Comments on: Haruspex http://www.readright.be/WDJ/2007/10/haruspex/ Words - spiffing and copacetic Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tom Joad http://www.readright.be/WDJ/2007/10/haruspex/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Tom Joad Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:18:26 +0000 http://www.readright.be/WDJ/?p=62#comment-403 I believe so. It was definitely a sage who knew his onions :-) I believe so. It was definitely a sage who knew his onions :-)

]]> By: Tippler http://www.readright.be/WDJ/2007/10/haruspex/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Tippler Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:26:08 +0000 http://www.readright.be/WDJ/?p=62#comment-401 Wasn't it a haruspex who warned Caesar to beware the Idle Bastards of March? Or something. Wasn’t it a haruspex who warned Caesar to beware the Idle Bastards of March?

Or something.

]]> By: Tom Joad http://www.readright.be/WDJ/2007/10/haruspex/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Tom Joad Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:21:06 +0000 http://www.readright.be/WDJ/?p=62#comment-400 No, it's a very bad 'joke' indeed. If you can find a funnier joke with the word haruspex in, I'd be glad to hear it :-) Like you and the basilisk, it didn't occur to me that Prof. Trelawney's first name meant something - even though I knew what a sybil was. Doh again! No, it’s a very bad ‘joke’ indeed. If you can find a funnier joke with the word haruspex in, I’d be glad to hear it :-)

Like you and the basilisk, it didn’t occur to me that Prof. Trelawney’s first name meant something – even though I knew what a sybil was. Doh again!

]]> By: Lynx http://www.readright.be/WDJ/2007/10/haruspex/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Lynx Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:21:28 +0000 http://www.readright.be/WDJ/?p=62#comment-397 Being a bit of a philistine, I had to look up rhabdomantist and sibyl. I still didn't laugh, but at least I now know the origin of Professor Trelawney's first name. Being a bit of a philistine, I had to look up rhabdomantist and sibyl. I still didn’t laugh, but at least I now know the origin of Professor Trelawney’s first name.

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