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	rikoshi 2003-06-19 12:49 pm UTC (link)
	Ask not for whom Rikoshi weeps... He weeps for himself. And the rest of humanity, while he's at it... sob (Reply to this)

	dawnswalker 2003-06-19 02:17 pm UTC (link)
	Is there NOTHING the "Harry Potter" fandom can do without turning it into a wankeriffic epic? I think Fark.com is at its wankiest whenever a thread about fat people, politics, or Britney Spears shows up. Those three topics never fail to bring the wank there. Much like the internet as a whole, come to think of it... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ereshkigal 2003-06-19 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	Is there NOTHING the "Harry Potter" fandom can do without turning it into a wankeriffic epic? In a word, NO. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sagralisse 2003-06-19 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	Which is proven by the fact that we harnessed electricity, pioneered modern mass-production, invented the microchip, then personal computers, and ultimately facilitated the development of the Internet, all so foreigners could log on and tell us how stupid we are. Hee! That's the best quote evah!! I'm gonna use it allatime. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	wrongwrongwrong! hugsnkisses 2003-06-19 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	But it's wrongwrongwrong! More proof that our elegant european ancestry is far superior to your rednecked heatheness. smirk (Reply to this)(Parent)

oxydosic
2003-06-19 03:38 pm UTC (link)

Dude, the HP wank i'm waiting for is when the book comes out and all the people who get a copy first start squeeing about it on LJ. Then we'll get the envy from people who couldn't get a copy right away, and the inevitable spoiler someone will post that's not LJ-cut and the resulting screams of, 'you ruined what i've been waiting for for over a year!'.

Not that i want to be spoiled myself about what happens either, but there's bound to be some good wank out of it.

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	phosfate 2003-06-19 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	12:01 a.m. Saturday sees the start of a new golden ~~week~~ age of wank. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	schoenschoen 2003-06-20 10:07 am UTC (link)
	I shall not forget to mark my calender. ^_^ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hugsnkisses 2003-06-19 06:48 pm UTC (link)
	A year? Dude, I've been waiting since about 1am, 2nd of August 2000! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	yadda 2003-06-19 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	Try three years. And spoilers are already getting out (supposedly, they might just be junk) so the wank is already starting. I'm just avoiding everything Potter related until I finish the damn book. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mrbimble 2003-06-21 01:17 am UTC (link)
	me too. and I work for the damn publisher. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	yadda 2003-06-21 06:56 am UTC (link)
	Oh man, if I worked for the publisher my will power would have cracked within minutes of being anywhere near the books and I would have run off with one. Lawsuits and jail-time be damned. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ymfaery 2003-06-21 02:23 pm UTC (link)
	Which one? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mrbimble 2003-06-25 02:38 am UTC (link)
	a subsidiary of the US publisher. we only got the books a few days ahead of street date, and they were counted daily to be sure no one snuck out with an early copy. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	esorlehcar 2003-06-19 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	I'm right there with you. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snacky 2003-06-19 04:39 pm UTC (link)
	I liked the bit about Thomas Jefferson being "Canadain." HP fandom never fails to bring the funneh! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jfpbookworm 2003-06-19 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	I liked the bit about Thomas Jefferson being "Canadain." It was Thomas Edison, I believe, and I think they meant Dunedain. Which is like Canadain but with less moose. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	snacky 2003-06-19 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	D'oh! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	petulance 2003-06-19 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	sips coffee, savours wank DAMN that's refreshing. And yes, I too am getting tingly in anticipation of mass wanking all over my journal. It shall most certainly be a week to keep an eye on "friendsfriends" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	schoenschoen 2003-06-20 10:09 am UTC (link)
	Man, I can't wait to see this shit. I think my roommate has reserved a copy, so I'll read her's when she's done. XD I'm a lazy shit like that. I can't wait for the snark to start... This is worth looking forward to more than the book itself! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	iris 2003-06-19 06:33 pm UTC (link)
	I'm a big Harry Potter fan...got mine at midnight last year, working at a midnight party this year, and so on. But stuff like this is why I prefer to keep my Harry Potter geekishness offline. I got enough wankage and bad slash when I was still involved in Gundam Wing fandom, thanks. (Reply to this)

hotpinkdragones
2003-06-19 06:45 pm UTC (link)

*blink*

Isn't it Europeans (specifically their governments) who tend to be extraordinarily senstive about anything that has a resemblance to Nazi propoganda? I'd think that the UK cover would be given more of a hairy eyeball in Europe than in the US . . . due the the wonderful nature of our education system, I'd never seen a example of the Nazi eagle until that thread. I was thinking that the UK (adult) cover was pretty . . .

