I'll send Major Malous and The Colonel out to take care of him, KT. That'll work, don't cha think?

Morambar- you gotta read my book when it comes out, then all of this will make sense...

The teacher evil eye always works for me winston, but Morambar might need a little one on one help from Major Malous and The Colonel if he's one of those slow learners.

KT

I think he worries a whole lot about the rest of us (lower case) finding out what he's REALLY all about. Even St. Ronald got hurt when Iran-Contra came out. If the public finds out the truth they'll take away the keys.

On a lighter note.... Sorry, natural mistake. Room full of teachers and writers but I'm the only pedant; go figure. After what I posted about the Royal Family in "Life in Our America" I'll be blessed if fictional thughs is all I get

The Major is good at giving quick and meaningful lessons; sort of an S&M version of Special Ed?

Have you told your students about this novel winston?

Oh yeah! They're all amazed that anyone could write something 200 pages long... Anything more than 5 paragraphs is a novelty.

HA! Yeah, I know what you mean. Mine are still working on the sentences:

I like.............

I see.............

They're into inventive spelling in a big way too!

Sometimes I think you are male and other times I think you are female Morambar.

My

KT is trying to make bygones be bygones and poor Morambar has been scared away

Is this thread getting to be too much of a credible threat ?

I just got a nice PM from Morambar; a real activist. Pretty bright. Please, KT, give the poor guy another chance. Just one. You'll be my best friend!...

I'll have to take that into consideration winston cause I don't get offers like that every day. What do you think Pie?

KT

Sorry Morambar! I think I was having PMS or something.....lol

KT, I'm jealous! You never gave me a Hershey bar!

ROTFLMAO

No harm, no foul. Hey, just 'cos I don't post don't mean I ain't here (atrocious grammar; sorry, i've been conscious WAY too long.) I'm just trying to get out of the habit of being, as a friend of mine likes to accuse me, "in Love with the sound of my own voice." If the shots I've taken here in good fun were the worst I'd encountered, I'd be a happy man (there, happy? Now you know.)

Well, good ! Now everyone is happy again

Cheers !

Soooooo happy!

Where's Morambar now?

KT

Offline, so the members listing says, KT.

Uh....... how's that Merlot tasting ..... you are looking a little disheveled tonight

Now KT is drinking merlot and not sharing it with us? Doesn't give me a Hershey bar, gives me scabies, makes fun of my nose hair and warts, then gets drunk and doesn't even pass the bottle!

Careful now, remember who got the first revolvers.

Morambar- what is the significance of your name ?
(I know, none of my beeswax, but curious)

Winston: yep- Kt was sipping Merlot and gett'in kinda goofy- haven't heard from her since !
BTW- new avatar- is that you ? Are you trying to prove something to Cali ? Looks kind of like
John Edwards thru my specs.... but then I do not see too well And I am going to guess that is someone famous, like an author, that I should know..........


Morambar: you gonna join us in Ventura ? I could use a good Texan to help me with this wild CA crowd MY son is so anxious for me to go that he found me a flight from TPA to LAX for $200. And KT and the group are offering free lodging at The Hotel California. I could make a stop in Texas and pick you up on the way out :yes:

I was into the Merlot LAST NIGHT! Now it's Propel Fitness Water, cause I don't want to turn into a lush and ruin my good reputation here. I was so inspired by the movie "SIDEWAYS" that I decided to build a wine collection. I buy one to collect and one to drink so I know what it tastes like. I buy the bottles for the labels. I'm into the art part of it and also like good deals. lol

Is that avatar Jack Nicolson or are you his double winston? And BTW, I don't have the scabies YET....but I'm watching young Juan closely just in case.

Merot and Hershey bars for everyone! Now I need to start watching my diet so I can look purdy on August 13th. Can't do much about the lines and the hanging things though unfortunately. What you see is what you get!

HORRAY!!!!!! PIE IS COMING TO THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!!

KT

I want the damned Pinor noir!

Well, my wife thinks I look a little like Jack Nicholson, but she's the only one- and she's the only one that counts!

But actually, the avatar is of Agent Smith from Matrix

Just had The Kid check out your avatar, Winston, and he confirms Agent Smith.
(he saw the movie 100 times; I never saw it).

Jack Nicholson, huh ? Well, I've been told I look like...... uh, mmmm.....
let's see....... well, you will just have to wait and see

And Cali will be the final judge on the Jack thing

I wanted to post on the Announcement thread for the CGCS Calif. convention in Ventura on Aug. 13th but I can't find it anywhere. What is it under Pie and winston?

