Stepping in the hornet's poop (actually about Harry Potter, kinda)
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So, Roxanna (and any others who want to contribute)--
Keith my husband has agreed to go to a Harry Potter birthday party for a 13
year old, and to go as Hagrid.
Problem is, he hasn't read the books. Only seen the movie. So I went
through with sticky notes and marked all the passages with or about Hagrid in
book one and half of two. I can finish two and three today, and he can read
them tomorrow, and Sunday night is showtime.
He has a long coat, but it's not really huge, but for $100 we can't spend
much on props and costumes.
We can find a pink umbrella, I figure, but do any of you have suggestions for
aging it? I was thinking generally scuffing it with sandpaper and maybe
spraying mud on it and then rinsing it off. It can't look new and WalMartish.
There will be 30 kids, it's in a banquet hall at a restaurant, the kids are
asked to dress student-like (shirts and ties) and entertainment and adults
are doing robes and hats.
I'm probably going in a long black dress and hat, to play recorder with, and
coach, "Hagrid" (I'm writing him a couple of short bits--like he's going to
say that Professor Dumbledore was busy at a meeting of the Ministry of
Magic--oh, I shouldn't have said that--and had asked that Peter (the birthday
boy) preside over this meal, please, if he didn't mind.
We have a big plastic egg that a model dinosaur skeleton came in, and that
can be a dragon egg.
We need other ideas that will be easy, prop-like, and might cover over
Keith's not knowing the whole book.
I figure an escape speech should be pretty easy--trouble in the forest or
something.
I tried to get The Tynkers, a phenomenal family of homeschooled kids (now
mostly not kids, young adults) who do magic, fire breathings close to time is
madness, but here's the deal: The kid has a famous grandfather who's rarely
in town, who's going hunting this weekend, and will be back for the birthday
and then leave town again the next day for his job. It's Senator Pete
Domenici. So that's the window, and we need to get Hagrid ready.
For those who don't know Keith and can't get to the pictures, he has a big
beard, and the picture doesn't show his waist-length hair. It's not very
dark, but he was a theatre major in the days before he switched to math, and
he played a giant in Jack and the Beanstalk, so he can draw on that. (Once
he went to a horse show, when he was 19 or so, and was sitting way up in the
top of the bleachers, and he said a little boy kept looking at him with huge
eyes and then looking away, and then he heard him whisper to the woman he was
with, "Grandma--it's the *Giant.*")
And...
Keith's not the greatest with accents.
What Monty Python sketches are specifically Yorkshire besides "Every Sperm is
Sacred"? If we had our friend Helena here who's lived in and around York for
the past two years, she could coach him, but she's in London, probably
losing her edge.
Sandra
Keith my husband has agreed to go to a Harry Potter birthday party for a 13
year old, and to go as Hagrid.
Problem is, he hasn't read the books. Only seen the movie. So I went
through with sticky notes and marked all the passages with or about Hagrid in
book one and half of two. I can finish two and three today, and he can read
them tomorrow, and Sunday night is showtime.
He has a long coat, but it's not really huge, but for $100 we can't spend
much on props and costumes.
We can find a pink umbrella, I figure, but do any of you have suggestions for
aging it? I was thinking generally scuffing it with sandpaper and maybe
spraying mud on it and then rinsing it off. It can't look new and WalMartish.
There will be 30 kids, it's in a banquet hall at a restaurant, the kids are
asked to dress student-like (shirts and ties) and entertainment and adults
are doing robes and hats.
I'm probably going in a long black dress and hat, to play recorder with, and
coach, "Hagrid" (I'm writing him a couple of short bits--like he's going to
say that Professor Dumbledore was busy at a meeting of the Ministry of
Magic--oh, I shouldn't have said that--and had asked that Peter (the birthday
boy) preside over this meal, please, if he didn't mind.
We have a big plastic egg that a model dinosaur skeleton came in, and that
can be a dragon egg.
We need other ideas that will be easy, prop-like, and might cover over
Keith's not knowing the whole book.
I figure an escape speech should be pretty easy--trouble in the forest or
something.
I tried to get The Tynkers, a phenomenal family of homeschooled kids (now
mostly not kids, young adults) who do magic, fire breathings close to time is
madness, but here's the deal: The kid has a famous grandfather who's rarely
in town, who's going hunting this weekend, and will be back for the birthday
and then leave town again the next day for his job. It's Senator Pete
Domenici. So that's the window, and we need to get Hagrid ready.
