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toms outlet
i tom
i sell stuff buy tom stuff |
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Brooches set with blue stones! Long, leaf-shaped daggers, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold! Circlets! Gold chains! Rings! Come buy, come buy!
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Spammer banned, but the following posts are worth leaving up for a day or so - enjoy!
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i talk in sentences of 3 syllables or less.
make that: i tlk 'n sntncs 'f three sllbles or lss.
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Thanks for banning the spam Esty, as with advertising like that, how could anyone possibly resist?
![]() i esty i ban spam i ban tom
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Well, you know, some try to do it in chinese...
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![]() I was disappointed when I first opened this thread though, because I thought for a second that it would be about Tom Bombadil and it obviously wasn't.
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Well I was disappointed that this wannabe Tom--erm, "i Tom"--lacks the finesse with language which the original Tom has.
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sell tom tom buy bombadillo! ![]()
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Or perhaps:
"I Tom Buy Tom Sell spamadillo" ? ![]()
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Well I think that this Tom is a better poet..touch of the William Carlos Williams quality.
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![]() Poetry of course is 9/10ths taste, but for me the really interesting aspect of the original Bombadillo--well, there are several--is the fact that even his prose is rhythmic, metred. Nonsense as he is, there's quite a bit to old Tom if one scratches the surface, like much in Tolkien.
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I think Mith has a point, though. There is something to be said for the simple directness with which “i tom” conveys his message...
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This is one of the reasons I love the Downs so much - our witty members can take trash and make it so enjoyable that it turns into a jewel of humour!
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Bombadil's poetry is sub~vogon and makes Pam Ayers seem like TS Eliot in comparison.
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Couldn't the thread be left up as a worthy rival to the other spambot thread? The Lucy one, I think it was?
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You know, why should this be all about Bombadil? There's another Tom in Middle-earth!
Tom the Troll says: "What's a spambot anyways? And can yer cook 'em?" ![]()
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Hang on ...
"Up came Tom with his big boots on
Said he to Troll, "Pray, what is yon?" Was the Tom of Sam's troll-song actually Tom Bombadil? I'd never thought of that before. Also, I'm sure at least one of the Cottons was called Tom. (Maybe short for Tolman; I don't recall exactly).
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Because when B-berry linked Sam's sudden bursts of poetry to Tom Bombadil, the choice of the name 'Tom' in the poem seems hardly coincidental.
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It is no accident that Tom is linked with folk nonsense verse. (And for that reason--the relation of Bombadil to early folk nonsense--I would reject Mithalwen's claim that Tom's poetry is "sub~vogon".) Quote:
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Oh yes! And more recently in some thread here, I believe - anyway I managed to connect it to you despite my rubbish memory.
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Tom B wouldn't have a "nuncle," I suppose - "He would fall, last as he was first," I think Elrond says. And not in the sense that Lear's Fool uses the term, either, since he serves no-one. But in nonsense rhyme such things wouldn't matter.
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You guys don't get anything! He's neither Tom B, Tom the troll, or Sam's Tom! He's actually Gollum. He just has a conflict of identities. One side of his character says, "i tom". The other side responds immediately, "i sell stuff". How can someone named Tom also be named Sell Stuff? Nay, this here is clearly a battle between the Gollum and the Smeagol!
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I note that according to the OED, 'tom' can be a verb meaning 'to practise prostitution' - which could perhaps also be euphemistically described as 'selling stuff'. Clearly, then, the post was intended as a kind of confession; 'carpinteyroxhc' (probably a pseudonym) usually keeps his/her occupation secret but needed an 'outlet'.
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Oh come on Behberry! Ombadil gives the impressiion he chooses his gaudy wardrobe to fit his ghastly rhymes.
There is another Tom. One of the fringe casualties of the war of the ring at Bree, Tom Pickthorn and not forgetting Tomfools whether Tooks or chief's men... or tom tap in Moria
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bombadil not poet
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Tinkly Zinky Tilly-loo! and Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo Uncle Arly How pleasant to know Mr. Bombadil. But I do rather like "Ombadil". Om, the universal mantra. ![]()
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Still can't type well on micro keyboard and hate Bombadil ... and his stupid poetry.
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Here's a bit more from Mr. Lear that might provide more nonsense context. ![]() Quote:
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OK, out with it. Who's having all this fun? Nerwen? Agan? alatar? ...Inzil???
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Lear is just as bad then. Id prefer the ning nang nong.
Galadriel it is quite obvious that tomtom is in league with our friend from San Seriffe the Herald of Mandos
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Sprung! Curses!
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Shh we will only speak of it in a small light font. But always happy to see you especially off season. Pineapples and swarfega all round!
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Not me, but I've been asking myself the same question! Especially as the original poster didn't actually speak in rhyme - I was assuming a modly intervention gave them the gift of poetry.
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The poetry of the original wa perceived, by me as it happens, rather than intentional I think..like that of Donald Rumsfeld
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