Dudley Castle Puns

I visited Dudley Castle (England) today with a friend, a very historically significant place, and apparently very haunted. The main attraction is the zoo (Dudley zoological Gardens and Castle) but one of the enclosures, the "Castle creatures" part, is within a section of the castle itself. There is a room that displays the history of the castle, and as we were reading the information, we both felt sort of uneasy, as if someone was behind us. (Note that that zoo was very empty today) my friend jumped away, saying that someone touched her arm, we stood for a second and moved on through exhibition, feeling a little shaken but in a sort of excited way, if you understand. As we were nearly at y The bat enclosure, I noticed something in the corner of my eye and a third shadow appeared behind us, as if someone was striding towards us. We had seen absolutely nobody inside the enclosures, and the layout of the building means that noise often echoes throughout the tight halls, there was absolutely nobody there. We quickly ran out of the enclosure, terrified but also really excited.

Also something to note is that my mother has experienced some potentially paranormal activity in this building, specifically inside the bat enclosure. As she went to leave, she backed away and said "sorry" to someone who was behind her previously, who had disappeared, both my parents are adamant that there was somebody there, who had seemingly disappeared.

Are these common experiences, and are there any potential explanations?

The image is supposed to show the 'Grey Lady' and her child...I don't see the child. Do you think it's a dummy/mannequin? Or someone walking the grounds? Or the ghost?

News article link.

I'm looking for suggestions of places to go for a couple of days, not too far from Birmingham.

Warwick /Leamington was an idea I had.

I've seen lots of posts detailing how hagrid was actually a Death Eater, and I have evidence that not only refutes that, but also proves that Hagrid was Dumbledore's most trusted man, even more than Snape.

1. First off, there was a good reason for Hagrid being at/near Godrics Hollow when he was. We know that Dumbledore regularly sends Hagrid to do tasks. We know that Dumbledore was in possession of James invisibility cloak at the time of his death, and Dumbledore voiced upsetness & regret that he was never able to give it back. It's possible he sent Hagrid to return the cloak, and he arrived in time to find the scene. Hagrid states that he got there before the muggles started swarming, which could have been hours because it was dark and snowy. Plus, if he had the invisibility cloak, he could have snuck past the muggles when he arrived (the cloak could fit three teens, I'm sure it could fit most of Hagrid, and the snow would cover the rest.) Plus, since they were killed around Christmas, it would give hagrid a reason to leave Hogwarts, since most people leave during that time. And, hagrid hasn't hesitated to miss his duties for Dumbledore (as shown by his long journey to find the Giants). The fact that Dumbledore trusted Hagrid shows that he was one of this most trusted friends.

2. Somebody said that Hagrid knew about Horcruxes because he knew Voldemort would come back. This is codswallop. Everyone in the Order of the Phoenix immediately jumped into action after Harry said he was back despite having no evidence or proof, and if we are going by this criteria, it would mean that the entire order of the Phoenix are death eaters.

3. The person stated that Hagrid making Dudley grow a pig tail is much too complicated magic for him. Keep in mind he didn't transform him, only add something. And later on, we see that even less experience wizards (like Neville), can cause different physical traits on objects and people on the second or third try. And for him performing the spell non verbally, literally all transfiguration is non verbal so yeah.

4. For Hagrid introducing Harry to Quirrel so eagerly, his reason was that Quirrel would be teaching Harry at school. And he introduced other people to Harry before Quirrel, so he didn't introduce Harry immediately to Quirrel.

5. As for Hagrid buying Harry an easily surveilllable, owl harry chose the owl, although hagrid purchased it. It was a birthday gift, so Hagrid chosing a owl in front of Harry instead of

I guess maybe I never really understood it. I've developed this habit of listening to the books (Stephen Fry version) when I get ready in the morning, on the drive to work etc. and I noticed something.

In book 1, when McGonagall marches through the castle and asks Prof Flitwick if she "could borrow Wood for a moment" Harry's first thought is "was wood a cane she was going to use on him?"

In book 2, after Ron and Harry crash the car into the whomping willow and Snape gets McGonagall "either he (Harry) had forgotten just how thin her mouth could go or he had never seen her this angry before. She raised her wand the moment she entered. Harry and Ron both flinched. She merely pointed it at the empty fireplace where flames suddenly erupted."

In book 5 after Mundungus disapparates, Harry jumps up, collides with the open window and Uncle Vernon literally strangles him.

