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on: November 08, 2016 04:15
Unfortunately, this left an awful lot of unsightly holes in the lawn where the Gaffer had uprooted the wayward sunflowers.
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on: November 09, 2016 09:32
Fortunately, Gaffer had enough extra soil to fill the holes.

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on: November 15, 2016 03:40
Unfortunately, his extra soil was also contaminated with sunflower seed, leading to a riot of weeding in the following season.
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on: November 15, 2016 07:05
Fortunately, Sam was able to help him out.
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on: November 16, 2016 11:03
Unfortunately, while Sam had intended to help the Gaffer out, before Sam had made any headway on the sunflower issue, he decided to go of on some excursion that the Gaffer (having minimal inform as usual) considered to be an extremely goofball waste of time.
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on: November 16, 2016 12:32
Fortunately, when Sam's returned from his excursion, all was right with the world.
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on: November 19, 2016 05:59
Unfortunately, "all was right with the world" was a concept that did not exist in the Gaffer's curmudgeonly world view, whatever others told him (or rather tried to).
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on: November 19, 2016 10:04
Fortunately, Sam married Rosie which finally made the Gaffer happy.
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on: November 20, 2016 09:37
Unfortunately, when Sam and Rosie overdid it with requests for him to babysit their first children, that novelty wore off for him rather quickly.
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on: November 21, 2016 10:13
Fortunately, they had so many children it wasn't long before the oldest ones could babysit the younger ones.
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on: November 27, 2016 01:17
Unfortunately, being pressed into the role of surrogate parents babysitting their younger siblings did not sit well with all of Sam and Rosie's children.
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on: November 27, 2016 08:19
Fortunately, it did sit well with a couple of them so everything worked out fine.

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on: January 06, 2017 12:52
Unfortunately, some of Sam and Rosie's children who were surrogate-parented by their elder siblings were a bit resentful about being ordered around by the latter, and ended up in local folklore as minor variations of the legendary Bilbo "Mad" Baggins.

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on: January 06, 2017 03:45
Fortunately, their parents arrived home and sent them all packing off to bed.
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on: January 08, 2017 02:48
Unfortunately this bit of parental disciplining totally collapsed after Sam left Middle-earth from the Grey Havens as last of the Ring-bearers in 1482 SR.

Somehow I think we could use a tad more third-party participation in this thread ...

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on: January 08, 2017 04:10
So did I. I think I'll make a switch and start us off on a different tack.

Unfortunately, when Aragorn picked a campsite in the Midgewater Marshes it was next to a pool that was a breeding place for neekerbreekers.

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on: January 10, 2017 04:05
Fortunately, all four Hobbits at this point had pipes and pipeweed, and were thus able to exterminate any neekerbreekers in a wide radius even without Aragorn's help.
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on: January 10, 2017 11:33
Unfortunately, they offended Aragorn by refusing to give him some of their pipe-weed.

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on: January 12, 2017 04:44
Fortunately, Aragorn then realized that his lower-quality Bree pipe-weed was massively more effective against the neekerbreekers, which allowed all of them to actually catch some sleep.
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on: January 12, 2017 06:16
Unfortunately, the pipe went out, they came back threefold.

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on: January 13, 2017 02:34
Fortunately Aragorn's Bree pipeweed had been so vile that the neekerbreekers were virtually blind, deaf and with a nonexistent sense of smell from its effects, so they attacked each other in their stupor, and the very few that managed to find Aragorn and the Hobbits were easily swatted by them.
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on: January 13, 2017 05:55
Unfortunately, they had wee dead bodies everywhere.

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on: January 14, 2017 01:36
Fortunately, they were about to leave their campsite anyway.
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on: January 14, 2017 03:00
Unfortunately just after they broke camp they ran into some quicksand and Sam got caught in it.

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on: January 17, 2017 10:00
Fortunately Sam managed to grab hold of a nearby branch.

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on: January 18, 2017 04:25
Unfortunately, the branch couldn't hold his weight and broke.

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on: January 20, 2017 04:38
Fortunately, the quicksand pit was rather small, so Sam only sank in to just above his knees.

(P.S. quicksand is denser than water, much denser; unless you are a medieval knight wearing the most massive of armors, there is no way you are going to sink below the surface. All those movies featuring bogs and stuff with normal people being sucked under are just a load of baloney slices.) Image
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on: January 20, 2017 10:07
Actually, I've had personal experience with quicksand and, yes, it is denser than water. However, when you go in you tend to go perpendicular to the surface, and for some freaky reason away from the bank. As you begin to move you displace the suspended sand and begin to sink under. The key is to remain calm and try to get yourself into a horizontal position so you're actually laying on top of the surface (no small feat I can tell you), and then carefully wiggle across the surface, pausing occasionally to let the suspension settle, until you reach the bank.

My father was not amused when my fishing partner and I arrived back in camp covered in sandy slime and highly amused by out experience. I was about 13 at the time. LOL

Unfortunately, he wasn't agile enough to get himself into a horizontal position without sinking so Legolas had to go after him.

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on: January 21, 2017 05:23
Fortunately, Legolas could walk on quicksand as easily as on snow, so he brought a rope over to Sam and tied it around him so that Sam could be pulled out of the quagmire.
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on: January 21, 2017 01:10
I figured you'd make the walking on snow connection ....

Unfortunately, when they pulled him out he hit his head on a hidden rock and was knocked unconscious.

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on: January 22, 2017 02:39
Fortunately, since Sam had been regaling them with his apparently inexhaustible fund of his own "poems", they all were relieved to experience a period of silence.
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on: January 22, 2017 11:13
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Unfortunately, when he came to he had total amnesia.
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on: January 24, 2017 04:28
Fortunately, this included his (previously) apparently inexhaustible fund of his own "poems".
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on: January 25, 2017 04:02
Unfortunately, his creative spirit still lived and he began to spontaneously create nonsense poems.

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on: January 25, 2017 05:23
Fortunately, his "unconscious" poems were so weird that they scared away any dangerous creatures lurking nearby, none of which had been hardened by the training Sam's companions had received in listening to his conscious poems the Prancing Pony.
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