What do you "assign" to the Shire? - Page 9 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Thinlómien · 03-13-2006, 08:35 AM

I assign apple marmalade and toast. It just tastes good.

Celuien · 03-13-2006, 09:33 PM

I assign Hamantaschen. Delicious.

Best of all, prunes (of all things!) are delightful in them. Normally I dislike prunes, but they're great when cooked up properly. Now there's a way to take something that belongs in Mordor and turn it into something wonderful. A Shire deserving item in itself.

Bêthberry · 03-14-2006, 06:57 AM

I assign that particular smell of spring, the earthy, heavy aroma of damp, dank earth, full of dirt and detritus, oozing deliquescent puddles of mud and the last remnants of snow and ice. Earth on the cusp of birth.

Laitoste · 03-15-2006, 07:24 PM

Nice, helpful professors who make you feel better about why you feel stupid in their classes, and can explain (well) why you didn't get the grade you thought you'd get on your paper and can help you understand how to do better next time. Also professors who value your input and are encouraging (to the point of encouraging you to go talk to your other, scarier profs). I like feeling supported!

Oddwen · 03-15-2006, 08:29 PM

Mud.

Springtime mud.

The kind that is caused by melting snow.

The kind that turns the top two inches of your driveway into soup. (Though the ruts that are there when it freezes back up again can go Elsewhere...)

Living on a road with a slight incline, so that you can play in the rivulets that run down the hill across the end of the driveway. *sigh* Such memories...

the guy who be short · 03-16-2006, 12:29 PM

Brighton beach.

When the weather turns unexpetedly beautiful.

Fish and Chips on the beach.

French exchange students.

Thick coach windows that, due to two reflections, make it look as if there are two suns, or even three.

French people trying to explain the difference between au-dessus and au-dessous to obstinate English children who claim there is none.

Perfect days out that mean you don't have to go to lessons you don't like.

Anguirel · 03-18-2006, 08:10 AM

Lovely, succulent French cheeses. Mm, nice.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 03-18-2006, 09:24 AM

The following conversation near midnight outside of a bar on a really cold street:

"Sweetie, what are the chances that you can get next weekend off of work?"

"Depends on how hard I try for it. Why?"

"Because I'm taking you home."

"Then I'm going home."

And posting up on the sub-list that you need someone to take your hours and seeing a few hours after that you're covered.

I very happily assign the prospect of going home for the first time in several months.

Kath · 03-18-2006, 10:19 AM

Lovely librarian's that happily spend half an hour finding all the books that you need for the next few weeks.

**The Saucepan Man** · 03-18-2006, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Fea

I very happily assign the prospect of going home for the first time in several months.

What, back to those awful parents of yours? Aren't they in Mordor?

Feanor of the Peredhil · 03-18-2006, 12:02 PM

Actually, I miss my dogs.

the guy who be short · 03-18-2006, 04:16 PM

Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

And Mithalwen, for leading me to him.

Laitoste · 03-18-2006, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

I very happily assign the prospect of going home for the first time in several months.

I second that. Spring break in a week! Home for the first time since Christmas! I get to see my dogs and my kittens who are (sadly) no longer kittens! Plus, a week to lie around, play video games, and complete homework assignments that would typically be allotted a day to finish. However, I refuse to play chauffer to my little brother. Especially when he won't ask nicely.

Oh, I also want to add wireless internet, which deserves a simultaneous assignment to Mordor. I can go anywhere in the building now and continue to compulsively check my email! Although, I can no longer escape the internet in the hallway outside my room and write my papers without distraction.

Kath · 03-19-2006, 11:15 AM

Knowing full well that the hour you just spent on a WW post could have been used to do a good couple of pages of your geography coursework, and just not caring!

Eldar14 · 03-19-2006, 02:26 PM

People who hold the door for other people.

the guy who be short · 03-19-2006, 02:36 PM

France.

How I'd love to live in a country where people aren't afraid to defend their rights.

I think I'll actually send Germany, too, for similar reasons. I quote my German friend:

"Shopkeepers can't limit the number of schoolchildren entering a shop. It's discriminating and stereotyping. Imagine if they said only three gays could enter at a time."