In book 6 when Dumbledore comes to fetch Harry from his Aunt and uncles Harry stops several steps from the bottom "as long experience had taught him to remain out of arms reach of his uncle."

In book 7 when they're starving, roaming around the countryside. "This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits, an empty one, bickering and gloom. Harry was least surprised by this, because be had suffered periods of near starvation at the Dursleys'"

I always knew and understood the emotional and psychological trauma and effects. Dudley is the golden child and Harry is the scapegoat. Obviously. But for some reason, the physical abuse went wholly unnoticed by me. I just now realized how badly scared a child has to be flinch when his teacher flings out her arm. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't completely heartbroken at the moment.

If everyone's figured this out ages ago, and discussed this to the point of no return... and I'm the last to the party, well... that's typical.

Hello all! I repost this every year in the buildup to the Rumble but why stop now. It's my favourite match and I've spent a long while compiliing all of the 'forgotten Royal Rumble matches'. If there's any you know that I've missed, please let me know!

I've also done up an entry list and trivia section for each Rumble for fun. Did you know that while Bastion Booger & Skull were attacked before their only official Royal Rumble matches and never made it in, they both actually did compete in Royal Rumble matches under those gimmicks? Did you also know that Bastion Booger technically has three eliminations in a Royal Rumble match? Now you do!

Enjoy!

30-Man Royal Rumble

Madison Square Garden — New York, NY

House Show: January 19th, 1994

YOUTUBE LINK

Trivia:

• This is the only Royal Rumble appearances for Mike Sharpe, Jimmy Powers, Bastion Booger, & Scott Putski.
• This is the first Royal Rumble appearances for Diesel, Mo, The 1-2-3 Kid, Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, Johnny Polo (Raven), Bam Bam Bigelow, Adam Bomb, Crush, Mabel, Bart Gunn & Doink The Clown.
• With 9 Eliminations, Crush sets the then all-time record for most eliminations in a single Royal Rumble match.
• Sgt. Slaughter becomes possibly(?) the first ever "surprise" entrant with his appearance in this match.
• This is the last Royal Rumble appearance for Sgt. Slaughter.

Universal Studios Orlando (Dec. 19 and Dec. 20).
Apologies as this a quick dump of thoughts.

Hi everyone! My family doesn’t have much and haven’t been on a big vacation for years, and decided before I start Step 1 studying, I’ll treat them to a trip to Florida. It was so well worth it! We are a family of 7, and seeing my parents and siblings go crazy over just a nice hotel room. They had no idea what’s coming.

This was a spontaneous trip put together in about a week since we had to reschedule for a week earlier (could’ve had 2 weeks to prep), still not sure how my family pulled it off. Surprisingly some Premier hotel rooms were still available and calling Universal to change the vacation package date went pretty smoothly.

We drove from Houston Friday night around 7 pm, stopped at Pensacola (Hampton Inn) early Saturday morning, walking distance access to beach, played and rested there from morning to afternoon, drove to Tallahassee and stopped for Mass and Dinner (TIMEZONE CHANGE – lose an hour of sleep), and then continued the drive to stay by a nearby hotel near Universals (Holiday Inn) Saturday night. At this hotel, we packed peanut butter sandwiches and snacks from free breakfast in lunch boxes for the day at Universals. Kept them in our thin backpacks which did fit lockers. Water was refillable with hydroflasks at the coke machines. Spent the night at Portofino Bay, and the rest of the trip at Rosen Inn International.

I read through this thread and noticed that express tickets were a must if going during peak season, and for that I found that it was cheaper to book a night at the Premier hotels (double queen bed) about $2600, which gives you access to 5 express unlimited tickets for BOTH DAYS and the 5 admission tickets [3-Park] 2-Day Park-to-Park Ticket. My parents are old and wouldn’t go rides anyway, so it worked out. I bought 2-Day Park-to-Park admission tickets for them separately. For the hotel room, I had to keep refreshing the pages on the vacation package website every day to find one available. I suggest grabbing it quick since it tends to get booked fairly quickly.

Sunday, we checked in at Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at around 9 am. There is a parking garage that will provide you with a white ticket, but you won’t be using that to exit as it’ll charge you an additional $20 something. You’ll be using the hotel key given to enter and exit the garage as needed throughout the day. At the check in lobby, there is also luggage service tha

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

>Hagrid raised a gigantic fist and knocked three times on the castle door.
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>– Book One: the first years enter Hogwarts

In 'Philosopher's Stone', Harry Potter enters the magical world – physically and emotionally. His progress towards knowledge, to unravel the plot, can be measured by his passing through the story's many doors.