For those who don't know Keith and can't get to the pictures, he has a big
beard, and the picture doesn't show his waist-length hair. It's not very
dark, but he was a theatre major in the days before he switched to math, and
he played a giant in Jack and the Beanstalk, so he can draw on that. (Once
he went to a horse show, when he was 19 or so, and was sitting way up in the
top of the bleachers, and he said a little boy kept looking at him with huge
eyes and then looking away, and then he heard him whisper to the woman he was
with, "Grandma--it's the *Giant.*")
And...
Keith's not the greatest with accents.
What Monty Python sketches are specifically Yorkshire besides "Every Sperm is
Sacred"? If we had our friend Helena here who's lived in and around York for
the past two years, she could coach him, but she's in London, probably
losing her edge.
Sandra
Jocelyn Vilter
on 12/28/01 9:41 AM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:
hold of some of the foil wrapped stuff I saw around town this Christmas, and
have him pass some out to each of the kids? Or just to the birthday kid.
He also was known for carrying sausages and bits of cake. Little Debbies to
the rescue?
If his coat doesn't have lots of pockets, I think it would be totally OK for
Hagrid to have sort of a hunting pouch type of thing (a big leather purse of
yours or from the thrift store), worn cross-wise across his chest.
I think he wears a scarf around his neck too, in the movie.
He also carried mice for the owls, so you could use those ugly little fur
mice that I saw at Walmark last night.
When I saw Keith in person for the first time last April, I thought he was
Hagrid, in the flesh. I'm going to look through photos we took at our
Hogwarts day, and maybe post some to the group area, just for fun.
Jocelyn
> So, Roxanna (and any others who want to contribute)--Hagrid always had wizarding money in his pockets, so maybe you could get
>
> Keith my husband has agreed to go to a Harry Potter birthday party for a 13
> year old, and to go as Hagrid.
>
> Problem is, he hasn't read the books. Only seen the movie. So I went
> through with sticky notes and marked all the passages with or about Hagrid in
> book one and half of two. I can finish two and three today, and he can read
> them tomorrow, and Sunday night is showtime.
>
> He has a long coat, but it's not really huge, but for $100 we can't spend
> much on props and costumes.
hold of some of the foil wrapped stuff I saw around town this Christmas, and
have him pass some out to each of the kids? Or just to the birthday kid.
He also was known for carrying sausages and bits of cake. Little Debbies to
the rescue?
If his coat doesn't have lots of pockets, I think it would be totally OK for
Hagrid to have sort of a hunting pouch type of thing (a big leather purse of
yours or from the thrift store), worn cross-wise across his chest.
I think he wears a scarf around his neck too, in the movie.
He also carried mice for the owls, so you could use those ugly little fur
mice that I saw at Walmark last night.
When I saw Keith in person for the first time last April, I thought he was
Hagrid, in the flesh. I'm going to look through photos we took at our
Hogwarts day, and maybe post some to the group area, just for fun.
Jocelyn
Joylyn
Oh Sandra, this makes me dream even more of
New Mexico (I'm a native and Lobo, etc.) just
so I could crash this party.
SandraDodd@... wrote:
hagrid.
has a few, take some scrap fabric and sew
some pockets in the inside, lots of pockets.
THen, have him look for something a few
times, and take out all sorts of things from
his pocket and put it in front of the person
that looks like he/she would be the most
annoyed at having different things placed in
front of them. THings like plastic bugs, old
looking candy, (wrapped or not), wadded up
money, wizzard money (chocolate coins in
different colors?), rocks and things like
that.
He should also give the birthday boy a gift
from dumbledore--lemondrops. Wrap them with
a note saying these are great muggle candies.
it, at least. you could get some fabric
paint, dirt color, and rub it on in various
places.
drop it in someone's lap, of course, the one
that would not appreciate a dragon egg beingd
ropped on their lap!
I know your dh. He looks familiar, somehow.
be good.
mammal with antlers) and in the beard to make
it look wild. Hagrid never combed his hair
until the 3 or 4th book (I can't get a hold
of Lexie to ask her) whe he was smitten with
the other head master.
more time on being lumbering and huge, taking
up the entire room, fumbling a lot with
pocket contents, etc.
Joylyn
New Mexico (I'm a native and Lobo, etc.) just
so I could crash this party.
