[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 4505

[Darrell Harris]

No: HPFGUIDX 96580

Re message #6 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:39:59 -0000
   From: "Andrew" 
Subject: Re: 3 unrelated OOP questions

2.  In ch 17 when Harry takes the injured Hedwig to
the staffroom to find Professor Grubbly-Plank one of
the gargoyles calls him "sunny Jim".  Is this just
some type of british phrase that I'm unaware of or is
it an allusion to his father James and the fact that
they look so much alike?

I found this on the web.

Word of the Day: Thursday 27 November  2003 
Sunny Jim
Kel Richards writes:

Its an oddly common expression, isnt it? Dyspeptic
uncles use to say to us, Thats enough out of you,
Sunny Jim. Ill tempered school teachers used the
expression in much the same way  as a kind of generic
name for a younger person you wish to belittle in some
way. Well, Sunny Jim turns out to be the name of an
energetic character created to promote an American
brand name breakfast cereal around the beginning of
the 20th century. The cereal was called Force and the
advertising slogan said: High over the fence leaps
Sunny Jim  Force is the food that raises him. It
appears that the Force Food Company ran a competition
to find a suitable character to promote Force. The
competition was won by an American schoolgirl, a Miss
Ficken (Christian name unknown). The doggerel
appearing in the advertisements about Sunny Jim was
written by Miss Minnie Hanff for the Force Food
Company. (That company name, by the way, gives a whole
new meaning to the expression force feeding.) By the
way, Sunny Jim was invented in 1903, so this year he
should have received his telegram from the Queen.
 



	
		
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