From dai_evans at yahoo.com Tue Jan 1 00:13:12 2002 From: dai_evans at yahoo.com (dai_evans) Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:13:12 -0000 Subject: God bless us, everyone! Message-ID: Dai From witchwanda2002 at yahoo.com Tue Jan 1 00:18:48 2002 From: witchwanda2002 at yahoo.com (Wanda Mallett) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:18:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] God bless us, everyone! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020101001848.97212.qmail@web13704.mail.yahoo.com> Dai, you have a great New Years Eve and enjoy it too! The same goes out to you with Tiny Tim's words to the world! Have a safe one! Wanda the Witch of Revere, Massachusetts and Her Band of Very Merry Muggles 100% __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com From s_ings at yahoo.com Tue Jan 1 00:37:54 2002 From: s_ings at yahoo.com (Sheryll Townsend) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:37:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Happy Birthday, Kate/Persephone! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020101003754.15979.qmail@web14609.mail.yahoo.com> --- lupinesque wrote: > Kate, a.k.a. Persephone, a.k.a. hermitchick > (hermitchick at crosswinds.net), celebrates her > birthday on this final > day of 2001. Have a magical day, and may Harry and > Draco emerge from > your cake covered in frosting and little else! > > Amy I'll echo that sentiment, though I'm a touch jealous no one wished I would get frosting-covered guys for *my* birthday. Must be because I'm middle-aged (at least, according to Neil) and married. Hope your birthday is fill with everything wonderful (and yes, that includes frosting-covered Harry and Draco)! Sheryll ===== "We need to be united and strong. We'll have losses and scares, sure. And you'll be there for each other, helping each other through the bad times." blpurdom - Harry Potter and the Psychic Serpent, Chapter 26 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com From witchwanda2002 at yahoo.com Tue Jan 1 00:42:35 2002 From: witchwanda2002 at yahoo.com (Wanda Mallett) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:42:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Happy Birthday, Kate/Persephone! In-Reply-To: <20020101003754.15979.qmail@web14609.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020101004235.99607.qmail@web13706.mail.yahoo.com> All of us here in Revere, Massachusetts also want to send our Birthday Wishes along with Sheryll and Amy! Enjoy your special day and may your wishes come true! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Wanda the Witch of Revere, Massachusetts and Her Very Merry Band of Muggles 100% __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com From UcfRentLuvr at cs.com Tue Jan 1 01:12:50 2002 From: UcfRentLuvr at cs.com (UcfRentLuvr at cs.com) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 20:12:50 EST Subject: Embarassing things Message-ID: <170.67f4184.29626712@cs.com> I know you're all just going to laugh at me, but I feel the need to get this all of my chest. Ok, here goes. :) In the two weeks, I have two embarassing things happen to me. The first incident: Every year, as a tradition, we hang our stockings up on Dec 5 and, on the feast day of St. Nicholas (Dec 6) my mom always puts stuff in our stockings. She usually puts little things like candy or keychains, stuff like that. Well, this year, she gave us Silly Putty that came in a little Santa container. My brother takes his out and starts pressing it on the newspaper to see the pictures and stuff. Well, the smartie that I am, put the Silly Putty on our remote controller to see if the buttons would make a mark on the putty. (*wails* Why in the world did I choose the remote? Why? I think it was because I happened to be holding it at the time) Anyways...the Silly Putty got stuck....majorly. I got the bulk of it off but a lot of it was still stuck on the buttons. Plus, the putty is neon pink. So, before anyone could see, I ran to my room and began trying to scrape the putty off the buttons. Took forever!! It took so long in fact, that I just gave up and hid the remote in my sock drawer. So by now, everyone thinks the remote is missing and I play along with the game. The next day, I manage to scrape the rest of the stuff off but I didn't want to just take the remote out and put it back in the living room because then I would be giving my brother the satisfaction that I did "steal" the remote instead of leaving it on the couch like I said. ;) (It's the whole pride thing lol) So I waited until everyone had gone to bed and his the remote back in the couch. However, by that time, everyone had given up on searching for the remote and now I have to find a way to "find" the remote without incriminating myself, even though I am the guilty one. All because I am stupid and should never had touched Silly Putty in the first place. *shakes head* Second incident: (Which happened yesterday) The kitchen is a mess but because my mom has to go out, she asks me to load the dishwasher. This is something I've done a million times. You'd think I'd know how to do it, right? Wrong! My brother happened to be on the phone at the time I was doing this and was in the way of the cupboard where we keep the dishwasher soap. Not really paying attention (key words