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Hi Alexander,

23.12.2025 12:04:56, Alexander Koryagin wrote:

 AK> It was Rowling after all, not me. And we should remember immortal
 AK> Bart Simpson's saying "I didn't do it!" ;-)

"I didn't hit her! I did NOT! Oh, hai Mark." (c) Johnny
 
 AS>> I never read any of the Harry Potter books, but
 AS>> this sentence seems to refer to a threatened or
 AS>> impending punishment by magic in a generic manner,
 AS>> i.e. by turning one into a fruit bat.
 AK> Unlikely. If she wrote about fruit flies it sounded well in
 AK> England.

How do you know? 

 AK> But as for "fruit bats"....

What's wrong with them? Besides the fact that being tropical critters,
they're not common at all in Scotland, and the writer could possibly
mean bats in general (as a type).


... "Lisa, do you understand life? Do you?!" -- Johnny
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