[HPFGU-OTChatter] Newbie here and a question...

[Martin Hooper]

At 03/08/01 14:20, you wrote:

>Martin Hooper wrote:
>
> > Hi peeps :)
>
>Ugh. On this side of the pond, "peeps" are little obnoxious cloying
>too-sweet nasty chick-shaped confections in a range of unnatural colors
>trotted out every Easter. For the proper use of Peeps, please see
>http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/peep/

Peeps means people... Its just a shortening of the word!  ;)  An online 
friend of mine told me about peeps...

> > Newbie here!  Just finished reading the series for the first time!
> > Mum lent me Philosopher's Stone just so I could see what all the fuss
> > was about and I was hooked!
>
>I love this! As a parent of three, all of whom are too young for these
>books yet (oldest is 6), I am continually somewhat abashedly explaining
>to people that no, my kids aren't into them, *I* am. Glad to know
>someone else's Mom is like that, too....

No Mum isn't as fanatic as me though,...  She has read the ones I borrowed 
from the library...

> > I am 32 years old and livei n the UK..  I took the sorting hat test at
> > the official movie website and am in Gryffindor!  If anyone has
> > ICQ/AIM please feel free to add me to your lists...  Details in Sig...
> >
> > Also signed up to the main list as well...  I will probably post more
> > over here than over there though.
>
>Do both. Here's for stuff like the links above, general enjoyment, like
>the conversations you'd have at the lunch events or in the general room
>at a conference. Over there is for the sorts of things you'd discuss at
>table conferences or see presented in papers, that sort of thing.

I will do - I have a question but need to check in the archives...

>Alas, no, but just from the question it's clear you'll fit right in.
>Welcome!

Thank you - Glad to be here... :):)


Martin Hooper
AIM: martinjh99 ICQ: 43933602
http://www.crosswinds.net/~martinjh99/


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