What do you "assign" to the Shire? - Page 23 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lhunardawen · 12-20-2006, 06:09 PM

I assign considerate (Chem) profs who schedule exams enough weeks after Christmas break, so we're not too hung over when we take them.

Kath · 12-20-2006, 06:13 PM

Good, funny pantomimes.

Sitting in the front room, chatting to your friends and watching Dylan Moran.

Helping a friend make a compilation CD for another friend and having a great time picking songs.

Oddwen · 12-20-2006, 06:21 PM

I assign beads...beads, beads, beads, and all sorts of jewelry findings.

Especially when they're on sale.

And when there's a "Help Wanted" sign on the door.

*crosses fingers*

Mithalwen · 12-24-2006, 12:25 PM

Christmas Carols

Mithalwen · 12-24-2006, 01:56 PM

I thinkI sent my god-daughter to Mordor a few months ago when she missed a flight when I was collecting her from the airport

but I now send her to the Shire for inviting me to go with her to the LOTR musical first night

Valier · 12-24-2006, 06:40 PM

I assign Christmas Eve!!!! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!!!!

Farael · 12-25-2006, 01:21 PM

English rock bands... specially the 'older' kind. Obviously Pink Floyd and other greats... but even lesser known bands are so much better than the commercial Mordor-style stuff they try to makes us listen to now.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 12-25-2006, 01:55 PM

Why english rock bands? I mean sure a lot of the greatest has been from England, but there are also good ones from other countries.

But I totaly agree with you, I mostly listen to rock from the decades past.

Farael · 12-25-2006, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

Why english rock bands? I mean sure a lot of the greatest has been from England, but there are also good ones from other countries.

But I totaly agree with you, I mostly listen to rock from the decades past.

Oh, there are definitely great bands from all over the world (even North America) but I just felt like assigning English ones, as I think they are great.

I could assign "good music" as a whole, but I'm sure that's been assigned already.

Mithalwen · 12-27-2006, 01:38 PM

The worker in the bakery of a local supermarket who sang "O Holy night" pitch perfect as he stacked shelves and transformed the drudgery of preChristmas shopping into something magical.

the guy who be short · 01-07-2007, 03:43 PM

Perfectly made noodles. An honest, simple pleasure, perhaps, but one that is twofold. The first pleasure comes from the consumption of the noodles when they're of the perfect consistency to slurp. Too wet, and you get covered in noodle-juice; too dry and slurping is not a possibly. Then, once you've eaten and lazed around for a while, the second pleasure of washing the saucepan... when the noodles are made right, it takes 20 seconds to clean.

Kath · 01-08-2007, 11:17 AM

Going to the dentist and not having anything wrong!

Elonve · 01-09-2007, 07:45 AM

Okay I don't know if this goes in the Shire or Mordor.But being in love with a stranger. I know it sounds weird but my friend introduced me to this guy over MSN and he's really nice.

We talked for ages!

________
Hawaii Dispensaries

Thinlómien · 01-09-2007, 08:10 AM

I assign everybody being so nice to me today.

Farael · 01-09-2007, 09:49 AM

The TATA box. Any genetics students will know what I'm talking about. In a field full of almost random acronyms such as TFIIIC and Pol I and what not, the simplicity (not to mention rather laughable sound) of the TATA box is quite amusing.

For those of you who have no clue of what I'm talking about, the TATA box is a sequence of repeated Thymine and Adenine bases in DNA that are used to initiate the expression of the gene. But it is just lovely that it is pronounced Tah-Tah box... I can't say that with a straight face!!

Rikae · 01-09-2007, 06:33 PM

I assign to the Shire the fact that I could make the assign to Mordor post I just did, and several other things I'll add tomorrow (time's running out).

Wayland · 01-11-2007, 08:21 AM

The Queen of the May, morris dancers, green buds, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme and all that sort of thing.

the guy who be short · 01-11-2007, 11:25 AM

Ambulance drivers, Amnesty Internation members and other altruistically inclined individuals.

Rikae · 01-11-2007, 03:44 PM

I assign to the shire:

After seven hours on a plane, a far green country and a swift sunrise*. Tube stations that, though they look old and dilapidated, have touches like fancy columns or mosaics or such things, hostels that cost 10 pounds a night yet have rooms with high ceilings, huge windows and beautiful architecture you would only see in expensive hotels in the US, trains that come every two minutes, mist and fog and air so wet it's like a sauna, and everything damp and green, with richer, darker colors, blue-green grass, seeing Bellini and Titian paintings from two inches away, recordings reminding one to “mind the gap” and “caution, you are approaching the end of the conveyor”, decibel levels in public places roughly half the US equivalent, little shops with all sorts of fresh produce in baskets in front of them, warm, friendly well-read people with melodic accents, tropical looking plants growing outdoors in people's gardens and black and white tiled paths to the door, tiny little electric cars, signs that tell you “look right” and “look left” when you cross the road, the feeling of being in Middle earth, in a Dickens story, in a place where human beings have lived since prehistory – a place that is old and full of memory.

