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+ Pick 20 of your favorite movies.
+ Go to imdb.com and find a quote from each movie.
+ Post them here for everyone to guess.
+ Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
+ Using google is right out.

Comments are screened, for now, to allow for more people to have the chance to guess. Bonus points if you can name who said the quote (or one or more of the names in multi-person quotes).

( Les quotes! )

So, out of curiosity, I started a gdoc spreadsheet of all the wands in FTH, to look at various stats.

And in the process of doing stats, I had to see how many wands there were, total.

That total is 94.

If you then add in the two wandless vampires ...

FTH has ninety-six played characters.

Excuse me while I go have a little heart attack over here.

Edit: Granted, three of those are dead. But still.





And unrelatedly, I put up the answers to the song lyrics meme. The bolded lyrics are the ones that went unguessed, though I think I'll give Kate credit for #30, because I was trying to avoid using covers of songs (unless, like with #46, the cover started out with a different part of the lyric), and I hadn't realized that was one.

H'okai, so. Here's the earth.

I'm a member of this comm on LJ where, like, we talk about whatever, there's no such thing as taboo topics there, but we talk about a lot of fluffy random stuff, too. (Hi Julie, I've seen you there! :D)

So, anyway. Today there was a post asking:

"Have you ever come across a minor character in a story who jumped out at you and caught your notice, despite their minor role and minimal impact on events?"

The first comment made my day:

My personal favorite comes on page 3 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone:

"And finally, bird-watchers everywhere have reported that the nation's owls have
been behaving very unusually today. Although owls normally hunt at night and are
hardly ever seen in daylight, there have been hundreds of sightings of these birds
flying in every direction since sunrise. Experts are unable to explain why the owls
have suddenly changed their sleeping pattern." The newscaster allowed himself a
grin. "Most mysterious. And now, over to Jim McGuffin with the weather. Going to be
any more showers of owls tonight, Jim?"

"Well, Ted," said the weatherman...

I'm convinced that is Ted Tonks. Not sure if that's quite what you mean, but yeah. It's what I got.

lol. Ted Tonks is a newscaster for the BBC.

( Character height meme-thing that everyone else is doing. )

So, because Claire is evilevil, she made me want to resurrect one of my old characters and bring her to FTH. I don't think I wanna use the same PB, though, so I've been kinda skimming for a possible replacement PB.

And I think I've found one, though I'm not entirely sold.

But upon browsing her fan site for pictures, I found two very good signs that she oughta be PBed at FTH (by me or by someone else): she gets around with our guys already.


Kate: Ooooooh...looks like Sirius totally bagged Pepper's ex. Either that, or Pepper picked her up after she had a sweet fling with Sirius.
Me: six degrees of FTH: Pepper used to date [character], who then shagged Sirius, who shags Marly, whose sister Effie is currently dating Pepper.
Me: ..... I feel like that almost means that Effie and Marly are shagging ...
Kate: Sorry, girls!


(... about how old does she look in these icons?)

Snagging a page from Kate's book (which, really, we had the same idea, she just posted it first xD) and reposting the unguessed lyrics from the song lyrics meme, possibly with a clue or two thrown in.

( The poor, unloved, unguessed. )

1. 30 songs! iTunes! Shuffle!
--- addendums: no audiobooks, memos, playcount must be greater than 1, no repeat artists
2. First line!
3. Guess! (Title and artist, plzkthnx)
4. No Google!
5. Whoever gets the most gets ... something.

... except I did 50 because I can't follow rules, either. >>

( Lyrics. )

Snagged from a few people:

Name any of my characters, and I will give you 5 to 10 random pieces of trivia about them/their life.

EXTREME SHEEP HERDING! :D

Right after you signed off, Alie announced that they were watching the scariest Backstreet Boys video ever.

We found it on YouTube.

IT IS REALLY SCARY (it's the video for "Just Want You To Know" from Never Gone, ftr)

meanmeanpeople: And trying to hold on to my sanity.
starsgoblue: It's a tenuous hold, I know.
kitten_patronus: .....
kitten_patronus: what's sanity?
kitten_patronus: can you buy it?
meanmeanpeople: I don't think so.
meanmeanpeople: Look at the Blacks.
starsgoblue: Hahahahaha!
kitten_patronus: ......
kitten_patronus: I love you, Natasha.
kitten_patronus: I really really do.
moonshoes: hahahahha
kitten_patronus: ♥!

Oh, Marly.

After a month of having this elephant on her chest, this need to say something to someone (other than James, who kept trying to assure her that he didn't blame her, but didn't seem to understand that she blamed herself) about what happened at KC on Sept 1, she finally told Sirius. And, naturally, his reaction just makes her want to tell the others (Lily especially, but also Remus and Peter) that much less (though she's thinking Sirius will probably tell them and then they can all hate her together).

Damn you, Barty, for doing this to her. *fistshake*

Even though I don't play a Black at FTH (and even though I kinda suck at character soundtracks), I'm almost tempted to make a Black Family Soundtrack. Partly because Jamie's tl;dr about Andy made me realize that the song I'd had stuck in my head all day was absolutely perfect for Andy and/or Sirius with regards to Regulus. The Dutch Courage by The Spill Canvas.

( Lyrics; bolded are the parts I find particularly fitting )

If I made a Black Family Soundtrack, I have no idea what else I'd put on it, but if someone else is working on one, I highly recommend this song. ;D (and if you have no idea who The Spill Canvas is ... I'll just need to introduce you to them & esp this song!)

iTunes meme! Snagged from everyone.

How many songs total: 6659
How many hours or days of music: 17.2 days
Most recently played: "Rufus' Welcoming Ceremony" - Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy 7 soundtrack)
Most played: ( 8 songs ranked in at #1, with another 11 at a very close #2 ) Truthfully, I've only recently started listening to music on iTunes, so the play count indicator isn't all that reliable.
Most recently added: ( I added several at once )

SONG TITLE
First song: "Aaj Ki Raat" - Sonu Nigam, Mahalaxmi Lyer & Alisha Cinoi (Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack)
Last song: "867-5309" - Tommy TuTone

TIME
Shortest song: ( A three-way tie )
Longest song: "Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky. 22:28

ALBUM
First album: Afterglow (Sarah McLachlan)
Last album: 98 Degrees and Rising (98 Degrees)

First song that comes up on Shuffle: "Hit me With Your Best Shot" - Pat Benatar

SEARCH
Death: 18
Life: 130
Love: 334
Hate: 22
You: 837
Sex: 4, though it should be noted that one instance is David Essex and the other three are actually "Sexy" not "sex"

Seph just scared me again :(