there), I grabbed what I assumed was the dishwasher soap. Did I grab the right stuff? No! But I wasn't paying attention so I filled up that little thing in the dishwasher and turned it on. Five minutes later I hear my brother shouting for me to get in the kitchen. The dishwasher is spilling out soap all over the floor. Instead of the dishwasher soap, I used the liquid soap for cleaning dishes in the sink. You all know what happens when that soap mixes with water right? It gets all bubbly. So know there are bubbles on the floor--not a lot but still--and the dishwasher is practically flooded. So I had to call my mom and she said to just let it be--if the bubbles sat long enough they'd pop and it would be okay. Well....this evening, about 20 minutes ago, we all decide it's safe to run the dishwasher again. (Plus, we have next to no clean dishes left.) We run it and there are even *more* bubbles and suds all over the floor. *lets out a frustrated sigh* Does anyone else out there have any embarassing stories so I don't feel alone? :) ***Dixie Malfoy*** ~who promises never to go near Silly Putty or the dishwashing soap again~ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From aiz24 at hotmail.com Tue Jan 1 01:41:03 2002 From: aiz24 at hotmail.com (lupinesque) Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 01:41:03 -0000 Subject: God bless us, everyone! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Dai Amen. Amy From firefightermichelle at yahoo.com Tue Jan 1 01:42:58 2002 From: firefightermichelle at yahoo.com (firefightermichelle) Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 01:42:58 -0000 Subject: Gryff scarves In-Reply-To: Message-ID: --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "lupinesque" wrote: > Rachel wrote: > > > I was really hoping I'd get the Gryf scarf. *sigh* Oh > > well. Anyone know where I can find one where I don't have > > to spend $75 on eBay? hey! I just won 2 on Ebay for a combined price of $35.50. Yeah, I know it is still too much to pay for a piece of wool ... but still!!!! The trick is going in at the last minute and stealing it from someone. Or at least that's what people did to me the first 4 times!! Search under Harry Potter Scarf ... you'll find bunches of them ... and there are a bunch of auctions that end tonight. Of course, you may not get this until Wednesday, in which case ... you can still check :) Michelle :) <--- who is not quite sure what she is going to do with 2 scarves ... alternate days? Nah ... I'm going to send one to my best friend, the recent HP convert/addict :) He'll love it! From taradiane at yahoo.com Tue Jan 1 02:10:02 2002 From: taradiane at yahoo.com (Tara) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:10:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: Wood's place In-Reply-To: <1009794356.625.7432.m12@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <20020101021002.84918.qmail@web11507.mail.yahoo.com> From: Elizabeth Sager Subject: Wood's place (was Confused in Middle Earth) Cindy wrote: >>Wood really had me believing he is British when he is >>actually from California (according to Leno). >I thought he was from the Glasgow area? Me so confused Actually, Elijah Wood is originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and moved out to California when he was 7 (mother enrolled him in modeling school - he was a lovely child - watch PARADISE for proof). As someone who's lived both in the UK and America (both American and currently residing there), I thought the fake accent was fair. Very slight by my account. Tara ===== @!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@ "...people meeting in secret all over the world were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices:" To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com From editor at texas.net Tue Jan 1 03:17:57 2002 From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 21:17:57 -0600 Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] God bless us, everyone! References: Message-ID: <3C312A64.527517C8@texas.net> dai_evans wrote: A message with a header that could be construed as offensive by people who don't believe in God or who don't believe in an involved God or who don't think God should bless *every*one or who were frightened by Dickens as a child. We should all try to be more open-minded and careful with our assumptions in the coming new year. Whoops, I mean unless you're Jewish or Chinese and this isn't *your* new year at all, didn't mean to offend anyone. Wow, sorry, I wasn't trying to exclude you if you're Jewish or Chinese, just that you don't *have* to feel obligated to ring in a new year not of your Valid Alternative Counting System, you know, unless you like to party. But I don't mean to imply that Jewish or Chinese people party more than anyone else, except maybe the Irish....Whoops again, sorry, I'm part-Irish myself and I didn't mean to offend any people of Irish descent, we all know the Poles drink more than they do! But wow, now the non-drinking Irish will be offended because I said they drink a lot and the drinking Irish will be offended because I said the Poles do it better--at least the Poles won't be offended because they can't read all that well, after all, and you know, I really have to go now --not Amanda, nope, not really, probably just someone assuming her