*Without being dead/unable to return!

Oddwen · 01-14-2007, 09:25 AM

I assign things that help you reconnect with someone close. My brother and I used to do everything together, but as we've grown up we've grown apart a bit. We hardly speak the same language anymore.

Thank you, Trogdor, for changing all that.

the guy who be short · 01-15-2007, 02:28 PM

I assign Lhuna. Thank you for warning me, months ago, of the horror of vectors.

Elmo · 01-28-2007, 05:05 PM

3 points to Aberdeen on a Saturday

shieldmaiden4xsword · 01-28-2007, 05:33 PM

teasing my youth pastor, being teased by him, and laughing together about stuff.

Roa_Aoife · 02-06-2007, 01:14 PM

I assign having a student who has had a very hard time adapting to pre-school, the other children, and especially these strange adults called teachers, run up and give you a hug and a kiss before she goes home.

Also, the cheers from the entire building when you turn the lights back on after nap-time. It makes me feel like a superhero.

ninja91 · 02-06-2007, 05:57 PM

I assign when a great idea hits you dead on, and it works great with everything you have already written.

Lhunardawen · 02-21-2007, 03:15 AM

It sounds crazy, but I'll assign it anyway.

Nomenclature of organic compounds.

Yes, I know having to memorise the priority of naming them (salts > carboxylic acids > acid anhydrides > esters > acyl chlorides > amides > nitriles > aldehydes > ketones > alcohols > phenols > amines > double bonds > triple bonds > single bonds > ethers > alkyl halides, or I could be wrong somewhere) isn't worth it in the long run, but I'm amazed that the IUPAC came up with it at all. Besides, it's fun to name those weird lines with scattered letters.

Mithalwen · 03-07-2007, 12:22 PM

Getting your first Book crossing "catch"!!!!

I realeased about ten books a year ago.. and lost heart since none were logged again. Then I started again a couple of weeks ago and I have just found that one has been found and taken to Switzerland!!!!!! And it wasn't the best book in teh world ..it came free with a magazine.... but I am so excited and enthused to set more books free

the guy who be short · 03-11-2007, 06:35 AM

Honey and Milk. If the gods have a nectar, this is it.

Volo · 03-11-2007, 07:35 AM

Alpenkäse! For now it shall be in the Shire, but when getting more weight won't be a good thing...

Thinlómien · 03-21-2007, 05:13 AM

I assign PMs. They're such a good way of getting to know people.

Kath · 03-21-2007, 07:41 AM

I assign managing to get all your work done and handed in on and even before time, so that the last two and half days of terms are enjoyable!

Bêthberry · 03-21-2007, 08:07 AM

Learning terrific new words that have much potential for parody.

Today's word is brought to us by David Radler, the rat who's going to fink on Lord Black: disgorgement.

Officially it means:

Quote:

A repayment of ill-gotten gains that is imposed on wrongdoers by the courts. Funds that were received through illegal or unethical business transactions are disgorged, or paid back, with interest to those affected by the action. Disgorgement is a remedial civil action, rather than a punitive civil action.

. . .

to discharge forcefully or as a result of force

Now, with all the loyering and repo-wraiths on REB, that's just got to be a word with much potential for the rpg.

Boo Radley · 03-21-2007, 09:56 AM

The first day of Spring.
(As long as it's not too cold, damp or dreary)

Mithalwen · 04-11-2007, 01:06 PM

The Ignore function...

the guy who be short · 04-12-2007, 04:10 AM

The first butterfly, ladybird and bee of the year. Spring is upon us! Flowers are in bloom! SAD is gone! Hayfever is come...

Kath · 04-12-2007, 07:15 AM

Booking tickets to the LotR musical! 16th May we'll be there. Having watched a little trailer type thing it looks like it should be pretty good. Shame we couldn't get seats closer to the stage but my friend wasn't willing to pay £50 for it!

Mithalwen · 04-12-2007, 12:02 PM

Oh a week after me!!!

SO exciting

My colleagues who lent me a petrol can and gave me a lift to the petrol station when I coastedin to work on fumes.... (stupid me has taken to ignoring the red light because it goes on when there are still 15 litres of fuel in the tank.. but I ignored too long

)

Kath · 04-12-2007, 12:44 PM

Ah! We were going to go earlier but exams got in the way.

the guy who be short · 04-13-2007, 06:38 AM

Journalists who put their email addresses at the bottom of their articles. These people are writing messages read by hundreds of thousands of people, and yet they have the humanity to allow each and every reader to get in touch if they wish to. I think that's very Shire-ish.

