From: S'mee on
On Aug 11, 7:34 pm, Bob Mann <bobm...(a)mts.net> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 10:06 am, "S'mee" <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 9, 4:30 am, darsy <dar...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Aug 7, 7:19 pm, Wicked Uncle Nigel <w...(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > People still run out quite regularly though.
>
> > > or irregularly.
>
> > > The Gimli Glider comes to mind.
>
> > good call...very vaguely familiar.
>
> Very familiar to all of us living  so close.
> Gimli is an hour north of here.

I can see how that would help it stick out in your memory.

From: Dylan Smith on
On 2010-08-10, Eiron <E1ron(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> The Nazgul were pretty distracted at the Ford of Bruinen
> and if Gandalf and his mates hadn't spent so much time partying at Elrond's
> they could have recruited a few eagles to fly round the back of Mount Doom,
> out of sight of Barad-dur, and saved 600 pages of drivel. :-)

I prefer the LITE(tm) version of LOTR, as recounted by /usr/games/fortune:

Lord of the Rings LITE(tm)
-- by J. R. R. Tolkien

Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano.

From: CT on
Dylan Smith wrote:

> I prefer the LITE(tm) version of LOTR, as recounted by
> /usr/games/fortune:
>
> Lord of the Rings LITE(tm)
> -- by J. R. R. Tolkien
>
> Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano.

You git!

You could have added a spoiler alert, ffs.

--
Chris
From: S'mee on
On Aug 13, 6:31 am, Dylan Smith <d...(a)alioth.net> wrote:
> On 2010-08-10, Eiron <E1...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The Nazgul were pretty distracted at the Ford of Bruinen
> > and if Gandalf and his mates hadn't spent so much time partying at Elrond's
> > they could have recruited a few eagles to fly round the back of Mount Doom,
> > out of sight of Barad-dur, and saved 600 pages of drivel. :-)
>
> I prefer the LITE(tm) version of LOTR, as recounted by /usr/games/fortune:
>
> Lord of the Rings LITE(tm)
>         -- by J. R. R. Tolkien
>
>         Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano.

You have no concept of "REALLY getting away from the office and the
house" do you? If you do it right you take nothing with you that wont
fit on your back.
From: S'mee on
On Aug 13, 6:56 am, "CT" <m...(a)christrollen.co.uk> wrote:
> Dylan Smith wrote:
> > I prefer the LITE(tm) version of LOTR, as recounted by
> > /usr/games/fortune:
>
> > Lord of the Rings LITE(tm)
> >         -- by J. R. R. Tolkien
>
> >         Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano.
>
> You git!
>
> You could have added a spoiler alert, ffs.

Oh yeah and Frodo comes down with a nasty case of PTSD (we wont
mention that gollum gave hime the clap)