Wasn't Pinot Noir the rare wine that the guy wanted because he HATED MERLOT!!!!!

ANYTHING BUT THAT F***ING MERLOT!!!!!!!

Did you see it Pie? the movie I mean.........

KT

Nah! Pie just saw the empty merlot bottle you left on the couch...

Well, while we're on the subject of Agent Smith, let's seque into Elrond (and boy was THAT a switch.) Morambar is a Quenya word of my own derivation that roughly translates "ill fated." Take the "Mor" from the Black Land and the "ambar" from Turin Turambar and Umbardacil, and voila, "morambar." Next time I feel like crying in my beer I'll tell ya'll the sad and brief saga of my depressing, unanimous, and onesided experience with women.... Phooey on them.

That's tempting, thanks, but I'm afraid I'll have to pass. All my money, assuming the Commander-In-Thief ever allows me to have any more, is devoted to getting back into school, so airfare's kinda outta the question. Part of me wants to snake moms car that I drive and hit I-10, but I'd have to MOVE IN to Hotel California if I did that. Maybe I should get together with Jason and the rest and organize a sympathy event.

Let's hear it...

Does this mean that Morambar translates to "ill fated black land"? What is Quenya? I should do a search on that word. As for women being depressing and phooey on them......I'm all ears.

Good idea! You and Jason come on down!!!

KT

I bet there are a few other people in the state of Texas that would like to turn the state blue, and rejoin the rest of the human race!

I like to peruse the "Clicked" page on MSNBC at lunchtime. I found something that I'd like to share with everyone.

http://www.thepartyparty.com/

Pie, when you return from your trip, check out the number 9 Birthday partay song...#9

"Dick is a Killer" is my favorite, but it has a lot of nasty words. G.W. Bush sings it.


ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!

KT :rotflmfao:

:momsday:

That was a treat wasn't it winston?

KT

OH Yeah!

Just ill fated; "dor" is the land part, as in Mordor=Black land; Gondor=Stone Land. Forget what Eriador means; I don't have my Silmarillion handy.

Quenya is Noldorin Elvish, as opposed to Sindarin being Grey Elvish. Needless to say, when I heard Liv Tyler (horrible choice) tell Conan O'Brien how much she'd learned about the Trilogy and she could speak fluent "Elvish" I was disgusted. But then I thought the whole movie was miscast; Sean Connery should've played Gandalf and Mel Gibson Aragorn, though it's hard to argue with the excellent performances by the actors who DID play them.

I'm VERY upset about the movies, btw, as a whole lot of the story was changed, and elements of paganism totally foriegn to the original story (written by a devout Catholic) were inserted. The really hard part, capturing the atmosphere of Middle-Earth and rendering the demi-human characters, was flawless (though I know of no instance where Elves are described as having pointed ears,) while the easy part of remaining true to the story was a dismal failure. Frodo tell Sam to "Go home!" atop Minas Morgul? You don't just turn around and walk back through Dagorlad and the Ered Luin from Mordor. The unbreakable friendship of Frodo and Sam was one of the best parts of the story, and they ruined it (along with much else.) There's no way I could avoid disappointment with whatever was offered, but they didn't have to go out of their way to do it.

I'll PM him; my funds and contact list are pretty short (I done been Bushwacked.) May let you trouble shoot for us so we can avoid the inevitable unanticipated but unavoidable mistakes. Play it by ear.

Thanks, KT !!!!! Listened to the birthday song

PARTY PARTY power to the people ! PARTY on the Pacific Coast Highway PARTY PARTY

couldn't understand all the words- but it was cool (except for George )

We will have to get up a list of TX members for you !

And thanks for the explanation of your name - no wonder I thought it was different !

I missed Tom Bombadil... I thought he was a fascinating- if not a somewhat sexist- character. His grace and powers, however, were so subtle and effective. No brag, just fact!

Agreed. He always gets left out somehow.

Winston, you are slipping. Must have finished off KT's merlot

I had the most enjoyable few hours on my birthday........ reading a certain novel in toto. Could not wait to get back into town and to my computer to change my signature

Now who's that author that is being quoted...... albeit out of context a bit

Who is Tom Bombadil?

http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/bombadil.html



An Essay by Gene Hargrove

An earlier version of this paper was published in Mythlore, no. 47 (August 1986).
This version takes into account criticism of the essay and my response in Beyond Bree.