-hp

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	hugsnkisses 2003-06-19 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	The uk adult colour actually reminds me of the (v. american) John Grisam covers. For the record I prefer the uk OOTP covers by far, but I hated all the covers for CoS and PoA. Since this book is the size and weight of an XX brick I'm sure the cover'll come off before long anyway. (It did after 3 months with GoF...) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hugsnkisses 2003-06-19 06:54 pm UTC (link)
	The uk adult cover Damn wank is corrupting me. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hotpinkdragones 2003-06-19 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I just discovered that, even with shipping, ordering the UK version from Amazon UK will only cost me about fifty cents more than ordering the US version from Amazon US (depending on the conversion rate that the credit card company gives me). That's somewhat tempting . . . -hp (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

schoenschoen
2003-06-20 10:12 am UTC (link)

That's terrific to hear. ^_^ Personally, I far prefer the British books to the American, but that's just a personal preference. I picked up my copies of CoS, PoA, and GoF in Greece, and I love them to death. I've been wanting to order a copy of Order of the Phoenix from Amazon.uk, but I've not gotten around to it yet. And since you just posted that it'd only cost .50 more... >D

Sweet.

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	hugsnkisses 2003-06-19 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	Alan Turing is spinning in his grave right now... Am so glad someone mentioned him as I would actually have been tempted to wankily leap into the fray and tout his name. Alan Turing is probably the most undercredited man in history pouts on his behalf (Reply to this)(Thread)

	allen 2003-06-19 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	Him and Nikola Tesla, man. =) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Rock. brixton 2003-06-20 09:20 am UTC (link)
	Tesla! :D [/random] (Reply to this)(Parent)

	uniquesnowflake 2003-06-21 04:22 am UTC (link)
	Mmm. I love the smell of a Death Ray in the morning. (Reply to this)(Parent)

hotpinkdragones
2003-06-19 06:52 pm UTC (link)

*grumble*

I wish that the US book stores could make the UK versions avaliable as well as the US versions. While I understand that some people really have no desire to figure out British slang, my undergrad degree is in British literature. I can read British slang about as easily as American slang.

The ham-handed "translations" of Terry Prachett's work by Harper-Collins really disgusted me. Rather than improving, it's gotten worse as the series has gone on. Typically I can identify what the original Britspeak was, and if I'm noticing the "translation" it's because I'm wondering how the hell this came from that.

-hp

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moonjaguar
2003-06-19 07:17 pm UTC (link)

I don't understand why they don't just sell the UK version and not make a US version. When I was little I read the Five Dolls series by Helen Clare and in American editions, there was a glossary in the back of the book so American kiddies learned that noughts and crosses=tic-tac-toe, colour=color and torch=flashlight. I mean, it's all English, isn't it, even though it's different forms.

Some of those covers amused me, particularly "Mr. Kotter" (is still looking... )

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	phosfate 2003-06-19 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	I'm told the Canadian editions are the same as the UK editions, and they're not hard to get on the Web. I found UK hardcovers of Books 2 and 3 at MediaWest for $5.00 each. If I may: SQUEE! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	moonjaguar 2003-06-19 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	Ooh, thanks for the headsup. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tempslut 2003-06-20 07:43 am UTC (link)
	If they want to give "translations" to anything, why not start with Irvine Welsh novels? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	msmanna 2003-06-21 01:27 am UTC (link)
	Seriously? There's Americanised HP? There's Americanised Terry Pratchett? Tell me this isn't true. (Reply to this)(Parent)

jfpbookworm
2003-06-19 08:16 pm UTC (link)

Not to move the wank over here, but how is pointing out that the phoenix on the British adult cover looks like the Nazi iron eagle "thinly veiled anti-Semitism"? It sounded to me like the guy was just saying that using that cover art was a Bad Idea. Which I wholeheartedly agree with.

Now the spelling/nation flames, those are wanky. Particularly the "Thomas Edison was Canadian" one.

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	hotpinkdragones 2003-06-19 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	I thought that the wank was the person who implied that the UK cover couldn't be used in the US because certain US residents would go ballastic over its resemblance to the Nazi iron eagle. My belief is that few people in the US would catch the reference--probably far fewer than in Europe. -hp (Reply to this)(Parent)

well...

dafnap
2003-06-20 12:07 am UTC (link)

It's not necessarily that the cover is a bad idea, but that the people that would throw a fuss are those with "numbers on their arms" rather then say, straight out, what he means, he puts it this way:

I think it's because pix like that (british cover) remind some Americans (especially certain ones with tatooed numbers on their arms) of images like this...

Rather than say: "those with jewish heritage".

I dunno, I could be overly sensitive and then that just proves his point.

Sigh, I suck.

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	.......wtf? guildenstern 2003-06-19 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	I can't wait to see the wank that the actual book generates. Hordes of fanpersons accidentally leaking choice quotes and spoilers on public forums, arguments over plot points....brilliant. XD And my parents have been using the argument that George Washington was British for years. parents=stealth wank! :O (Reply to this)

	tempslut 2003-06-20 07:40 am UTC (link)
	Fark.com is one big, fat, ooey-gooey glob o' wank. I went there for awhile, then realized how much I can't stand unmoderated message boards (and ppl hoo kant sp3l). If I want to see a good Photoshop contest with intelligence involved, I can go to the TWoP Pixel Challenge (the latest one is the one linked). In the meantime, wank on! (Reply to this)