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After being off the market for 15 years, the hugely successful stickers that entertained children in the mid-1980s with depictions of bodily functions will be released in a new series in August by The Topps Co.
Later in the article.
The new series finds plenty of new things to make fun of, like "Fartin' Martin," who gaseously propels himself on a Razor scooter, and the heavily pierced "Metallic Alec," who is pulled out of his shoes by a magnet.They even take a shot at the bespectacled child wizard - "Harry Potty" - toilet plunger in tow, doing his business in the loo.
And of course the lovely picture:
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That was the last straw, straw that broke the wizard's broom if you will.
I started a petition for anyone who wants to sign saying that they aren't going to see the movie. Maybe WB can get their act together.
Even if you don't agree with all my points, but you aren't going to see the movie if WB doesn't get their act together, please sign.
http://www.petitiononline.com/nopoa4me/petition.html
"JK ROWLING, the author of the Harry Potter books, has confessed that she was under so much pressure to produce the latest instalment of her seven-part series on the boy wizard that she considered breaking her arm so she couldn’t write.
In a rare interview, to be screened on BBC2 this month, the multi-millionaire reveals how Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix took its toll.
The BBC heavyweight, Jeremy Paxman, whose exclusive interview with the Scots-based author is timed to coincide with the book’s publication on 21 June, said: "She talks honestly about her fame, her wealth and the time she even considered breaking her arm to avoid the pressures of writing."
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Four people, including two 16 year olds, have been arrested by police investigating two Order of the Phoenix books found in a field.
The arrests were made late on Wednesday night in two different places around the town of Beccles in Suffolk.
Police are to question the 16 year olds, as well as a 44-year-old man from the Beccles area, and an 18-year-old man from Norfolk later on Thursday.
They have been officially arrested in connection with the theft of the books from a printing company in Bungay, and on suspicion of "obtaining property by deception".
The top secret fifth Potter books were found in a field by a man out walking on Tuesday.
Secret copy of fifth Harry Potter book found in field
TOP secret copies of the new Harry Potter book were handed to The Sun yesterday - after being found in a field.
Two first editions of JK Rowling’s The Order of the Phoenix - not due out until June 21 - were discovered by a reader in Suffolk.
The magical fifth instalment of the smash-hit series about schoolboy wizard Harry has been dubbed literature’s most closely-guarded secret ever.
Only a handful of people have had access to the manuscript.
Yet the 40-year-old dad-of-two stumbled across the copies yesterday morning while walking on common land in the market town of Bungay. He immediately called The Sun and we sent our man Mike Darvill to collect the books from him.
Last night they were under heavy security at our Wapping headquarters as we made arrangements to return them to publishers Bloomsbury - WITHOUT spoiling the plot for millions of young Harry fans.
The reader, who asked The Sun not to name him, discovered the world’s most eagerly-awaited novel just a quarter of a mile from Clays Ltd, a firm which will print hundreds of thousands of copies.
He said: "I was walking my regular route on the common at 11am when I saw something in the grass.
"I wondered what it was and bent down to pick it up. I was astonished when I read the first page and saw it was the latest Harry Potter book.
"I thought, ‘What the hell is this? And why has it been left here?’ It was broad daylight when I saw it and I am amazed nobody else found it."
Uh Huh... Right...
Here is a picture they had along with this "story."
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Saddam Hussein and the sorcerer’s stone
The secret to Saddam’s immortality
COMMENTARY
by Keith Olbermann
April 11 - Since we need something a touch cheerier, what better than this? If you’re wondering whether or not Saddam Hussein is dead, don’t bother. He cannot die. Just ask Jasim Wai, a middle-aged man from Basra who was interviewed by a correspondent for the "San Jose Mercury News."
JASIM EXPLAINS, "Saddam has the stone. You shoot him, and he doesn’t die. The stone? Ah, yes, the stone. His mother made it for him." Others say "It’s well-known that Saddam’s mother is a magician."
In Umm Qasr, a laborer named Ahmed Ali has the inside story: "The stone makes Saddam Hussein immortal. He had it implanted in his upper arm so you can’t kill him. He even had it tested. They stuck the stone in a chicken. Then they shot the chicken, and the chicken lived." Which then begs the question of how they got the stone back out of the chicken.
