TBAY: Re: PINK FLAMINGOES

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" 
<willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
> The door of the Catalogue office opens and Potioncat steps in,
>peering around. She strides over to the coat rack and begins to
>speak. Slowly, other staff members begin to look from her to each
>other, shaking their heads sadly.

>"I've looked all over the place and I can't find any. None. You'd
>think something that outrageous would stand out. I know, I've
>probably looked in the wrong places. And maybe I've looked right at 
them and not seen them. But I can't find one! Where is the PINK
>FLAMINGO?


Carolyn peers over her glasses and sighs. The place always gets rowdy 
on a Friday night. Demob happy for the weekend..binge coding, it's a 
constant problem. 

Potioncat's always been a troublemaker, of course..but just look at 
the astonishing FEATHERBOA tendencies of that new girl, Jen. You'd 
have thought butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, supposed friend of 
FAITH, all that jazz - then what do you find, posts all over the 
floor, pools of blood, gnashings and weepings from great figures from 
the past...and she just stands there, wiping her knife on her sleeve, 
grinning. Really; it's not nice.

And as for Him up on the top floor, of course, laughing like 
mad ..mayhem, his favourite pastime. Thinks it funny to hang 'drago 
dormiens nunquam titillandus' on his door. Poke in the.. with a sharp 
stick, if he's not careful...

Pursing her lips rather more firmly than usual, Carolyn sits down at 
her keyboard.


MEMO

TO: ALL CATALOGUE STAFF
SUBJECT: FLAMINGOs, various


Further to cataloguing decree #931 I note that the InishAlley and 
HypotheticAlley files have evidently not yet been read and inwardly 
digested. This has now become a hanging offence, which saves me the 
time and trouble of having to carry out punishments more than once.

Flamingo's, pink, were only ever a memorable turn of phrase; see 
[34843]:

>>Also, the characters involved have all been already presented to us 
as nice folks capable of sentimental feelings, so adding another bit 
of warm fuzzies to them doesn't really change anything. Adding it to 
Snape, however, would be like putting a single pink flamingo in the 
>middle of a Gothic cathedral.<<<

Our dear departed, however, couldn't possibly leave it at that 
though, could they ? Oh no, there had to be more flamingoes [36422]:

>>(Eileen):
UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I bought into the flamingo in the Gothic Cathedral idea, but two 
flamingos? Are we redecorating the ship in flamingos? Should we bring 
in Captain Charis to do some colour co-ordination? 

If you and Elkins want to do it, I'll leave it to you. But I'm 
begging leave to pack up and visit Cindy on her "Big Bang Destroyer" 
for a bit. I'm taking George, the fair-faced cabin boy, with me. 
(golden-eyed face indeed?)

Captain Tabouli pauses, a frown congealing under her hat. While she 
is of course happy for her crew to take leave, she feels that 
Eileen's rationale is somewhat against the inclusive atmosphere she 
is trying to foster aboard LOLLIPOPS. As Captain, she secretly thinks 
Elkins' S.E.C.O.N.D. F.L.A.M.I.N.G.O...

(Snape Eternally Covets Ogleworthy Norris' Damsel Form, Like Argus: 
Mrs "Inaccessible" Norris Generates Obsession!)

... deserves to be stripped and converted into pretty pink 
FEATHERBOAS, but then, she also secretly thinks that Pippin's 
LOVESLAVEs deserve to succumb to the deadly S.I.A.M.E.S.E. 
V.I.R.U.S...  

(Snape Is Already Mysterious Enough, So Extra Vampiricism Is Rendered 
Utterly Superfluous)

...along with all the other theories proclaiming *more* half-
blood/unregistered Animagi. Perhaps when Eileen returns from the Big 
Bang Destroyer, she needs to have a little interview with her Captain 
about her attitudes. Nodding grimly to herself, Captain Tabouli 
>signs the peace treaty with Elkins, and ascends once more to the 
deck of her Ship.<<<

Carolyn (having much sympathy with Capn Tabouli) would therefore like 
to point out that we only have the one flamingo theory category 
(albeit for two flamingos, probably pink):

2.3.7.1.5 SECOND FLAMINGO

Trusting that everyone is keeping up.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Potioncat:
>And has anyone turned in my missing glasses?"

Carolyn:
Owing to the unfortunate use of the phrase 'kitty, kitty', my three 
evil and dedicated furry mobsters, who accompany me everywhere, have, 
er.. inspected them. What was that fixing spell again..