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smells and harry potter
For some reason, all the interesting things I've read today have fallen into one of these two categories. They are not related. First, smells:
Good Smell Perplexes New Yorkers.
Strawberry Smell Trademark Denied: " The company argued that while strawberries may look and taste different, they all smell the same, and as a result could be trademarked. The court took a different view, and smell experts found that instead of just one aroma, strawberries can in fact have up to five different, distinct scents." The smell of freshly cut grass has been trademarked, however.
Second, Harry Potter:
Here is a website devoted to the quality of the translations of Harry Potter into Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese. The Whomping Willow, for example, is variously translated as "person-hitting willow," "willow that struggles stupidly," "the violent/rioting willow" and "the whip willow tree." I am kind of fascinated.
Weirdly, I came across that website through a project I am working on right now at work. I also came across some disturbing Harry Potter fan fic, described as follows: "Guilt. Confession. Sex. Betrayal. The agonizing power of human choice. They all collide when the Hogwarts train runs off the tracks near Coventry with Draco, Harry, Ginny in a marooned car... and a mystery brooding over them they can't begin to imagine." I didn't read it, but I'm pretty sure it contains, amongst other fucked up things, a threesome involving the three aformentioned characters.
And, finally, the flying car from the HP movies has been stolen.
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