From ewetoo at gmail.com  Sun Jul  2 14:20:18 2006
From: ewetoo at gmail.com (ewe2)
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 00:20:18 +1000
Subject: [HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: Hello, anyone around?
In-Reply-To: <e822si+6had@eGroups.com>
References: <e7vvf0+sfki@eGroups.com> <e822si+6had@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <91d14f320607020720j53c12857w356ea2f5b1da0145@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/30/06, Debbie <elfundeb at comcast.net> wrote:
> But Miss M was listening to George.  "Your drink, ma'am."  Taking the
> glass, she headed for a table in the corner, where Kneasy was holding
> forth.  Hmm, Debbie thought, she hasn't looked so cheerful in
> months.
>
> "Never mind.  I'll work out those issues myself.  Right now, it's
> party time!  George, a Cosmopolitan for me, please."
>

A somewhat bedraggled penguin in a cloak and comically bent wizards
hat wobbles up to the bar and squeakily requests a pint of stout. It
is often difficult to tell if penguins look shifty as they spy other
Catalogue staff in the pub, and indeed one might suspect an air of
forced casualness as they mutter phrases including "no fixed abode",
"occasional internet access" and the foreboding "imminent overseas
travel" to their pints in the alcove.

> Debbie
> thinking perhaps we should take bets on how many deaths there will be
> in Book 7

I'm no gambling penguin but if there isn't an unfortunate lack of
leading characters by the end of the series, Ms Rowling may well be
forced towards spinoffs of doubtful nature.

-- 
Emacs is an alright OS, but it lacks a decent editor.



From spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com  Thu Jul  6 10:31:24 2006
From: spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com (dungrollin)
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:31:24 -0000
Subject: Hello, anyone around?
In-Reply-To: <91d14f320607020720j53c12857w356ea2f5b1da0145@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e8iops+j21c@eGroups.com>

There is a pathetically incompetent loud crack, and a grubby-kneed and 
dung-encrusted figure staggers towards the catalogue office door. She  
spent the previous evening celebrating that fabulous Zidane feller 
with one French acquaintance and an unfortunate preponderance of 
bearded Swiss chaps who didn't really care one way or t'other. And it 
shows. 

It is proving difficult to get the key to go into the keyhole. She 
shifts the key to the other hand and tries again, but there is still a 
problem between key and lock and the relative positions of both. She 
unbends, takes a deep breath to stop the world spinning, peers closely 
at the task, pokes aside some cobwebs and tries again, but with no 
greater success. Defeated, she slumps against the door frame and cries 
feebly "Help. I can't get in."






From spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com  Sat Jul  8 12:33:09 2006
From: spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com (dungrollin)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:33:09 -0000
Subject: Hello, anyone around?
In-Reply-To: <e8iops+j21c@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <e8o8m5+hd1q@eGroups.com>

Defeated, she slumps against the door frame and cries 
> feebly "Help. I can't get in."
>

I can't load the catalogue page (ERROR the requested URL could not be 
retrieved), let alone try to sign in. Could someone please email me 
the URL just to make sure I'm not flogging a dead horse? 

Thanks






From elfundeb at comcast.net  Sat Jul  8 20:45:07 2006
From: elfundeb at comcast.net (Debbie)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:45:07 -0000
Subject: Site Down?  Was: Hello, anyone around?
In-Reply-To: <e8iops+j21c@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <e8p5gj+jj6k@eGroups.com>

Having downed one too many Cosmopolitans at the bar, Debbie stumbles 
her way back to the Catalogue office and nearly trips over a dung-
encrusted figure huddled on the office steps, crying feebly:

"Help. I can't get in."

Debbie fumbles several minutes for her office key, but manages to place 
it squarely through the keyhole and raps out the secret password.  
Nothing happens.  

Debbie tries the key again.  Nothing.  Debbie pulls out her Blackberry 
and immediately wires a message to the Captain:

"Site appears to be down.  Can you contact Paul?"







From quigonginger at yahoo.com  Mon Jul 10 10:44:48 2006
From: quigonginger at yahoo.com (quigonginger)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:44:48 -0000
Subject: checking in
Message-ID: <e8tb30+q8e7@eGroups.com>

Debbie and Dot sat in the office, (here's hoping they got in ok, or 
this post makes no sense) slaving like House Elves.  

Breaking for tea, Dot looked over to Ginger's desk.  It has been 
devoid of human presence, but the stack of papers and notes seems to 
have grown.  She gasped, certain that she saw movement.

Motioning to Debbie, they went over to the desk.  Among the notes on 
Ginger's board were odd things like "Reminder:  Inhale, exhale, 
repeat." and "Remember to shower."  

"I heard Ginger started college," whispered Debbie, "Do you think 
she's in over her head?"

Dot, who has 'been there, done that' with regards to being educated 
whilst coding, nods.  "I think she's trying to tell us something."

