The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

6:09 AM

@Randal'Thor that's little strange

One question: Do The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have science fiction and fantasy elements ? Not seen or read it so asking

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SQB

7:28 AM

@AnkitSharma One of the characters is the Invisible Man.

@SQB ohhhh

SQB

@AnkitSharma That's not the only SF/F element, but a prominent one.

@Möoz - why on earth did you tell the spammer to go spam The Workplace?

I assure you, they spam there often enough.

(re scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/166885#comment443535_166885; 10k link)

7:46 AM

@SQB Fair enough

8:43 AM

Daily floof 2017-08-10

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10:32 AM

That's me

Derpy

10:52 AM

> Once upon a time, I, @Mithrandir , dreamt I was a cat, snoring floofy and relaxed , a veritable cat, enjoying itself to the full of its bent, and not knowing it was Mithrandir. Suddenly I awoke, and came to myself, the veritable Mithrandir. Now I do not know whether it was then I dreamt I was a cat, or whether I am now a cat dreaming I am a human

I never was a human. I'm one of the Istari.

Derpy

@Mithrandir That is basic Object Oriented polymorphism. You implemented the IHuman interface, so you can be considerea an human too.

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1:06 PM

Do I recognize Arwen and Tauriel?

1:22 PM

Whoa. scifi.stackexchange.com/q/105171/4918 "Who is the head of Ravenclaw?" needs a book answer.

@Mithrandir There's Arwen and Galadriel.

@b_jonas I can pop one from Deathly Hallows

@Mithrandir Ok, although I think there's one earlier somewhere.

Actually, the one I'm thinking of is in Half Blood Prince although I found something from DH as well

It also doesn't deserves the downvotes, because it's easy to miss the fact in the books.

1:30 PM

...hm, why am I not finding this?

Ah, here we go

Thanks, @Gallifreyan

@Mithrandir scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105171/…

Found a direct reference in the books. In the chapter "Birthday Surprises", the trio take the apparition test in book-6. It was directly mentioned that he was the head of the house. "...assembled in front of Professors McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick and Sprout-the Heads of the House-...."-Half Blood Prince. — rah4927 Oct 16 '15 at 8:57

@b_jonas thanks

1:47 PM

I'll still look for an answer in the earlier books though.

@Gallifreyan 3rd one is apparently dead and made her king do suicide, 4th one is too lame, meera look promising if I can be as badass as DCEU Aquaman

2:03 PM

@Gallifreyan I'd buy these. I don't have any books for them, but that easily rectifiable.

shredalert

2:49 PM

I saw this book called Strange Practice in Waterstones today

it seems hilarious

Will get it soon

Donald.McLean

3:20 PM

Best title I remember: There Will Be Phlogiston

4:04 PM

@ibid I wonder if any fan fictions have explored that obvious clue into Harry's love life? It's like the revisions are trying to erase Harry's emotional past! — TBear 17 hours ago

^ Do you even have to ask? Of course there's fan fiction for that. There's fan fiction revisiting every pairing. I mean, come on.

Guys, upvote scifi.stackexchange.com/q/105171/4918 "Who is the head of Ravenclaw?"

@b_jonas Why tho?

@amflare It's a good question. Just because everywhere on the internet quotes the Harry Potter wikia that Barty Crouch was in the Slytherin house or whatever doesn't mean it didn't just invent that fact. And it's hard to find the canon answer in the books. The question just doesn't deserve the downvotes.

The whole thing about Flitwick being head of house comes up very rarely in the books, it's easy to miss it.

@b_jonas Maybe, but we still want the OP to put some research effort into the question. Like the first comment says, this answer is very easy to find online.

Q: Reference for the first name of Sirius Black's mother, known from her portrait: Walburga

4:19 PM

@amflare You can find the answer itself, but not a proof.

