Comments | mike_smith: Chapter 14: X-Raided.

mike_smith

Chapter 14: X-Raided.

Sep 18, 2005 05:12

In reference to my poll from last week, "All Nude" was the leading choice when I actually went home and faced Jim in the video game ring. Unfortunately, the jerks at Nintendo didn't allow nudity as an option, so I was left with the next best thing: sumo wrestler undies. I also gave the Buttdawg a really stupid top hat, so I basically ended up ( Read more... )

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mike_smith September 18 2005, 21:15:43 UTC

My guess is that Rowling festooned Hogwarts with pumpkins in Book 1 because pumpkins = Hallowe'en = magic! But has never actually taken the trouble to eat pumpkin or drink pumpkin juice.

Yeah, that's how I figured it. It's a cute idea unless you've actually carved a jack o'lantern and know what kind of disgusting stuff pumpkins have doin' in there. Really, it's a little too cute for this book. I can almost buy that these aren't children's books until someone starts drinking pumpkin juice or naming their pets "Crookshanks".

I totally didn't see the potions switch trick coming, which is odd because it's such a cliche and kind of an obvious trick to pull when you need to boost someone's confidence... but I guess that's the advantage of having a hero who's a dumbass most of the time: when he does something clever, the audience is actually surprised.Exactly. If this had been anyone else I would have seen it coming a mile away, because your hero typically refuses to cheat and is clever enough to come up with the ol' placebo trick. This is ( ... )

azurelunatic October 5 2005, 03:36:00 UTC

My personal recipe for butterbeer is cream soda spiked with enough butterscotch schnapps to make it interesting, depending on the age of the drinker.

c2t2 September 18 2005, 19:40:20 UTC

*giggle* Dragonball! *uses icon* not... a... fan... really!! nope, not at all.

Anyway, Youre BACK! *huggles* i thought you'd given up on HBP.

Its damn near impossible to distinguish SSJ/USSJ/SSJ2 anyway, so who the heck knows?

mike_smith September 18 2005, 21:28:32 UTC

Anyway, Youre BACK! *huggles* i thought you'd given up on HBP.

Nah, I didn't hear no bell. It was all this hyperlinking that had me putting it off so long.

Its damn near impossible to distinguish SSJ/USSJ/SSJ2 anyway, so who the heck knows?Well, that part isn't necessarily the trouble. A plain vanilla SSJ just has the yellow hair and green eyes. Ultra Super Saiyan has longer hair and bigger muscles, hence the whole weakness of the form being bulkier and slower in spite of the additional strength. Super Saiyan 2 hair is pointier, mainly, and the eyes are blue instead of green, but the key discintction is the lightning bolts that dance around the person's body when they do it. Of course, the trick there is that sometimes the animators don't always draw it in. In the upcoming "Fusion Reborn" movie, Goku and Vegeta use Super Saiyan 2, but it's just about impossible to tell by looking, because no lightning. But since they're getting their asses kicked for much of the film, it's a safe assumption that they wouldn't be fighting in ( ... )

jim_smith September 18 2005, 19:59:33 UTC

I lost more than I won, but that's only because Jim cheats and the Gamecube controller is all confusing and bizarre to me.

That's right, ladies, the Mack Daddy Jim Smith took your hero and smoked his ass! You can all come on over to my journal and start worshipping me now...

So the pressure's on for him to win the big game with Slytherin, which I guess is like Game One in UK football, except UK sucks at football.

For future reference, "UK" is "University of Kentucky." Don't go complaining to Mike that the United Kingdom is actually awesome at soccer.

Basically, Ginny doesn't want Ron butting into her love life, and Ron doesn't want people saying her sister is a... well, he doesn't finish the sentence, but I think there's several ECW chants that could spell it out for us.

You mean like...

SHE'S A CRACK-WHORE! *clap clap clapclapclap!* SHE'S A CRACK-WHORE!

or...

GIN-NY SWAL-LOWS! *clap clap clapclapclap!* GIN-NY SWAL-LOWS!

or that old chestnut...

SLUT! SLUT! SLUT! SLUT! SLUT! SLUT!

The crowd's even chanting for him now ( ... )

mike_smith September 18 2005, 21:35:54 UTC

I think "We Want Malfoy" would have been called for as well. Kids these days just don't know how to chant.

'Ginny is our crack whore
Ginny is our crack whore
She always lets the johns score
Ginny is our crack whore

Ginny smokes crack until four,
Then she walks the streets some more,
That's why it says on her door,
Ginny is our crack whore.

Ginny's weight is eighty-four,
She always lets the johns score,
Ginny will smoke crack some more,
Ginny is our crack whore.'

Dammit, fixing my own anonymous comments is a pain. I gotta stop using Netscape.

seductivedark September 18 2005, 21:15:54 UTC

I'm glad you continued reviewing the book. I check in (suggested the anime hair, apparently nekid won out?) to see if you've gone on.

Very funny. Though, with all the shipping thoughts bared (because we all know what it means), I'm going to have to let the youngest read it on her own so neither one of us get embarrassed.

snapes_angel September 18 2005, 21:21:07 UTC

Unlike what Anonymous thought, Ginny is definitely Ron's younger sister. Book two marked her first attendance at Hogwarts but she first met Harry in book noe when it was clear she'd rather be snogging Mr. Potter at ten then eating her breakfast. Anyway, if you get the chance to read Chamber of Secrets, the second one on the series, it's great, it has caricatures of some fo the most annoying people you have ever met *coughGilderoyLockheartcough* and it has some kind of a monster going around and petrifying folks, and it ain't Medusa.

(And btw, I happen to like DBZ too, and you did know it ws supposed to be a genre comedy, right? Not that Im/' complaining, I was reading and snickering and I can definitely picture Bejichan in German tech support--I think trunks works in something like that when he's heading up Capsule Corporation at the beginning of Dragonball GT).

mike_smith September 18 2005, 21:34:49 UTC

Anonymous was me. I forgot to log in when I was responding to comments. I'm very scatterbrained that way. Maybe she was just dating a seventh-year, so I lost track. Or I was thinking of Katie Bell. Enh.

And btw, I happen to like DBZ too, and you did know it ws supposed to be a genre comedy, right?

Of course. That's the main reason I watch it. Usually I can't deal with anime that takes itself too seriously.

snapes_angel September 18 2005, 21:45:04 UTC

Oh, Ginny likes her men older all right, and she's always had this thing for Harry so the pairing wasn't so much of a surprise, though I hated the way Ms. Rowling described Harry's reactions. After all, the beast was in book one already and its name was Fluffy lol.

In the first book it was, like, the dropsies and Ginny couldn't talk at all when Harry was around (When Harry met Ginny and not Sally lol), but she started school during the second book-and I do recommend it because there are some wickedly funny scenes in it. We learn one of Won-Won's dark little secrets. *snicker* And Hermione's bummed because they call off finals. And--I'm not going to tell you why they called off finals lol. We do get to see a bit more of Hogwarts though.

I don't like GT so much as Dragonball and Z. Toriyamasan wasn't involved with the production or story, though they had his permission. It wasn't as good as Z (which I think was also better than Dragonball, which still had its moments).

jim_smith September 18 2005, 22:09:00 UTC

Scintillating comedy!

Also, I'm having the same trouble staying logged into LJ as you are. The cookie LJ sets when you log in keeps expiring when you close your browser, and I can't get it to stay set to "never expire," no matter how many times I check that option.

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