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Just here to state, clearly and unequivocally, that wilko remains the TOLKIEN GEEK KING!! despite such small slips of memory. with the exception of Romestamo, of course, who will always be Master. Even just on this Ireland moot I think there were people both geekier and/or more erudite than myself,...

I've always regarded your status as more of a nebulous concept. :Wooper: Then I suspect you must be ALLIED TO THE FORCES OF EVIL!!1 (I mentioned "Jude's dark side" at one point, which was about the funniest thing I said all moot ;) ). Hang on... wilko couldn't remember where Sarn Ford was...

Impenitent wrote:

wilko, I'm so glad you clarified the point about Sarn Ford. I haven't been able to sleep nights from wondering.

The point came up and I couldn't remember where Sarn Ford was, and I can't let my Tolkien geek status slip

A hugely entertaining moot, thanks to everyone, especially Alatar for doing such a great job for us all, and to his family for letting him :). I had a great time, thanks everyone :D. And my apologies for the late arrival and so rescheduling the bus tour (a wizard is never late, but a wilko sometimes...

I've now booked, so I'm irretrievably definite: Liverpool to Shannon Thursday, 22 Mar 07 Flight 1135 Depart Liverpool 09:00 Arrive Shannon 10:00 Return: Tuesday, 27 Mar 07 Depart Shannon 10:25 Ryanair btw, nice and cheap, but a bit early in the morning. I don't mind hanging round the airport for a w...

I'm glad the rumours are exaggerated. Stay well Steve .

Vison, if I recall correctly that book was the subject of your first ever TORC post. Good book :) As that book makes clear, gravity would be an important factor on how life develops. Presumably on a larger planet (with probably higher atmospheric pressure) there would be squatter lifeforms - but als...

How can I prove it was intentional? I can't. But it is very unlikely in normal urban planning for a pentacle, which requires a network of streets consisting of five independent directions that must come together symmetrically, to occur randomly. When you add the fact that this very unlikely shape i...

I think that Moore's comments on renewable wood fuel, (safe!-ish) nuclear power and genetic modification (depending on it having effective control) are perfectly valid. But I've not seen any mainstream scientific commentators who think that the positive effects of global warming will outweigh the ne...

Iavas - Olive branches are sinister now? Iavas symbols can be important but its the thought behind it that counts Indeed. The swastika, for example, has a generally benign meaning in Hindusim, but I don't suppose that anyone thinks the Nazis intended an identical symbolism when they took it up. The ...

HOMER ( with his mouth full, reading card ) Um, you know, Mr. Burns, my family and I, um ( Bart belches ) feel that taxes are too high. Where do you stand on this highly controversial issue? BURNS Goodness! I didn't realize this casual dinner was going to turn into a charged political debate. HOMER...

First a :Q and a :D at seeing you here ... Well I made a similar post over on TORC with no response, maybe because it's a bit too vague and metaphysical for that forum; and there was this wonderful Bombadil thread here :). Tom shows us a way of living in relation to nature. Yes, that is what I was ...

I've been thinking about the following angle on Tom, if you'll indulge me on it. This has been touched on several times here, but perhaps not directly: he is a symbolic embodiment of the exuberance of the natural world Is Tom merely intended to embody nature? Tom embodies the natural world If Tom re...

Someone expressed concern about private messages being visible in the database backup file. A mysqldump file is in plain text, so unless the database is encrypted (does anyone know if it is?) then the file can be opened in any text editor, including Notepad. It might be wise to instruct members not...

wilko, I know Jny can speak for herself much better, but I should like to point out that you are responding to a post which she has already qualified in a later post, in which she regretted her harshness. She thinks she may have been too harsh, but she actually offered no retraction or clarificatio...

Wilko, I fear we are talking past each other. I feel that I'm hearing you loud and clear. But if you really feel unable to respond to any of my points or questions, then I'm at a loss. The point where I became uncomfortable with the first topic you introduced was when members started to talk seriou...

You asked me if I was telling you to "pipe down," to which I answered that you by yourself are not annoying. But you are one of many voices all saying the same thing in different ways - that you don't like us and are not one of us - and the aggregation of complaint has exceeded what any r...

That alone shows how much of the meaning we take from something is what we put there ourselves. I didn't see anything in Prim's words that connoted an onerous chore! Well, it was in the context of a reply to people saying how much better it is to not bother about the serious stuff. Sorry, I didn't ...