What do you "assign" to the Shire? - Page 21 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Kath · 09-22-2006, 06:23 AM

Lie ins! First one for a week.

Also, finding out that the rest of your hall is as nerdy as you are, and spending the evening watching First Contact, discussing RPGs and arguing over whether the Enterprise would beat a star destroyer in a fight.

Formendacil · 09-22-2006, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Kath

Also, finding out that the rest of your hall is as nerdy as you are, and spending the evening watching First Contact, discussing RPGs and arguing over whether the Enterprise would beat a star destroyer in a fight.

Everyone knows a Star Destroyer would win- those things are battleships, pure and simple, with no other real purpose. Well armed as the Enterprise might be, it's more of a multi-purpose vessel. Also, the Star Destroyer is close to twice the Enterprise's length, if I recall correctly.

Erm... Anyways...

The REAL reason I'm visiting this thread is to assign today's peanut-butter cookies to the Shire. I can't recall the last time I had a cookie half so good. Moist, crumbly, and FULL of peanut-buttery taste... simply divine!

I already had four... and I still want more.

Kath · 09-22-2006, 04:18 PM

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Everyone knows a Star Destroyer would win- those things are battleships, pure and simple, with no other real purpose. Well armed as the Enterprise might be, it's more of a multi-purpose vessel. Also, the Star Destroyer is close to twice the Enterprise's length, if I recall correctly.

But, the Enterprise can fire at warp and has quantum torpedoes. Methinks it's an easy win.

I assign the feeling of being warm and dry after getting so soaked I swear I was 2 stone heavier when I returned than when I left.

Oddwen · 09-22-2006, 07:19 PM

My parents found our new rental house today. It's huge and beautiful, though I haven't seen it yet. It's got a tennis court. With trees in it! Too bad we're completely inept at tennis.

I get my own room! Yayyyyy!! And probably another whole room for my drums! :disco: Well, a whole music room anyway with space for them.

I might as well assign the whole process that has resulted in my Dad's getting this new job. It's been pretty great (not packing so much, though) so far, and we are all excited for what is to come.

I also assign going out to eat with a bunch of people you haven't seen in a while, even though you might not see them ever again.

Also, one of said friend's two-month-old baby. He's such a sweetie.

Another wonderful thing is all-you-can-eat bacon, waffles & fruit, but especially the bacon.

I also assign the wonderful LOUD stereo in my car. Driving wouldn't be half as fun without it.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 09-23-2006, 10:53 AM

ehm I kind of assign this afternoon, it was great.

First of all the weather was lovely. The sun was shining, not a cloud on the sky and a lovely cool wind. It was to cool to go around in T-shirt (exept if you are english) and to warm to wear a jacket, just as I like it. Further more I was at one of the most amazing sites in the world. Kronborg, a fabulous renaissance castle, renown for being the setting of Shakespears Hamlet.

The only down side to this afternoon is that all of the great national treasures that is there are not danish anymore, they where all taken by the swedish as spoils of war and are only borrowed! (If we can return Islandic and Russian treasures, why can't the swedes ?)

littlemanpoet · 09-24-2006, 04:52 PM

Remember about that English "sheen of green"? For well on two weeks now we in the Great Lakes have had English temperatures and an English amount of rain, and the grass! The grass! The lawns! The only things missing are sheep to graze, and the correct angle of the sun, though perhaps this is equivalent to London in July (just a guess). Gloaming at high noon! But it's Autumn, the perfect season for it, and it especially brings back memories of a wonderful trip a year ago to the blessed isle. Such green and such memories do indeed belong in the Shire.

Kath · 09-25-2006, 06:10 AM

So that's where all our rain has gone. Bring it back, thief!

I assign going to your first real lecture and discovering that it wasn't half as bad as you thought it was going to be considering it was statistics, because the textbook for the course is specifically named: Statistics without maths.

Mithalwen · 09-26-2006, 10:54 AM

Spray-on starch. Partly because it makes the ironing easier but also because really crisp italian cotton is so nice to wear. I am lazy so I usually wear cotton jersey tops but I had an interview today hence the formal shirt...

Valier · 09-26-2006, 11:08 AM

I assign those days when you are dreading going to work, then no sooner than the thought entered my mind, my boss called to give me the day off...WooHoo!!!

