Another favorite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he attributed the secret of his success to “visits by elves” while he worked in the tunnel: “While I’m digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem.”
Wikipedia cited a rather entertaining Time article as a citation for this.
Who doesn’t understand the urge to dig?
The children yearn for the mines, but many of us lose that sense of wonder as we get older.
TIL I’m a 30 year old child
My wife, unfortunately.
We found Colin Furze’s dad!
so is he then the father of tunnelling protocols?
Killed in a car accident. Fuck cars.
Oh, just like Colin Furze?
Something, something, a series of tubes.
Dig a tunnel, dig dig a tunnel.
Dig a tunnel, dig dig a tunnel.
Dig a tunnel, dig dig a tunnel.
Quick before the
hyeenasmagic elfs come!I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole
Digging a hole.
I wonder if he is at all related to Colin Furze (who also seems to love digging under his house)
a shovel can get you out of a rut
You know now that I think of it, I could probably get a decent tunnel going through my neighborhood…
Or up into your neighbor’s house. Then slowly steal your neighbor’s house, one board at a time, and add it to your own house!
A couple years ago someone on r/TwinCities posted about finding a boarded up tunnel in their basement. Turns out that it went to the neighbor’s basement.
Apparently they aren’t that unusual in certain neighborhoods with houses of a certain age - they were used historically to move coal for heating the houses.
He Cray.
Cray!