Anyway, you may laugh about the gullibility of people who believe a dictator is immortal because he has a magical stone implanted above the elbow-a chicken-tested magical stone- but hasn’t this all begun to sound familiar? Magical stone conveys immortality. Mom’s a witch.
Good grief! it’s the plot of the first "Harry Potter" novel.
Neato ad!
Which goes and shows how nice and long the book is!
(Thanks to TLC)
The baby - named David Gordon Rowling Murray - was born at the new Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh.
Rowling's publicist Nicky Stonehill said: "Both mother and baby are doing well."
Ms Stonehill would not give any further details, but confirmed Rowling and the baby - her second child - had been released from hospital.
Now the question is when was he born..
Anyone who as actualy BOTHERED to read read the series realizes that the Quidditch is an important part of PoA. So of course anyone that has read PoA would realizing CUTTING OLIVER WOOD FROM PoA IS A STUPID IDEA! But WB has proved that they are up to the challenge of making a movie without reading the book, because they did cut Oliver Wood. Which means they cut most of the Quidditch sequences, which means Harry loosing the Nimbus will have to be changed, which means Harry and Ron won't be mad at Hermione for ratting out the Firebolt, which means the partronus won't mean as much.
Now is your chance to show WB that they can't continue destroying the work fans love. SIGN THIS PETITION FOR OLIVER WOOD TO BE PUT BACK INTO PoA!!
http://www.petitiononline.com/wood1212/petition.html
The Rev. John Killinger, author of the new book "God, The Devil and Harry Potter," says Harry is far from being a devil or a witch. Rather, says the Presbyterian minister and academic, he actually is a Christ-like figure. Killinger calls the four-book series "a modern interpretation of the gospel."
Killinger, the Citizen says, claims there are many similarities between the lives of Harry and Christ. Just as Herod tried to slay the infant Jesus, so the evil Lord Voldemort attempts to kill Harry at birth. And just as Jesus conquered death in his final encounter with evil at the cross, Harry triumphs in the fight over the Sorcerer's Stone and in the cemetery in the climax of the fourth novel, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
Like Christ, Harry is also ready to sacrifice his life for others, Killinger says. He jumps on the back of a troll and thrusts a wand up its nostril to rescue his friend Hermione. He also drives off a large black snake to rescue Justin, another fellow student.
Its kinda funny, all the things that people said in the past that made Harry evil, they are now saying is what makes him good... ;-)
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Time could be running out for Harry Potter giant Hagrid, it emerged yesterday. Robbie Coltrane, the actor who plays him in the films, said the character could be killed off in the fifth book of the popular series.
'I know about what happens to Hagrid, which is something author JK Rowling told me from the beginning to help me prepare me for the part,' he said. 'There is a death in the fifth book of a central character. But I can't say more than that.'
After previous unsuccessful election campaigns in the Sverdlovsk region, the 32-year-old hopes to enlist a little magical help from the boy wizard by changing his name to Harry Ivanovich Potter, NTV television reported.
Russians can change their family name, but must always have a middle name derived from their father's first name -- a law that prevented the aspiring politicians from being called plain Harry Potter.
The boy wizard, created by British author J.K. Rowling, has proved a controversial figure in Russia where some Russian Orthodox priests have said the Harry Potter stories encourage satanism and undermine Christianity.
"People are going mad, they are doing things unthinkable for a sane person," said Archbishop Vikenty of Ekaterinburg, capital of the Urals region, when NTV told him about the challenge.
I know I'd vote for some one that changed his name for votes...
During filming, the veteran steam train cast as the Hogwarts Express sparked a fire which destroyed up to 50 acres of heather moorland and trees on a Highland hillside.
A helicopter had to be brought in to bomb the blaze with water as over 20 firefighters and forestry workers struggled to prevent the fire, close to the Glenfinnan Viaduct in the West Highlands, from spreading and causing more damage. At one stage, fire was raging along a one-mile front.
Film-makers working for Warner Brothers were filming scenes for the third Potter movie - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Filming was temporarily suspended in the wake of the fire.
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