Ridiculing the moon

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 53816

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
> At 01:52 15/03/03 , Patricia Bullington-McGuire wrote:
> 
  If Lupin was imagining Trelawney's crystal ball turning into an
> >actual insect, and a rather puny one at that, I can see why he 
would find
> >that funny.
> 
> > As to why it turns into a cockroach, it could simply be case of 
turning 
> something which has (in effect) power of life and death over him 
into 
> something over which he has that power.

In the film version of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, the Walter 
Matthau character (a retired comedian) says, "Words with a 'K' are 
funny - 'cockroaches' are funny - not if you have them, only if you 
say it."

   - CMC (resolving to work the word "cockroach" into my next Lupin 
filk)