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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Aug 18, 2014 22:40:39 GMT -5
From "Smart Blonde" (1937) #notaparody
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Post by bandit on Sept 7, 2014 14:30:24 GMT -5
I just finished Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which mentions two Navy radiomen with the code names Bouvard and Pecuchet. It was pretty funny to see the same literary reference in two very different books.
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Sept 30, 2014 10:05:20 GMT -5
Today's Pearls Before Swine comic is very reminiscent of Chapter 2 of ?1, when Lemony first sees the drilling industry of Stain'd. Edit: remember that secret radio station in Russia that broadcasts buzzing sounds and occasional coded messages? Someone's written a Kindle novel about it, featuring Russian sleeper agents using the pseudonyms "Paul and Terri Armstrong." And here's an old XKCD What If? article on a matter relevant to ATWQ, too.
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Post by Hermes on Oct 12, 2014 14:27:05 GMT -5
From Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke (end of Ch. 1).
'Our question is, sir, why is no more magic done in England?'...
Mr Norrell said 'I cannot help with your question, sir, for I do not understand it. It is a wrong question, sir. Magic is not ended in England. I myself am quite a tolerable practical magician'.
When we read this for our summer book club a few years ago, little did we know....
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Post by gliquey on Oct 25, 2014 10:38:05 GMT -5
I just watched the "Endings" episode of the British panel/quiz show QI. A question focused on the middle initial of Ulysses S. Grant's name, and Stephen even said the exact phrase "What did the S stand for?"
(By the way, it didn't stand for anything at all.)
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 14, 2014 18:32:37 GMT -5
A very fishily dubious logo there, "Welsh National Opera house."
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Post by Dante on Nov 15, 2014 3:26:03 GMT -5
That is rather distinctly structured after the logic of the V.F.D. logo. A little tweaking and it would even look like an eye.
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Post by Dante on Jan 2, 2015 3:19:12 GMT -5
I encountered a building that reminded me of Wade Academy. I have an inkling it might even have been a school at one point.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jan 5, 2015 22:47:32 GMT -5
So there's an antique store in NYC called 'Hang Fire Books', apparently: www.hangfirebooks.com/Guess what kind of books they're selling? Vintage hardboiled crime fiction.
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Gregor Anwhistle
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Post by Gregor Anwhistle on Jan 9, 2015 19:54:20 GMT -5
In New England we have a soda brand called "Moxie." Attachments:
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Post by bandit on Jan 9, 2015 20:19:09 GMT -5
That's no coincidence. The word "moxie" is derived from the name of the soda, so Moxie Mallahan's name is deliberately connected no matter what.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jan 9, 2015 21:09:01 GMT -5
Huh, how about that. Weird that the name of a soft drink has made its way into the English language as a very positive word. Almost as if the company orchestrated it as a marketing stunt.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Jan 10, 2015 12:43:07 GMT -5
Huh, how about that. Weird that the name of a soft drink has made its way into the English language as a very positive word. Almost as if the company orchestrated it as a marketing stunt. Yeah, I agree. I've always wanted to taste their soda since I knew about them from American Girl.
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Post by bandit on Jan 10, 2015 14:38:23 GMT -5
Personally I don't think it's very good.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Jan 10, 2015 22:54:15 GMT -5
Personally I don't think it's very good. I'd still like to try it tho
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