The NYT has some excerpts from the counterfeit Harry Potter books circulating in China, which are hilarious: [link]
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
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Sparky1 - Aug 10, 2007 5:42:29 am PDT #2403 of 3301
Librarian Warlord
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.
Sparky1 - Aug 10, 2007 6:39:20 am PDT #2408 of 3301
Librarian Warlord
I rather liked the first one:
Harry doesn’t know how long it will take to wash the sticky cake off his face. For a civilized young man, it is disgusting to have dirt on any part of his body. He lies in the elegant bathtub, keeps wiping his face, and thinks about Dudley’s face, which is as fat as Aunt Petunia’s bottom.
Emily - Aug 10, 2007 6:41:33 am PDT #2409 of 3301
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Isn't Petunia supposed to be skinny? I suppose even a skinny bottom is wider than a face ought to be.
Sue - Aug 10, 2007 7:23:17 am PDT #2410 of 3301
hip deep in pie
I have a Xmas Question. Is the waking up in Xmas morning to find your presents at the foot of your bed a Harry Potter thing or a British thing?
sumi - Aug 10, 2007 7:25:12 am PDT #2411 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!
I think it's a British thing. I seem to remember it from other British books - possibly National Velvet.
Callaluna - Aug 10, 2007 8:36:08 am PDT #2412 of 3301
The Harry Potter knock offs are hysterical!