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	scifantasy 2012-05-30 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	Tell me, is that a Monty Python reference there? ("No, no, Dickens wrote David Copperfield with two 'P's, this is David Coperfield with one 'P,' also by Edmund Wells." (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 12:20 am UTC (link)
	No, nnnnot really. Did you watch the video? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	scifantasy 2012-05-31 02:27 am UTC (link)
	You should have gone with my out, instead of the ETA, you know...grin (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 02:28 am UTC (link)
	It took me a while to realize that I'd made that stupid typo. LOL I feel like that one guy in the Spanish Inquisition sketch: "I'll just go out and come back in again.". (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nevadafighter 2012-05-31 12:44 am UTC (link)
	Not even Stitwick Stapers by Falls Wickens with four Ms and a silent Q? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 12:45 am UTC (link)
	No, sorry! ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tez 2012-05-31 01:02 am UTC (link)
	What about G-R-A-T-E Expectations, also by Edmund Wells? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nevadafighter 2012-05-31 01:03 am UTC (link)
	In that case we don't have it. We don't have anything by Edmund Wells, actually; he's not very popular. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kitesareevil 2012-05-31 02:08 am UTC (link)
	What about Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 02:08 am UTC (link)
	Look, I'm not interested in any of this. I just want to return this parrot. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nevadafighter 2012-05-31 02:13 am UTC (link)
	Olsen's . . . Standard Book Of British Birds? O-L-S-E-N? B-I-R-D-S? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jessalae 2012-05-31 03:51 am UTC (link)
	Yes -- the expurgated version. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kitesareevil 2012-05-31 06:56 am UTC (link)
	The one without the gannet (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2012-05-31 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	THE ONE WITHOUT THE GANNET?! It's a standard British bird, the Gannet! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	major_dallas 2012-06-03 07:12 am UTC (link)
	I don't like Gannets, they wet their nests! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kitesareevil 2012-06-04 02:47 am UTC (link)
	I'll remove it! rip All right! Any other birds you don't like?! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	quantumreality 2012-05-31 12:40 am UTC (link)
	Iiiiii don't think so. :P (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 12:41 am UTC (link)
	Did you watch the video? Because I'm pretty sure he's joking. :p (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quantumreality 2012-05-31 02:27 am UTC (link)
	yeah, I was trying to stay in the humorous mode, I guess it didn't travel well on the Interwebs. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 02:29 am UTC (link)
	Sometimes it's hard to tell with people. Some of the comments on that vid are... unusual, to say the least. I know, I know: Rule Number One: Never Read The Comments. sigh (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ekaterinv 2012-05-31 04:13 am UTC (link)
	Wait... didn't we know this already? (Okay, not specifically David Copperfield, but Harry Potter is within that English literature tradition of boys who are over-the-top abused and have strange adventures and grow up and live happily ever after.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 04:14 am UTC (link)
	Ah... not sure David Copperfield was abused. Strange adventures? Maybe. LOL (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 04:14 am UTC (link)
	PS. Yeah, we know HP isn't an original story. I still thought the vid was funny, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ekaterinv 2012-05-31 05:35 am UTC (link)
	Sure it's original. It just also fits within a broader tradition and is inspired by it. I'm not sure what a story that wasn't similar to other previous stories would look like. Crappy, probably. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	freezer 2012-05-31 06:00 am UTC (link)
	I just await the wank that will surely ensue if The Books of Magic movie ever escapes Development Hell. (For those not familiar with that title, here's a hint as to why the wank) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	Oh my goodness. Should I start making popcorn now? ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

cmdr_zoom
2012-05-31 04:12 pm UTC (link)

Nice link, but I wonder (after reading the summary of Tim's life/the whole run) if Harry spends quite so much time screwing up in (slight variations of) the exact same way?
(oh, and now his magic's gone FOREVER again no wait it isn't psych.)

Whether it's the nature of comics (in which stories are rarely allowed to genuinely end), the people writing him, or the very concept, this character doesn't seem to have an arc so much as an endless tail-eating cycle.

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	kittenmommy 2012-05-31 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I can't even imagine that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2012-05-31 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	This was, for me, initially a strike against the series. "Christ, not another one." (Reply to this)(Parent)