Weird is fun

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[pettyrevenge]

Saw Stephen Fry live last week, and he told us this story: Just after the first Harry Potter book had been released, he was offered the role of narrating it for audiobooks. He hadn’t read it, and was simply told it was a children’s book, so figured it would be an easy afternoons work. When he met JK Rowling, she mentioned that she was writing a sequel. Stephen replied very condescendingly “good for you”.

A few years down the line, the books are selling well, and he is doing the recording for the Prisoner of Azkaban, when he runs into the phrase “Harry pocketed it”. Stephen could not say this line. It always came out as “Harry pocketeded it”, unless he said it ridiculously slowly. They tried time and time again to get it right, but to no avail. Eventually, he called up JK and asked if he could say “Harry put it in his pocket” instead. She thought for a moment then said “no”, and hung up.

The phrase “Harry pocketed it” appeared in the next four books.

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[lara-the-explora]

Letting the new people know, this chaos is everyday!

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🎵 Write to me, Stick Stickly PO box 963 New York City, New York State 10108 🎵 Why is this still stuck in my head 20 years later?

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Nothing like a 3 way bubble bath chat with your Coworkers!

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[drowned-cookie]

[horrorpunk]

[ghostsandgoblins]

[teflonly]

[horsesaround]

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[nicolealonso]

I love this a lot.

[chrishemsworht]

perfect humans - ryan reynolds

“The first Deadpool comic I ever read had a panel in it and somebody asked Deadpool what he looks like under the mask. He said “I look like a cross between Ryan Reynolds and a Shar Pei,” and I knew at that moment, I was like “One day I’ll play this guy.”

[quincyfisher]

the most beautiful development to ever be

[kyrumption]

all the things i ship ★ april ludgate and andy dwyer

april, you are the most awesome person i have ever known in my entire life. i vow to protect you. from danger. and i don’t care if i have to fight an ultimate fighter, or a bear, or him. you’re mom. i would take them down. i’m getting mad right now even telling you. i wanna spend the rest of my life, every minute with you, and i am the luckiest man in the galaxy.