We were brainstorming at Vendetta's in Keene tonight. The idea came up of some sort of State of The Shire celebration outside the NH state house to show our extremist ideas. :)
Many of us could show up and act out our parts based on the playing cards.
I could go as the Cardinal. James Schnurgenberger will wear a monicle. Kat will have to get a new one.
Indeed I have been informed that my presence is requested on behalf of the elite members of society. It is likely that my speech will be written for me as I am merely a mouthpiece for my powerful masters.
Awwww,
I left my vestments in Texas.
(That almost sounds like the title to a bad country song, no?)
Quote from: jjschless on April 27, 2008, 08:12 PM NHFT
Indeed I have been informed that my presence is requested on behalf of the elite members of society. It is likely that my speech will be written from me as I am merely a mouthpiece for of powerful masters.
Schnergenberger!
who is the ruler of the shire?
Is he ruling in exile somewhere or is he on the royal yacht?
Quote from: Tom Sawyer on April 27, 2008, 08:17 PM NHFT
Quote from: jjschless on April 27, 2008, 08:12 PM NHFT
Indeed I have been informed that my presence is requested on behalf of the elite members of society. It is likely that my speech will be written from me as I am merely a mouthpiece for of powerful masters.
Schnergenberger!
Silence peon you wouldn't have half of what you do if not for the benevolent grace and generosity of our most kind masters.
Quote from: Russell Kanning on April 27, 2008, 08:19 PM NHFT
who is the ruler of the shire?
Is he ruling in exile somewhere or is he on the royal yacht?
We're an anarcho-capitalist commune!
We take it in turn to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.....
I am close to a breakthrough with this Schnergenberger conspiracy. I now know how they managed to obscure their lineage.
The pieces have almost completely come together....
Quote from: jjschless on April 27, 2008, 08:21 PM NHFT
Quote from: Tom Sawyer on April 27, 2008, 08:17 PM NHFT
Quote from: jjschless on April 27, 2008, 08:12 PM NHFT
Indeed I have been informed that my presence is requested on behalf of the elite members of society. It is likely that my speech will be written from me as I am merely a mouthpiece for of powerful masters.
Schnergenberger!
Silence peon you wouldn't have half of what you do if not for the benevolent grace and generosity of our most kind masters.
Good dialog... ;D
(Oh wait, I'm supposed to respond in character)
The Schnergenberger's will never silence me! Just wait until Caleb reveils all he has documented about you and your ilk!
I'm going to need a rubber knife... or one that's beer flavored.
I fear for my life, so I will post some information to hopefully set people on the right track, in the event of my death.
http://www.scharffenberger.com/ notice the illuminati crest: The Satanic Ram on top of the three Pyramids. Can there be any doubt that this is the American line of the Schnergenberger's, with the name slightly changed to throw us off the track?
also see how they mock us, by flaunting their chocolate conspiracy in their illimunati and satanic ritual show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... http://www.buffyguide.com/episodes/bandcandy.shtml
Here's a link to the Lindt branch of the Schnergenberger's showing their complicity: http://www.theendoftheuniverse.ca/node/20
None of your chocolate is safe people! Please! Don't panic! Just send me your chocolate, and I will safely dispose of it for you.
I want some of that chocolate.
If JJ can get us some of that chocolate... we could study the properties... and ya know... learn... more about the Schnergenburgers... is that possible JJ?
Caleb, you missed the most excellent chocolate chip cookies that Kim Possible made the other morning.
Mmmmmmmm. chocolate chip cookies.
It's true I did made cookies. I wish you were here Caleb to have one, everyone says there really good.
Raw Cookies?
We figure all of us in The Shire are part of the royal family.
The Bishop!
I can see Russell doing this. :D
Radical Teen? Kira, I presume? Your signiture should make your folks proud. ;)
It is fitting that the Shire region have its own subforum. The Shire has really morphed from a joke, to the name for the independence desire that was first written about a year or two ago by Caleb and Tracy.
Good job guys. :)
Wow, I hadn't seen it. :blush:
Quote from: Radical_Teen on April 27, 2008, 11:25 PM NHFT
It's true I did made cookies. I wish you were here Caleb to have one, everyone says there really good.
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on April 28, 2008, 07:06 AM NHFT
Raw Cookies?