Mithalwen · 03-20-2006, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by the guy who be short

France.

How I'd love to live in a country where peopel aren't afraid to defend their rights.

It is less amusing when the transport workers go on strike with no warning and leave you stranded

Let alone the sheep.... and it is no coincidence that bureaucracy is a French word...... but even so I might go back....

littlemanpoet · 03-20-2006, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by the guy who be short

France.

How I'd love to live in a country where people aren't afraid to defend their rights.

I think I'll actually send Germany, too, for similar reasons. I quote my German friend:

"Shopkeepers can't limit the number of schoolchildren entering a shop. It's discriminating and stereotyping. Imagine if they said only three gays could enter at a time."

So that means that the shopkeeper is at the mercy of a whole squadron of schoolkids, the numbers of whom are beyond her or his ability to keep an eye on for the threat of shoplifting. How is this a good thing? Or are shoplifters protected under French law too? Can a French shopkeeper "discriminate" against squatters? vandals? spitters in the shop? Or are they all protected by French law too?

Okay, I'm being a bit testy, but this law looks to me like it belongs in Mordor. Doesn't the shopkeeper own the shop? Does the French law actually prohibit the owner of the place from deciding who can be there?

If that's the case, then it's the French gov't that actually owns the shop. I suppose a socialist approves?

Lathriel · 03-21-2006, 03:55 PM

I will send the last day of this semester to the Shire. It will be here in about three weeks and then FREEDOM. well...not exactly but close.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 03-21-2006, 04:32 PM

I'll send the clichèd light at the end of the tunnel... or is it the top of the well? Whatever it is that hits you when you least expect and makes everything exponentially better. That's Shire-worthy if anything is.

Laitoste · 03-21-2006, 05:58 PM

Last night, I had an hour and a half conversation with someone completely unexpected, who I have never really had the chance to get to know one-on-one. I have a sneaking suspicion that events like these already exist in the Shire, but I'll send it anyway.

the guy who be short · 03-22-2006, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by LMP the argumentative

So that means that the shopkeeper is at the mercy of a whole squadron of schoolkids, the numbers of whom are beyond her or his ability to keep an eye on for the threat of shoplifting. How is this a good thing? Or are shoplifters protected under French law too? Can a French shopkeeper "discriminate" against squatters? vandals? spitters in the shop? Or are they all protected by French law too?

You misconstrue me entirely. The assignment is not an attack on the shopkeeper's right to protect their property from thieves or vandals. The assignment is the stereotyping of all young people as pickpockets, the tarring with the same brush. All young people are punished for the actions of a very few. There is, in fact, a rather famous man in the Middle East who felt it entirely legitimate to punish an entire settlement with genocide for one man's failed attack on him.

Note also that the friend was German, not French.

I assign discovering prejudices within oneself. It gives motivation to change one's thoughts and ideas and to consciously re-shape oneself.

I also assign Latin. It's pretty.

Lalwendë · 03-22-2006, 05:15 PM

I assign to The Shire getting first class rail tickets at knock down prices. Lovely, a train ride to London with endless refills of tea and coffee and snacks brought to the table. It almost makes up for the issue of sales and not getting a bargain!

I also assign knowing you have a week off work coming up. It's that Friday feeling, but all week long!

Lhunardawen · 03-22-2006, 07:34 PM

People who try to make you feel better even over the littlest issues.

The feeling of being vindicated after several frustrating minutes of no one listening to you. More so when it's on a subject that you're not supposed to know a lot about (i. e. Calculus).

Knowing that after crawling through two take home exams, two final exams, and two papers...you get two weeks of break.

littlemanpoet · 03-23-2006, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by the guy who be short

The assignment is the stereotyping of all young people as pickpockets, the tarring with the same brush.

Then you and I have no disagreement, my dear sir.

the guy who be short · 03-24-2006, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by LMP

Then you and I have no disagreement, my dear sir.

How you amuse me.

JennyHallu · 03-24-2006, 01:13 PM

Classic Rock.

There is nothing to compare with the Yardbirds and the resulting bands (Cream, Led Zeppelin, Beck, among a plethora of others), Steppenwolf, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc.