Rikae · 05-29-2007, 05:31 PM

This thread is languishing. I assign:

Reading Chapter 19 of the Silmarillion aloud with the person one loves mehr als alles...

*sigh*

12-20-2006, 06:13 PM	#882
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Good, funny pantomimes. Sitting in the front room, chatting to your friends and watching Dylan Moran. Helping a friend make a compilation CD for another friend and having a great time picking songs. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

12-20-2006, 06:21 PM	#883
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	I assign beads...beads, beads, beads, and all sorts of jewelry findings. Especially when they're on sale. And when there's a "Help Wanted" sign on the door. crosses fingers __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

12-24-2006, 12:25 PM	#884
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Christmas Carols __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

12-24-2006, 01:56 PM	#885
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Reassignment I thinkI sent my god-daughter to Mordor a few months ago when she missed a flight when I was collecting her from the airport but I now send her to the Shire for inviting me to go with her to the LOTR musical first night __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

12-24-2006, 06:40 PM	#886
Valier Twisted Taleswapper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere between sanity and insanity Posts: 1,706	I assign Christmas Eve!!!! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!!!! __________________ grand return?........

12-20-2006, 06:09 PM	#881
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	I assign considerate (Chem) profs who schedule exams enough weeks after Christmas break, so we're not too hung over when we take them.

12-25-2006, 01:21 PM	#887
Farael Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment. Posts: 1,538	English rock bands... specially the 'older' kind. Obviously Pink Floyd and other greats... but even lesser known bands are so much better than the commercial Mordor-style stuff they try to makes us listen to now. __________________ I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

12-27-2006, 01:38 PM	#890
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	The worker in the bakery of a local supermarket who sang "O Holy night" pitch perfect as he stacked shelves and transformed the drudgery of preChristmas shopping into something magical. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

01-07-2007, 03:43 PM	#891
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Perfectly made noodles. An honest, simple pleasure, perhaps, but one that is twofold. The first pleasure comes from the consumption of the noodles when they're of the perfect consistency to slurp. Too wet, and you get covered in noodle-juice; too dry and slurping is not a possibly. Then, once you've eaten and lazed around for a while, the second pleasure of washing the saucepan... when the noodles are made right, it takes 20 seconds to clean.

01-08-2007, 11:17 AM	#892
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Going to the dentist and not having anything wrong! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

01-09-2007, 07:45 AM	#893
Elonve Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Where the stars go blue. Posts: 153	Okay I don't know if this goes in the Shire or Mordor.But being in love with a stranger. I know it sounds weird but my friend introduced me to this guy over MSN and he's really nice. We talked for ages! ________ Hawaii Dispensaries Last edited by Elonve; 04-09-2011 at 06:23 PM.

01-09-2007, 08:10 AM	#894
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	I assign everybody being so nice to me today. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

01-09-2007, 09:49 AM	#895
Farael Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment. Posts: 1,538	The TATA box. Any genetics students will know what I'm talking about. In a field full of almost random acronyms such as TFIIIC and Pol I and what not, the simplicity (not to mention rather laughable sound) of the TATA box is quite amusing. For those of you who have no clue of what I'm talking about, the TATA box is a sequence of repeated Thymine and Adenine bases in DNA that are used to initiate the expression of the gene. But it is just lovely that it is pronounced Tah-Tah box... I can't say that with a straight face!! __________________ I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

01-09-2007, 06:33 PM	#896
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	I assign to the Shire the fact that I could make the assign to Mordor post I just did, and several other things I'll add tomorrow (time's running out).

01-11-2007, 08:21 AM	#897
Wayland Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sharkey's Shire - two doors along from Shelob Posts: 14	The Queen of the May, morris dancers, green buds, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme and all that sort of thing. __________________ Raise, Raise the Shire!

01-11-2007, 11:25 AM	#898
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Ambulance drivers, Amnesty Internation members and other altruistically inclined individuals.

01-11-2007, 03:44 PM	#899
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	I assign to the shire: After seven hours on a plane, a far green country and a swift sunrise. Tube stations that, though they look old and dilapidated, have touches like fancy columns or mosaics or such things, hostels that cost 10 pounds a night yet have rooms with high ceilings, huge windows and beautiful architecture you would only see in expensive hotels in the US, trains that come every two minutes, mist and fog and air so wet it's like a sauna, and everything damp and green, with richer, darker colors, blue-green grass, seeing Bellini and Titian paintings from two inches away, recordings reminding one to “mind the gap” and “caution, you are approaching the end of the conveyor”, decibel levels in public places roughly half the US equivalent, little shops with all sorts of fresh produce in baskets in front of them, warm, friendly well-read people with melodic accents, tropical looking plants growing outdoors in people's gardens and black and white tiled paths to the door, tiny little electric cars, signs that tell you “look right” and “look left” when you cross the road, the feeling of being in Middle earth, in a Dickens story, in a place where human beings have lived since prehistory – a place that is old and full of memory. Without being dead/unable to return!

