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This is pretty normal in 13 year old girls today. I’m not making this up but every 11–13 year old girl I have seen the past few years think they will get a hogwarts letter.And as much as I try to explain that it’s a movie, it just won’t work. You might be thinking, “what?! Why you saying that? They’re kids, let them have their imagination!” But at that age a child should realise the difference between reality and television.So they’ll never see a letter saying hogwarts with their name in their whole life. So they will soon realise.Okay, without offending your niece, show her this picture.Tell her that when you see hogwarts in pictures or in the movies between scenes that it’s a model that, like you would see at the seaside (usually here in England as our old culture is deep to us)Show her the actors/actresses from Harry Potter.Like Daniel Radcliffe.And this.Read her this.“Hello, message from me, Kyle the author of this internet answer. Sorry to tell you, but it’s movies and books, created by J.K Rowling. You won’t get an invitation to hogwarts as it’s all made by a abused woman who loved books and that it took her like 6 times to 6 different book productions companies to actually be heard.”Here’s some of the behind the scenes from Harry Potter.The magic is all done by green screen, a video editing trick that goes back decades.So hogwarts exists but only as a prop for a movie franchise.Harry Potter exists but only as a character in a book and movie franchise.And the letter of acceptance from hogwarts exists as a prop and the plot for a book and movie franchise.Hope this convinced her. Although tell her slowly.

Hi there! I'm Mario and I'm Italian. Let me shed some light on my name. I wasn't named after Super Mario but my mother chose it as she really looked up to my grandfather.I really enjoy playing the Mario franchise. When I was a child, I used to spend several hours (probably too many) playing Super Mario 64. I still remember when Princess Peach sent me a letter inviting me to join her at her castle. However, I soon discovered that Bowser had imprisoned the princess. I couldn't do anything but save her and so I did.Back then, It never occurred to me that Mario and Luigi were depictions of Italian stereotypes. All I cared about was enjoying myself playing the video game and of course saving the princess.Two years ago, I met a guy who asked me whether I was offended by the game because apparently, to him, it mocked Italian culture. Well, I answered him by asking another question: How can a little man with funny moustache who always eats mushroom offend me? It clearly doesn't. On the contrary, Mario is awesome. He saves princesses, defeats giant turtles, and gets great powers by eating mushrooms. I can only dream of doing that.P.S: Mamma mia!

It can be a pain from a tax standpoint, but it’s actually not so bad.I was on “Wheel of Fortune” in the mid-1980s, back when you weren’t allowed to keep the money you won on the show; you had to “spend” it on their in-studio showcase items. Thus, you only got prizes.My run on “Wheel” lasted three days, as the winner back then was invited back to compete on the next day’s show. On my second day, the “Grand Prize” was a new car. (Actually, you were allowed to choose which Grand Prize you wanted to play for, so I picked the car). I solved the phrase “Even-Tempered” and won a 1986 Mazda SE-5 pickup. Here’s a grainy screenshot from the old VHS tape:(Vanna is directing me to the driver’s seat, and Pat Sajak is quietly setting my Lav mic down on the floor. My then-girlfriend, and now wife of 33 years, is on the other side of the car).We contestants were informed well ahead of time that we were responsible for any and all income taxes that were owed based on the stated value of any prize we won. The car itself was valued by the game show people at around $7,800, which was close to the full MSRP for that model in 1986, believe it or not.So what about the process was a pain? Very little, other than dealing with the taxes. This was how it went for me:Merv Griffin Productions reported their stated value of the car (and all of my other winnings) to both the CA Franchise Tax Board and to the IRS. My total take-home from all of the prizes I won (furniture, exercise equipment, console TV, cases of Rice-a-Roni, but no cash) was $23,321. So from a tax standpoint, even though as a recent college graduate I’d only earned about $4,000 of actual W-2 wages for that year, my total income where the tax collectors were concerned was just shy of $28,000. And without any cash winnings, and with very little income, I had to figure out how to pay the tax bill.You’re allowed by IRS rules to use the “fair market value” of any prize you win instead of what the game show says it’s worth. Game shows notoriously inflate a prize’s value, for obvious reasons. So I spent a good week or two looking around for those same (or similar) items in stores and catalogs (this was 1986, pre-Internet, of course), calling around, talking to salespeople and retail managers. I then had to itemize the entire list with the prices I was given by the retailers. This lowered my overall total winnings to around $15,000, fair market value.I filed my taxes in April, using the lower fair-market-value total with my itemized list, and paid the $2,100 tax bill by borrowing from a bank using my new car as collateral. (The IRS did wind up questioning me in a correspondence letter later that year, so I had to respond with another copy of my itemized list and my own letter of explanation. They were satisfied with that.) Two years later, I’d paid the loan off, and I finally owned everything free and clear.What wasn’t a hassle? Getting the car itself.About a month after the show aired, I got a phone call from the local Mazda dealership saying my car was ready for delivery. I hopped on my bike and rode the three miles down to the Mazda dealer in Torrance, CA, signed a couple of title papers, and within maybe 10 minutes, they handed me the keys. I walked out, loaded my bike into the back of the truck, and drove back home with my brand new car. It was pretty surreal.By the way, the game show producers gave us three full days to decline any prizes we didn’t want to keep. So if we didn’t want to deal with the taxes, or if we wanted to keep the tax bill down, we’d simply say we didn’t want the stuff. I kept everything, because, well, why not? For just $2,100 of taxes I got some very nice hand-crafted furniture, a stereo console TV (big stuff in the ‘80s), a home gym set, and a whole bunch of things I never would’ve considered buying for myself. And the car! When my wife and I were married in 1987, those prizes helped furnish some of our first apartment, and, by the way, we both had cars that were fully paid for. In fact, we still have several of those nice pieces in our current home, all these years later. The pickup truck lasted until 2002. Not bad!So yes, the taxes can be a pain, but for me they were offset by the benefits of having the car itself.