Bored of the Rings?

[Judy <judyshapiro@directvinternet.com>]

Pippin said:
> I bought the BOTR parody 
> and settled down on the front steps of the Art Institute of
Chicago, 
> which was a well-known hippie (remember them?) hang out. I 
> started laughing so hard that people kept coming up and asking 
> if they should call Acid Rescue.

Hmm, you'd think if someone actually needed Acid Rescue, they wouldn't
be able to *say* they needed Acid Rescue.

Heidi mentioned:
> Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody
> (http://www.barrytrotter.com/) and in the US, you can't do anything 
> to prevent the creation and sale of parodies,...

I bought Barry Trotter, but it was only so-so.  The best stuff was the
first chapter, available free on the website.  The author seems to
have been *too* influenced by Bored of the Rings -- he filled Barry
Trotter with hippy and druggy references that were funny when Bored of
the Rings was published, but are pretty dated now. 

On the other hand, I read Mad Magazine's parody of the CoS movie, and
it was pretty good.  (Pippin mentioned it, offlist. Thanks Pippin!  I
wouldn't have known about it otherwise.)

It would be fun if *we* wrote a book-length Harry Potter parody.  I
think Sirius Black should be named "Curious Yellow". 

Judy