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

Elonve · 01-09-2007, 07:45 AM

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!

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Thinlómien · 01-09-2007, 08:10 AM

I assign everybody being so nice to me today.

Farael · 01-09-2007, 09:49 AM

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!!

Rikae · 01-09-2007, 06:33 PM

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).

Wayland · 01-11-2007, 08:21 AM

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

the guy who be short · 01-11-2007, 11:25 AM

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

Rikae · 01-11-2007, 03:44 PM

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!

01-09-2007, 07:45 AM	#1
Elonve Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Where the stars go blue. Posts: 153	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! ________ Hawaii Dispensaries Last edited by Elonve; 04-09-2011 at 06:23 PM.

01-09-2007, 08:10 AM	#2
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	I assign everybody being so nice to me today. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

01-09-2007, 09:49 AM	#3
Farael Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment. Posts: 1,538	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 prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

01-11-2007, 08:21 AM	#5
Wayland Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sharkey's Shire - two doors along from Shelob Posts: 14	The Queen of the May, morris dancers, green buds, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme and all that sort of thing. __________________ Raise, Raise the Shire!

01-09-2007, 06:33 PM	#4
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	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).

01-11-2007, 11:25 AM	#6
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Ambulance drivers, Amnesty Internation members and other altruistically inclined individuals.

01-11-2007, 03:44 PM	#7
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	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!