[HPFGU-Catalogue] Olio

[Sean Dwyer]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:38:51PM -0000, Talisman wrote:

> Talisman, in the throes of something, offers:
> 
> In Response
> 
> Clever penguin, vessel of a muse,  
> Marquis cannot touch you.
> 
> Jest as you like: "it is no impediment."  
> Love conquers, or better yet, Desire
> transcends all Farce by being (as it happens)
> its own reward.
> 
> I'll duct tape this to my heart.
> 

Touch <cymbal crash> :) I forgot the dangers of waxing poetic where people
might see it :)

> Anne hears "drinking game" and leaps to the fore: 
> 
> >It's mostly phrases for me -- "More ____ than ever (before)." Also 
> related:
> >"It was pain such as Harry never felt before." "His head was 
> (surely) splitting along his >scar."  Snarled (originally most often 
> to be seen with Snape; now everyone's
> >getting into the act) ~Anne
> 
> Talisman sidles up to the table, and seeing as there's plenty left 
> in the bottle:
> 
> Shots for everyone.  Though irksome, I've taken all 
> those "______than evers," as a means of expressing Harry's 
> adolescent perception. Hopefully they'll slow down as he grows up. 
> And soon. 
> 
> How about grim/grimly? That'll get you snookered pretty quick.  
> She'll also go in for spells where everything is muttered.  Probably 
> grimly. As an aside, I like it when Snape snaps. Cheap, but there 
> you are.

His beak was on fire. More than ever, ewe2 was grimly certain something had to
snap. 
"It's all Rowling's fault!" he muttered darkly.
"Never mind," said Talisman bracingly "There's only another few thousand posts
to code. Plenty of time to put your beak out."
"Last time I touch that Firewhisky then," ewe2 retorted in an injured tone.
"And as for that blinding drinking-game--" he broke off abruptly. There, framed
in the doorway, resplendent in leather jacket, fluorescent-green top, jeans
and shiny boots was Nymphadora Tonks, in her trademark bubblegum pink spiky
hair. ewe2 swallowed his Firewhiskey in one gulp.
"'Nother one, barkeep?" he croaked. "And what will the lady have?"
he enquired of Tonks hopefully.
"You - are - a - CATALOGUER!" snarled Talisman.
"Then I'll have the Subcommittee look over your 'correspondence' with Severus,
shall I?" asked ewe2 sweetly.
"I'm watching you, penguin," Talisman punctuated her words with well-placed
jabs in ewe2's feathery paunch. "No honky-tonks with Tonks or the beak gets to
strain krill with a straw!"

To Be Continued...

(I've got to stop watching Bogart movies)


> Just from the example of the Database wherein we all "edited" to 
> claim a review section and then to note completion thereof, I 
> thought we could have one, organized by category/number that each of 
> us could "edit" to supply the new consensus definition.  This isn't 
> possible?

Entirely possible and desireable. All it needs is a framework, ie category
number and name, space for contributor and possibly date, and a big space for
suggested definitions. Nothing simpler.

> So, because we are "in process;" there may be some definitions that 
> haven't gelled; and, Carolyn and Paul have plenty on their plates, I 
> thought that an interim--member edited-- database might be helpful. 
> Still no?

As long as we keep everyone up to speed when we suggest things, it's a great
way of keeping the information together in one place instead of hunting
through posts. I agree C & P need a break from organizing everything.

ewe2 "call me Raymond" penguin

-- 
When all you have are foxes, everything looks like a henhouse.