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Oy. Only one week until the Renaissance faire, and my costume still isn't finished. We've been so busy, and then when we've actually had the time, we totally procrastinated. And my mum hasn't even started making one for herself, so I'm going to get all kinds of flack for this come costume-making time next year. Oy oy oy.
On the ever-so-bright-and-shiny side, however, I've just checked out Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson from the library, and am very happy, as I didn't even know there was going to be another book in the series, and am very glad there is, as it is the funniest series of books known to humanity, and I love them dearly, and this is a run on sentence if ever I saw one. :D
But one thing I never understand is why they always change the titles of English books when they get to America. They did it with two of the Georgia Nicolson books, which I don't get, since both the original titles of those were much cleverer. And, in the case of On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, much shorter. But apparently the American publishers thought That's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers would be incomprehensible to American audiences. Come on, who doesn't know what knickers are? Even if you're a stupid American unfamiliar with anything British, you have to know what knickers are, don't you?
But sillier yet, I think, is changing the title of Away Laughing on a Fast Camel from And That's When It Fell Off In My Hand because the stupid American publishers felt it was too naughty. THAT too naughty for Americans? The same Americans who put Howard Stern on television? Who put shows like "Temptation Island" on in primetime, when little children can watch? Half the comedy on late night talk shows is ten times filthier than that, and I've been watching it since I was 12. Americans can just be very stupid, if you ask me. And I should know, since I'm one of them. I need to move to the UK, so I can get a proper copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Who the heck knows why they changed that! Probably because they wanted to change it to something more readily 'magical' because they thought Americans were too stupid to have ever heard of the Philosopher's Stone. And, sadly enough, they'd probably be right.
I think the time is right to go eat cookies and watch Britcoms now.
On the ever-so-bright-and-shiny side, however, I've just checked out Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson from the library, and am very happy, as I didn't even know there was going to be another book in the series, and am very glad there is, as it is the funniest series of books known to humanity, and I love them dearly, and this is a run on sentence if ever I saw one. :D
But one thing I never understand is why they always change the titles of English books when they get to America. They did it with two of the Georgia Nicolson books, which I don't get, since both the original titles of those were much cleverer. And, in the case of On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, much shorter. But apparently the American publishers thought That's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers would be incomprehensible to American audiences. Come on, who doesn't know what knickers are? Even if you're a stupid American unfamiliar with anything British, you have to know what knickers are, don't you?
But sillier yet, I think, is changing the title of Away Laughing on a Fast Camel from And That's When It Fell Off In My Hand because the stupid American publishers felt it was too naughty. THAT too naughty for Americans? The same Americans who put Howard Stern on television? Who put shows like "Temptation Island" on in primetime, when little children can watch? Half the comedy on late night talk shows is ten times filthier than that, and I've been watching it since I was 12. Americans can just be very stupid, if you ask me. And I should know, since I'm one of them. I need to move to the UK, so I can get a proper copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Who the heck knows why they changed that! Probably because they wanted to change it to something more readily 'magical' because they thought Americans were too stupid to have ever heard of the Philosopher's Stone. And, sadly enough, they'd probably be right.
I think the time is right to go eat cookies and watch Britcoms now.