Plus the startled look on older people's faces when they realize the very feminine, 20 year old secretary they like calling "Bunny" knows all the words to songs that were cool before she was born, and has a more-than-half-decent voice, is priceless.

THE Ka · 03-24-2006, 05:26 PM

The Smiths

There is no better thing to wake up to than 'Cemetary Gates' or 'Shelia Take a Bow', or to get you out of the blues than 'That joke Isn't Funny Anymore', because there will always be someone who has more right to complain than you.
It always reminds me of the lamenting of Frodo and Gandalf giving him a good lesson in existalist philosophy. Or that of Bilbo.

Anyways, the ability of hobbits to take life as it's served and lament so beautifully upon it gives me reason to say that The Smiths deserve to be held up in Shire worth praise.

Thank you Moz and Marr.

~ Aesthete

littlemanpoet · 03-24-2006, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by JennyHallu

Classic Rock.

There is nothing to compare with the Yardbirds and the resulting bands (Cream, Led Zeppelin, Beck, among a plethora of others), Steppenwolf, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc.

What, not Genesis?

Lalwendë · 03-25-2006, 03:31 AM

And I assign all the music I likes, including that weird and wonderful early Genesis and the fabulous lyrics of Morrissey ("punctured bicycle, on a hillside, desolate...."). Marvellous.

JennyHallu · 03-25-2006, 07:12 AM

Elempi, please note the et cetera, which denotes all the bands I listen to, but couldn't remember the names of. And I'm going to have to check to see if I've heard of Genesis.

Nope.

But I will add Eagles, Chicago, and Queen. And Supertramp. (Mostly for the Logical Song and the lyric "You know they've gotta have them in Texas/'Cause everyone's a millionaire"

JennyHallu · 03-25-2006, 08:48 AM

...and this is going to sound very strange.

But I assign having glasses. The world is so...clear. And I hadn't even noticed how fuzzy it had been getting.

the guy who be short · 03-25-2006, 10:52 AM

I assign woodlice. They're so adorable, the way they curl up when you come near. The way they sort of limp after you accidentally brush them up, thinking them to be rubbish. The way they carefully don't budge until you're out of the vicinity, keeping up the pretence, even though both you and they know that they're not actually little balls.

Orominuialwen · 03-25-2006, 10:27 PM

I second JennyHallu's assignment of glasses. I just got mine on Tuesday and the increased ability to see and decreased headaches are wonderful.

I also second tgwbs' assignment of Latin. It's such a beautiful language and it's just wonderful to sing in. Plus, it can make even mundane things like Madison, Wisconsin seem special by turning them into Madisonenis, Wisconsinenis. (At least I think that's what it was.)

Spelunking. It seems like something Hobbits would enjoy and it's immense fun when the grey sweatshirt and blue pants you wore into the cave come out mud brown and soaking wet.

Robotics competitions. Even when your robot is less than great (it placed 29th out of 34 teams) it's enormous fun. There are silly things, like when all the teams' mascots, including two martians (one with two heads!), a penguin, a knight, a yeti, an apple , and a badger (from my team!) did the Electric Slide. There are exciting things, like winning matches (admittedly, very few of ours). And then there's the amazing feeling of elation that comes from winning the second highest award possible in the regional competition (the Engineering Inspiration Award) which qualifies your team for Nationals (for the second time in the three years the team has been around) and running on to the field to get high fives from all the judges and medals from the referees while waving your team's giant flag. being optimistic enough to think that everything will work out just fine to go to Nationals, even though it means you have about a month to raise somewhere between six and ten thousand dollars (robotics is really expensive), you have to have all of your stuff moved out of your building at the earliest possible date because there's another (paying) ternant for it, so there's no place for your team to work, and your robot is absolutely awful and only really worked when you disabled its one major function (it was actually much better then). I'm completely on cloud nine at the moment because I'm so excited about everything.

Lhunardawen · 03-26-2006, 03:39 AM

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Originally Posted by JennyHallu

...and this is going to sound very strange.

But I assign having glasses. The world is so...clear. And I hadn't even noticed how fuzzy it had been getting.

This assignment is seconded by the Nearsighted Elves Society. Or at least by the Society's Keeper of the Last Handmade Lens, Lhunardawen.

