[HPforGrownups] Pink Flamingos/ Fourth Man Kayak and other ramblings

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 36527



> Me ( Eloise)
> > I know it suits Snape's gothic image 
> > (and I still want to install an organ down there for him!)

To which Marina replies:

> But not a pink flamingo?

I never actually got the hang of the pink flamingo thing. Would someone in 
the know please explain in words which a bear of very little brain would 
understand.
Can you make featherboas out of them? (Oh, no! Vision of Snape in pink 
featherboa.)

Elkins :
>So that's Fourth Man.  It's, er, not a very *popular* theory, I'm 
>afraid.  In fact, at one point I seem to remember being reduced to 
>claiming that two people constituted a "drove" in my feeble attempt 
>to portray it as a burgeoning speculative movement.  But you're 
>welcome to join us, if you like.  We don't have staterooms or cute 
>cabin boys or tasty snacks or great big can(n)ons, like some of those 
>bigger ships do, but...um...we do have Avery on board as our mascot.  
>And sometimes Cindy brings S'mores.

>Eileen warns:

>> But remember that the crew of the Avery kayak: Elkins, Cindy, 
>> Eileen (and anyone else?)...

>>Well, Porphyria once agreed to join us, but I think that she was 
>>probably just being polite.  

I know I'm naive, but I thought the case you'd made out was so convincing 
that everyone accepted its nearly canon ( deuterocanonical?) status. But 
there's this ban on 'me too's' (which you broke today, Elkins -  being nice 
to me - resulting in a lovely vision of you shutting your head in the oven 
door - 'Bad List Elf!, Bad List Elf'!). And you guys get so involved in your 
role plays that the rest of us can only sit back and watch in amused 
admiration. And besides a kayak's so....well, little...and a bit wet and 
uncomfortable. Now, if only you could upgrade a little..... Then, of course 
I'll have to give serious consideration to how I'd like to take my Fourth 
Man, so to speak. I don't think I phrased that very well, but you know what I 
mean. And I've even been known to come round to the idea of Bloody Ambushes - 
as long as they were offered, not demanded.

>> Eloise, who'd like to see what Laurence Llewelyn Bowen would do with
>.the 
>> Slytherin common room ( he's a rather flamboyant British TV interior 
>. designer, with more than a passing resemblance to the film Snape,
>>not least 
>> in dress sense).
Marina:
>Great; now I have mental image of Snape sweeping into the staff room
>crying, "Oh, I just saw the most *marvelous* window treatment!"

Would that be a send-up of a British accent, there?
It gets worse. (I'm afraid this will only be intelligible to Brits). We could 
have 'Changing Common Rooms', in which the Hufflepuffs and Laurence get a 
weekend to make over the Slytherins' domain (Carol Smillie running up fluffy 
cushions out of cast-off Weasley jumpers), whilst the Slytherins and Linda 
Barker get to do the Hufflepuff commom room, with Handy Andy creating mock 
rough stone walls out of MDF. Then Diarmud Gavin (Is that how you spell it?) 
could set to work on the grounds, putting in some mild steel constructions. 
Or else we could get in Ground Force, but three days might not be long enough 
to transform them, even with prodigous quantities of decking, although 
Charlie Dimmock could do a *huge* water feature in the middle of the 
lake.......

Eloise. (And I thought Elkins was beginning to ramble!)




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