British word question: how does one pronounce "skiving"? Rhymes with diving, or rhymes with giving?
Who was the real power? The Captain? or Tenille?
Xander ,'Showtime'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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Hil R. - Aug 09, 2007 9:29:57 pm PDT #2398 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
buffysmglover - Aug 09, 2007 10:42:47 pm PDT #2399 of 3301
Tim Cox - Buffy: Anya, that thing you created burst through solid pavement and ate her dog.
Anya (anguished): Oooh, puppy!
diving I believe
billytea - Aug 10, 2007 12:38:58 am PDT #2400 of 3301
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yep, diving.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 10, 2007 3:23:53 am PDT #2401 of 3301
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Death Eaters = Blue Meanies?
Wait, so:
Harry = John (got to be with those glasses)
Hermione = George (the smart one)
Ron = Paul?
Neville = Ringo?
DCJensen - Aug 10, 2007 5:17:04 am PDT #2402 of 3301
All is well that ends in pizza.
Neville = Ringo?
The guy who got dumped on a lot, but was better than people expected? Yep.
Sparky1 - Aug 10, 2007 5:42:29 am PDT #2403 of 3301
Librarian Warlord
The NYT has some excerpts from the counterfeit Harry Potter books circulating in China, which are hilarious: [link]
DavidS - Aug 10, 2007 6:15:45 am PDT #2404 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
British word question: how does one pronounce "skiving"? Rhymes with diving, or rhymes with giving?
See now if you wee a Bananarama fan you wouldn't have to ask since they had an album out titled Deep Sea Skiving where the wordplay would've given it away.
tommyrot - Aug 10, 2007 6:20:27 am PDT #2405 of 3301
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Apropos of nothing, whenever I hear the Bananarama song "Cruel Summer," whenever they sing "a cruel summer" I hear it as "accrual summer" and think about accounting.
Emily - Aug 10, 2007 6:20:35 am PDT #2406 of 3301
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Possibly Merlin practiced droit de signeur with an innocent farm girl who later married a Weasley?
Or earlier. Doesn't droit de seigneur traditionally take place on the wedding night?
JZ - Aug 10, 2007 6:24:16 am PDT #2407 of 3301
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Sparky, those are brilliant.
I think, maybe, my favorite is Harry Potter And The Big Funnel
After six years at Hogwarts, Harry Potter becomes an intern sorcerer and is assigned to teach at the Honiton School. Harry has a painful time in his aunt’s house, as Dudley has met a belly-dancing girl. As Harry prepares to report to his job, Bat Bug warns him disaster awaits.
At the school, his students become wooden stools one after another. Harry doesn’t know whether an evil student is behind this, or if his old benefactor Hagrid is making a mistake, or if the shadow of Voldemort has returned. Did it have something to do with the big funnel?
but I'll have to reread them all a few times to be certain.