[HP4GU-FAQ] Re: Black Paint

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

In a message dated 17/10/2002 15:26:31 GMT Standard Time, 
dicentra at xmission.com writes:


> Eloise:
> I just need a straight answer. From someone clever....and
> understanding.... and patient... and sympathetic to the technically
> challenged and generally wonderful.....and...and...Do you know,  we
> had to write an essay at Canon College about our hero, Dicey, and *I*
> wrote about *you*?
> 
> Dicey:
> ::Whimpers. Begins to cloud up and rain:: WAAAAHH! I was mean and
> impatient!  I bit off Eloise's head, and she has the same name as my
> favorite Gran!  ::prostrates herself on floor:: I don't deserve to be
> a hero. I don't even sort into Gryffindor!  Forgive me, forgive me,
> and don't go Voldemort on me, please!  I forgot you weren't using
> Excel.  I didn't mean it!  ::curls up into a quivering ball of pathos::
> 

Oh, Dicey, I didn't mean you to go all grovelling sycophant too! :-)
Voldemort, moi? 
You know, truth be told, I think that Avery fellow's a bad influence round 
here.

>--Dicey, who had a bad day, that's all

That's OK. I know about bad days. In fact a bad few minutes are enough to set 
me off. :-) You should have heard me yesterday morning. <wince>...and the 
morning before <even bigger wince>

So... I've painted all my previously black rows a nice shade of turquoise 
(no. three child's favourite colour) and deleted all their message numbers. 
Very easy. Suspiciously easy.
You know why some didn't have them? (I hadn't realised the inconsistency 
until you pointed it out.) That was when I first started and I, err, hadn't 
read your instructions properly and couldn't get the numbers to fill 
automatically.
Pathetic, eh?

So your favourite Gran's an Eloise, is she? Elkins once told me she 
associated the name with, um, more senior folks. It didn't have any age 
connotations to me, but then the only Eloise I actually know personally is 
only three.

Eloise
who doesn't even have extant parents, let alone grandparents.


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