Eh. I found the answer to a two-years-old ID question (or at least I strongly think I do), but CTRL+Fing the subtitles and searching for reviews/summaries in order not to have to watch the movie probably took me longer than actually watching the movie, ahah :)
When I'm looking for a quote in Harry Potter, I often go to CTRL+F in a PDF but then realize I can find it faster by just opening my book to the part where I know the qote is.
From the Wikipedia article on Great Illustrated Classics:
The Great Illustrated Classics series of books offers easy-to-read
adaptations of well known classics, featuring large print and
illustrations on every other page. The series is targeted at children,
but the writing style is suit...
And, it's genetic. When my son was a teenager, he used to call me an asshole. I would respond, "Well, I have one." a few years later he moved out and was living with a roommate. There were two great phone calls. One was when he admitted that he now understood why I got mad when he didn't wash his dishes; the other was when he confessed that he'd used that joke on his roommate. I apologized to him for the genetic curse.
Ahh. My having that particular body part. At least that was my intent. Maybe he heard it the other way at first at least, which could explain why it annoyed him so much).
No, I was not calling my son that. The point was to try to get him not to call me that, by responding in a way that might make him decide to stop doing that. He did eventually outgrow it.
@Mithrandir We didn't have the greatest relationship at that point. He moved back in after a year and a half on his own, and we got along a lot better. He had a rough time in the 2000s; his mom (my wife) died in 2002, he had to repeat a grade, and he dropped out of high school.
This is probably Sanada Yukimura no bouryaku (1979), also known as Renegade Ninjas, The Shogun Assasins or Death of the Shogun.
From IMDb:
Generel Sanada, seeking retribution for the murder of his father and a lost battle, both conceived by the Shogun, devises a series of brilliant plans to...
^ eventually gave up and eventually fast-forwarded the whole thing, worked
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maybe not the right moment to barge in and post that either
A town in Mississippi was having a terrible time with their cotton crop. The boll weevils were devouring their crop, and nothing seemed to be able to kill them off.
A fellow named Joe Gordon promised that he could fix them problem, for $16000 dollars - $1000 of which had to be in $1 bills.
He was hired. He flew into town in a plane that looked like a crop duster. The townsfolk noted, "We've already tried all sorts of pesticide!" Joe responded, "Don't worry, this is something altogether different."
My first Joe Gordon joke revolved around the fact that "minor" (someone underaged) and "miner" (someone who works in a mine) sound the same. In college, people literally physically restrained me to get me to not tell that joke. Admittedly, they'd heard it a couple of times.
A lot is made of the Statue of Secrecy in the books. However, what about the Muggle parents of witches or wizards? Do they have to sign like an official secrets act? Hundreds of non-wizards knowing about the wizarding world has to be a hazard?
Joe Gordon knew it was going to be a bad day when the sun shining through his window woke him up. The power had gone out, and he hadn't woken up at the usual time!
He hurriedly got dressed and rushed out to his car. The mine he worked at was normally a 20 minute drive; if he could go just a bit faster than usual, he might still get there in time! He lived way out in the boonies - the "road" he'd be on for the first 5 miles was little more than two tire ruts. They were so deep, he hardly had to steer to follow them; he couldn't really get out of them until he could …
To be fair, I probably told it better now (I've had 35+ years to polish it a bit), and it works better when Joe doesn't have to stop his car and run to a nearby house to make his call to the police (no cell phones when I came up with it).
And, again, if you've heard me tell it 3 times already, and you can't just avoid reading it, you can empathize with those who don't want to hear it again. It's what they call a "shaggy dog" story - a long joke with a pun that isn't necessarily worth it at the end.
@Alex in HP the most proficient answerers these days are you and Bellatrix, Bella also is matter-of-fact so I usually distinguish the two with headings and source, as you don't quote Pottermore (usually)
in other tags, sure there are non-matter-of-fact, especially in ID lands :)
From the Wikipedia article on Great Illustrated Classics:
The Great Illustrated Classics series of books offers easy-to-read
adaptations of well known classics, featuring large print and
illustrations on every other page. The series is targeted at children,
but the writing style is suit...
This is probably Sanada Yukimura no bouryaku (1979), also known as Renegade Ninjas, The Shogun Assasins or Death of the Shogun.
From IMDb:
Generel Sanada, seeking retribution for the murder of his father and a lost battle, both conceived by the Shogun, devises a series of brilliant plans to...
A lot is made of the Statue of Secrecy in the books. However, what about the Muggle parents of witches or wizards? Do they have to sign like an official secrets act? Hundreds of non-wizards knowing about the wizarding world has to be a hazard?
