Hey, hey. /Car Names/Books
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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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