screen name to post nonsense. Honest. I'm psychic and guessed her mother's cousin's middle name. If it *were* really Amanda, she'd just have seconded Dai's sentiment. Pity it's not her. From meboriqua at aol.com Tue Jan 1 03:56:58 2002 From: meboriqua at aol.com (jenny_ravenclaw) Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 03:56:58 -0000 Subject: God bless us, everyone! In-Reply-To: <3C312A64.527517C8@texas.net> Message-ID: --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski wrote: > A message with a header that could be construed as offensive by people who don't believe in God or who don't believe in an involved God or who don't think God should bless *every*one or who were frightened by Dickens as a child. We should all try to be more open-minded and careful with our assumptions in the coming new year.> Amanda, This Jew has been celebrating quite happily with quite a few beers, thank you very much! You'd have to try a lot harder to offend me, you Snape lover, you. I just wanted to add my wishes for everyone to have a happy, healthy and very safe new year. We've had one hell of a 2001. I also want to say that this group has been amazing. I know I made a great decision when I decided to join HPFGU last February. Happy New Year's, all of you HP fanatics like me! --jenny from ravenclaw ******************************* From tabouli at unite.com.au Tue Jan 1 03:49:27 2002 From: tabouli at unite.com.au (Tabouli) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 14:49:27 +1100 Subject: Booty, mushroom mishaps References: Message-ID: <006e01c19282$6a32c340$7b2bdccb@price> > Tabouli is a Scarlet Woman. > > Happy New Year! > Amy > who has no clue what the name for the boots might be Kristin: >The knee high boots like that were called Go-Go boots back in the late 60's/early 70's. Tabouli raises a sultry eyebrow and slowly crosses her booted legs in suitably scarlet fashion (though in reality her eyebrows are inextricably united and she can only raise one at a time if she holds the other one down with her finger, which looks distinctly unsexy). Actually, my brother, being of 1974 vintage, was referring to what I now suspect must be the Australian slang term for knee-high boots, which is C.F.M. boots. (Hint: The M stands for "me"). But ha! I don't care. I love boots, and I was very pleased this, sorry, last year when knee-high boots finally came into fashion again (instead of only being available in, er, Adult Shops). Mine make my (regrettably short) legs look longer, and they're comfortable and don't even have especially high heels (small tho' I be, my sense of balance and strange feet just aren't up to three inch heels). Mind you, I've always found the image of long boots a bit mystifying. Why, when slutty clothes on every other part of the body are those which *reveal* a lot of flesh, are long boots which *conceal* a lot of flesh considered so sleazy looking that they were adopted by prostitutes? Dixie Malfoy: > The dishwasher is spilling out soap all over the floor. This reminds me of something I did three or four times after moving into my current flat. I have a combined laundry/bathroom, and the outlet for the washing machine is, alas, the bath. Which means that if you don't remember to put the outlet pipe into the bath when you turn on the washing machine, you suddenly notice that the carpet is making a strange squelching noise and open the door to a tidal wave of greyish soapy water. Carpets being what they are (and the carpet outside the laundry being too far from the window to get any sunlight), it usually took the carpet two or three days of sponging and towel draping and nasty wet carpet smell and swearing to get anywhere near dry. On one particular morning after I thought I'd finally got the squelchy carpet under control I glanced cheerfully across my bedroom past the mushroom into the bathroom... what?? AAAHHHG! My carpet had grown a mushroom! It was eerie. It was like an alien invasion! I swear that only the previous night there was no sign whatsoever of fungal growth on my carpet, because I was busy pummelling it with towels and sponges! Yet after only one night, I had a three inch mushroom growing out of my carpet! How did this happen? Dreading what I might see, I tiptoed over to the rogue fungal invader and my skin began to crawl. Scattered around the three inch mushroom were a veritable army of little mushrooms, stealthily invading my house. I had a large enough crop to cover a pizza. I'm normally quite fond of mushrooms, but these were agents of evil. I swathed my hands in plastic before I dared strip the carpet bare, and then ironed the carpet vigorously to stop any remaining spores getting ideas. My bedroom smelled of grilled mushrooms for weeks... Tabouli (who found herself singing an old mushroom-shaped air freshener ad which went "There's a mushroom/ In my kitchen/ There's a mushroom/ In my loungeroom/ There's a mushroom/ In my bedroom/ And a lovely fragrance in the air") [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From dizzylizzy182 at yahoo.com Tue Jan 1 06:59:51 2002 From: dizzylizzy182 at yahoo.com (Elizabeth Sager) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:59:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: Reply to digest stuff Message-ID: <20020101065951.64491.qmail@web20403.mail.yahoo.com> Ashley wrote: <<<