I have several upvoted Harry Potter questions for when you can find the answer but don't know where it comes from:

In Order of the Phoenix chapter 4, we meet the portrait of Sirius's mother in Sirius's house. The portrait is behind a curtain and starts screaming. In chapter 6, Sirius tells a few more words about his parents. Neither place seems to mention the first name of the mother, and just call her Mrs...

harry-potter names

Q: Reference for the first name of Neville Longbottom's grandmother: Augusta Longbottom

Similarly to Reference for the first name of Sirius Black's mother, known from her portrait: Walburga , I'm asking about the name of a character whose first name doesn't seem to be mentioned in the books. Neville Longbottom was raised by his grandmother. She is mentioned many times in the boo...

harry-potter names

^ Of those two, the second one is actually mentioned in the books, twice, but I missed it. The first one is never in the books, it's mentioned only in the extended universe.

@b_jonas I'll grant its a valid question, but its not a good question

Why not? I think it's sort of important to see the four heads together.

@b_jonas OP effort and research. A little editing love can make it a good question.

Q: why does Lung the Quick's tombstone read "No Unicorns in Heaven"?

@amflare Yes, it could be edited to ask where the belief that Flitwick is the head of house comes from (and whether people just invented it because they didn't know anything about Professor Sinistra or Professor Vector so they assumed they can't be the heads), but I think I'll leave it for only the poster of the question to do such an edit.

Vroomfondel

I'm reading Digger, and there's a scene in chapter six where Mural is crying next to a tombstone that reads "No Unicorns in Heaven." What does the tombstone mean?

comics ursula-vernon digger

4:34 PM

Meh, maybe I'll just distract people by posting other bad Harry Potter questions.

Q: Why does Hogwarts have dungeons?

4:57 PM

Hogwarts has dungeons, as we see many times - Snape has his classes in them, the Slytherins live down there - but why does Hogwarts have dungeons in the first place? The Founders of the school built it, apparently: "You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago...

harry-potter hogwarts

They're wine cellars of course.

Hogwarts used to produce the finest house-elf made wine of Scotland.

(Chamber ch. 11.) ‘You don't think he managed to get a picture of his attacker?’ said Professor McGonagall eagerly. / Dumbledore Didn't answer. He prised open the back of the camera.

What was Professor Dumbledore thinking? Open the camera that may have a valuable picture, thus immediately exposing the film? Seriously

Like, how is that ever a good idea?

shredalert

@Donald.McLean That's funny

Donald.McLean

@shredalert And the book's genre is almost as funny: gay steampunk alt-history

shredalert

@Donald.McLean dear lord

Donald.McLean

5:13 PM

Romance - forgot the romance part.

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Rand al'Thor

8:30 PM

I must remember this hilarity next time someone does a shrug emoticon and forgets to escape their slashes.

@Mithrandir You can recognise Tauriel? Hand in your book-nerd card, please.

8:46 PM

@Randal'Thor can non-mods change a tagname?

Without bumping everything I mean.

Presumably through a suggested tag edit

I wonder how they managed to keep the story of the Chamber so quietly. Why doesn't everyone hear the rumours that fifty years ago the Chamber was opened, the monster killed someone, and Hagrid was expelled over this. Malfoy explicitly says his fater told him it was kept quietly, but I don't understand how you can suppress such a history.

Maybe they used magic...

@amflare Nope.

Can suggest a synonym, but it's not worth anything

Flag for mods

9:26 PM

@Randal'Thor I find behind the scenes stuff interesting, so I watched all the stuff on YouTube about the making of The Hobbit movies. I found out that the guy who played Gandalf kept trying to get them to be more accurate ;)

(still haven't watched the movies)

Rand al'Thor

9:48 PM

@amflare No, there's no such thing as suggested edits to tag names. You can either edit all the questions with the tag (which is fine for small tags with very few questions) or suggest a synonym if you have a few answers in the tag (but that won't alter the tag name that shows on any of the existing questions). For anything else, you need a mod.

@Mithrandir Urgh. Next you'll be telling me you've watched BtS stuff for Star Wars.

@Randal'Thor Or the christmas special.