JennyHallu · 03-26-2006, 08:06 AM

I just got mine Friday...the only downside is that I keep thinking the frames are strands of hair and trying to brush them out of my face.

And...*shies away from Orumin* The last guy on a robotics team I met made me listen for half-an-hour to an extended discourse on the difference between gears and sprockets! Ahhh! (By which I of course and obviously mean best of luck in Nationals.)

I assign cold pizza for breakfast. Yum yum yum.

Kath · 03-26-2006, 10:25 AM

I assign Mother's Day! Odd I know since I'm not a mother but being able to make someone happy just by giving them a handmade card is such a nice feeling. Plus it meant we got to go out for lunch and pig out!

JennyHallu · 03-26-2006, 10:47 AM

Isn't Mother's Day in May?

Kath · 03-26-2006, 10:49 AM

No it's today. Father's Day can be in May or the end of April.

Lalaith · 03-26-2006, 10:55 AM

Mother's Day is an American holiday, occuring in May.
Mothering Sunday, the British holiday, is today. Both, indeed, belong in the Shire.

03-13-2006, 08:35 AM	#321
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	I assign apple marmalade and toast. It just tastes good. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

03-13-2006, 09:33 PM	#322
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	I assign Hamantaschen. Delicious. Best of all, prunes (of all things!) are delightful in them. Normally I dislike prunes, but they're great when cooked up properly. Now there's a way to take something that belongs in Mordor and turn it into something wonderful. A Shire deserving item in itself. __________________ 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.

03-14-2006, 06:57 AM	#323
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5,996	I assign that particular smell of spring, the earthy, heavy aroma of damp, dank earth, full of dirt and detritus, oozing deliquescent puddles of mud and the last remnants of snow and ice. Earth on the cusp of birth. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

03-15-2006, 07:24 PM	#324
Laitoste Wight Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Behind the hills Posts: 164	Nice, helpful professors who make you feel better about why you feel stupid in their classes, and can explain (well) why you didn't get the grade you thought you'd get on your paper and can help you understand how to do better next time. Also professors who value your input and are encouraging (to the point of encouraging you to go talk to your other, scarier profs). I like feeling supported! __________________ "If we're still alive in the morning, we'll know that we're not dead."~South Park

03-15-2006, 08:29 PM	#325
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	Mud. Springtime mud. The kind that is caused by melting snow. The kind that turns the top two inches of your driveway into soup. (Though the ruts that are there when it freezes back up again can go Elsewhere...) Living on a road with a slight incline, so that you can play in the rivulets that run down the hill across the end of the driveway. sigh Such memories... __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

03-16-2006, 12:29 PM	#326
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Brighton beach. When the weather turns unexpetedly beautiful. Fish and Chips on the beach. French exchange students. Thick coach windows that, due to two reflections, make it look as if there are two suns, or even three. French people trying to explain the difference between au-dessus and au-dessous to obstinate English children who claim there is none. Perfect days out that mean you don't have to go to lessons you don't like.

03-18-2006, 08:10 AM	#327
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	Lovely, succulent French cheeses. Mm, nice. __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

03-18-2006, 09:24 AM	#328
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	The following conversation near midnight outside of a bar on a really cold street: "Sweetie, what are the chances that you can get next weekend off of work?" "Depends on how hard I try for it. Why?" "Because I'm taking you home." "Then I'm going home." And posting up on the sub-list that you need someone to take your hours and seeing a few hours after that you're covered. I very happily assign the prospect of going home for the first time in several months. __________________ peace

03-18-2006, 10:19 AM	#329
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Lovely librarian's that happily spend half an hour finding all the books that you need for the next few weeks. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

03-18-2006, 12:02 PM	#331
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Actually, I miss my dogs. __________________ peace

03-18-2006, 04:16 PM	#332
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Antoine de Saint-Exupery. And Mithalwen, for leading me to him.