Suddenly Ginger emerges, gasping for breath.  "Kelly did up through 
Veritaserum, right?  I only have to go up through Priori 
Incantato/um, right?"  She disappears, as though an unseen hand has 
grabbed her by the feet and pulled.

Dot and Debbie stared at each other.  

Ginger appeared again.  Taking a deep breath, she said, "I'm almost 
done.  Just the 5 posts each in Leg and Occ, and the PI category 
left, but with school, it's been a nightmare.  Two chapters a day, 
and an exam every Tuesday, covering 8 chapters!  And it's a computer 
class.  I was just pleased with myself that I have figured out that 
copy and paste..."

She vanished, to return seconds later.  "BTW, Happy birthday, 
Debbie.  I'll be done with school..."

Ginger went down for the third time.  Debbie was sure that as 
Ginger's voice trailed off she had given her end date as 8/9.  Dot 
was equally sure Ginger had said 9/8.  Recognizing a cultural 
difference, they realized they were both right.

"Well," said Dot, "At least we know she's still working."

"Right," agreed Debbie, and sighed, "Back to Snape."

Ginger, apologising for her lack of output, but still working.






From carolynwhite2 at aol.com  Tue Jul 11 11:11:03 2006
From: carolynwhite2 at aol.com (carolynwhite2)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:11:03 -0000
Subject: Site Down?  Was: Hello, anyone around?
In-Reply-To: <e8p5gj+jj6k@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <e90107+ot9j@eGroups.com>

Site access has been fixed!

Miss H shoots into the office, trailing clouds of dust and body 
parts from dismembered staff and line managers, maniacal grin on her 
face...

ha ha ha haa 

...the cackle trails off down the corridor. Ginger, Dot, Debbie and 
the ghost upstairs stare at each other nervously.



--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "Debbie" <elfundeb at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Having downed one too many Cosmopolitans at the bar, Debbie 
stumbles 
> her way back to the Catalogue office and nearly trips over a dung-
> encrusted figure huddled on the office steps, crying feebly:
> 
> "Help. I can't get in."
> 
> Debbie fumbles several minutes for her office key, but manages to 
place 
> it squarely through the keyhole and raps out the secret password.  
> Nothing happens.  
> 
> Debbie tries the key again.  Nothing.  Debbie pulls out her 
Blackberry 
> and immediately wires a message to the Captain:
> 
> "Site appears to be down.  Can you contact Paul?"
>








From ewetoo at gmail.com  Tue Jul 11 15:00:07 2006
From: ewetoo at gmail.com (ewe2)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:00:07 +1000
Subject: [HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: Site Down? Was: Hello, anyone around?
In-Reply-To: <e90107+ot9j@eGroups.com>
References: <e8p5gj+jj6k@eGroups.com> <e90107+ot9j@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <91d14f320607110800ka6e1e90wfabda0fa32387c5c@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/11/06, carolynwhite2 <carolynwhite2 at aol.com> wrote:
> Site access has been fixed!
>
> Miss H shoots into the office, trailing clouds of dust and body
> parts from dismembered staff and line managers, maniacal grin on her
> face...
>
> ha ha ha haa
>
> ...the cackle trails off down the corridor. Ginger, Dot, Debbie and
> the ghost upstairs stare at each other nervously.
>

Miss H's cackle is drowned out by horrified squeakings from a
penguin-shaped hat and cloak apparently draped across one of the
Muggle Inputty Things heiniously acquired for the purpose of Catalogue
Torture of Wizards. Merciful Pantheistic Lunatics, I can not only
access the site, but I've just seen the size of the Snape
section....thank the Mythological Overseers I have a horrid cold and
am quite insane with sinusitus....see, I have this note from my
whodoctor, i mean whichdoctor, sorry about the sushi stains, my lunch
tried to escape...

In a pathetic attempt to be useful, I notice that section 3.8.4-3.8.5
(no. 89 in the review database) appears to have been unreviewed, or
was it merely not noted?

-- 
Emacs is an alright OS, but it lacks a decent editor.



From quigonginger at yahoo.com  Tue Jul 11 22:00:10 2006
From: quigonginger at yahoo.com (quigonginger)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:00:10 -0000
Subject: Site Down? Was: Hello, anyone around?
In-Reply-To: <91d14f320607110800ka6e1e90wfabda0fa32387c5c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e9171a+jild@eGroups.com>

The Useful Penguin asked:
> In a pathetic attempt to be useful, I notice that section 3.8.4-3.8.5
> (no. 89 in the review database) appears to have been unreviewed, or
> was it merely not noted?

Ginger:  I'm working on it.  Kelly started it, which is why it's not 
marked off as being one person.  If you want to be helpful, you can 
finish it.  All that's left is Legilimancy, Occlumancy, and Priori 
Incat.  That would take a bit of a load off my plate and move the 
project ahead instead of my putting it off until August.

Let me know, Ginger

PS.  Now that I am taking a comptuer class, I actually get the LAN 
down under sig line.  I almost laughed out loud in class.








