[HPFGU-Movie] Reviews at the BBC with an amusing obvious fake

[Catherine Keegan]

But there were also several messages on the review board with all sorts of 
dire warnings of witchcraft and occult.  I'll bet those folks never read 
the books or saw the movie.  But, they get their chance to poison the waters...

Go figure.

Catherine in California
2 and a half hours and counting!

At 06:28 PM 11/16/01 +0000, you wrote:
>In message <5ypi0KAghU97EwZ5 at dickson.demon.co.uk>, Chris M. Dickson
><chris at dickson.demon.co.uk> writes
> >Go and look now before the BBC realise they've been fooled
>
>It's gone now, though it was there an hour ago. What you missed:
>
>"I was dragged along to see this by my nephew and was appalled. This
>sort of glorification of the occult is a bad influence on society in
>general and children in particular."
>
>...posted by Irma Trolling, UK.
>
>(Trolling - the act of posting deliberately false information,
>particularly flames, in an attempt to confuse and anger those who know
>no better. Full definition at
><http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/troll.html>http://www.tuxedo. 
>org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/troll.html .)
>
>The funny thing was that the BBC selects some of the comments and
>highlights them (and their posters' names) in yellow boxes, and this was
>one of them. Now surely they would have spotted the unusual name...?
>
>Amused me briefly,
>Chris
>
>PS The vast majority of real reviews on the film are very positive!
>
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