Miscellany

[eskcindy]

I'm not usually the type to bore people with the details of my 
dreams, but I had a fantastic dream the other night, and the premise 
was just too funny not to share. In the dream I was a teacher at a 
preschool (muggle), and guess who was the other teacher? None other 
than Severus Snape (as played by Alan Rickman), oddly in full 
Hogwarts regalia! The mental picture alone is hilarious, Snape 
having to marshal dozens of 3 and 4 year-olds into circle time. 
Imagine Severus having to lead a rousing chorus of "The Wheels on 
the Bus"? LOL Of course I had to have words with him, as he was 
scaring the you-know-what out of several of the 3 year-olds!

The other thing was that a couple of months ago I received a DVD set 
of all the Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes for my birthday. I 
was watching one of the episodes (titled "You're No Fun Anymore") 
when along came the "Science Fiction Sketch". The premise was that 
aliens (who also happened to be blancmanges) were transforming 
Englishmen into Scotsmen via a ray from their UFOs. What caught my 
ear was that the first man to be transformed into a Scotsman by 
aliens was named "Harold Potter". The coincidence was even stranger 
when they showed a football/soccer match played by two of the few 
remaining Englishmen, and the one man in the bleachers (played by 
Eric Idle) was wearing a scarf identical to the Gryffindor scarves 
in the first two Harry Potter movies. Coincidence or not? If not it 
certainly makes background research seem a lot more interesting. <g>

Cindy