[OPEN] The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[sthatting]

It's one of the higher-quaulity, flying broomsticks the wizards and witches use.

AAAAARRRRRGH!!!!!

 

[A New Dawn]

Why don't we just move in the original fellowship thread, and then this one can be merged with it?

I can do it. No sense in having two of them in the main outer forum, anyway.

 

[A New Dawn]

Who's looking forward to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tomorrow? I know I am.

I unfortunately stumbled across someone who claimed to have the book early, and spoiled the ending. All I can say is, I hope he was wrong.

I heard there were several conflicting books on the internet, though the source of this information did not reveal any of the conflicting endings. LOL.

I am content to wait for the real book to arrive at our front door.

Wouldn't it be cool if there were really several endings written, sort of like that movie "Clue".

 

[sthatting]

I heard there were several conflicting books on the internet, though the source of this information did not reveal any of the conflicting endings. LOL.

I am content to wait for the real book to arrive at our front door.

Wouldn't it be cool if there were really several endings written, sort of like that movie "Clue".

But communism is just a red herring.

 

[skylark1]

Why don't we just move in the original fellowship thread, and then this one can be merged with it?

I can do it. No sense in having two of them in the main outer forum, anyway.

That sounds like a good idea to me. Especially when one considers that the thread started before the LDS subforum was created, and that Swart's suggestion for a thread name, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, won the vote!

 

[AMMON]

PLEASE don't post Harry Potter and The Deathy Hallows spoilers on here. For those of us still reading the book, such spoilers are considered very frustrating. Thanks!

 

[dragoniatiegre]

I could be WAY off base (I get my news from ytmnd), but I heard... (heard, mind you), that the author of the Harry Potter series is going to include a rape in her latest installment. Is that true?

Well, I just finished the book (kept myself offline for two days so I could do so, when not at work). There's no rape. There's a part that sounds like it could be, but since it involves 4 children, it's just a beating.

 

[dragoniatiegre]

PLEASE don't post Harry Potter and The Deathy Hallows spoilers on here. For those of us still reading the book, such spoilers are considered very frustrating. Thanks!

Don't worry, I won't spoil the ending.

As for a quick, non-spoiling review: I liked the book, but it didn't seem that it was up to JKR's normal caliper-of course, that's probably because she's tying up so many loose ends, and because we're all sad at the series ending.

The book was very fast paced, going from one sequence to the next much faster than in any of the other six books. A lot is revealed in this series, most of it subtle. All in all, it's well done, and I think JKR has done an excellent job with the series. Personally, her gift for story-telling, plot-twists, and character development makes her one of the best authors of our age.

Great job Ms. Rowling!

 

[AMMON]

I've about 100 pages left in the book, and I agree with most of your review. I find the writing not up to her usual standards, and I find many parts of the book to drag in between action sequences. I'm also quite displeased with the location, or rather the lack of location, in which most of the book takes place. The previous six had a sense of magic and continuity due to the location in which most of the stories occurred.

 

[dragoniatiegre]

I've about 100 pages left in the book, and I agree with most of your review. I find the writing not up to her usual standards, and I find many parts of the book to drag in between action sequences. I'm also quite displeased with the location, or rather the lack of location, in which most of the book takes place. The previous six had a sense of magic and continuity due to the location in which most of the stories occurred.

Agreed-but I also think that the ending makes up for it. All in all, not her best, but when the series is taken as a whole-simply marvelous!

 

[A New Dawn]

Zippy, I moved the Restaurant thread into this subforum. Do you mind if I merge this thread into it?

 

[AeonJ]

Well incase anyone noticed Ive been gon for about a month. I finally did it, I finished Air Force ROTC Field Training. Bascially its basic training for officers in the AF. 30 Days of one big mind game.

please update us as to what ur up to now.

 

[Apex]

please update us as to what ur up to now.

Relaxing till school starts

 

[A New Dawn]

What else is the summer for?

 

[AeonJ]

I had a weird conclusion to my day.

There was alot of commotion at work over a new waitress, particularly over her sexuality, because of the way she supposedly carried herself. I, being somewhat of a nice guy decided to talk to her while she was on a smoke/rest break and I was already on a 30-min. meal break anyway.

Well anywho, she seemed so surprised and/or relieved that someone talked to her that she surprised me with a hug at closing time.

Normally I wouldn't mind a hug but this one seemed to weird me out. I really didn't feel like it was appropriate (not nessecarly because we work together, I'm her boss, or that she's a girl) but because of how little we knew each other platonicly.

I'm really not sure what to think. Maybe she really had a bad day getting along with everyone else, I don't know. I just feel weirded out by it.

 

[Apex]

I had a weird conclusion to my day.

There was alot of commotion at work over a new waitress, particularly over her sexuality, because of the way she supposedly carried herself. I, being somewhat of a nice guy decided to talk to her while she was on a smoke/rest break and I was already on a 30-min. meal break anyway.

Well anywho, she seemed so surprised and/or relieved that someone talked to her that she surprised me with a hug at closing time.

Normally I wouldn't mind a hug but this one seemed to weird me out. I really didn't feel like it was appropriate (not nessecarly because we work together, I'm her boss, or that she's a girl) but because of how little we knew each other platonicly.

I'm really not sure what to think. Maybe she really had a bad day getting along with everyone else, I don't know. I just feel weirded out by it.

I wouldn't worry about it if it happened to me. Some people are just like that.

 

[MormonFriend]

Hi everyone. As some of you know, I was a Mormon for a short time and officially converted to Mormonism. Well, I left but I am now considering coming back again. Just need to get some of my doubts figured out first.

I am a life long Mormon, and I had my doubts, at about 24 like you. It got painful at times. It's normal, ... but that presumes I am normal .

 

[skylark1]

To anyone who celebrates it, happy Pioneer Day!

 

[Blackmarch]

Ha beat me to it.. 'course now it's the day after, but...
HAPPY PIONEERS DAY!


May you be all Pioneers in your own way




Anyways something cool that happened on pioneer's day:
Prayers were answered and rain was sent to put out the fires that having going on around the valley here.

 

[Zippythepinhead]

I am a life long Mormon, and I had my doubts, at about 24 like you. It got painful at times. It's normal, ... but that presumes I am normal .

You want abnormal? I am from the planet Zort. I was converted by moonmen. I am caffeinated most of the day. I talk to myself and have a fetish for posting. I served a mission in Birdseye, Utah and I have survived a hike naked up Everest.