Problems of communication

I have not taken much part in the rabid stream of discussion and rage that followed the canonization of certain fics in HBP. But I have enjoyed it. Now I am face with the problem of explaining to people outside the fandom - my mother, for instance - the events that have so involved and amused me and many of my friends for days.

I have just come up with the perfect opening line for the explanation.

"Dear Mum,
The Internet has given scope to kinds of insanity that were not even imagined before it was invented..."

I've been tagged... sort of

Anyway, the name of the meme is "Five things my friends don't know about me." Let's see....

1)I used to support Milan (the football team), but I stopped when Mr.Berlusconi, who owns it, started using it for political advantage. Since then I have no favourite team.
2)As a child, I spent a few years in Monza, where they hold the car races. However, I never saw one.
3)I have long been a Katharine Hepburn fan, and was rather unhappy to hear, after her death, of her voracious, promiscuous and bisexual lusts before she met Spencer Tracy. I was however much more unhappy to hear that in 1948 she worked for the Wallace presidential campaign, which everyone but her knew to be a Communist front.
4)I am quite a good cook when I put my mind to it, but I don't do cakes or sweets.
5)At 15, I wanted to learn to play the piano, but I was forbidden to do so - for reasons too mean and ugly to describe here.

Now I am supposed to tag five people. Well...
jennilee
theregoesyamum
kennahijja
privatemaladict
avus