quips about my interests aside

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This article deserves a note of "wtf?!?!" to the NYTimes. I'm just debating how to phrase it, for both clarity and personal amusement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/nyregion/01cats.html

the quote in question?

"Any evil intention against my cats and me, will come back to you, three times three."

Thus spoke the witch of Elmhurst last week, casting a protective spell over her coven of cats — 30 strong, but shrinking by the day — living in the rent-controlled studio apartment she shares with her mother on 80th Street in Queens.

The witch happens to be Melanie Neer, 50, a student of the principles of Wicca and Harry Potter.