SandraDodd@... wrote:
> So, Roxanna (and any others who want toI looked at the picture, he'd make a perfect
> contribute)--
>
> Keith my husband has agreed to go to a
> Harry Potter birthday party for a 13
> year old, and to go as Hagrid.
hagrid.
>Does it have pockets? If not or if it only
>
> Problem is, he hasn't read the books. Only
> seen the movie. So I went
> through with sticky notes and marked all
> the passages with or about Hagrid in
> book one and half of two. I can finish two
> and three today, and he can read
> them tomorrow, and Sunday night is
> showtime.
>
> He has a long coat, but it's not really
> huge, but for $100 we can't spend
> much on props and costumes.
has a few, take some scrap fabric and sew
some pockets in the inside, lots of pockets.
THen, have him look for something a few
times, and take out all sorts of things from
his pocket and put it in front of the person
that looks like he/she would be the most
annoyed at having different things placed in
front of them. THings like plastic bugs, old
looking candy, (wrapped or not), wadded up
money, wizzard money (chocolate coins in
different colors?), rocks and things like
that.
He should also give the birthday boy a gift
from dumbledore--lemondrops. Wrap them with
a note saying these are great muggle candies.
> We can find a pink umbrella, I figure, butbreak one of the spokes, if you can, or bend
> do any of you have suggestions for
> aging it? I was thinking generally
> scuffing it with sandpaper and maybe
> spraying mud on it and then rinsing it off.
it, at least. you could get some fabric
paint, dirt color, and rub it on in various
places.
> It can't look new and WalMartish.make a pocket special for that and have him
>
> There will be 30 kids, it's in a banquet
> hall at a restaurant, the kids are
> asked to dress student-like (shirts and
> ties) and entertainment and adults
> are doing robes and hats.
>
> I'm probably going in a long black dress
> and hat, to play recorder with, and
> coach, "Hagrid" (I'm writing him a couple
> of short bits--like he's going to
> say that Professor Dumbledore was busy at a
> meeting of the Ministry of
> Magic--oh, I shouldn't have said that--and
> had asked that Peter (the birthday
> boy) preside over this meal, please, if he
> didn't mind.
>
> We have a big plastic egg that a model
> dinosaur skeleton came in, and that
> can be a dragon egg.
drop it in someone's lap, of course, the one
that would not appreciate a dragon egg beingd
ropped on their lap!
> We need other ideas that will be easy,Do you live in Santa Fe or Alb? I feel like
> prop-like, and might cover over
> Keith's not knowing the whole book.
>
> I figure an escape speech should be pretty
> easy--trouble in the forest or
> something.
>
> I tried to get The Tynkers, a phenomenal
> family of homeschooled kids (now
> mostly not kids, young adults) who do
> magic, fire breathings close to time is
> madness, but here's the deal: The kid has
> a famous grandfather who's rarely
> in town, who's going hunting this weekend,
> and will be back for the birthday
> and then leave town again the next day for
> his job. It's Senator Pete
> Domenici. So that's the window, and we
> need to get Hagrid ready.
I know your dh. He looks familiar, somehow.
> For those who don't know Keith and can'tyes, a few food particles in the beard woudl
> get to the pictures, he has a big
> beard,
be good.
> and the picture doesn't show hismoose in the hair (as in hair product, not
> waist-length hair.
mammal with antlers) and in the beard to make
it look wild. Hagrid never combed his hair
until the 3 or 4th book (I can't get a hold
of Lexie to ask her) whe he was smitten with
the other head master.
> It's not veryI wouldn't worry about the accent and spend
> dark, but he was a theatre major in the
> days before he switched to math, and
> he played a giant in Jack and the
> Beanstalk, so he can draw on that. (Once
> he went to a horse show, when he was 19 or
> so, and was sitting way up in the
> top of the bleachers, and he said a little
> boy kept looking at him with huge
> eyes and then looking away, and then he
> heard him whisper to the woman he was
> with, "Grandma--it's the *Giant.*")
>
> And...
> Keith's not the greatest with accents.
>
> What Monty Python sketches are specifically
> Yorkshire besides "Every Sperm is
> Sacred"? If we had our friend Helena here
> who's lived in and around York for
> the past two years, she could coach him,
> but she's in London, probably
> losing her edge.
>
more time on being lumbering and huge, taking
up the entire room, fumbling a lot with
pocket contents, etc.
Joylyn
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Jocelyn Vilter wrote:
on my fridge. Are we going to have another
one? Lexie talks about it all the time, when
she's not talking about the 5th book.
