I assign considerate (Chem) profs who schedule exams enough weeks after Christmas break, so we're not too hung over when we take them.

Good, funny pantomimes.

Sitting in the front room, chatting to your friends and watching Dylan Moran.

Helping a friend make a compilation CD for another friend and having a great time picking songs.

I assign beads...beads, beads, beads, and all sorts of jewelry findings.

Especially when they're on sale.

And when there's a "Help Wanted" sign on the door.

*crosses fingers*

Christmas Carols

Reassignment
 

I thinkI sent my god-daughter to Mordor a few months ago when she missed a flight when I was collecting her from the airport :rolleyes: but I now send her to the Shire for inviting me to go with her to the LOTR musical first night :D

I assign Christmas Eve!!!! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!!!! :D

English rock bands... specially the 'older' kind. Obviously Pink Floyd and other greats... but even lesser known bands are so much better than the commercial Mordor-style stuff they try to makes us listen to now.

Why english rock bands? I mean sure a lot of the greatest has been from England, but there are also good ones from other countries.

But I totaly agree with you, I mostly listen to rock from the decades past.

Oh, there are definitely great bands from all over the world (even North America) but I just felt like assigning English ones, as I think they are great.

I could assign "good music" as a whole, but I'm sure that's been assigned already.

The worker in the bakery of a local supermarket who sang "O Holy night" pitch perfect as he stacked shelves and transformed the drudgery of preChristmas shopping into something magical.

Perfectly made noodles. An honest, simple pleasure, perhaps, but one that is twofold. The first pleasure comes from the consumption of the noodles when they're of the perfect consistency to slurp. Too wet, and you get covered in noodle-juice; too dry and slurping is not a possibly. Then, once you've eaten and lazed around for a while, the second pleasure of washing the saucepan... when the noodles are made right, it takes 20 seconds to clean.

Going to the dentist and not having anything wrong!

Okay I don't know if this goes in the Shire or Mordor.But being in love with a stranger. I know it sounds weird but my friend introduced me to this guy over MSN and he's really nice.

We talked for ages! :p
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Hawaii Dispensaries

I assign everybody being so nice to me today. :)

The TATA box. Any genetics students will know what I'm talking about. In a field full of almost random acronyms such as TFIIIC and Pol I and what not, the simplicity (not to mention rather laughable sound) of the TATA box is quite amusing.

For those of you who have no clue of what I'm talking about, the TATA box is a sequence of repeated Thymine and Adenine bases in DNA that are used to initiate the expression of the gene. But it is just lovely that it is pronounced Tah-Tah box... I can't say that with a straight face!!

I assign to the Shire the fact that I could make the assign to Mordor post I just did, and several other things I'll add tomorrow (time's running out).

The Queen of the May, morris dancers, green buds, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme and all that sort of thing.

Ambulance drivers, Amnesty Internation members and other altruistically inclined individuals. :)

I assign to the shire:

After seven hours on a plane, a far green country and a swift sunrise*. Tube stations that, though they look old and dilapidated, have touches like fancy columns or mosaics or such things, hostels that cost 10 pounds a night yet have rooms with high ceilings, huge windows and beautiful architecture you would only see in expensive hotels in the US, trains that come every two minutes, mist and fog and air so wet it's like a sauna, and everything damp and green, with richer, darker colors, blue-green grass, seeing Bellini and Titian paintings from two inches away, recordings reminding one to “mind the gap” and “caution, you are approaching the end of the conveyor”, decibel levels in public places roughly half the US equivalent, little shops with all sorts of fresh produce in baskets in front of them, warm, friendly well-read people with melodic accents, tropical looking plants growing outdoors in people's gardens and black and white tiled paths to the door, tiny little electric cars, signs that tell you “look right” and “look left” when you cross the road, the feeling of being in Middle earth, in a Dickens story, in a place where human beings have lived since prehistory – a place that is old and full of memory.

*Without being dead/unable to return! ;)

I assign things that help you reconnect with someone close. My brother and I used to do everything together, but as we've grown up we've grown apart a bit. We hardly speak the same language anymore.

Thank you, Trogdor, for changing all that. :D

I assign Lhuna. Thank you for warning me, months ago, of the horror of vectors.

3 points to Aberdeen on a Saturday :D

teasing my youth pastor, being teased by him, and laughing together about stuff.

I assign having a student who has had a very hard time adapting to pre-school, the other children, and especially these strange adults called teachers, run up and give you a hug and a kiss before she goes home.

Also, the cheers from the entire building when you turn the lights back on after nap-time. It makes me feel like a superhero. :D

I assign when a great idea hits you dead on, and it works great with everything you have already written.

It sounds crazy, but I'll assign it anyway.

Nomenclature of organic compounds.

Yes, I know having to memorise the priority of naming them (salts > carboxylic acids > acid anhydrides > esters > acyl chlorides > amides > nitriles > aldehydes > ketones > alcohols > phenols > amines > double bonds > triple bonds > single bonds > ethers > alkyl halides, or I could be wrong somewhere) isn't worth it in the long run, but I'm amazed that the IUPAC came up with it at all. Besides, it's fun to name those weird lines with scattered letters.

Getting your first Book crossing "catch"!!!!

I realeased about ten books a year ago.. and lost heart since none were logged again. Then I started again a couple of weeks ago and I have just found that one has been found and taken to Switzerland!!!!!! And it wasn't the best book in teh world ..it came free with a magazine.... but I am so excited and enthused to set more books free :D

Honey and Milk. If the gods have a nectar, this is it.

Alpenkäse! For now it shall be in the Shire, but when getting more weight won't be a good thing...

I assign PMs. They're such a good way of getting to know people. :)

I assign managing to get all your work done and handed in on and even before time, so that the last two and half days of terms are enjoyable!

Learning terrific new words that have much potential for parody.

Today's word is brought to us by David Radler, the rat who's going to fink on Lord Black: disgorgement.

Officially it means:

Now, with all the loyering and repo-wraiths on REB, that's just got to be a word with much potential for the rpg. :smokin:

The first day of Spring.
(As long as it's not too cold, damp or dreary)

The Ignore function...

The first butterfly, ladybird and bee of the year. Spring is upon us! Flowers are in bloom! SAD is gone! Hayfever is come...

Booking tickets to the LotR musical! 16th May we'll be there. Having watched a little trailer type thing it looks like it should be pretty good. Shame we couldn't get seats closer to the stage but my friend wasn't willing to pay £50 for it!

Oh a week after me!!!

SO exciting :D

My colleagues who lent me a petrol can and gave me a lift to the petrol station when I coastedin to work on fumes.... (stupid me has taken to ignoring the red light because it goes on when there are still 15 litres of fuel in the tank.. but I ignored too long :( )

Ah! We were going to go earlier but exams got in the way. :(

Journalists who put their email addresses at the bottom of their articles. These people are writing messages read by hundreds of thousands of people, and yet they have the humanity to allow each and every reader to get in touch if they wish to. I think that's very Shire-ish.

This thread is languishing. I assign:

Reading Chapter 19 of the Silmarillion aloud with the person one loves mehr als alles...

*sigh*