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by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:55 pm
Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
Topic: What is the penalty for not COMING HERE FIRST?
Replies: 67
Views: 103668

I guess none of you know 'The League of Gentlemen' and Papa Lazarou with his YOU'RE MY WIFE NOW.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:02 am
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: Hell
Replies: 335
Views: 104575

I remember reading once that the Christian conversion of the pagan Anglo Saxons went so smoothly because they reckoned they were swapping a cold, icy mist ridden Hell for a warmer one. Heaven and Hell are just religious versions of the carrot and stick and aren't to be taken seriously. Look at the m...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:46 pm
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: Naturalism And Northern Courage
Replies: 11
Views: 7837

I'm not familiar with the Naturalist philosophy. There is something deep in the British psyche that responds to this attitude. The hymn that means the most to us is Abide with me. Churchill's success with the people in 1940 and 1941 was because he recognised and articulated that attitude. Check out ...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:37 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Separate, equal, reprise
Replies: 10
Views: 6866

Hi nerdanel. This cropped up in the Symposium about a week ago and I posted something which very inadequately agreed with you. Doesn't this create or boost the idea that your racial group is the most important thing about you? I may be white but I don't think that being white is anywhere near the mo...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:20 pm
Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
Topic: 10 best songs you've ever heard
Replies: 213
Views: 73427

Beach Boys? A friend of mine went with her mate to a London rock n roll club and started doing her head shaking dance, her being a stand up comic and all. One of the regulars came up to them and said reproachfully, 'A lot of us take this music seriously you know.' 'Don't you think I do too?' says Jo...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:50 pm
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: Prayer Thread
Replies: 1385
Views: 552857

WampusCat, now you are no longer passive recipients of fate but have the opportunity to fight. That is a huge psychological advantage. When that fight drains your energy we will try and refresh you.



I still think you have a cheek, posting a picture of the lovely Diane Keaton and claiming it is you.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:58 pm
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: The Gospel of Judas
Replies: 217
Views: 82244

It sounds like a hoax to me. Sorry.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:51 pm
Forum: The Library of Rivendell
Topic: Two nifty books
Replies: 21
Views: 15408

But those plays!!!! The man was a man for the ages, and it is beyond me why people try to tear him down. No argument from me there. Those texts are astonishing. What is strange is that period is well recorded with an intense competitive vigorous and appreciative literary world and we have these tex...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:23 pm
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: Prayer Thread
Replies: 1385
Views: 552857

Nor have I stopped thinking of you.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:19 pm
Forum: The Library of Rivendell
Topic: Two nifty books
Replies: 21
Views: 15408

Yet I believe one of Jonson's plays has an aristocratic character producing literary material under a pseudonym. I can't quote it though. :( I read a book once (John Michel's Who Wrote Shakespeare?) that listed all the main contenders including the Stratford Shakespeare with arguments for and agains...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:46 pm
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: The Gospel of Judas
Replies: 217
Views: 82244

5 days too late?

Leather bound papyrus? :suspicious:
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:13 pm
Forum: The Library of Rivendell
Topic: Two nifty books
Replies: 21
Views: 15408

That's the one. The Shakespeare identification may be questioned but it is the living spit of Jonson who had fought in the Low Countries and may have made a connection with van Mander because of that.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:14 am
Forum: The Library of Rivendell
Topic: Two nifty books
Replies: 21
Views: 15408

I have always been interested in the portrait by Karel van Mander of two chess players. It never seems to be reproduced. One figure is unmistakeably Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's friend. The other is a young man with Shakespearian features. The portrait was badly restored about a hundred years ago and h...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:10 am
Forum: The Library of Rivendell
Topic: L'Absinthe
Replies: 8
Views: 7429

At least it was a short cane.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:41 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Redefining Illegality
Replies: 80
Views: 34480

Frelga wrote My impression is that the purpose of the immigration laws and their enforcement is not to prevent illegal immigration. It is to keep immigrants terrorized just enough so that their employers can pay them pennies for hard work in dangerous conditions, but not enough that these people lea...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:44 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Arrested for public intoxication in a bar
Replies: 14
Views: 8725

It sounds like the policing equivalent of stealing candy from babies or shooting fish in a barrel. Nice to know that the jails are that empty.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:36 pm
Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
Topic: Ring of the Niebelung Mini-Series?
Replies: 7
Views: 6493

Volsunga older than Arthur? At a rough guess I would have said they were coeval. I remember the Volsunga saga as being in the first book I ever took out from the Children's Library. The black and white drawings were enhanced with red for the copious blood! It would make a great mini series. I'm alwa...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:27 am
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: Jews for Jesus
Replies: 246
Views: 91714

Just to lighten the mood a little.
I remember him telling me that many of the beaches in the area were posted "White Gentiles Only".
A nudist beach I presume?
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:46 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Cartoons?
Replies: 177
Views: 82376

No, I mean that it is remarkably easy to drum up offence and organised groups do it all the while. There are so many examples I hardly know where to begin but campaigns against Harry Potter or The Last Temptation of Christ will do. Ask any campaigner against these works and you will discover genuine...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:20 pm
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: Nice Master :(
Replies: 51
Views: 33479

If Tolkien saw this episode, of Sam misinterpreting Sméagol's compassion, as significant then given his profound insight then so should we. I had for a while taken the hinge of the story to be Sam's song in the tower of Cirith Ungol. Perhaps Sam's rejection of Sméagol's repentance was the knife edge...