Ton-tongue toffies and other tongue twisters

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 157161

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rosie743" <rosieb.juane at ...> wrote:
>
> Potioncat <willsonkmom@> wrote:
> > There's a line in the MTMNBN that puts me in stiches every
> > time I watch. Lockhart says it and I don't have the vaguest
> > idea of 'what' he's saying, but it's a rapid-fire mouthful
> > of words that is delivered beautifully. Something to do with
> > Pixies. I don't even know if the line is in the book.
> > <snip>
> 
> rosie743:
> Peski pixi pesternomi....?
> 
> Its the spell he tries to use to handle the cornish pixies he let
> loose in class.
> 
> Forgive me, what does MTMNBN stand for???

Geoff:
It's "The medium that must not be named", ie films or DVDs for 
fear of incurring the List Elves' wroth.  I usually change it to 
"the medium that dare not speak its name" which is a 
steal from Oscar Wilde.....
:-)

Up the airy mountain, 
down the rushy glen,
we daren't mention films 
for fear of little men 
(or women - but it doesn't rhyme or scan then...)

With additional apologies to William Allingham