I believe you Kira aka Radical Teen! :D Did you use dates and carob powder? I love putting Brazil nuts and cinnamon in the blender with a little bit of water and then dehydrating them, there are so good.
No, she was using nestle chocolate chips and real sugar.
Quote from: Kat Kanning on April 30, 2008, 08:10 PM NHFT
No, she was using nestle chocolate chips and real sugar.
Oh! Heck those are even better! :D
maybe this idea will never turn into anything .... we will just continue our shire activities in secret :)
Quote from: David on April 28, 2008, 04:50 PM NHFT
It is fitting that the Shire region have its own subforum. The Shire has really morphed from a joke, to the name for the independence desire that was first written about a year or two ago by Caleb and Tracy.
Not to make a big deal of it, but "the Shire" name was coined by Chris (http://www.freestateproject.org/community/guestbook/shire.php) (with some input from me), way back in 2004, and was never really a 'joke' and was always used in a manner mean to invoke a free place. Caleb and Tracy and others picked on the term, to mean more specific places (Keene-ish), or more specific freedoms, but others have continued to call ALL of NH the Shire, and nor limiting it to independence or apolitical meanings.
Speaking as a Schnergenberger, this is quite definitive.
(and for those who were paying attention: SCoHN = Schn(ergenberger) the truth is out there, right?)
Not to nitpick, but David didn't say that Tracy and I began the use of the word shire, he said that we started the Independence thing, which he apparently felt articulated a concept of independence that predated the use of the word shire. I don't think he was right on that, by the way, because for one the two ideas are different, and for two, I think the use of Tolkien's imagery for freedom concepts goes back quite a bit more than any of us.
Quote from: Caleb on May 04, 2008, 09:00 PM NHFT
Not to nitpick, but David didn't say that Tracy and I began the use of the word shire,
I didn't say he did... did I? He did say "started as a joke" which is what I was commenting on, for one, and that it's 'morphed' to mean something else.
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I think the use of Tolkien's imagery for freedom concepts goes back quite a bit more than any of us.
Agreed. As the recent Tolkien anarchy thread proved.
I stand corrected. :)
I have heard the shire as a referense mostly as western nh, keene up to grafton, over to parts of vermont. Of course, this referense was spoken by various folks in those areas, and I am not in the eastern part of the state much at all these days.
Either way, Ryans idea of a anarcho-capitalist commune is cool. ;D
Quote from: David on May 04, 2008, 11:08 PM NHFT
I stand corrected. :)
I have heard the shire as a referense mostly as western nh, keene up to grafton, over to parts of vermont.
The Shire takes territory every day, since it expands when people join it. I don't know where its boundaries are. I know for sure it takes in Hobbiton (Covering Canaan, Grafton and parts of other towns) to the North and "Winchester of the Shire" to the South. It ventures into small parts of Vermont and has taken territory as far East as Little Minnesota and possibly Seabrook.
The only boundaries of the Shire are in your mind, if any.
8)
(http://vnmedia.ign.com/lotrovault.ign.com/fms/images/maps/14/1173902061_fullres.jpg)
8)
Here there be Hobbits.
That is really neat Pat! :D
Quote from: FTL_Ian on May 06, 2008, 02:05 PM NHFT
The only boundaries of the Shire are in your mind, if any.
8)
and in the minds of others .... obviously not you. I have been to many parts of The Shire. I have met many residents. It is very real.
Yes, but odds are good that if you have boundaries, the Shire will be more difficult to see. Like the billboards in "Interstate 60"...
ALRIGHT!! That's IT! The map goes too far! I'm lobbying NH representatives to pass a law restricting use of the term "the Shire" to ensure it is used the way I want it to, and to make sure proper credit is given to the originator of the idea!
Sam, have you seen "Interstate 60"? I think you'd appreciate it. 8)
I'm claiming, "The Shire"... and "The shire"... and "thE shirE". :ahoy:
(http://www.alongexpectedparty.org/Images%20main/events/hike-the-shire.jpg)
I missed PatK and his pictures.
Quote from: FTL_Ian on May 06, 2008, 09:27 PM NHFT
Yes, but odds are good that if you have boundaries, the Shire will be more difficult to see.
The Shire has spheres of influence like a city wanting to annex territory.