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Pottery Born 4

Bill Shein analyzes the impact of the Harry Potter craze:

The book makes many terrifying references to “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named,” an evil wizard who hopes to rule the world – but who is, in the late 1990s, hiding underground, possibly working at the neoconservative Project for the New American Century while plotting his return.

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Unfortunately, the “Potter” craze also means that most adults never read my important 1999 book, “Why Choosing a President Based on ‘Who We’d Like to Have a Beer With’ Will Soon Destroy America.”

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4 comments

  1. Opie

    August 1, 2007 at 4:47 pm

    I think deciding who to vote for by who you’d want to have a beer with is mostly a Republican thing.

    Democrats lean more toward “which candidate would I trust to sell me the best grass?”

     
  2. Frank

    August 2, 2007 at 12:26 am

    Get with times, My Friend.

    (Grin) No one has called it grass since since 1966.

    Of course, living in the past migh–oh, never mind.

     
  3. Opie

    August 2, 2007 at 2:50 am

    Hey, I’ll tell you one that crossed my mind today: remember how “bread” used to be a slang word for money? A lot of slang words make a comeback 20 years or so later, (“cool” has had more lives than a cat,) but I think that one really did get buried for good.

     
  4. Frank

    August 4, 2007 at 12:24 am

    So you are saying that “bread” has done a 23-skidoo?

     
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