Pat Boone lyrics!
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Beverly - May 25, 2011 8:28:16 am PDT #14898 of 28385
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Laga - May 25, 2011 8:30:40 am PDT #14899 of 28385
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Isn't that Exodus? Here's a happy Irish love song to chase your earworm. Grace
megan walker - May 25, 2011 8:40:29 am PDT #14900 of 28385
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It is Exodus, but still Leon Uris.
Fred Pete - May 25, 2011 9:16:16 am PDT #14901 of 28385
Ann, that's a ferret.
But Exodus was made into a fine Paul Newman movie.
Consuela - May 25, 2011 9:49:10 am PDT #14902 of 28385
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I'm just about to hit the big climax of Order of the Phoenix, and I have realized that I read it originally so long ago, I only recalled a few images from it. Cleaning the house, Umbridge and the lines, Snape's occlumency lessons (which seem spectacularly useless: the man has little talent as a teacher), and Sirius' death. I didn't remember Fred & George's big exit, Hagrid's brother, or anything about the endless exams.
And I've stumbled across one of the few British-isms that really trip me up: "revising" and "revision" instead of what would in the US be "reviewing" and "review". Or just "studying", frankly. I keep getting mental images of the kids madly editing their textbooks in red pen, rather than memorizing data.
As I'm listening to the Stephen Fry audiobooks, I wonder if the US editions changed the word-choice to make it clearer.
megan walker - May 25, 2011 9:57:10 am PDT #14903 of 28385
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
As I'm listening to the Stephen Fry audibooks, I wonder if the US editions changed the word-choice to make it clearer.
I believe OotP is when it became clear to me that they had stopped translating them, so I don't think so.
DavidS - May 25, 2011 9:57:10 am PDT #14904 of 28385
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wonder if the US editions changed the word-choice to make it clearer.
I think they did.
Contradicting xpost!
Sophia Brooks - May 25, 2011 10:33:16 am PDT #14905 of 28385
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
And I've stumbled across one of the few British-isms that really trip me up: "revising" and "revision" instead of what would in the US be "reviewing" and "review". Or just "studying", frankly. I keep getting mental images of the kids madly editing their textbooks in red pen, rather than memorizing data.
For years I thought that British exams consisted of revising the papers they did for class!
Consuela - May 25, 2011 10:56:37 am PDT #14906 of 28385
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
For years I thought that British exams consisted of revising the papers they did for class!
Hah.
erikaj - May 25, 2011 12:09:20 pm PDT #14907 of 28385
Always Anti-fascist!
Wrod. Not as confusing as "fancy dress", but misleading in its way.