Within the Tolkien household Tom Bombadil was originally a Dutch doll belonging to one of Tolkien's children (Carpenter, Tolkien, p. 162; Grotta-Rurska, Tolkien, p. 101). Tolkien later wrote a poem about him called "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," published in Oxford Magazine in 1934, long before the writing of the Lord of the Rings began. When Tolkien decided to introduce Tom into the trilogy, little needed to be changed about him or his poem except for the feather in his hat - changed from peacock to swan-wing, since peacocks do not live in Middle-earth (Tolkien, Letters, pp. 318-19).

Many readers of the Lord of the Rings consider Tom's presence in the first book to be an unnecessary intrusion into the narrative, which could be omitted without loss. Tolkien was aware of their feelings, and in part their judgment was correct. As Tolkien wrote in a letter in 1954, ". . . many have found him an odd and indeed discordant ingredient. In historical fact I put him in because I had already invented him. . . and wanted an 'adventure' on the way. But I kept him in, and as he was, because he represents certain things otherwise left out" (Ibid., p. 192). Judging by these remarks, critical readers are correct about the arbitrariness of Tom's introduction into the story; however, as Tolkien continues, he deliberately (nonarbitrary) kept Tom in to fulfill a particular role, to provide an additional dimension


Ms. Pie, you are going to give winston and morambar the impression that I'm a wino!

....and winston, how did you draw the conclusion that Tom was a sexist?

Now say goodnight Gracie!

KT

Hey, Pie...

As far a Tom being a sexist... read that chapter and I think you'll see my point. In the context of the 1940's, however, 'sexism' as a concept didn't exist. I still really love the character. It's because he is so 'out of place' in the saga that makes him so memorable.

And to all of you... :momsday:

I fell asleep last night re-reading some of Credible Threat. Earlier I had been web searching Tom Bombadil and absorbed in his persona. During the course of my unconscious state I must have been in turmoil because this song popped into my head this morning and I don't know why. Maybe I'm losing it.

Thought you'd like to know the "other side" to a kindergarten teacher.

LMAO!!!!!!!!

KT

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Camirillo Brillo Lyrics
Artist: Frank Zappa (Buy Frank Zappa CDs)
Album: Overnite Sensation


She had that Camarillo brillo
Flamin' out along her head,
I mean her Mendocino bean-o
By where some bugs had made it red
She ruled the Toads of the Short Forest
And every newt in Idaho
And every cricket who had chorused
By the bush in Buffalo
She said she was A Magic Mama
And she could throw a mean Tarot
And carried on without a comma
That she was someone I should know
She had a snake for a pet
And an amulet
And she was breeding a dwarf
But she wasn't done yet
She had gray-green skin
A doll with a pin
I told her she was alright
But I couldn't come in
(I couldn't come in right then...)


And so she wandered through the door-way
Just like a shadow from the tomb
She said her stereo was four-way
An' I'd just love it in her room
Well, I was born to have adventure
So I just followed up the steps
Right past her fuming incense stencher
To where she hung her castanets
She stripped away Her ranchid poncho
And laid out naked by the door
We did it till we were un-concho
And it was useless any more
She had a snake for a pet
And an amulet
And she was breeding a dwarf
But she wasn't done yet
She had gray-green skin
A doll with a pin
I told her she was awright
But I couldn't come in
(actually, I was very busy then)
And so she wandered through the door-way
Just like a shadow from the tomb
She said her stereo was four-way
And I'd just love it in her room
Well, I was born to have adventure
So I just followed up the steps
Right past her fuming incense stencher
To where she hung her castanets
She said she was A Magic Mama
And she could throw a mean Tarot
And carried on without a comma
That she was someone I should know
(Is that a real poncho...I mean Is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho? Hmmm...no foolin' ...)


:momsday:

OHHHHHH!!!!!!! SHE MEANT "THAT TOM"!!!!!

sorry! my bad!

KT

btw winston, I want to know what is going through Forest's head after his last phone conversation. What's he planning to do? How's he gonna get out of Dodge?

Hi, Everyone !

I am totally confused now as to the above posts

Tom who ? I have not had the time to read about Tom.

My sincerest apologies to KT about the Merlot- she was just posting one night and said she
had out her Merlot, so I took that comment and ran with it - just too tempting to pass up a KT
getting . Though it is becoming evident that she is a bit on the wild side
for a kinder teacher (raunchy lyrics & all )

One more time Winston - (and thank you very much for the :momsday: - same to Mrs. Winston- )

search for my new signature line - are you flattered ?

GOPGary comes to the rescue!

Gotta just love that Gary !