Feanor of the Peredhil · 09-26-2006, 04:22 PM

I assign lazy days when things still manage to get done. Hello, relaxation.

Thinlómien · 09-27-2006, 01:00 AM

Exam week. I don't have to wake up as early as I normally do. (It begins tomorrow. You might ask me again about this in a few days and I won't promise that it will still be assigned to Shire rather than Mordor...

)

the guy who be short · 10-02-2006, 11:44 AM

I assign Yom Kippur. I got a day off.

Happy Yom Kippur!

ninja91 · 10-02-2006, 12:28 PM

I assign my own bed. It feels great, especially after a cross country meet. 18:24 5k PR! Booyakah!

Thinlómien · 10-06-2006, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by me

Exam week. I don't have to wake up as early as I normally do. (It begins tomorrow. You might ask me again about this in a few days and I won't promise that it will still be assigned to Shire rather than Mordor...

)

Could reassign it. Exam week is like a holiday; only few hours of school each day (if at all) and the exams were pretty easy, aftre all..

I assign also the soundtrack of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It's great.

ninja91 · 10-06-2006, 05:28 AM

I assign LOST !

littlemanpoet · 10-06-2006, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ninja91

I assign LOST !

Sorry but reality TV shows have already been assigned to Mordor.

(yes I know it doesn't LOOK like a reality tv show.....)

Rune Son of Bjarne · 10-06-2006, 07:32 PM

along with people that salt their food before tasting it. . .now be gone

Saurreg · 10-06-2006, 08:36 PM

A wonderful Saturday night with good friends, good beer and an in house band that does great renditions from the Sultans of Swing.

Volo · 10-07-2006, 10:53 AM

Walking in the dark forest while listening to The Fear of the Dark and "dark forest music". Sometimes that sure does you good...

Alexei Ribnikov for writing such a great rock opera.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 10-07-2006, 01:08 PM

Omigosh, sushi. Yum. I've been missing out.

More specifically, having class at a sushi bar. Discussing Marx and Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky over vegetarian sushi... mmm.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 10-09-2006, 02:50 PM

I swear, it's cool enough to double post.

Understanding, after almost three weeks of mental grappling, everything Immanuel Kant was talking about!

Moral Calculus. Amazing.

ninja91 · 10-09-2006, 05:06 PM

I assign the Mouth of Sauron for being such an interesting and mysterious being.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 10-09-2006, 05:09 PM

I doubt any one understands Kant. . . .I think someone once said something like this "All philosophers before Kant should count them self lucky, as they did not have to study Kant" It wording was probably much better, but you get the picture.

If you Fea, truly understand Kant, I can only say that you amaze me even more than you did before and I shall recognise you as my superior.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 10-18-2006, 08:11 PM

The sort of professor that lets you sit brooding in his office for a few hours, moping and feeling utterly sorry for yourself, being both hypochondriac extraordinaire and moody English Major, and then laughs at you.

Elonve · 10-19-2006, 02:31 AM

I assign friends coming over to see you when your ill. Especially when they bring treats!!!

________
Arizona medical marijuana

Lhunardawen · 10-19-2006, 02:52 AM

House. (Thank goodness it's no reality show. Hah, Elempi.

)

Surprising a friend with a "Merry Christmas!" greeting in a bowling alley when it's her birthday.

Kath · 10-19-2006, 06:40 AM

The feeling of freedom that comes when you no longer have an essay peering at you from around corners the whole time.

piosenniel · 11-01-2006, 03:48 AM

The tidied up veggie garden where Hallowe'en's pumpkin people will now retire. We'll light up their stubs of candles each dark, cold night until their orange cheeks begin to fall in upon themselves . . .

Lalwendë · 11-01-2006, 06:46 AM

Fea, for assigning Derrida to Mordor.

littlemanpoet · 11-01-2006, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

Hah, Elempi.

Wha'd I say? Wha'd I say?

I assign finding unexpected references to yours truly on the Downs. Good as reps. Thanks, Lhuna.

Oddwen · 11-01-2006, 07:53 PM

I assign being back after an extended abscence.

And (finally) getting my new library card in the mail!

