Huckleberry Hound Meets Mister Muggles

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No: HPFGUIDX 22706

<I>Entering wearing a bonnet and singing "Oh mah darling, Oh mah 
darling, Oh mah darling Lycanthrope!!" and laughing my ass off</I>

Oh God I wish I wrote filk!!

Just for the record, "Muggles" has been in the dictionary for ages. 
Whoever first coined the word did so in the 12th century.

Cheers,

Suzanne






-- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Caius Marcius wrote:
> 
> > We all know that there is a certain author out there who claims 
that 
> > the entire HP narrative was plagarized from her by JKR because 
she 
> > supposedly was the first to use the term "Muggles." 
> > 
> > For no discernable reason, I had a flashback the other day to a 
> > cartoon I viewed on several occasions during my childhood.  
> > Unfortunately, an extensive Web search shows that the Net has yet 
to 
> > evolve to the state that it includes a plot synopsis of all the 
> Hanna-
> > Barbera cartoon episodes.  
> 
> I should know better than to open any post from CMC at 7:15 a.m.  
It's 
> dangerous to laugh this hard this early in the morning before my 
lungs 
> have had a chance to stretch.
> 
> > In this particular 
> > vignette, Mr. Hound took on the role of a mail carrier entrusted 
to 
> > deliver a vital message to one Mr. Muggles.  However, a militant 
> > watch dog (the cartoon fails to address why some canines have 
become 
> > gifted with upright posture and articulate speech while others 
> remain 
> > mired in mere mutt-hood) thwarts HH's every attempt to deliver 
the 
> > letter.  At the end, we learn that Mr. Muggles and the fierce 
> > watchdog are one and the same, and that the message is a singing 
> > telegram wishing Mr. M a happy birthday.
> 
> AHA!  This is =obviously= where JKR got her infamous singing 
telegram 
> sequence.
> 
> I also have to wonder whether HH is the origin of JKR's heretofore 
> inexplicable attraction to the letter H:  Hagrid, Harry, Hermione, 
> Hedwig, Hogwarts/Hogsmeade/Hog's Head.  Could they all be a 
tribute, 
> conscious or un-, to the Hound?
> 
> You really should send the Muggles reference to 
> www.harrypotterfans.net.  They have a "Muggle sightings" page 
> documenting the many occurrences of this word, which 
> She-Who-Names-Others-in-Lawsuits managed to invent before she was 
> born so that Louis Armstrong could use it, and the last I saw it 
> (months ago), this one wasn't on it.
> 
> > Might JKR and She-Who-I-Won't-Bother-Looking-Up-So-I-Can-Name-Her 
> > have both derived the name Muggles from this Huckleberry Hound 
> > cartoon? Does anyone sing "My Darling Clementine" in either of 
their 
> > narratives?
> 
> Please, please, please write a filk on "My Darling Clementine"!  
> "Pettigrew" or "Dumbledore" would scan well.  So 
would "lycanthrope."
> 
> Amy Z
> suffering from horrible images of a Harry Potter cartoon series, 
even 
> if WB *is* the best animation studio in the history of the craft
> 
> -----------------------------------------
>  "This is the weirdest thing we've ever
>  done," Harry said fervently.
>        --HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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