Hey, hey. /Car Names/Books

blpurdom at yahoo.com blpurdom at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 7 21:03:00 UTC 2001


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Jen Faulkner <jfaulkne at e...> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Milz wrote:
 > The Philadelphia news programs were all gearing up to cover our 
heat wave (it's in the 90s here, for the third day in a row) 
yesterday -- the reporters were out there 'braving the heat', the 
weatherpeople got to lead off.  One station (NBC, maybe?) even had 
the current temperature and heat index for a bunch of area towns at 
the bottom of the screen through the broadcast, just like they do 
with snowfall totals during winter storms.  And I swear, the anchor 
on one of the stations was disappointed that the heat hasn't caused 
any fatalities.  ("No deaths are reported... yet 

Yes, the reporters here in Philadelphia ARE extremely morbid about 
this, as well as reporting flood fatalities, traffic accidents, etc.  
According to the classical music station at Temple U, right now it's 
a balmy 96 F, with a heat index of 105 F.  My daughter is melting 
even as I type.  My cats are sprawled on the floor, trying to make 
themselves as large as possible for the best cooling effect (cats are 
very good at this).  But even though it does get hotter in the 
southwest, it's dry heat, and I've known Arizonans in Philadelphia to 
faint from the combination of heat/humidity.  They're just not used 
to it.

Car names!  (Really obscure ones.)  How about Bode & Croaker, the 
Unspeakables from the Department of Mysteries?  Archie, the old chap 
who was wearing a flowered dress because he likes a breeze around his 
privates? <g>  Bluebottle, which was a brand of broom advertised at 
the Quidditch World Cup ("A broom for all the family").  Or if you're 
going for broom names, there's also Nimbus and Firebolt.  I also like 
Norbert, which I believe someone mentioned.

Books...Someone actually loaned their Harry Potter books to our 
church library, which I thought was very generous as the loan is for 
a year.  I also wondered HOW COULD THEY GIVE THEM UP FOR SO LONG!?  
But it turned out that the person actually bought a brand-new set of 
books and DONATED them to the library, so the church owns them now!  
I couldn't bear to donate my favorite novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 
because I knew I'd need to read it again far sooner than a year.  I 
did recently loan my copy to a friend of mine who gave me a paperback 
version of it in trade.  She'd started trying to read it, but the 
paperback has type that's much too small for her to make out, even 
with her reading glasses.  At least I have a copy...There's 
absolutely NOTHING wrong with being obsessive about your favorite 
books.

--Barb






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