Rune Son of Bjarne · 11-01-2006, 08:19 PM

Let me assign having you back then

Volo · 11-02-2006, 03:47 AM

Adhesive tape, for being a way to mend nearly anything (including earphones)

JennyHallu · 11-02-2006, 09:01 AM

My own earphones have a break repaired as well, wrapped in duct-tape.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 11-02-2006, 09:38 AM

Duct-tape can fix anything ! (we call it Gaffa-tape)

They use it for last minute repairs at areoplains. . . .

JennyHallu · 11-02-2006, 09:43 AM

Actually, it's a slightly different product that is used on aeroplanes. My husband is an aircraft mechanic and firmly corrected me last time I made that claim.

My dad and I used duct-tape to repair a fence once. It was supposed to be there to keep the dogs in the yard just long enough for us to go purchase a new board, and ended up lasting for two years, before the board was replaced in order to sell that house.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 11-02-2006, 09:49 AM

I was joking. . .
I too have a family member that is an air craft mechanic, he did tell me that they did not use ducked-tape, but he did not say that they used some other tape.

JennyHallu · 11-02-2006, 10:17 AM

It's called, creatively, aircraft tape.

I assign the mathoms my husband brings home from work. Odd tools and switches and parts, the purpose of which is a mystery to me, and the guessing games he plays with me. The other day he got me good with this metal cylnder the size of a battery that clacked inside when you shook it. Turns out it's called a "G-switch".

Kath · 11-02-2006, 10:46 AM

I assign finding out that your lecture tomorrow is cancelled, meaning that you can go home nearly two hours earlier than expected!

Also the relief that comes when you discover that today is not the deadline for a piece of work you haven't even started yet.

Oddwen · 11-02-2006, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Rune

Let me assign having you back then

Thank you.

I can't believe I forgot to assign the best thing of all so far - a faster DSL connection! Now I can download eighty things and still surf the Downs at a decent speed.

09-22-2006, 06:23 AM	#801
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,725	Lie ins! First one for a week. Also, finding out that the rest of your hall is as nerdy as you are, and spending the evening watching First Contact, discussing RPGs and arguing over whether the Enterprise would beat a star destroyer in a fight. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

09-22-2006, 07:19 PM	#804
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,246	My parents found our new rental house today. It's huge and beautiful, though I haven't seen it yet. It's got a tennis court. With trees in it! Too bad we're completely inept at tennis. I get my own room! Yayyyyy!! And probably another whole room for my drums! :disco: Well, a whole music room anyway with space for them. I might as well assign the whole process that has resulted in my Dad's getting this new job. It's been pretty great (not packing so much, though) so far, and we are all excited for what is to come. I also assign going out to eat with a bunch of people you haven't seen in a while, even though you might not see them ever again. Also, one of said friend's two-month-old baby. He's such a sweetie. Another wonderful thing is all-you-can-eat bacon, waffles & fruit, but especially the bacon. I also assign the wonderful LOUD stereo in my car. Driving wouldn't be half as fun without it. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

09-25-2006, 06:10 AM	#807
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,725	So that's where all our rain has gone. Bring it back, thief! I assign going to your first real lecture and discovering that it wasn't half as bad as you thought it was going to be considering it was statistics, because the textbook for the course is specifically named: Statistics without maths. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

09-26-2006, 10:54 AM	#808
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,916	Spray-on starch. Partly because it makes the ironing easier but also because really crisp italian cotton is so nice to wear. I am lazy so I usually wear cotton jersey tops but I had an interview today hence the formal shirt... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

09-26-2006, 11:08 AM	#809
Valier Twisted Taleswapper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere between sanity and insanity Posts: 1,737	I assign those days when you are dreading going to work, then no sooner than the thought entered my mind, my boss called to give me the day off...WooHoo!!! __________________ grand return?........

09-24-2006, 04:52 PM	#806
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,072	Remember about that English "sheen of green"? For well on two weeks now we in the Great Lakes have had English temperatures and an English amount of rain, and the grass! The grass! The lawns! The only things missing are sheep to graze, and the correct angle of the sun, though perhaps this is equivalent to London in July (just a guess). Gloaming at high noon! But it's Autumn, the perfect season for it, and it especially brings back memories of a wonderful trip a year ago to the blessed isle. Such green and such memories do indeed belong in the Shire.

