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- CommentAuthormrsthing
- CommentTimeJul 18th 2009
I saw it yesterday, Lyn. It was so toned down from the book! The last two were so intense. They condensed a lot, but they left in the most important aspects. Not my favorite by a long shot, though I thought it was good. The third one ("Prisoner of Azkabahn") is, followed closely by the 4th ("Goblet of Fire").

I still think there's tons more chemistry between Harry and Hermione than between Ron and Hermione.
- CommentAuthorlynthingy
- CommentTimeJul 18th 2009 edited
OH TOTALLY - and the Harry/Ginny thing is not believable at all. I guess when you hire actors when they are 10 it's difficult to predict the chemistry between them @ 18/19 (especially if you don't know that there WILL be chemistry!)

I am with you on "not my favorite", and I am very happy they are going to split the last book into two movies - maybe they can produce a fitting spectacular finale. I am already sad, though - Harry and my kids have grown up together - it was the last book they let me read to them before they went off on their own to read 2-6!

AND I wish Nearly Headless Nick could come back!
- CommentAuthormrsthing
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2009
Yeah...I like the movies, but they have a different feel from the books. I suppose they have to weed out a lot of the quirkiness or the audience wouldn't be able to relate to it. And the movies would be way too long.

As I was reading book 7, I said to myself, "There's no way they can make one movie of this--there's too much they *have* to leave in. I'm also glad they're splitting it in two, but where to leave it so the audience isn't too discouraged to come back in 6 months?

There's a scene in the new movie that isn't in the book at all. I won't spoil it, but I was surprised. It's not even a condensation of things from the book--it just doesn't happen at all in the book!
- CommentAuthorchris14
- CommentTimeJul 21st 2009
Oh, Nearly Headless Nick... siiiiigh... I wish I knew why he is my favourite character...
- CommentAuthorlynthingy
- CommentTimeJul 21st 2009
I'll give you some hints...

He has a blog...

He is very tall...

Our hearts go "pit-a-pat" when we think of having coffee with him...
- CommentAuthorzelda
- CommentTimeJul 22nd 2009
He's funny...
- CommentAuthorchris14
- CommentTimeJul 22nd 2009
Yeah... some more hints, please...
- CommentAuthorCPDolly
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
He likes lemurs and other little furry creatures... maybe...
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
I think Harry and Luna would make a better couple than Harry and Ginny.
- CommentAuthorCPDolly
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
Well, then send your complaints to the author, and later post the rest of your complaints in "Complaints" discussion.
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
J.K Rowling stopped returning my calls and emails after she found me hiding in her bathroom wearing a House Griffindor robe with the nipples cut out.
- CommentAuthorCPDolly
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
Gosh, I just wonder why... I'd find it adorable.
Would you come to my house and stalk me?
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009 edited
Gee, I don't know, I'm stalking so many people right now. J.K. Rowling, Possum, Joan Jett, Jeanine Garofalo.... I could maybe squeeze you in towards the middle of August.
- CommentAuthorCPDolly
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
What about the 11th? The best 18t birthday I'll have!
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
I'll try to make it, but that's only 2 days after my gf's birthday and of course I HAVE to stalk her on hers.
- CommentAuthorCPDolly
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
If you couldn't, why don't you send me a friend? It wouln't be the same, but well...
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
I don't have any friends. By being a nerd, I'm contractually obligated to avoid friendships. I do have a girlfriend, but I'm hiding her from the Nerd Oversight Committee. It's ok to talk about her, though, because they just assume she's inflatable as long as they don't actually see her.

If I can't make it on the 11th, I'll just have to come to your next 18th birthday.
- CommentAuthorCPDolly
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
Oh, OK. Do you think you'll be alive for 2072?
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
I'll be 98 years old, so that means that my lurking in fetish outfits will be even MORE creepy! Hooray!
- CommentAuthorCPDolly
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
Good! You're in, congratulations!
- CommentAuthorchris14
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
Do you think you'll be alive for 2072?

I'll be only 95, of course I'll be alive.
- CommentAuthorCPDolly
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
Fine, then you could come to disurb. Good!
- CommentAuthorchris14
- CommentTimeJul 23rd 2009
Yeah, sure.
- CommentAuthormrsthing
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009
I'd be 114, but who knows? Maybe they'll have found a way to make people like me live that long by 2050 or so. One of those age prediction thingies told me I'd live to be 92, which is older than either my mother or my grandmothers lived.
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009
I'll probably be suffering from every mental disorder in the books by the time I'm 98, if I live that long. Turrets syndrome, Alzheimers, Schizophrenia, Pyromania, the works. I'll be shouting random obscenities while unsuccessfully trying to remember what the voices told me to burn down.

Oh, wait, that was me yesterday. Anyone got a cigarette lighter?
- CommentAuthormrsthing
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009
I'll hopefully be pleasantly dotty in my old age. Or I'll be a feisty old bitch with a few imaginary friends. Or maybe I'll be like the wealthy dowager on the greeting card I saw that said, "You drive by, thumping your bass...I'll thump your bass, you little bastard!"
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009 edited
I can see you turning into Mrs. Marple. Kinda dotty seeming at first glance, but then surprisingly sharp underneath.

Hmm..... come to think of it, haven't the police caught on to the fact that everywhere that old lady goes someone dies? I think that if they just tested them those knitting needles would test positive for bloodstains.
- CommentAuthormrsthing
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009
Mr. Thing mentioned the same thing about Jessica Fletcher ("Murder, She Wrote"). He also mentioned, after the 4th or 5th season of the show, that Cabot Cove had an awfully high murder rate for a small coastal town in Maine. Then we noted that they started moving the show out of Cabot Cove...I guess they started figuring out the same thing.
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009
Maybe Jessica Fletcher and Mrs. Marple are actually the two old ladies from "Arsenic and Old Lace"**. Would explain a lot.