01-14-2007, 09:25 AM	#900
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	I assign things that help you reconnect with someone close. My brother and I used to do everything together, but as we've grown up we've grown apart a bit. We hardly speak the same language anymore. Thank you, Trogdor, for changing all that. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

01-15-2007, 02:28 PM	#901
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	I assign Lhuna. Thank you for warning me, months ago, of the horror of vectors.

01-28-2007, 05:05 PM	#902
Elmo Pittodrie Poltergeist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: trying to find that warm and winding lane again Posts: 633	3 points to Aberdeen on a Saturday __________________ As Beren looked into her eyes within the shadows of her hair, The trembling starlight of the skies he saw there mirrored shimmering.

01-28-2007, 05:33 PM	#903
shieldmaiden4xsword Wight Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: where people stick out their tongues at their youth pastor.... Posts: 183	teasing my youth pastor, being teased by him, and laughing together about stuff. __________________ Sometimes the peril is not in what is around us, what enemies or trials that may come, but what is in our own hearts.

02-06-2007, 01:14 PM	#904
Roa_Aoife Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Someday, I'll rule all of it. Posts: 1,696	I assign having a student who has had a very hard time adapting to pre-school, the other children, and especially these strange adults called teachers, run up and give you a hug and a kiss before she goes home. Also, the cheers from the entire building when you turn the lights back on after nap-time. It makes me feel like a superhero. __________________ We can't all be Roas* when it comes to analysing...* -Lommy I didn't say you're evil, Roa, I said you're exasperating. -Nerwen

02-21-2007, 03:15 AM	#906
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	It sounds crazy, but I'll assign it anyway. Nomenclature of organic compounds. Yes, I know having to memorise the priority of naming them (salts > carboxylic acids > acid anhydrides > esters > acyl chlorides > amides > nitriles > aldehydes > ketones > alcohols > phenols > amines > double bonds > triple bonds > single bonds > ethers > alkyl halides, or I could be wrong somewhere) isn't worth it in the long run, but I'm amazed that the IUPAC came up with it at all. Besides, it's fun to name those weird lines with scattered letters.

03-07-2007, 12:22 PM	#907
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Getting your first Book crossing "catch"!!!! I realeased about ten books a year ago.. and lost heart since none were logged again. Then I started again a couple of weeks ago and I have just found that one has been found and taken to Switzerland!!!!!! And it wasn't the best book in teh world ..it came free with a magazine.... but I am so excited and enthused to set more books free __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

03-11-2007, 06:35 AM	#908
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Honey and Milk. If the gods have a nectar, this is it.

03-11-2007, 07:35 AM	#909
Volo Silver in My Silent Heart Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the great beauty Posts: 1,611	Alpenkäse! For now it shall be in the Shire, but when getting more weight won't be a good thing... __________________ Fenris Wolf The EVEN NEWER Barrow-Downs Photo Page

03-21-2007, 05:13 AM	#910
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	I assign PMs. They're such a good way of getting to know people. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

03-21-2007, 07:41 AM	#911
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	I assign managing to get all your work done and handed in on and even before time, so that the last two and half days of terms are enjoyable! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

03-21-2007, 09:56 AM	#913
Boo Radley Wight Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ohio. Believe it or not. Posts: 145	The first day of Spring. (As long as it's not too cold, damp or dreary) __________________ Don't believe everything you read on the interwebs. That's how World War 1 got started!

04-11-2007, 01:06 PM	#914
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	The Ignore function... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

04-12-2007, 04:10 AM	#915
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	The first butterfly, ladybird and bee of the year. Spring is upon us! Flowers are in bloom! SAD is gone! Hayfever is come...

04-12-2007, 07:15 AM	#916
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Booking tickets to the LotR musical! 16th May we'll be there. Having watched a little trailer type thing it looks like it should be pretty good. Shame we couldn't get seats closer to the stage but my friend wasn't willing to pay £50 for it! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

04-12-2007, 12:02 PM	#917
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Oh a week after me!!! SO exciting My colleagues who lent me a petrol can and gave me a lift to the petrol station when I coastedin to work on fumes.... (stupid me has taken to ignoring the red light because it goes on when there are still 15 litres of fuel in the tank.. but I ignored too long ) __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

04-12-2007, 12:44 PM	#918
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Ah! We were going to go earlier but exams got in the way. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

04-13-2007, 06:38 AM	#919
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	Journalists who put their email addresses at the bottom of their articles. These people are writing messages read by hundreds of thousands of people, and yet they have the humanity to allow each and every reader to get in touch if they wish to. I think that's very Shire-ish.