HP4GU Contest #17
Joywitch M. Curmudgeon
joym999 at aol.com
Fri Oct 19 15:59:31 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 27917
For this week's contest, you are being asked to help the moderators
with a vexing little dilemma. As you know, and are perhaps confused
by, HP4GU has a plethora of files for your amusement and edification:
the Very Frequently Asked Questions (VFAQs), the Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQs), the Netiquette file, the list of abbreviations,
etc., etc., etc. All of which you've read, right?
The most fascinating of these files, as all good HP4GU members know,
is what is currently called the FAQ file, which is a very long
collection of essays, located at the Harry Potter Lexicon site run by
list-member and L.O.O.N. spiritual leader Steve Vander Ark. It is
highly recommended that, if you are not familiar with these wonderful
FAQ files, that you wander over to
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/faq/
and spend some time browsing. Now, we all know that FAQ stands
for "Frequently Asked Questions." However, these files have evolved
into something much more than just questions about HP that are asked
a lot. Plus, people tend to confuse "VFAQ" with "FAQ." So, it has
been decided that we need to rename the FAQ files. This is where YOU
come in -- what do YOU think these files should be called? Here are
some, mostly lame, suggestions:
- The Pensieve (or The HP4GU Pensieve)
- The Very Large File Full of Harry Potter Speculation from HP4GU
- The Official League Of Obsessed Nitpickers' Guide to Harry Potter
- Substantive Topical Essays
- Frequently Discussed Topics
Do you like any of these titles? If so, why? Do you have a better
suggestion for what we should rename the FAQs? (Please tell me that
someone does.) Please let me know what you think, by email to
HP4GUCon at aol.com or to the above address (save your message and
resend it if you don't receive an acknowledgment from me.)
If you come up with a new name that all of our esteemed Moderators
like, a plaque with your name on it will be installed in the entrance
to the Renamed FAQ Gallery, which will of course continue to be
located at the world-famous Harry Potter Lexicon facility, which
itself is housed in a large castle at an undisclosed and unplottable
site near Roswell, New Mexico. (We'd let you visit, but we'd have to
perform a memory charm on you afterwards, but rest assured that the
plaque will be there.)
Joywitch
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