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Curse You You Stupid Wizard
Jul. 22nd, 2007 10:06 pmLast week, I spent a day working in South Australia with an English engineer (more on that later.)
On the drive back to Adelaide from Victor Harbor, he told me he was flying home via Singapore. He was going to be there on Saturday 21st of July, which because of the international dateline or some such was going be happing earlier than the 21st back in the UK.... And so, he had a copy of the friggin' new H*rry P*tt*r book on order at a bookshop there! The idea being he could read it all on the long journey home, and avoid his pesky little nephew spoiling it for him!!!!
Argh!
Then, on Saturday I was in the city near Readers Feast book shop on Swanston Street. I saw one person reading it at the tram stop, and another person walking with a copy in a bag...
Argh!
Later that day I was in a good little bookshop in Williamstown. While I was there THREE PEOPLE came in to ask for the new H*rry P*tt*r book! He'd sold out by 3PM!!!! The place had plenty of other perfectly good, indeed quite interesting books!!!
Argh!!!
Then I came across this picture on the Wikipedia!
Argh!!!!
On the drive back to Adelaide from Victor Harbor, he told me he was flying home via Singapore. He was going to be there on Saturday 21st of July, which because of the international dateline or some such was going be happing earlier than the 21st back in the UK.... And so, he had a copy of the friggin' new H*rry P*tt*r book on order at a bookshop there! The idea being he could read it all on the long journey home, and avoid his pesky little nephew spoiling it for him!!!!
Argh!
Then, on Saturday I was in the city near Readers Feast book shop on Swanston Street. I saw one person reading it at the tram stop, and another person walking with a copy in a bag...
Argh!
Later that day I was in a good little bookshop in Williamstown. While I was there THREE PEOPLE came in to ask for the new H*rry P*tt*r book! He'd sold out by 3PM!!!! The place had plenty of other perfectly good, indeed quite interesting books!!!
Argh!!!
Then I came across this picture on the Wikipedia!
Argh!!!!
