THE GREAT HARRODS CAPER
Well, friends, it is done. We completed the Great Harrods Caper. The event was recorded on video, and edited together with questionable results.
Daphne and I followed the list, after a fashion. I think we found the most expensive item in the store. We also found the oldest (the fish you will see on the wall are 50 million year old fossils).
What you'll notice most, I think, is the preponderance of live animals.
Also, I learn an important lesson about gambling.
I should also point out that I am still in England, sitting here comfortably, and not (as I would have been) packing my bag and getting out my passport. This is because I seem to have the ability to attract storms whenever I fly home anymore. As much as I enjoyed sleeping on the conveyor belt all night at JFK the last time I flew home, I decided to skip it.
So, I'll be reporting from here for the next few days. Until then . . . here you go. 13 Little Blue Envelopes fans, here is your virtual visit to England’s most famous store, home of Richard Murphy.
(I have just put up a slightly higher quality version, so it may take a moment for youtube to catch up. Please come back in a few minutes if it doesn't play.)
Daphne and I followed the list, after a fashion. I think we found the most expensive item in the store. We also found the oldest (the fish you will see on the wall are 50 million year old fossils).
What you'll notice most, I think, is the preponderance of live animals.
Also, I learn an important lesson about gambling.
I should also point out that I am still in England, sitting here comfortably, and not (as I would have been) packing my bag and getting out my passport. This is because I seem to have the ability to attract storms whenever I fly home anymore. As much as I enjoyed sleeping on the conveyor belt all night at JFK the last time I flew home, I decided to skip it.
So, I'll be reporting from here for the next few days. Until then . . . here you go. 13 Little Blue Envelopes fans, here is your virtual visit to England’s most famous store, home of Richard Murphy.
(I have just put up a slightly higher quality version, so it may take a moment for youtube to catch up. Please come back in a few minutes if it doesn't play.)
Labels: Daphne Unfeasible, flying, Great Harrods Caper, London
posted by Maureen at
4:15 PM
27 Comments:
YaY!!!!! U did it! dat lukd like sooo much fun! i hope u recover on the whole losin ur money on the bet thing:
o did u buy one of those chicks? (dey wer soo cute)i wud've bought one and named it Bob.Bob is a gud chick name- it cud b all like 'hey,i'm bob'to da otha chicks and they'd b all impressed by it's cool chick name and hail it king o sumthing. think about it:)
xxHxx
great editing:D
ooo i was da 1st 2 comment!!!! whooooooooooo:D
xxHxx
awwww. i cant watch the viseo on the computer in study hall! no speakers or the plugin thinger to let me watch it. :( ill have to wait till i get home. wait you lost free monkey on a bet?!?!?! (according to anonymous) you had better have gotten free monkey back.
OMGP0NIES!!!
And now I am done geeking out for the moment.
YAY for videos!! I'm very sad you didn't win any money to donate to Decreasing WorldSuck. Oh well. Maybe Hank will lose big again and have to donate more money. :)
Yeah, I'm having the *hardest* time finding your books outside of the internet. I've been looking at every Borders and Barnes and Nobles in my area and they're all sold out right now (though you are on backorder). Finally, I went to this discount/consingment bookstore and found the Key to the Golden Firebird for four bucks. I think it was the only time I've ever been irritated at *not* paying full price for a book. But I bought it, read it in a night, cried some because it was so sweet, and am probably going to release it via bookcrossing.com.
I'm glad you had fun on your great Harrod's caper.
so what was the most expensive thing? and the cheapest with a harrods label? I wanna know!!!!
too bad you can't donate any profits to the foundation for decreasing world suck-levels worldwide!!! but I'm glad you had fun.
o wait my bad. that said MONEY not monkey. i thought you bet free monkey. yeah. never mind. funny video. was that pirate ship for your pirate dance camp (which i missed signing up for :( o well) hope you had fun!
o no! your video thing say its no longer available! or is my computer just stupid?
Haha, that was totally the best thing that has happened to me for at least two months, Maureen. I wish I could have been there with you a Daphne more than ANYTHING. I need to get published simply so I can hang out with all you amazing writer's during your "work" group. I'll bring the cheese cake. (I make a damn good cheese cake.)
So are you going to post the resuls of how many things you found? And what the cheapest, most expensive, etc. all were?
Congrats on a very sucessful trip. Don't worry, we pirate dancers shall come up with a way to decrease worldsuck.
-Hannah
Wowzers, you guys must have had tons of fun!!
But I can't believe they had Libba Bray, Scott Westerfeld, Holly Black, AND I love Ponies, but they didn't have any of your books. SO uncool!!
~Jill
They didn't have your books?! That is so not cool! What good is Harrods if you can't get lost with your nose in a book with a part about getting lost in Harrods?!
Hope you get home without another night at the airport.
I nearly pissed my pants laughing. "Those are some hairy balls, Maureen." ^^
The Voice of Daphne definitely stole the show with that one liner.
Ooooh, awesome!! :D I just bought 13 Little Blue Envelopes a couple days ago. I will not read it since finals are only two weeks away (*gulp*), but as soon as school is out, oh yes.... Anyways, movie = fantastic!! :D
Wait.
HARRODS did not have 13 Little Blue Envelopes???!!!
Their book buyer is so fired.
Wish you'd won some money ... we urgently need to decrease WorldSuck today.
Lisa
MORE VIDEOES! MORE VIDEOS! MORE VIDEOS! MORE VIDEOS!
MAUREEN SHOULD BE OUR SECRET SISTER MAUREEN! SHE SHOULD ADDRESS HER BLOGS TO HANK! EVERY DAY!
Also loves ponies,
John
I am, as I type this, showing your video to students and customers. They are highly amused, as am I.
hahaha those are some hairy balls maureen. lmao! so funny. i emailed your blog to my friend and she died laughing. so funny. have to tell my other maureen-loving friends bout your blog. o and im comming to your jellyfishtacular. cant wait! june 5th is so far away :(
So, that 54,000 lb (as in British pound vs. US dollar, not as in units of 16 ounces) thing hanging from the ceiling -- was that the most expensive thing in the store? And if so -- or even if not -- what WAS it? A super-tricked out ceiling fan? Man, I have really been missing some home decorating opportunities.
I actually showed her the Brotherhood 2.0 blog prior to watching this video. I attempted to explain how everyone is related to each other in the YA world. It was also amusing.
first the music in that video put the 3 year old to sleep! very nice! and then THAT WAS SO FUNNY! nice hairy ball convo......and i have that monkey!
Awesome! That looked like so much fun! I really need to go walk around a crazy department store with a video camera--it's one of those experiences everyone has to have at least once in their life, like scuba-diving or eating crab cakes.
wow thats really really cool.... and funny and sorry that you cant gamble lol ;) so any way have a good time in england... and go see the eye of england for me!! please!!! lol have fun
WOW! i want to go there. I justed finished 13 little blue envelopes this morning. It was uber awesome. u did great. Its a bummer harrods didnt have any of you books. At least they had some of Scotts.
Im going to go hunt down Develish now.
*a tumbleweed crosses the seemingly abandoned blog of Maureen Johnson*
thank you nice sharing
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