stargazer I must direct you to this site.
http://www.geocities.com/athens/marble/5652/
Mr. Wells was a real person. Nice try though.
Check? It’s in the mail… honest.
SG,… nevermind.
right, well, yeah. (I actually knew that, but was confused and didn’t bother looking it up. Shame on me.)
Anyway: he only wrote the book. The main character is not Wells, it’s the Time Traveler. And it’s still fiction. So spritle is still living in fiction-land, so he can’t get my fortress!
Not that spritle needs me to defend him but,
See, no mention about Time Traveller. Freddie only visits HG out of respect of his book. Then go back in time to see **spritle.
It is not the Time Traveller!**
Now back to the fight.
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
Take that rundogrun. Thought I forgot about you did you? Never! 
belabored sigh
Fine. Make me work at it.
Spritle’s scenario couldn’t have worked anyway; in the 1300s, there were no Westerners in what would become the USA. In order to get to Wells’ house – in England – he’d have had to develop hundreds of years of research on sailing, and shipbuilding, and geography, and tides, and other things like that, on his own, in one human lifetime, with no other English-speakers to help him. And which of Wells’ houses would you have visited, anyway? And how could you have ensured that the stone didn’t get broken or lost?
Ha. See what you get when I actually pay attention?
Excuse me while I go slap my own wrist for making a stupid post earlier. :rolleyes:
Thanks Wolverine. I needed that.
All this talk of time travel, magic snow, and pregnant snow fortresses (not to mention the hottub and liquor) had put my mind in a spin.
::hops out of hottub…towels off…folds towel into a sling shot…smacks Wolverine with a slush ball…dive behind snow bank for safety.::
BRRRRRR!!! Next time I should get dressed first!
::remembering screech-owl’s comment from the SDMB Dysfunctional Family Thanksgiving Food Fight, packs up exploding cookie dough in a box and Fed-Exs to Florida.::
Just a little something to say “Happy Holidays”…
Hey!! I’m just playing with my howler monkey cannon! You want me get involved do you? DO YOU?
::Picks up a huge handfull of snow and lobs it at spritle’s face::
There! Is that involved enough for you? Bring it on!