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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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I assign apple marmalade and toast. It just tastes good.
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Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
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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. ![]()
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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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.
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Wight
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Behind the hills
Posts: 164
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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!
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Drummer in the Deep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Next Sunday A.D.
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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...
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
Posts: 2,343
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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. |
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Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
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Lovely, succulent French cheeses. Mm, nice.
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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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.
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Everlasting Whiteness
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Lovely librarian's that happily spend half an hour finding all the books that you need for the next few weeks.
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” |
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Corpus Cacophonous
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A green and pleasant land
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Actually, I miss my dogs.
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Wight
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Behind the hills
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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. ![]()
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Everlasting Whiteness
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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!
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Wight
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People who hold the door for other people.
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
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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" |
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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#339 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME)
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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.
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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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.
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Wight
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Behind the hills
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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.
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
Posts: 2,343
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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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!
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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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. |
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
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The Pearl, The Lily Maid
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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.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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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
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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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.
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The Pearl, The Lily Maid
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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"
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The Pearl, The Lily Maid
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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.
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
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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.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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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.
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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The Pearl, The Lily Maid
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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.
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Everlasting Whiteness
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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!
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The Pearl, The Lily Maid
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Isn't Mother's Day in May?
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Everlasting Whiteness
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No it's today. Father's Day can be in May or the end of April.
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Blithe Spirit
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Mother's Day is an American holiday, occuring in May.
Mothering Sunday, the British holiday, is today. Both, indeed, belong in the Shire.
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