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Post number 2813

baylink — Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:14:55 -0800

Convergence. Dave Barry does a bang-up job tying together the recent threads about Harry Potter and Stephen King.

By: baylink

baylink — Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:15:23 -0800

I didn't even know Dave read Metafilter.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:50:53 -0800

As always, Dave Barry manages to make me almost laugh. Would you believe almost crack a smile? Ok, I didn't cry.

By: cCranium

cCranium — Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:50:37 -0800

baylink: everyone reads MetaFilter, they just don't like to admit it. In today's Globe & Mail there were two little blurbs that could've been taken directly from MeFi. We're the new Cognisceti. ... now if only I could learn how to spell it.

By: baylink

baylink — Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:08:26 -0800

"Cognoscenti". You weren't too far off. Just don't call me 'digerati', if you want to come out of the thing with your testicles still installed. I figure, why not? The net stole from Dave, (ghod, I love Google -- but what was up with that horrid lag tonight? :-) why can't Dave steal from the net? (The story there, for the three people who didn't read _Dave_Barry_in_Cyberspace -- which is a very funny book and I'm not making this up -- and therefore don't get that, is this: Dave wrote a piece, linked to from hundreds of results above, about an event that, by rights, *should* have been the genesis for the phrase "kicking dead whales down the beach". It got typed in -- this was before the Herald posted Dave's columns -- and emailed to about a billion and six people... one of whom eventually gave it *back* to Dave, and said "you know, you should write a piece about this". Dave's reply will go unreported, primarily because I don't remember it. :-) Buy the book and find out for yourself.)