--GRAM, ++ROVERANDOM

Tuor of Gondolin · 05-03-2006, 10:50 AM

Quote:

littlemanpoet ++ Moon Dog

I find myself most moved by the most mannerfully mindful mishmash in Tuor's mullings.

Miles Gloriosus : Oh, her bridal bower becomes a burial bier of bitter bereavement!
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).

**The Saucepan Man** · 05-03-2006, 11:18 AM

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.

Diamond18 · 05-03-2006, 04:45 PM

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.

**The Saucepan Man** · 05-03-2006, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Di18

Two O's in Roverandom. Hoowl!

Bah! All this Latin is confusing me.

But, as you raised the point ...

- - ROVERANDUM

+ + ROVERANDOM

Random Rover? A Random Dog? etc etc

Quote:

Originally Posted by Di18

I should note that good ol' little Rover was my result for the personality quiz.

You mean we humble mortals have a measure of power to rebel against our almighty moddess? Well, all the more reason to vote for the little tyke then.

Celuien · 05-03-2006, 05:37 PM

Cat people, unite!

++ ROVERANDOM

And if you don't like that reason, I'll adopt a dislike of random roving argument.

Alcarillo · 05-03-2006, 07:42 PM

++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!

The 1,000 Reader · 05-03-2006, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alcarillo

++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!

We have the MIB to stop him.

++Roverandom.

Since I don't know who he is, my reasons have already been said by others.

Diamond18 · 05-03-2006, 11:08 PM

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

Ægidius 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

Tuor of Gondolin · 05-04-2006, 06:04 AM

+ + 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:

"Archiees eunt domus"? People called Archie, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, Archie go home.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes

Btw, that centurion would have made one great
motivational teacher!

littlemanpoet · 05-04-2006, 09:37 AM

Agreed. An Archie just doesn't belong in the Minor Works of Tolkien. What was he thinking?

++ Archie

Estelyn Telcontar · 05-04-2006, 02:31 PM

I remain by my reasoning that flesh-eating flora should be destroyed posthaste and therefore again vote for

++Old Man Willow

Anguirel · 05-04-2006, 02:40 PM

Forward The Cause

++MOON-DOG

Formendacil · 05-04-2006, 03:58 PM

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.

The Only Real Estel · 05-04-2006, 04:13 PM

++ 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?

Diamond18 · 05-04-2006, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Only Real Estel

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?

Well, the obvious answer is to eat the dogs.

Celuien · 05-04-2006, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diamond18

Well, the obvious answer is to eat the dogs.

Hot Dogs!

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.

Alcarillo · 05-04-2006, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Celuien

Hot Dogs!

++Moon-dog

Just in case the tribes start starving.

Bêthberry · 05-04-2006, 06:45 PM

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!

The Only Real Estel · 05-04-2006, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diamond18

Well, the obvious answer is to eat the dogs.

Yep, all less than five of them.

p.s. No time to get an exact count.

Diamond18 · 05-04-2006, 11:06 PM

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

Ægidius 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

Tuor in Gondolin · 05-05-2006, 08:10 AM

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

Diamond18 · 05-05-2006, 02:27 PM

*cough cough* Don't go forgetting about this amongst all the Wereduck excitement, now.

Anguirel · 05-05-2006, 02:50 PM

On the off-chance that they do...

++murmursmithofwoottonmajormurmur

A nice inconspicuous vote...

Celuien · 05-05-2006, 02:57 PM

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.

**The Saucepan Man** · 05-05-2006, 06:09 PM

Psst ...

+ + Smith of Wootton Major

I was not here.
You did not see me.

05-02-2006, 09:27 AM	#241
Tuor of Gondolin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Pennsylvania, WtR, passed Sarn Gebir: Above the rapids (1239 miles) BtR, passed Black Rider Stopping Place (31 miles) Posts: 1,548	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? __________________ Aure Entuluva!

05-02-2006, 12:39 PM	#243
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5,996	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. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

05-02-2006, 01:27 PM	#245
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	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. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

05-02-2006, 08:07 PM	#247
Alcarillo Shadow of the Past Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Minas Mor-go Posts: 1,007	Mwahahaha... and so dies the last surviving member of the Dorkins family. Where's an evil smiley when I need one? ++Ægidius 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
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	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 Ægidius 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 Ægidius 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 __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression. Last edited by Diamond18; 05-03-2006 at 01:06 AM.

05-02-2006, 09:37 AM	#242
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	++ 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....).

05-03-2006, 01:02 AM	#249
Formendacil Dead Serious Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers. Posts: 3,326	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 __________________ I prefer history, true or feigned.

05-03-2006, 05:35 AM	#250
Tuor of Gondolin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Pennsylvania, WtR, passed Sarn Gebir: Above the rapids (1239 miles) BtR, passed Black Rider Stopping Place (31 miles) Posts: 1,548	+ + Moon-dog The loss of a minor character in the More Minor Minor Works shouldn't be more then a minor minus. __________________ Aure Entuluva!

05-03-2006, 06:45 AM	#251
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	++GRAM, Farmer Giles's DOG There. Everything going swimmingly... __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

05-03-2006, 06:53 AM	#252
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	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! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

05-03-2006, 09:42 AM	#254
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	++ Moon Dog I find myself most moved by the most mannerfully mindful mishmash in Tuor's mullings.

05-03-2006, 10:10 AM	#255
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	For maximum dog-eviction --GRAM, ++ROVERANDOM __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

05-03-2006, 11:18 AM	#257
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	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. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

05-03-2006, 04:45 PM	#258
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	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. __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.

05-03-2006, 05:37 PM	#260
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	Cat people, unite! ++ ROVERANDOM And if you don't like that reason, I'll adopt a dislike of random roving argument. __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

05-03-2006, 07:42 PM	#261
Alcarillo Shadow of the Past Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Minas Mor-go Posts: 1,007	++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, 11:08 PM	#263
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	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 Ægidius 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 __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression. Last edited by Diamond18; 05-03-2006 at 11:11 PM.

05-04-2006, 09:37 AM	#265
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Agreed. An Archie just doesn't belong in the Minor Works of Tolkien. What was he thinking? ++ Archie

05-04-2006, 02:31 PM	#266
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	I remain by my reasoning that flesh-eating flora should be destroyed posthaste and therefore again vote for ++Old Man Willow __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

05-04-2006, 02:40 PM	#267
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	Forward The Cause ++MOON-DOG __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

05-04-2006, 03:58 PM	#268
Formendacil Dead Serious Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers. Posts: 3,326	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. __________________ I prefer history, true or feigned.

05-04-2006, 04:13 PM	#269
The Only Real Estel Raffish Rapscallion Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-( Posts: 2,835	++ 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.

05-04-2006, 06:45 PM	#273
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5,996	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! __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

05-04-2006, 11:06 PM	#275
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	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 Ægidius 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 __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.

05-05-2006, 08:10 AM	#276
Tuor in Gondolin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Southeast Pennsylvania Posts: 3,651	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 __________________ The poster formerly known as Tuor of Gondolin. Walking To Rivendell and beyond 12,555 miles passed Nt./Day 5: Pass the beacon on Nardol, the 'Fire Hill.'

05-05-2006, 02:27 PM	#277
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	cough cough Don't go forgetting about this amongst all the Wereduck excitement, now. __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.

05-05-2006, 02:50 PM	#278
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	On the off-chance that they do... ++murmursmithofwoottonmajormurmur A nice inconspicuous vote... __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

05-05-2006, 02:57 PM	#279
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	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. __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

05-05-2006, 06:09 PM	#280
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Psst ... + + Smith of Wootton Major I was not here. You did not see me. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!