The Foreclosing of the Shire

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LOTR-inspired housing development in big trouble
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velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:47 (seventeen years ago)

I can't laugh about this enough, really.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 August 2008 04:02 (seventeen years ago)

Wait, I thought you wanted to move in, Ned!

libcrypt, Friday, 8 August 2008 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

Schadenfreude does not become a hobbit.

libcrypt, Friday, 8 August 2008 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

in a moneypit in the ground there lived a......

velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 04:05 (seventeen years ago)

Wait, I thought you wanted to move in, Ned!

If so, only to burn it to the ground immediately.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 August 2008 04:47 (seventeen years ago)

Hey, this is somewhat local! My company does bidness in the Bend home building market!

Then, on the other hand, i just get pissed off when i read stuff like

has 26-foot-high ceilings

and it's like DO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A PROPER HOBBIT DWELLING OR A FUCKING SHITE SHIRE MCMANSION

Oh well. At least I won't have to schlep an extension ladder around in their living rooms on service calls.

kingfish, Friday, 8 August 2008 05:08 (seventeen years ago)

I thought the home counties were being repossessed.

It's not all quite so funny when it's in the post for me. :-(

Masonic Boom, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:53 (seventeen years ago)


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