Dahl and the Dursleys (was:Re: Cruel, Mean, and Nasty/Follow the Owls...)

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 158881

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" <horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
> 
> > >>Ken:
> > <snip>
> > They would be your worst nightmare if they moved in next door to   
> > you.
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> See, I doubt that.  Oh sure, they wouldn't be an asset.  No one 
> you'd eagerly invite into your bridge circle.  But in many ways the 
> Dursleys could help you feel a bit better about yourself.  You'd sit 
> back in your suburban home, listen to Miles Davis, and congratulate 
> yourself on being *so* much more hip and cultured than the Dursleys 
> could ever *hope* to be.  (And that doesn't even cover the smugness 
> you'd feel comparing your little darlings to that lumpish Dudley 
> Dursley.)

Ken:

No, I think the Dursleys would be the neighbors from Hell. I have very
broad tastes in music. Vern, Petunia, and I might even enjoy some 
of the same music but as soon as they heard me listening to Buddy
Guy or Easley Blackwood I would become persona non grata and 
there would be no redeeming myself with them. They are unbending
and incapable of relating to anyone who is not exactly like they
are. Once young Dudders got old enough to start treating his 
neighbor's yards like his own there would be the suburban 
equivalent of nuclear war because Vern and Petunia certainly would
not reign him in. The Dursleys would only fit in with a neighborhood
that had so many covenants and restrictions that every possible
human activity was either forbidden or mandatory and then only if
they agreed with what the Dursleys considered forbidden and 
mandatory.

I'd do fine next to the Weasleys, twins and all, though.

> Betsy:

> Now a *Dahl* version of the Dursleys would be your worst nightmare.  

Ken:

I do not know this Dahl of whom you speak. The only Dahl I know of
is the radio personality Steve Dahl and I would not care to live next 
door to him either. He is a Howard Stern type, just not as profound
a thinker nor as tasteful.

Ken, yes, that is irony