en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1515131 Comments by osutein http://the-toast.net/2016/07/01/go-on-get-out-of-here/#IDComment1025123168 TAKE TO THE SEA! Fri, 1 Jul 2016 20:14:34 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/07/01/go-on-get-out-of-here/#IDComment1025123168 http://the-toast.net/2016/07/01/an-open-thread-and-sea-room/#IDComment1025110838 A million, billion thank yous to Nicole, Mallory, and Nikki for creating this amazing place and this amazing community. Thank you for your hard work, for your humor, your intelligence, your grace, your compassion, and your lightning-fast emails. Thank you for letting me be your Man in Middle-earth. It has been a literal dream come true. And thank you to all the contributors and Toasties for making this the best place on the Internet. You all have my axe. A WILLING FOE, AND SEA ROOM! Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:32:41 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/07/01/an-open-thread-and-sea-room/#IDComment1025110838 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/29/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-jrr-tolkien-book/#IDComment1025106885 Thank you! I am looking around for new places to submit to! Fri, 1 Jul 2016 15:29:55 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/29/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-jrr-tolkien-book/#IDComment1025106885 http://the-toast.net/2016/07/01/a-note-on-the-toast/#IDComment1025106677 TWO MONKS INVENT THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE. MONK 1: "What shape is an office?" MONK 2: "Oval, like an egg." Fri, 1 Jul 2016 15:26:03 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/07/01/a-note-on-the-toast/#IDComment1025106677 https://the-toast.net/2016/06/27/readers-toast-the-toast/#IDComment1024808233 The words that keep popping into my head when I think about The Toast closing are "where else?" Where else can we find ALL the hilarious, throughtful, moving, and beautiful writing in one place? Nowhere else. I will miss this place dearly. Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:13:32 +0000 https://the-toast.net/2016/06/27/readers-toast-the-toast/#IDComment1024808233 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/21/when-you-smile-on-humor-and-the-heart/#IDComment1024433253 This is perfect. Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:39:18 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/21/when-you-smile-on-humor-and-the-heart/#IDComment1024433253 https://the-toast.net/2016/06/15/the-pitch-meeting-for-ghostwriter/#IDComment1023614638 I didn't realize a THE PITCH FOR piece could make me cry as well as laugh out loud, but here we are. Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:48:52 +0000 https://the-toast.net/2016/06/15/the-pitch-meeting-for-ghostwriter/#IDComment1023614638 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/08/link-roundup-587/#IDComment1022666875 We haven't seen a Direwolf really chow down on anybody since Season 1, so I'm hoping Ramsay ends up as Ghost kibble. But that's too fitting and satisfying to ever happen in Westeros. Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:36:46 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/08/link-roundup-587/#IDComment1022666875 https://the-toast.net/2016/06/06/link-roundup-585/#IDComment1022534120 TOO NICOLES Mon, 6 Jun 2016 14:21:48 +0000 https://the-toast.net/2016/06/06/link-roundup-585/#IDComment1022534120 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/01/further-evidence-for-ronbledore/#IDComment1022252355 "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father." "He told me enough. He told me you killed him. "No. Ron is a time-traveling Dumbledore." "No. No. That's impossible!" "Search your feelings, you know it to be true that Ron is a time-traveling Dumbledore. Join with me and we can rule the galaxy as Ron and Dumbledore." Wed, 1 Jun 2016 17:59:57 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/01/further-evidence-for-ronbledore/#IDComment1022252355 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/01/further-evidence-for-ronbledore/#IDComment1022252249 In the Red Book of Westmarch, it is noted that in Aduni the name is pronounced "Bombadil," but in Sindarin it is, "Ronbledore." Wed, 1 Jun 2016 17:58:00 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/01/further-evidence-for-ronbledore/#IDComment1022252249 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/01/further-evidence-for-ronbledore/#IDComment1022251800 Faulkner was, of course, inspired by the famous speech in MacBeth: "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying Ronbledore." Wed, 1 Jun 2016 17:49:04 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/01/further-evidence-for-ronbledore/#IDComment1022251800 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/01/further-evidence-for-ronbledore/#IDComment1022245932 The quote from The Silmarillion is good, but many people skip, and thus overlook, a crucial passage in The Lord of the Rings, as well: "Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn ... He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before Ronbledore came from Outside." Wed, 1 Jun 2016 15:48:15 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/06/01/further-evidence-for-ronbledore/#IDComment1022245932 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/24/the-pitch-meeting-for-animaniacs/#IDComment1021746373 "THE ANIMATOR: Quite. Research indicates that 90 percent of this generation’s cultural associations will have been shaped by Animaniacs." This is 100% true for me. Tue, 24 May 2016 15:52:46 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/24/the-pitch-meeting-for-animaniacs/#IDComment1021746373 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/16/link-roundup-573/#IDComment1021215573 Happy Birthday! Mon, 16 May 2016 15:11:46 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/16/link-roundup-573/#IDComment1021215573 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/13/we-are-closing-the-toast-july-1st/#IDComment1021011884 Nicoles and Mallory: Thank you for everything you did in making this site such an incredible place to read and comment. Thank you for the wonderful community you built, a community that will continue even after July 1st. Thank you for letting me be your Man in Middle-earth. Writing for The Toast has been a dream come true. It has meant the world to me. I love The Toast and I love you all. Fri, 13 May 2016 15:49:42 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/13/we-are-closing-the-toast-july-1st/#IDComment1021011884 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/10/link-roundup-570/#IDComment1020779033 Yeah I like good coffee, but I am also perfectly content to drink lukewarm puddle water if it's sufficiently caffeinated. Tue, 10 May 2016 15:00:32 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/10/link-roundup-570/#IDComment1020779033 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/04/link-roundup-566/#IDComment1020405115 Ugh that's awful. I do get that it can be frustrating. Sometimes my wife gets a little frustrated because it's hard for her (and me TBH) to know when and how it will make hearing difficult. But she doesn't get frustrated *at me.* But I can't imagine dealing with someone like the LW's girlfriend or your mother-in-law. That's just toxic. Wed, 4 May 2016 18:09:36 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/04/link-roundup-566/#IDComment1020405115 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/04/link-roundup-566/#IDComment1020399708 Right?! Our world is FULL of ways of talking to people that don't involve the phone. Text, email, SMS messaging, twitter! She can even talk to her phone and have that be sent as text. Her attitude is baffling. Wed, 4 May 2016 16:22:08 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/04/link-roundup-566/#IDComment1020399708 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/04/link-roundup-566/#IDComment1020399245 Yeah, I've discovered it's a strange disability because you're still mostly functional, hearing-wise, so most people don't even realize you have it. But there's a lot I miss that people don't realize I miss and I have to constantly move around to position people to my left, and I basically can't function in noisy spaces anymore. Wed, 4 May 2016 16:12:40 +0000 http://the-toast.net/2016/05/04/link-roundup-566/#IDComment1020399245