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January 17 2005

Where's Buffy when you need her? A small town in England is being haunted by a vampire!

nicoblu710 | General | 21:34 CET | 12 comments total | tags:

"Small town"? Birmingham is one of our biggest cities!

Paul_Rocks | January 17, 22:02 CET

"Small town"? Birmingham is one of our biggest cities!

Don't you know? Everything is puny to we Americans!! We shall crush you!! Oh, sorry, I must have been channeling my prez.... ;~D

Rogue Slayer | January 17, 22:11 CET

Paul_Rocks i think it was a town just outside of Birmingham. "Wards End" is a fairly normal name to some of the other small towns outside of Birmingham featuring such lovelies as "Tardebigge" and "Lickey Hill"! But they are very nice villages!

Apocalypse | January 17, 22:14 CET

"It does put the wind up you."

OT, and pardon my ignorance, but could someone from the UK tell me what this means? I can gather its general meaning from the context, but I was curious about its colloquial origins. It doesn't seem to compare to the colloquial uses of "wind" that I can think of here in the States.

palehorse | January 17, 22:25 CET

There should be a slayer for each town, and a Joss Whedon show for each country based on their slayer.

So a indian girl in India as a vampire slayer.

Japaneese slayers.

SeanValen | January 17, 22:38 CET

"It does put the wind up you" means "it makes you nervous". AllWords.com example. Where it comes from... I haven't a clue.

Craig Oxbrow | January 17, 22:46 CET

You know what's kind of funny: On the Buffy yearbook, in the memoriam, it lists Jesse's last name as McNally, just like the woman who says, "it does put the wind up you".

BufSlyAngel | January 17, 22:52 CET

OT, and pardon my ignorance, but could someone from the UK tell me what this means? I can gather its general meaning from the context, but I was curious about its colloquial origins. It doesn't seem to compare to the colloquial uses of "wind" that I can think of here in the States.

Put the wind up you just means to scare you or put you on edge. ETA Oops beaten to it.

Apocalypse, I thought Ward End was more like an area of Birmingham just as Fallowfield is an area of Manchester. I could be wrong though and maybe the people who live there don't see it that way?

[ edited by Paul_Rocks on 2005-01-17 21:00 ]

Paul_Rocks | January 17, 22:55 CET

Thanks for the info!

palehorse | January 17, 23:09 CET

Well if he attacks people who answer their doors then who invited him in....?

Now trying to imagine Buffy with a Brum accent.

zz9 | January 17, 23:09 CET

Ha ha! "I'm not worried, though. I've got a lot of crucifixes in the house." - Father Anthony Rohan! Love it! Whedonesque folk, stakes at the ready.....

Joss rules! | January 17, 23:13 CET

This may explain why the Brits get all the shows...

Chris in Virginia | January 19, 00:21 CET

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