[SOC] At last ...

[Bill Cunningham]

Damn, we've been upstaged again.

The diploma on that site declares one to be a "wizard - last class."
Of course, if there are only two classes, we're in the running.


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> <<
> Barry Trotter, politically incorrect avatar of Harry Potter [ 2002-12-13
> 16:04 ]
> LONDON (Reuters) - the American humorist Michael Gerber signed a parody of
the
> adventures of Harry Potter entitled "Barry Trotter and the Shameless
Parody"
> which has a great success in this Holidays Season. As Harry Potter studies
at
> the school of the wizards of Hogwarts, in the same manner Barry Trotter
attends
> the establishment of Hogwash where, after an agreement with the direction,
he
> idly starts his 11th year "of studies". Barry smokes pipe and cigarettes,
tries
> to read "the existentialism for dummies" and more often fights by pleasure
than
> to defend his/her comrades. The parody seems to have found its public but
"we
> receive sometimes aggressive e-mail some eight year old children",
declared in
> Reuters the thirty year author. "the other complaints emanate from people
who
> bought the book by error and which hurries to bring it back", declared
Gerber
> about the book that he started by publishing by himself, the publishers
> initially fearing the legal proceedings. "I printed it on request. My
printer
> made a specimen of it and sent it". The "by word of mouth" made the
remainder
> and the work is about to become a best-seller for Christmas in Great
> Britain. "We are in the presence of a phenomenon of passion similar to
that of
> Harry Potter", confirms a spokesman of Waterstone, larger British
distributor
> of books. "50.000 samples have been sold in the United States. There is a
> Japanese edition, an Estonian and a Chinese ", explains the humorist who
has
> finally found an editor and whose Web site (www.barrytrotter.com) received
more
> than 100.000 visits.
> The four volumes of the original by J.K. Rowling were sold by 175 million
> specimens in 59 languages.
> >>
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