** I love that movie
- CommentAuthormrsthing
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009
The character Jessica Fletcher was modelled after Miss Jane Marple--sort of a cool, American Jane Marple. But wait--the first season or two, they did make her a bit more dotty, then they decided to make her more up-to-date and savvy.
- CommentAuthorchris14
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009
Yes, the similarity is well visible. Even the title of the series 'Murder She Wrote' derives from the title of an Agatha Christie book ('Murder She Said'). And actually the main-character, Jessica is a mixture of Agatha Christie and Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie is my all-time favourite, she's really great.
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009
Yes, I always knew Murder She Wrote was a rip-off of Ms. Marple. American television is incapable of coming up with original ideas of it's own.

Btw, where is Angela Lansbury now? She's here in NYC on Broadway. Which might explain the recent spike in murders in NYC.

Where is Geraldine McEwan now? I don't know. She apparently just finished doing a voice for a new Wallace and Grommit production; but she stealthily vanished into the night afterwards, possibly to sharpen her knitting needles of death.

The preceding is not meant to be taken seriously. Neither Angela Lansbury nor Geraldine McEwan are murderesses, nor are they likely to be in real life anything at all like the television characters they are most famous for portraying.
- CommentAuthorlynthingy
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009 edited
Mac, are you going to evening Law School or something? What's with the fine print disclaimers? Do we all have to do that now???

The preceding is not a rhetorical question, but demands a reply from MacNerd immediately upon reading, or I will explode.
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009 edited
No, the disclaimer was just because I felt like it. It's not necessary.

Although, it has happened before that I've said something similar and someone has taken it as completely seriously. Not here, as far as I can remember, but on another forum I said something about some famous person in reference to the character they played and some idiot wrote a big, long post about how actors shouldn't be mistaken for the roles they play. I think he must have had aspergers syndrome, or something. Exhibited a complete lack of ability to comprehend facetiousness, irony, and a host of other conversational concepts that most people grasp by the age of 12.

But no, I don't believe such disclaimers are necessary here. I did it because I felt like it.
- CommentAuthorchris14
- CommentTimeJul 24th 2009
Yeah, indeed, Angela Lansbury's disappeared... Maybe she's retired.
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2009
No she didn't. She's here in NY doing a broadway play. It's Geraldine McEwan (aka Miss Marple) who has vanished.
- CommentAuthormrsthing
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2009
She's 84 freakin' years old! Give the woman a break!
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2009 edited
Angela Lansbury is 84 and she was, until VERY recently, doing a Broadway show. Geraldine McEwan is only 77 and where is she? Slacking, I say!
- CommentAuthormrsthing
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2009
Geraldine McEwan is being Miss Marple on TV, and she's done voices for Wallace & Gromit features (a TV show and a video game).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568603/
- CommentAuthorMacNerd
- CommentTimeJul 25th 2009
I thought she resigned the role of Miss Marple last year.
- CommentAuthorthumble
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
Ahem. I finally posted my real picture in my account profile, but how do I get it to show up as an icon in the threads?

There's a big, wet kiss in it for anyone who can tell me.
- CommentAuthorNaughty Opossum
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
The two pictures are separate in your account. If you click on Personal Information in your profile to edit it, you'll see there are two boxes - one with "Account picture" above it, and the other just below with "icon" above it. You're free to put any url of an image in any of them, but keep in mind that the icon image doesn't resize itself but in fact uses the picture you inserted and simply cuts a small section from the middle as big as the icons (that's why for example you can see only part of Cad's face and mustache from his original photo in his profile - he's inserted the same url to both boxes, and the picture was cut to fit the icon). What I did was deliberately resize my photo of the Death Bunny to fit the icon. Any questions?

*Extends cheek*
- CommentAuthorNaughty Opossum
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
Silly me, I only bothered to click on your profile after the ridiculously long explanation, and I don't really know what happened there. Which box dod you fill to get that?
- CommentAuthorthumble
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
That's incredibly technically brilliant of you Poss. My problem is it got my picture from Gravatar, and I was expecting it to get my icon from there too. I'll have to go grovelling back to my account and see if I can do something with it.

Extends a quivering and rather wobbly set of labia towards said cheek.
- CommentAuthorNaughty Opossum
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
Also, I've been wondering - do you think this thread is popular because it's sticky, or is it sticky because it's popular (and well, helpful)? Do you think it'd have 197 comments hadn't it been stickied?
- CommentAuthorthumble
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
OK, not to e rude, but I've got to see if this worked....
- CommentAuthorthumble
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
Crap! I'd better try again. I'll give it something sticky to think about in a minute! @#$%$^&*$%
- CommentAuthorNaughty Opossum
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
If you're aiming to add a pic from your computer, you can try uploading the desired picture on imageshack or tinypic and get a url from there. Same goes for a picture you want to resize from the internet - there's a resize option on the sites. I've never tried the whole gravatar thing.

Okay, just googled labia. ew.
- CommentAuthorthumble
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009
Labia is just Latin for lips, my dear. You must be thinking of some different fleshy wobblers.

OK, I'm getting closer, but I am still just getting teeth and labia.. must...kep...going....
- CommentAuthorNaughty Opossum
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2009 edited
Very attractive teeth though. Good choice. Did you swipe them off the guy in the pic?

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