From ewetoo at gmail.com  Wed Jul 12 06:15:26 2006
From: ewetoo at gmail.com (ewe2)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:15:26 +1000
Subject: [HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: Site Down? Was: Hello, anyone around?
In-Reply-To: <e9171a+jild@eGroups.com>
References: <91d14f320607110800ka6e1e90wfabda0fa32387c5c@mail.gmail.com>
	 <e9171a+jild@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <91d14f320607112315i2c03eb7cye595dd96a5b41b53@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/12/06, quigonginger <quigonginger at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ginger:  I'm working on it.  Kelly started it, which is why it's not
> marked off as being one person.  If you want to be helpful, you can
> finish it.  All that's left is Legilimancy, Occlumancy, and Priori
> Incat.  That would take a bit of a load off my plate and move the
> project ahead instead of my putting it off until August.
>
> Let me know, Ginger

Ok, I've gone through 3.8.4.4 and have a query for the group: Given
the apparent screw-up with the order of victims expelled from Voldy's
wand in the American(?) edition, much of the early discussion is
effectively attempting to deal with this mistake. Should we regard
these posts as unfortunately superfluous? Eg 1697, 3286 and similar
posts in the charmingly disordered list the catalogue gave me. Its
theorizing based on error. By 5690 someone smells a rat and 6230
confirms it. 6498 stirs it all up again (i see dot has left a review
coding note on it), and things begin to be less about canon than a
metadiscussion. Special note is 12473 about possible uses of PI that I
should have picked up on but am too woolly to have noticed. I am
tempted to mark 25854 a Fantastic Post in light of later canon. Except
for some minor additions here and there (including 1.2.4 to 53179 for
bboyd's audacious claim that the whole harry/voldemort thing is
another JKR mistake), otherwise I declare 3.8.4.4 Done. Let me know if
this is ok and I'll tick it off the list.

ditto 3.8.4.5 and 3.8.4.6 they speak for themselves. Ooh that was easy...


> PS.  Now that I am taking a comptuer class, I actually get the LAN
> down under sig line.  I almost laughed out loud in class.

You'll like my new one then :)

PS i really am a vim/vi user. Even on Mac OS X I use it on the commandline.
-- 
Emacs vs. Vi flamewars are a pointless waste of time. Vi is the best



From quigonginger at yahoo.com  Wed Jul 12 12:57:53 2006
From: quigonginger at yahoo.com (quigonginger)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:57:53 -0000
Subject: Site Down? Was: Hello, anyone around?
In-Reply-To: <91d14f320607112315i2c03eb7cye595dd96a5b41b53@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <e92rkh+68b9@eGroups.com>

> Ok, I've gone through 3.8.4.4 and have a query for the group: Given
> the apparent screw-up with the order of victims expelled from 
Voldy's
> wand in the American(?) edition, much of the early discussion is
> effectively attempting to deal with this mistake. Should we regard
> these posts as unfortunately superfluous? 

Ginger:  Just my opinion here, but I think a part of this project is 
for historical content.  I would say to keep a good set of good 
posts, but don't overload the category with it.

Just a my thoughts.  

Sean:
> PS i really am a vim/vi user. Even on Mac OS X I use it on the 
commandline.
> -- 
> Emacs vs. Vi flamewars are a pointless waste of time. Vi is the 
best
>
Ginger:
I have no clue what you are talking about.  Ask me after the final.
Ginger, sitting in class and goofing off.






From carolynwhite2 at aol.com  Sun Jul 30 09:32:18 2006
From: carolynwhite2 at aol.com (carolynwhite2)
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:32:18 -0000
Subject: So what do we think of the new Fforde then??
Message-ID: <eahub2+v670@eGroups.com>

Read in one gulp last week. Kneasy thinks it isn't the best, but then 
apparently he understands what you can do to cucumbers if you know a 
bit of basic science... I rest my case. 

Carolyn
Uneasily wondering what difficult questions she should be answering for 
Deb, and whether an improved knowledge of nursery rhymes is going to 
help..






From ewetoo at gmail.com  Sun Jul 30 11:00:19 2006
From: ewetoo at gmail.com (ewe2)
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:00:19 +1000
Subject: [HPFGU-Catalogue] So what do we think of the new Fforde then??
In-Reply-To: <eahub2+v670@eGroups.com>
References: <eahub2+v670@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <91d14f320607300400h6f940ae6hdefa5a5c24e64fe9@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/30/06, carolynwhite2 <carolynwhite2 at aol.com> wrote:
> Read in one gulp last week. Kneasy thinks it isn't the best, but then
> apparently he understands what you can do to cucumbers if you know a
> bit of basic science... I rest my case.

havent read it yet. may as well, as i'm still stuck in this stupid
caravan for the endless future; i've been through the gaiman and about
to attack a sally vickers...


-- 
Emacs vs. Vi flamewars are a pointless waste of time. Vi is the best