"Tom Swifties"

[Jim Flanagan]

I actually made up a "Swiftie" involving Lockhart, Harry, and a 
banana, which ended, "Lockhart intoned, fruitily." But I decided that 
it might go beyond my self-imposed PG-13 rating.



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., pengolodh_sc at y... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:
> [snip]
> > "Welcome to my humble stall," said Myrtle, commodiously.
> [snip]
> I will not add any - just here to say that I am proud I actually 
> understood that one.  To most Norwegians the term commode would 
bring 
> up the image of a chest of drawers, which is termed "kommode" in 
> Norwegian.  The term confused me quite a bit the first time I was 
in 
> USA (as did the term "fruity", which I had no idea had any other 
> emaning than the most obvious one - I accidentally used the term to 
> describe myself at one time).