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[avevale_intelligencer]

So aunty_marion and axylides are talking HP slash in the living room and I'm in the kitchen, and one of them mentions the "thriving village of Hogsmeade."

I hear it as "Sliding Visigoth Hospice."

I throw out the resultant concept for anyone who may want to develop it. Or not.

Comments

[lexin.livejournal.com]

axylides should keep up her journal! I didn't even know she was here!

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I don't think she's quite got her head round the concept yet. I'm sure she will, though.:) When she's not up to her neck in her third HP slash opus...

[rdmaughan.livejournal.com]

"Mr Potter, put down that penguin, tidy yourself up and get on with the lesson."

Just a thought ...

[soren-nyrond.livejournal.com]

... when you say "put down that penguin", which character has the humane electrocution device in his/her/its hand ?
Or are we just talking about Snape-quality sarcastic down-putting ?

[[Down-putting -- take a flat green area, drill a hole in the middle; now carefully denude an eider duck, roll the featheris into a ball, and, taking your golf-club firmly in hand ... ]]
No ? All right, then.

[rdmaughan.livejournal.com]

Well Sliding Visigoth syndrome is ultimately fatal and rather disturbing so it does make sense to have a specialist hospice to deal with it. It does stop them all sliding about in public and threatening to sack the roman empire again.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I didn't know we'd rehired the roman empire!

That explains so much...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Oh, you do that hearing dylexia thing as well? I'm always hearing things that weren't quite what was said...

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

(See my recent entry about Eastern music mondegreens.)

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

My brother once misheard the word "Superman" as "Scissorsdive."

Don't ask.

My ears are funny too....

[(Anonymous)]

I was seated at the High Table at a Far Isles May Revel and the young lady who was that year's May Queen was plonked down beside me. She did her best to make conversaton with my exalted self and said (she being from the village of Chadwell) "I am the village beekeeper."

Unfortunately, my defective cerebral software meant that I heard "I am the Finnish beekeeper." Which gnomic and arcane statement I had no better reply to than "Ahhh, ummm... Indeed." She must have thought me an idiot.

The only good thing that came out of this was that I included a character called 'The Finnish Beekeeper' as one of the Secret Masters of the Universe in a conspiratorial UFOs-Time Travellers-Wewewolves-Atlantean Magicians roleplaying game set in the 1950s.

Theophilus
Cardinal Archbishop of the Far Isles