Comments | hp100: Challenge #95: Root

florahart in hp100

Challenge #95: Root

Feb 19, 2005 12:32

Good grief. Maybe we should start giving more tightly-defined challenges! Counting took a while. The winner: Hufflepuff, with 720, followed by Ravenclaw (480), Slytherin (430), and Gryffindor (310). I think. For the curious, I did go back and make sure some of the more, ahem, prolific huffle writers didn't do more than 14 (they didn't), and I ( Read more... )

challenge: root

Comments 9

tayefeth February 19 2005, 21:49:08 UTC

How many problems will we, as a community, get to the root of this week?;-)

persephone_kore February 19 2005, 21:58:57 UTC

Good grief. Maybe we should start giving more tightly-defined challenges!

I thought that was what y'all were trying to do with "Quills Gone Wild"!

tarnationawaits February 20 2005, 02:47:13 UTC

You got me. ;)

yma2 February 20 2005, 01:20:29 UTC

OK, innocent speaking up here... what IS the dirty meaning for root? No, seriously, I don't know! I mean, I know how it can be used in a context to be dirty, like the root of his-... well, yeah. But... what can I say, I'm innocent!

neffable February 20 2005, 03:32:48 UTC

It's yet another slang term for sex, ie "to root someone".

sor_bet February 20 2005, 05:30:03 UTC

I thought it was a noun used sometimes in romance novels, i.e. "his man-root". Although that usage tends to induce laughter.

neffable February 21 2005, 08:45:14 UTC

Ah, well, maybe it is. I just know it's used that way in Australia.

secondsilk February 20 2005, 10:30:25 UTC

Can I suggest topics here?

Because you could write a Chocolate Frog Card entry for someone. (Anyone might deser accolades after the war.)

bardha February 21 2005, 14:02:33 UTC

That's a fun idea!