“Harry who?”
In the classic 1999 movie Office Space there is a character named Michael Bolton, a situation with hilarious consequences.
But in real life it sure would suck sharing the same name with someone well known.
Particularly if that someone is a fictional character, a character so popular that you couldn’t escape being asked the same question by almost everyone you met.
It might even be so bad that you might want to consider changing your name, if it wasn’t for the fact that you had your name first, years before a certain wealthy British author was even conceived!
In this case it’s a man sharing the same name as boy wizard Harry Potter.
Each time a new Harry Potter book or movie comes out, Florida resident Harry Potter gets phone calls from children, interview requests from TV networks and autograph requests.
“The kids want to know if I’m Harry Potter,” he said with a chuckle. “I tell them I’ve been Harry Potter for darn near 80 years!”
The real Harry Potter said he has not had time to read any of the J.K. Rowling books or see the hit movies. But the retired U.S. Defense Department employee gets his fun out of Pottermania.
“When Harry talks to the kids, they’ll ask about the owl and he’ll say, ‘Oh, he came by and brought the mail,’” said his wife, Jan. “Then, when they’re done, the mothers come on and say thank you for talking to the kids. He gets a big kick out of it.”
But meeting a real Harry Potter can be a little puzzling for the kids.
“They look at you, give you the once-over,” he said, laughing. “They can’t relate the one in the book to the one they see here. I guess I could buy me a pair of Harry Potter glasses.”
I wonder what he thinks of the petition to save Harry Potter?
Meanwhile, in Harry Potter related crazy news…
A headmistress at a school in England is in big trouble with the pupils.
At a end of school semester assembly 400 children aged under 12 were shocked as Carolyn Banfield took the latest Harry Book, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, and read from the last page.
Parents and kids alike are now outraged, as many had intended to read what is expected to be the last in the series of books to have swept the world.
Louie Swift, nine, said: “I don’t know why she read it. She’s not usually a spoilsport. She didn’t even mention she had the book.
“She just picked it up and started reading it to us.”
Jordan Ashton, ten, complained: “It has spoiled the book for me.”
The parent of an 8-year-old was fuming when she talked to the tabloid.
”He’s read the last three books but there’s no point reading this one now.”
Another mother, who declined to be named, said: “It’s appalling. My son was going to read a book instead of playing on his computer and I was going to have some peace and quiet. “
Those poor kids, they’ll be scared for life!
Oh, the humanity.
No word as to the motivation of reading the final page to the kiddies, but I suspect she had one of two reasons.
1- She wanted to be seen as ‘cool’ by all the kids, which has clearly backfired, in spectacular fashion.
OR
2- She wanted all those kids to have a miserable holiday break, forcing them to go outside and get exercise in the dreaded outdoors.
What an evil woman…..
Sounds like something out of a Harry Potter novel!
Maybe the kids could occupy themselves with the craziness of the Potter Puppet Pals !
Evidence for Princess Diana death conspiracy?
August 1, 2007
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“There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge”
That’s what Queen Elizabeth told Paul Burrell the butler of late Princess Diana of Wales who died 10 years ago this month.
What on earth did that statement mean?
It’s a quote that arose in news reports back in 2002 and it stirred up the already speculative conspiracy theories that have circulated since much of the world mourned one of the most high profile figures in history.
And now, the conspiracy theorists may have fresh meat to add to the speculation that Diana did not die in a tragic accident, but was murdered.
According to the London tabloid, The Daily Express, French fire-fighter Christophe Pelat claims to have evidence linking the Diana car accident in a Paris tunnel in 1997 to a paparazzi photographer who was believed to have been driving the mystery car that collided with Diana’s Mercedes before it crashed.
Pelat claims that he found the burnt body of James Andanson with a gunshot wound to the head. According to the report in the Daily Express, Andanson was an informer to MI6, the UK’s special intelligence agency, and he followed the Princesses “every move” in the day’s before her death.
Diana died along with her lover Dodi Al Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul August 31, 1997.
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Off to driving school for acting like a Formula One driver.
August 1, 2007
Back to school! back to school!
Sounds like somebody still thinks he’s on the racing circuit!
Brazilian Nelson Piquet Snr., famous for his F1 Championship wins in the 1980’s has been forced to go to a driver education course after receiving too many speeding and parking tickets.
“I think we have to pay for our mistakes,” Piquet, 54, told local news agency G1. “It’s not even just a speeding problem. I got tickets for all kinds of reasons, for things like parking where I shouldn’t.”
The man with an addiction to speed has apparently been seen racing round the streets of Brasilia behind the wheel of a number of high-performance machines, including a BMW convertible and a customised roadster fitted out with a Porsche engine.
Piquet will have to spend 30 hours at driving school and pass a written test in order to get his licence back.
Nelson Piquet- The Glory Days.
“Vegansexual”: No sex for meat eaters!
July 31, 2007
Sex?
‘Yes please! But not with you carnivores’
Talk about taking the term ‘you are what you eat’ a little too far.
A new phenomenon among vegetarians in New Zealand takes a very extreme stance on that concept, because apparently an exchange of body fluids with meat eaters would violate the philosophies of Veganism.
Annie Potts from Canterbury University in New Zealand has coined the term “Vegansexual” to describe people, “who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.”
In her research she quizzed 157 Kiwis on issues ranging from battery chickens to sexual preferences.
Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.
“It’s a whole new thing – I have not come across it before,” said Potts.
One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: “I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually.”
Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.
“I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance,” she said.
Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.
She would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference.
She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians.
“When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals,” she said.
