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Hogwarts, Hogwarts,
Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald,
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling,
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare
And full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff.
So teach us stuff worth knowing,
Bring back what we forgot,
Just do your best
We'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot!
Victimae paschali laudes
Immolent Christiani.
Agnus redemit oves:
Christus innocens Patri
Reconciliavit peccatores.
Mors et vita duello
Conflixere mirando:
Dux vitae mortuus,
Regnat vivus.
Dic nobis Maria,
Quid vidisti in via?
Sepulcrum Christi viventis,
Et gloriam vidi resurgentis:
Angelicos testes,
Sudarium, et vestes.
Surrexit Christus spes mea:
Praecedet suos in Galilaeam.
Scimus Christum surrexisse
A mortuis vere:
Tu nobis, victor Rex,
Miserere.
Amen. Alleluia.
| ... That when I was about 10 years old I played on a little league baseball team sponsored by the steelworkers union? From that comment you should be able to tell that I am posting this about 1 minute after Pittsburgh won superbowl 40 with the Harry-Cedric combo of Fire and Iron. |
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Pauli said ... (February 05, 2006 11:28 PM)
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Merlin said ... (February 06, 2006 12:07 PM)
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Merlin said ... (February 06, 2006 12:11 PM)
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post a commentActually I think Pittsburgh dominated all 4 elements in the game as I divided them. They ran several trick plays which really worked showing a great deal of cunning, and Roethlisberger threw himself into the endzone after setting that 1st TD up by a fantastic pass while under pressure.
One aspect of the game that the announcers failed to cover was the amount of penalties that Seattle racked up - 7 for 70 yards. The "low block" call was questionable, but still - Steelers had 3 for 20 and the first was a "false start" on the first play probably mainly due to nerves. So I guess the Seahawks were playing a little like Slytherin, eh?
The Steel defense was definitely there also, but it didn't always look like it was doing anything. But ostensibly forcing pass completions in the middle of the field in the last quarter did as much as anything to get the win. Three sacks didn't hurt either.
Hey, don't forget the chiastic "X" structure - I can't remember what exactly Ward was calling it when he was being interviewed afterwards as MVP, but it was something "X" reverse or something like that, the one where Randall hit him in the end zone.
Parker's run was pretty good too ... kind of a wind on land kind of thing ... which reminds me, I am into book 5 now on tape and the Quidditch match in which Harry fell off his broom when seeing a dementor in book 3 (which was just mentioned in book 5) - taht match was againt Hufflepuff and was I believe the Match that Amos Diggory is always talking about in book 4. ... Important match for how the "evil one" butts in and contributes to tensions between elements that would otherwise respect each other as friends and maybe even totally enjoy each other as friends, although maybe not ... Cedric and Cho do kind of annoy Harry as a couple and I think he realizes Cho really wasn't his cup of green tea anyway (but I like Ced and Cho because it's the parker connection of wind and earth LOL )
Oh yeah, and as far as numerological significance ... can't get much more of it than having it be superbowl 40
this is the one they should have had U2 for ... they could have closed with 40, that would have been pretty intense ... most people probably would have missed the significance though and not remembered the song ... oh well.