Comments on: Can’t beat the …

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:56:10 +0000

Ever since I read in 2003 how Iraqis love their ice cream, I wondered when we would see a Baskin Robbins open up in Iraq, or Dreyers or Breyers. A KFC works about as well for me.

By: What is victory in Iraq? « American Elephants

What is victory in Iraq? « American Elephants — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:53:54 +0000

[...] Kentucky Fried Chicken has opened in Falluja. [...]

By: Carl O. Witz

Carl O. Witz — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:32:35 +0000

Fallujah, 2023:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkdcYlOn5M

By: joyce

joyce — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:02:24 +0000

Soon they will have some idiot do-gooders trying to tell them they are too fat and ban falafels.

By: NahnCee

NahnCee — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:13:08 +0000

*sigh*

I hate hobbits.

And the ensuing tedious dissections of a piece of fiction. At least “1984″ and “Animal Farm” were short.

By: Buck Smith

Buck Smith — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:01:41 +0000

I love the smell of fried chicken in the morning. Smells like … victory

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:47:37 +0000

When Tolkien is mentioned, the postings become
Hobbit-forming. (ahem)

By: vnjagvet

vnjagvet — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:27:10 +0000

Tolkien never had KFC though. Pity. I wonder who had the balls to sign a franchise agreement with KFC. I also wonder if there is a personal guarantee.

KFC franchises ain’t cheap.

By: Zim

Zim — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:41:54 +0000

I think WWI impacted Tolkien more than WWII seeing as that was the war he was in, and the one that caused the deaths of many of his friends. Much of his history of middle earth was written before Hitler rose to power. However, the LOTR story does appear to be “tacked on” at the end of the second age and has no connection at all with the first age (aside from characters Galedriel, Sauron and Elrond)so maybe there was some reflection of current events to it.

By: onesimus

onesimus — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:16:28 +0000

The first volume of the Lord of the Rings, The FELLOWSHIP of the Ring. Contrast the banquets with Gollum’s solitary meals. There are countless Gollums in the world.

“Take the young burglar I saw in prison last week…He was thin and malnourished in the manner I have described. Five feet ten, he weighed just over a hundred pounds…
“I asked the young man if his mother ever cooked for him. “Not since my stepfather arrived.She would cook for him, like, but not for the children.” … So, you never sat around a table and ate a meal together?” “No.”
“In fact, he told me that he had never once eaten at a table with others in the last fifteen years. Eating for him was a solitary vice, something done almost furtively, with no pleasure attached to it and certainly not a social event.” Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What’s Left of It,© 2005, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, Chicago, IL, pp. 213-214