I keep seeing other people saying that the last coal-powered plant has been shut down in the UK. This was the last coal-powered plant used for grid electrical generation, hence the term “coal power plant”. Presumably there are other coal plants still running.
My first thought about “rabbit, run” and “digging” was Pink Floyd’s Breathe (In the Air):
Run, rabbit, run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Don’t sit down, it’s time to dig another one
He didn’t so much “forget” as “exclude by criteria”, since Triton is #6 by diameter.
“…five biggest outer Solar System moons…”
I guess I have outdated info lodged in the brain. I thought that Io and Europa were smaller than Triton. Should have double checked before posting.
On the coal one, I’m disappointed that he didn’t also calculate how many inches of Newcastle that would be.
At some point you just have to hit them over the head with a blunt instrument.
Suddenly Tolkien is much more readable.
“‘Changes In Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes’ is actually all about the Downfall of Numenor and the Changing of the World! No, no - wait - where’d everybody go?”
“One Particular Harbor” is obviously the Grey Havens.
“Most mysterious calling harbour
So far but yet so near
I can see the day when my hair’s full gray
And I finally disappear”
It’s going to take some work to get “Cheeseburgers in Paradise” to fit into the legendarium.
Old Shire drinking song
Damn, that’s priceless!
I suspect that the Parrotheads are descended from those Noldor who never made it to Valinor in the first place.
Yeah, “I like mine with lettuce and tomato” doesn’t work, and the canonical replacement for tomato, pickles, are mentioned in the next line already.
Stewed rabbit in Valinor
Got some potatoes?
They’ll add so much more.
No mention of lettuce per se, but Tolkien does mention “salad”, plus tomatoes, potatoes, roast beast, bread, cheese, bacon, mushrooms, and wasn’t Beren a vegetarian?
Sounds like a cheeseburger or a mushroom bacon burger would be a definite possibility.
Tolkien did mention tomatoes in the first edition of The Hobbit, before he realized it was a mistake and changed it to pickles.
The “potatoes” that the hobbits ate were almost certainly the same thing as the petty-dwarves’ “earth-bread”, but might or might not have been the same species as we call potatoes. I’m sure you could still slice them into strips and deep-fry them, though, so the “French fried potatoes” one serves with a cheeseburger are no problem.
They ate potatoes and they smoked tobacco. Tolkien has a whole page or two explaining how the source of the tobacco was unknown to the hobbits, but probably came from the Western men, in the preamble to the Lord of the rings. He wasn’t writing a history of our world, and his world had those things. It probably had tomatoes, too.
But now, she lives down by the ocean
She’s taking care to look for orcs…
When I’m in Aman, I get what I need
Not just lembas bread or pints of mead or pipes of weed
But that Elvish creation on which I feed
Cheeseburger in Valinor
Heaven on earth with the Valar
Not too precise, not too particular
I’m just a cheeseburger in Valinor
(Do elves eat meat?)