Feeling Eloise's Pain

[ssk7882]

Well.  You *did* want some comeuppance humor here, didn't you?

Okay.  I've just reached message #38141, Charis Julia's perfectly 
lovely resurrection of the long-submerged CUPIDSBLUDGER vessel.
("Now!  With new CABBAGE!")

I begin to understand why Eloise has been so distraught.

Okay.  Here is how I keyed this post.

TBAY SHIP Figg
SHIP Figg Black
SHIP Figg Snape
TBAY SHIP Prank
TBAY Snape Black

Why?

Well...uh...because I figured that the questions that people were 
most likely to be asking of the spreadsheet were:

With whom has Arabella Figg been 'shipped?
With whom has Sirius been 'shipped?
With whom has Snape been 'shipped?
Has anyone ever ascribed a 'ship as a motive for the Dread Pr*nk?
Have there ever been any genuine *'ships* in the Bay apart from 
LOLLIPOPS?
and
In what contexts have Arabella Figg/Sirius/Snape/the Prank appeared 
in the Bay?

So that was my rationale.

Hmm?  What's that?  What's that you say?  You say that the way I 
arranged things makes it possible that somebody looking for 'shipping 
posts might not get their "fair warning" that this message is in fact 
a TBAY until they look at the contents cell?  Or that someone 
searching out TBAY Snape posts might not get *their* fair warning 
that this post contains 'shipping until they actually read the 
description?

Why, yes!  You're right.  How about that?

Yeah, well.  You know what?  They can just suck it up and *deal.*


Elkins (who has just realized that yet again, she has failed to call 
Sirius "Black" and is off to Search and Replace now)