Joylyn
> Hagrid always had wizarding money in hisYes! LIttle sausages and cakes!
> pockets, so maybe you could get
> hold of some of the foil wrapped stuff I
> saw around town this Christmas, and
> have him pass some out to each of the
> kids? Or just to the birthday kid.
> He also was known for carrying sausages and
> bits of cake. Little Debbies to
> the rescue?
>excellent idea!
>
> If his coat doesn't have lots of pockets, I
> think it would be totally OK for
> Hagrid to have sort of a hunting pouch type
> of thing (a big leather purse of
> yours or from the thrift store), worn
> cross-wise across his chest.
> I think he wears a scarf around his neckA great big scarf!
> too, in the movie.
>ewww yuck, but yes, very apt.
>
> He also carried mice for the owls, so you
> could use those ugly little fur
> mice that I saw at Walmark last night.
> When I saw Keith in person for the firstyes, please do. I still have my SPEW badge
> time last April, I thought he was
> Hagrid, in the flesh. I'm going to look
> through photos we took at our
> Hogwarts day, and maybe post some to the
> group area, just for fun.
>
on my fridge. Are we going to have another
one? Lexie talks about it all the time, when
she's not talking about the 5th book.
Joylyn
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In a message dated 12/28/01 11:41:35 AM, JVilter@... writes:
<< He also carried mice for the owls, so you could use those ugly little fur
mice that I saw at Walmark last night. >>
Cat-toy mice? He could pull them out and hold them obviously in his other
hand while hunting for foil-wrapped chocolate coins!
<<He also was known for carrying sausages and bits of cake. >>
If only we had gotten one of those Hickory Farms things this year! Some
years we do.
So, me to the mall--try for half-price Christmas packs at Hickory farms, toy
mice, and foil-coins.
Thanks!
<<If his coat doesn't have lots of pockets, >>
We're adding more pockets, it has two big ones. It's an overcoat he made for
a costuming class when he was in theatre long, long ago. I wanted to dye it
black but he won't let me. It's blue.
He has a _perfect_ big leather bag (which he wears to SCA events, and he
carries a recorder, a light cloth hood, a little tray and a spoon and a
drinking horn, so he's used to getting in and out of it gracefully, in a
relative manner of speaking). Yes, leather pouches we have in abundance, and
thanks for the suggestion.
Sandra
<< He also carried mice for the owls, so you could use those ugly little fur
mice that I saw at Walmark last night. >>
Cat-toy mice? He could pull them out and hold them obviously in his other
hand while hunting for foil-wrapped chocolate coins!
<<He also was known for carrying sausages and bits of cake. >>
If only we had gotten one of those Hickory Farms things this year! Some
years we do.
So, me to the mall--try for half-price Christmas packs at Hickory farms, toy
mice, and foil-coins.
Thanks!
<<If his coat doesn't have lots of pockets, >>
We're adding more pockets, it has two big ones. It's an overcoat he made for
a costuming class when he was in theatre long, long ago. I wanted to dye it
black but he won't let me. It's blue.
He has a _perfect_ big leather bag (which he wears to SCA events, and he
carries a recorder, a light cloth hood, a little tray and a spoon and a
drinking horn, so he's used to getting in and out of it gracefully, in a
relative manner of speaking). Yes, leather pouches we have in abundance, and
thanks for the suggestion.
Sandra
Carol & Mac
Hi Sandra,
Not a lot of suggestions but....
what about the one with the old men who had it tough? You know, "Well,
we reeeeally had it tough. We lived in paper bag in middle o'road, and
every mornin we had to get up an lick road clean..." Those accents must
be from up north somewhere? So maybe Yorkshire?
Carol
Not a lot of suggestions but....
> We can find a pink umbrella, I figure, but do any of you haveAs a fan of many things english - what about using tea for stains?
> suggestions for
> aging it? I was thinking generally scuffing it with sandpaper and maybe
> spraying mud on it and then rinsing it off. It can't look new and
> WalMartish.
> What Monty Python sketches are specifically Yorkshire besides "EveryIt's a bit early in the morning for me to think too seriously but...
> Sperm is
> Sacred"? If we had our friend Helena here who's lived in and around
> York for
> the past two years, she could coach him, but she's in London, probably
> losing her edge.
what about the one with the old men who had it tough? You know, "Well,
we reeeeally had it tough. We lived in paper bag in middle o'road, and
every mornin we had to get up an lick road clean..." Those accents must
be from up north somewhere? So maybe Yorkshire?