03-19-2006, 11:15 AM	#334
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Knowing full well that the hour you just spent on a WW post could have been used to do a good couple of pages of your geography coursework, and just not caring! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

03-19-2006, 02:26 PM	#335
Eldar14 Wight Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: the Cottage of Lost Play Posts: 182	People who hold the door for other people. __________________ "Come away! Let the cowards keep this city!" -- Fëanor to the Noldor

03-19-2006, 02:36 PM	#336
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	France. How I'd love to live in a country where people aren't afraid to defend their rights. I think I'll actually send Germany, too, for similar reasons. I quote my German friend: "Shopkeepers can't limit the number of schoolchildren entering a shop. It's discriminating and stereotyping. Imagine if they said only three gays could enter at a time." Last edited by the guy who be short; 03-20-2006 at 12:33 PM. Reason: "speeling"

03-21-2006, 03:55 PM	#339
Lathriel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME) Posts: 612	I will send the last day of this semester to the Shire. It will be here in about three weeks and then FREEDOM. well...not exactly but close. __________________ Back again

03-21-2006, 04:32 PM	#340
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	I'll send the clichèd light at the end of the tunnel... or is it the top of the well? Whatever it is that hits you when you least expect and makes everything exponentially better. That's Shire-worthy if anything is.

03-21-2006, 05:58 PM	#341
Laitoste Wight Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Behind the hills Posts: 164	Last night, I had an hour and a half conversation with someone completely unexpected, who I have never really had the chance to get to know one-on-one. I have a sneaking suspicion that events like these already exist in the Shire, but I'll send it anyway. __________________ "If we're still alive in the morning, we'll know that we're not dead."~South Park

03-22-2006, 05:15 PM	#343
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I assign to The Shire getting first class rail tickets at knock down prices. Lovely, a train ride to London with endless refills of tea and coffee and snacks brought to the table. It almost makes up for the issue of sales and not getting a bargain! I also assign knowing you have a week off work coming up. It's that Friday feeling, but all week long! __________________ Gordon's alive!

03-22-2006, 07:34 PM	#344
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	People who try to make you feel better even over the littlest issues. The feeling of being vindicated after several frustrating minutes of no one listening to you. More so when it's on a subject that you're not supposed to know a lot about (i. e. Calculus). Knowing that after crawling through two take home exams, two final exams, and two papers...you get two weeks of break.

03-24-2006, 01:13 PM	#347
JennyHallu The Pearl, The Lily Maid Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In my luxury Barrow, snuggled up in a pile of satin pillows, eating fresh fruit. Posts: 1,628	Classic Rock. There is nothing to compare with the Yardbirds and the resulting bands (Cream, Led Zeppelin, Beck, among a plethora of others), Steppenwolf, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc. Plus the startled look on older people's faces when they realize the very feminine, 20 year old secretary they like calling "Bunny" knows all the words to songs that were cool before she was born, and has a more-than-half-decent voice, is priceless. __________________ <=== Lookee, lookee, lots of IM handles!

03-24-2006, 05:26 PM	#348
THE Ka Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: As with the flygja Posts: 1,403	The Smiths There is no better thing to wake up to than 'Cemetary Gates' or 'Shelia Take a Bow', or to get you out of the blues than 'That joke Isn't Funny Anymore', because there will always be someone who has more right to complain than you. It always reminds me of the lamenting of Frodo and Gandalf giving him a good lesson in existalist philosophy. Or that of Bilbo. Anyways, the ability of hobbits to take life as it's served and lament so beautifully upon it gives me reason to say that The Smiths deserve to be held up in Shire worth praise. Thank you Moz and Marr. ~ Aesthete __________________ Vinur, vinur skilur tú meg? Veitst tú ongan loyniveg? Hevur tú reikað líka sum eg, í endaleysu tokuni?

03-25-2006, 03:31 AM	#350
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	And I assign all the music I likes, including that weird and wonderful early Genesis and the fabulous lyrics of Morrissey ("punctured bicycle, on a hillside, desolate...."). Marvellous. __________________ Gordon's alive!

03-25-2006, 07:12 AM	#351
JennyHallu The Pearl, The Lily Maid Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In my luxury Barrow, snuggled up in a pile of satin pillows, eating fresh fruit. Posts: 1,628	Elempi, please note the et cetera, which denotes all the bands I listen to, but couldn't remember the names of. And I'm going to have to check to see if I've heard of Genesis. Nope. But I will add Eagles, Chicago, and Queen. And Supertramp. (Mostly for the Logical Song and the lyric "You know they've gotta have them in Texas/'Cause everyone's a millionaire" __________________ <=== Lookee, lookee, lots of IM handles!