09-26-2006, 04:22 PM	#810
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,956	I assign lazy days when things still manage to get done. Hello, relaxation. __________________ peace

09-27-2006, 01:00 AM	#811
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,385	Exam week. I don't have to wake up as early as I normally do. (It begins tomorrow. You might ask me again about this in a few days and I won't promise that it will still be assigned to Shire rather than Mordor... ) __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

10-02-2006, 11:44 AM	#812
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,496	I assign Yom Kippur. I got a day off. Happy Yom Kippur!

10-06-2006, 08:36 PM	#818
Saurreg Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In self imposed exile... Posts: 473	A wonderful Saturday night with good friends, good beer and an in house band that does great renditions from the Sultans of Swing. __________________ "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " ~Voltaire

10-07-2006, 10:53 AM	#819
Volo Silver in My Silent Heart Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the great beauty Posts: 1,691	Walking in the dark forest while listening to The Fear of the Dark and "dark forest music". Sometimes that sure does you good... Alexei Ribnikov for writing such a great rock opera. __________________ Fenris Wolf The EVEN NEWER Barrow-Downs Photo Page

10-07-2006, 01:08 PM	#820
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,956	Omigosh, sushi. Yum. I've been missing out. More specifically, having class at a sushi bar. Discussing Marx and Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky over vegetarian sushi... mmm. __________________ peace

10-09-2006, 02:50 PM	#821
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,956	I swear, it's cool enough to double post. Understanding, after almost three weeks of mental grappling, everything Immanuel Kant was talking about! Moral Calculus. Amazing. __________________ peace

10-18-2006, 08:11 PM	#824
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,956	The sort of professor that lets you sit brooding in his office for a few hours, moping and feeling utterly sorry for yourself, being both hypochondriac extraordinaire and moody English Major, and then laughs at you. __________________ peace

10-19-2006, 02:31 AM	#825
Elonve Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Where the stars go blue. Posts: 153	I assign friends coming over to see you when your ill. Especially when they bring treats!!! ________ Arizona medical marijuana Last edited by Elonve; 04-09-2011 at 06:21 PM.

10-19-2006, 02:52 AM	#826
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,724	House. (Thank goodness it's no reality show. Hah, Elempi. ) Surprising a friend with a "Merry Christmas!" greeting in a bowling alley when it's her birthday.

10-19-2006, 06:40 AM	#827
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,725	The feeling of freedom that comes when you no longer have an essay peering at you from around corners the whole time. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

11-01-2006, 03:48 AM	#828
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,816	The tidied up veggie garden where Hallowe'en's pumpkin people will now retire. We'll light up their stubs of candles each dark, cold night until their orange cheeks begin to fall in upon themselves . . . __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

11-01-2006, 06:46 AM	#829
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,814	Fea, for assigning Derrida to Mordor. __________________ Gordon's alive!

11-01-2006, 07:53 PM	#831
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,246	I assign being back after an extended abscence. And (finally) getting my new library card in the mail! __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

11-02-2006, 03:47 AM	#833
Volo Silver in My Silent Heart Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the great beauty Posts: 1,691	Adhesive tape, for being a way to mend nearly anything (including earphones) __________________ Fenris Wolf The EVEN NEWER Barrow-Downs Photo Page

11-02-2006, 09:01 AM	#834
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: 1,686	My own earphones have a break repaired as well, wrapped in duct-tape. __________________ <=== Lookee, lookee, lots of IM handles!

11-02-2006, 09:43 AM	#836
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: 1,686	Actually, it's a slightly different product that is used on aeroplanes. My husband is an aircraft mechanic and firmly corrected me last time I made that claim. My dad and I used duct-tape to repair a fence once. It was supposed to be there to keep the dogs in the yard just long enough for us to go purchase a new board, and ended up lasting for two years, before the board was replaced in order to sell that house. __________________ <=== Lookee, lookee, lots of IM handles!

11-02-2006, 10:17 AM	#838
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: 1,686	It's called, creatively, aircraft tape. I assign the mathoms my husband brings home from work. Odd tools and switches and parts, the purpose of which is a mystery to me, and the guessing games he plays with me. The other day he got me good with this metal cylnder the size of a battery that clacked inside when you shook it. Turns out it's called a "G-switch". __________________ <=== Lookee, lookee, lots of IM handles!

11-02-2006, 10:46 AM	#839
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,725	I assign finding out that your lecture tomorrow is cancelled, meaning that you can go home nearly two hours earlier than expected! Also the relief that comes when you discover that today is not the deadline for a piece of work you haven't even started yet. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”