Carol
Nancy Wooton
on 12/28/01 11:53 AM, Carol & Mac at mjcmbrwn@... wrote:
the dialect written out in the books? And for MP sketches, what about the
one where Graham Chapman lives, looks and talks like a miner, but is really
a famous playwright, and Eric Idle is his son who *is* a miner, but dresses
and talks like a banker?
I just grabbed "All Things Wise and Wonderful" off the shelf, and opened it
randomly; chapter 23 features a guy who yells all the time, so the caps
attracted my attention. Some of his lines:
Aye, a good bacon pig. Gone right off. It hasn't ate nowt for two days.
He were right as ninepence on Monday night...
Nay, ah don't like that much! Ah allus like to 'ave a go. Isn't there
summat we can do? Where there's life there's 'ope, tha knaws.
Finished up as dog meat, poor bugger!
Nancy
>> What Monty Python sketches are specifically Yorkshire besides "EveryDo you have any "All Creatures Great and Small" tapes, or for that matter,
>> Sperm is
>> Sacred"? If we had our friend Helena here who's lived in and around
>> York for
>> the past two years, she could coach him, but she's in London, probably
>> losing her edge.
>
> It's a bit early in the morning for me to think too seriously but...
> what about the one with the old men who had it tough? You know, "Well,
> we reeeeally had it tough. We lived in paper bag in middle o'road, and
> every mornin we had to get up an lick road clean..." Those accents must
> be from up north somewhere? So maybe Yorkshire?
the dialect written out in the books? And for MP sketches, what about the
one where Graham Chapman lives, looks and talks like a miner, but is really
a famous playwright, and Eric Idle is his son who *is* a miner, but dresses
and talks like a banker?
I just grabbed "All Things Wise and Wonderful" off the shelf, and opened it
randomly; chapter 23 features a guy who yells all the time, so the caps
attracted my attention. Some of his lines:
Aye, a good bacon pig. Gone right off. It hasn't ate nowt for two days.
He were right as ninepence on Monday night...
Nay, ah don't like that much! Ah allus like to 'ave a go. Isn't there
summat we can do? Where there's life there's 'ope, tha knaws.
Finished up as dog meat, poor bugger!
Nancy
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In a message dated 12/28/01 12:54:19 PM, mjcmbrwn@... writes:
<< As a fan of many things english - what about using tea for stains? >>
HEY! I have been putting used Yorkshire Tea bags in the pot where a plant
died. Tea and dirt already prepared at sink-side at my house.
<<what about the one with the old men who had it tough? You know, "Well,
we reeeeally had it tough. We lived in paper bag in middle o'road, and
every mornin we had to get up an lick road clean..." Those accents must
be from up north somewhere? So maybe Yorkshire?
scripts/transcripts, and now I have the DVDs. I am Monty-Python rich this
month.
thanks for the ideas.
Sandra
<< As a fan of many things english - what about using tea for stains? >>
HEY! I have been putting used Yorkshire Tea bags in the pot where a plant
died. Tea and dirt already prepared at sink-side at my house.
<<what about the one with the old men who had it tough? You know, "Well,
we reeeeally had it tough. We lived in paper bag in middle o'road, and
every mornin we had to get up an lick road clean..." Those accents must
be from up north somewhere? So maybe Yorkshire?
>>I'll look! Thanks. We have from a thrift store the complete
scripts/transcripts, and now I have the DVDs. I am Monty-Python rich this
month.
thanks for the ideas.
Sandra
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In a message dated 12/28/01 1:10:32 PM, Felicitas@... writes:
<< And for MP sketches, what about the
one where Graham Chapman lives, looks and talks like a miner, but is really
a famous playwright, and Eric Idle is his son who *is* a miner, but dresses
and talks like a banker? >>
Got it. Saw it yesterday. thanks.
<<Finished up as dog meat, poor bugger!>>
Not at the dinner table with CHILDREN!
(Thanks!!)
Sandra
<< And for MP sketches, what about the
one where Graham Chapman lives, looks and talks like a miner, but is really
a famous playwright, and Eric Idle is his son who *is* a miner, but dresses
and talks like a banker? >>
Got it. Saw it yesterday. thanks.
<<Finished up as dog meat, poor bugger!>>
Not at the dinner table with CHILDREN!
(Thanks!!)
Sandra