Cats (was: Stardust, the movieRE, books before movies

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Alex Hogan <predigirl1 at ...> wrote:

>   "Cats, despite being jerks, are the new Owls."

Who said that? Does it mean that someone has met a cat who will rise
from his comfortably curled position on the cushiony chair, stretch,
take your letter in his mouth, and obligingly trot up to the addressee?

Taking this opportunity to chime in on pronunciations:

I pronounce very, vary, Mary, merry, hairy, berry the same. I
pronounce marry, Barry, Harry a different same. Bar is different from
both berry and Barry. Harry and Hairy are close enough for punning.
Hairy maybe has the same vowel as Care. Harry maybe has the same vowel
as Hat?

If all UK people pronounce Serious and Sirius differently, then when
the PM heard 'Sirius Black', how did he remember it as 'Serious Black'?