Outside number Four, Privet Drive, Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and Hagrid pause to give a silent, reverent goodbye to baby Harry. On the doorstep of his aunt and uncle’s house, bundled up in blankets, the Boy Who Lived sleeps; a wizard child on the threshold of Muggledom.

A page and a decade later, Harry is called to consciousness by Petunia Dursley rapping on the cupboard door. It is Dudley’s birthday. The family goes to the zoo. Harry’s magic asserts itself: he opens a door and releases a snake (he vanishes the glass but it amounts to the same thing, to allow egress from an enclosure). When letters arrive from Hogwarts, Vernon guards the front door, then seals the letterbox. But the truth cannot be shut out. On the rock island Hagrid knocks the door off its hinges. Magic enters the Dursleys’ sanctuary and can never again be repelled.

Hagrid – take note – is the Keeper of Keys. The half-giant escorts 11-year-old Harry to London. At the Leaky Cauldron, he knocks on a brick wall, which becomes a doorway. Harry spends a day in the magical world. A month later, at King’s Cross station, Harry penetrates another unusual doorway, the barrier to Platform Nine and Three Quarters. The Muggle world behind him, the train carries him north to school. After the Lake, the castle door and Professor McGonagall. Then, double doors into the Great Hall where Harry is Sorted into Gryffindor. The gateway to the common room is a round hole in the wall behind a portrait of a fat lady in a pink silk dress. Harry has arrived at his new home.

ALL HOPE ABANDON, YE WHO ENTER HERE

Hogwarts is stuffed with unusual doors. Some need polite asking to open. Others need to be tickled, or are solid walls pretending. There is the risk of running through a ghost. Peeves the Poltergeist bursts out of a classroom when the gang are out sneaking. To hide from Filch the caretaker, Hermione uses her first non-classroom spell to unlock a door: Alohomora. The giant three-headed dog Fluffy is standing on a trapdoor.

At Hallowe’en, a loose troll in the castle. Harry and Ron lock* it in the girls’ bathroom. Then, hearing a scream, they u

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

For those who do not know, GPT-3 is a natural language synthesis AI produced by OpenAI. It was trained on basically the entire trawlable internet, plus a large number of published works, and it is one of the most cutting edge pieces of Deep Learning available today.

It also has the ability to write fanfiction. And, as Harry Potter fanfiction is... lets say over-represented in the sample it was fed, it's remarkably good at producing detail from nothing.

One thing we can do is feed it a summary, and it will try and turn that summary into a short passage. So lets have a go with a few of the most popular prompts (selected because the other top prompts didn't really produce much that made sense in the short time I gave them):

When Harry and Ginny start dating, Ron goes into full Overprotective Big Brother Mode. On Ginny.

>Ron was fuming as he watched Harry and Ginny walk out of the pub. He had known it was only a matter of time before they got together, but he had not expected it to happen so soon. And he certainly hadn't expected Ginny to start dating his best mate.
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>He followed them out and caught up with them on the street. "Ginny, Harry is my best mate, but he's just a sweet, naïve, little kid. You had better not be using him or leading him on, because if you break his heart, I will end you, and Mum will help me."
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>"Ron, I know how you feel. I've been looking out for Harry my whole life. But he's a grown man now and can make his own decisions," Ginny said. "Besides, I don't use men and I don't lead them on. I'm the one who gets hurt. I don't want to hurt Harry, but if he chooses me, I'll take my chances."
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>Ron looked at Ginny in disbelief. He had never seen her so grown up. "I'm sorry, Ginny. I know you better than that. Harry is my best mate too. You're just not the type to hurt people like that. But you're good for him because he deserves someone better than Cho Chang."
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>Ginny smiled. "Thanks, Ron."
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>"No problem." Ron said. He meant it too. Harry was like a brother to him, and he would do anything to protect his brother's happiness, even if it meant letting Harry go with Ginny.
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>"By the way, my mum loved you," Ron said. "She's always wanted a daughter."
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>Ginny smiled and said, "I liked her too."

A bit weird, to be sure, but remarkably cogent for a computer.

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Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

He lost May