In a message dated 2/25/2005 2:40:23 PM Central Standard Time, russells@... writes: You catches mo' flies wif honey than you does with vinegar. -- ...
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Beth Russell
russells@...
Feb 25, 2005 9:14 pm
... From: Walkermonk@... [mailto:Walkermonk@...] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:03 PM To: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [mythsoc] Question...
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jack@...
jack_greenma...
Feb 25, 2005 9:16 pm
... Weren't their lifespans roughly double what a human was at the time Tolkien wrote the books? And I'm suggesting that their social development might not be...
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Rateliff, John
jrateliff
Feb 26, 2005 12:23 am
Actually, Wood's about the right age to play Frodo, though as with many child actors he looks a little younger than his years. I think he does a good job with...
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Matthew Williams
hobbitmrw
Feb 26, 2005 12:37 am
Well, it has been used in Wales for a couple hundred years or more and several sources I checked say that it is Welsh which is good enough for me. In any case,...
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Michael Martinez
michael_mart...
Feb 26, 2005 5:56 am
... According to Tolkien, Hobbits ARE human, and there is nothing wrong with a 50-year-old hopping around. HOWEVER, technically, in the book, while Frodo was...
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Bonnie Callahan
bonolatm@...
Feb 26, 2005 6:44 am
Hi Grace: Perhaps we could work the saying into an apocryphal piece of Tolkien fanfic. (Groan!! said David.) Maybe "y' catch more horses with a carrot than a ...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 26, 2005 6:23 pm
Oh, Mike, very nice! I've been away and it looks like there has been a real fracas here. Maybe I'm not sorry I missed it. I'll catch up on what I can, and...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 26, 2005 6:24 pm
And I know a girl named Elanor Arwen. And she's about my age (40ish). Re your other post, Wendell, yes, it was a superficial interest in Gaelic etc. that I...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 26, 2005 6:24 pm
Thank you Michael !! Lizzie Elizabeth Apgar Triano lizziewriter@... amor vincit omnia www.lizziewriter.com www.danburymineralogicalsociety.org...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 26, 2005 6:24 pm
THANKS Wow, I'd never have guessed. How very odd. OK Alexei, when is there a pan-Celtic-Gaelic languages and culture fest in our area ??? Lizzie Elizabeth...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 26, 2005 6:24 pm
Oh, right, duh. Always a tragic ending there isn't there, as the woman finds her sealskin belt and returns to the sea, leaving husband & (usually male?) child...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 26, 2005 6:24 pm
Thank you, Alexei. My hero. xox Lizzie Elizabeth Apgar Triano lizziewriter@... amor vincit omnia www.lizziewriter.com ...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 26, 2005 6:24 pm
Ah, he may have. But he will never squash that immortal jingle, "Where there's a whip (there's a way)" from the animated version. Lizzie Elizabeth Apgar...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 26, 2005 6:24 pm
Yah I never liked the Oz movie and I liked the books when I discovered them at a friend's house years later. I thought Judy Garland was way too old and...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 26, 2005 6:25 pm
Read GWTW the book, must have liked it since I read it all. ;-) Years ago. The movie was too long, always broken up over several nights, and I guess I...
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Mike Foster
mafoster@...
Feb 26, 2005 6:26 pm
'An argument is ruined by turning it into a quarrel' --G.K. Chesterton. Cheers, Mike ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 27, 2005 1:40 am
I kind of agree on the Frodo-age thing (and the olfactory sense thing, and the visuals-have-an-impact thing), but of course I have to argue. And my argument...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 27, 2005 1:41 am
Thanks, Jack ! I have GOT to read these books. Isn't that how characters usually work, though? We start out with a firm idea, but they grow on their own....
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jack@...
jack_greenma...
Feb 27, 2005 8:37 pm
* Thanks, Jack ! * * I have GOT to read these books. * * Isn't that how characters usually work, though? We start out with a firm * idea, but they grow on...
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Caryn Sobel
sobelwriting
Feb 27, 2005 11:28 pm
David Bratman: <Well, there's this: <http://www.tolkienonline.com/movies/changes_index.cfm> which never even finished finalizing the list of changes in the...
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Caryn Sobel
sobelwriting
Feb 27, 2005 11:29 pm
Janet: <Some of the essays in _Tolkien on Film_ do that for selected sections of the book (for example, my essay examines the differences between the book and...
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Bonnie Callahan
bonolatm@...
Feb 28, 2005 8:21 am
Hi Lizzie: Hmmm, bloody tragedy, that, shouldn't happen to a wee virus!!!!! ... I agree. Steinbeck's story cycle was so nihilistic, & the last story had no ...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
Feb 28, 2005 2:12 pm
Continuing off topic -- I've found cheap red wine works even better than vinegar, especially in one of those blown-glass fly traps where they fly up through a...
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Mike Foster
mafoster@...
Feb 28, 2005 2:26 pm
Janet, And they die happy. A more merciful doom than vinegar. Good for you. Mike...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
Feb 28, 2005 2:29 pm
And it might work better on those other flies Beth is trying to catch, too... Janet ... From: Mike Foster [mailto:mafoster@...] Sent: Monday, February...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 28, 2005 6:23 pm
No way.... I drink cheap wine, and even when it's not good enough to drink, I can cook with it. Coors Light for the slugs, sure, but no wine for my flies!...
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Elizabeth Apgar Triano
lizziewriter
Feb 28, 2005 6:24 pm
colt... sorry... yeah, blind those rhinoviruses, then we'd all stay healthier... I didn't mind Struwwelpeter either, but then when I was younger one of my ...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Mar 1, 2005 2:59 am
... I don't want to catch those flies. I want them to hover around Jackson's carcasses and stop bothering us. This is a book-readers' society. If we try for...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Mar 1, 2005 2:59 am
... I have been amazed at the number of people who think that Christopher Tolkien has been doing just this. Brian Herbert, son of the late Frank Herbert, has...
