Blind printers, shipping polls, House finale, and a demon barber

[connielane]

* I was absolutely boggling at the story (which has cropped up several times now) of printers being required to do their work IN THE DARK so as be unable to sneak peeks at the text of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I mean, I know they're operating under the most stringent secrecy, but that sounded positively medieval. It reminds me of the

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[xray2000]

I was pretty gutted by the idea of all the ducklings leaving. I fear change much like House does. :P I know House/Wilson/Cuddy is the heart of the show, but I'm wary of new ducklings. If they're recasting, I hope they can find three new ones who have as much chemistry as Foreman, Chase, and Cameron do.

Aww come on! You know they're not gone for good. There will probably be some temporary replacements but we'll still see each and every one of them every show. It'll be fun to see how the new "employees" fill the bill, or at least try to, before becoming so exasperated with House and quitting.

I'm wondering if Foreman will use this opportunity to start his own team like Cuddy offered, filling it with Chase and Cameron. hahaha that'd be fun.

[mrs_bombadil]

It sounds like ER getting new interns and residents every year...

[psychic_serpent]

Medieval just about sums it up. I mean, in this day and age we have colored inks and snazzy plastic glasses available! They could print just the page headings in black ink and the rest of the book in something like purple, then give all of the printers purple glasses to wear, so that all they can see on each page is what the chapter is... And, of course, the glasses would be super-glued to their heads. (What?)

Or they could just shift around the printing employees from country to country. Take the folks in England and have them work at the printer's in France (as long as none of them speak French), then have the folk in France work at printing the book in Germany (as long as they don't speak German), send the Germans to Spain, etc. If they're all printing a book that's in a language they don't know, no one can see anything that could be a spoiler!

Yeah, both of those things make about as much sense as working in the dark. ;)

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[policroma]

What? A Sweeney Todd Movie? YES!

Okay, I know it's gross and all, but still....YES!