03-25-2006, 08:48 AM	#352
JennyHallu The Pearl, The Lily Maid Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In my luxury Barrow, snuggled up in a pile of satin pillows, eating fresh fruit. Posts: 1,628	Double... ...and this is going to sound very strange. But I assign having glasses. The world is so...clear. And I hadn't even noticed how fuzzy it had been getting. __________________ <=== Lookee, lookee, lots of IM handles!

03-25-2006, 10:52 AM	#353
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	I assign woodlice. They're so adorable, the way they curl up when you come near. The way they sort of limp after you accidentally brush them up, thinking them to be rubbish. The way they carefully don't budge until you're out of the vicinity, keeping up the pretence, even though both you and they know that they're not actually little balls.

03-25-2006, 10:27 PM	#354
Orominuialwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA) Posts: 632	I second JennyHallu's assignment of glasses. I just got mine on Tuesday and the increased ability to see and decreased headaches are wonderful. I also second tgwbs' assignment of Latin. It's such a beautiful language and it's just wonderful to sing in. Plus, it can make even mundane things like Madison, Wisconsin seem special by turning them into Madisonenis, Wisconsinenis. (At least I think that's what it was.) Spelunking. It seems like something Hobbits would enjoy and it's immense fun when the grey sweatshirt and blue pants you wore into the cave come out mud brown and soaking wet. Robotics competitions. Even when your robot is less than great (it placed 29th out of 34 teams) it's enormous fun. There are silly things, like when all the teams' mascots, including two martians (one with two heads!), a penguin, a knight, a yeti, an apple , and a badger (from my team!) did the Electric Slide. There are exciting things, like winning matches (admittedly, very few of ours). And then there's the amazing feeling of elation that comes from winning the second highest award possible in the regional competition (the Engineering Inspiration Award) which qualifies your team for Nationals (for the second time in the three years the team has been around) and running on to the field to get high fives from all the judges and medals from the referees while waving your team's giant flag. being optimistic enough to think that everything will work out just fine to go to Nationals, even though it means you have about a month to raise somewhere between six and ten thousand dollars (robotics is really expensive), you have to have all of your stuff moved out of your building at the earliest possible date because there's another (paying) ternant for it, so there's no place for your team to work, and your robot is absolutely awful and only really worked when you disabled its one major function (it was actually much better then). I'm completely on cloud nine at the moment because I'm so excited about everything. __________________ Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)

03-26-2006, 08:06 AM	#356
JennyHallu The Pearl, The Lily Maid Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In my luxury Barrow, snuggled up in a pile of satin pillows, eating fresh fruit. Posts: 1,628	I just got mine Friday...the only downside is that I keep thinking the frames are strands of hair and trying to brush them out of my face. And...shies away from Orumin The last guy on a robotics team I met made me listen for half-an-hour to an extended discourse on the difference between gears and sprockets! Ahhh! (By which I of course and obviously mean best of luck in Nationals.) I assign cold pizza for breakfast. Yum yum yum. __________________ <=== Lookee, lookee, lots of IM handles!

03-26-2006, 10:25 AM	#357
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	I assign Mother's Day! Odd I know since I'm not a mother but being able to make someone happy just by giving them a handmade card is such a nice feeling. Plus it meant we got to go out for lunch and pig out! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

03-26-2006, 10:47 AM	#358
JennyHallu The Pearl, The Lily Maid Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In my luxury Barrow, snuggled up in a pile of satin pillows, eating fresh fruit. Posts: 1,628	Isn't Mother's Day in May? __________________ <=== Lookee, lookee, lots of IM handles!

03-26-2006, 10:49 AM	#359
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	No it's today. Father's Day can be in May or the end of April. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

03-26-2006, 10:55 AM	#360
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	Mother's Day is an American holiday, occuring in May. Mothering Sunday, the British holiday, is today. Both, indeed, belong in the Shire. __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling