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<p>92.7.206.252: /* ANNOTATION */ Annotation surely?</p> <hr /> <div>{{Character Data<br /> |title= Lord Tang<br /> |photo= Tang.jpg|Lord Tang, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> One of the five noble families in the [[Agatean Empire]] who periodically succeed in getting a member enthroned as Emperor.<br /> <br /> Lord Tang is somewhat transparent and depressingly dim, allowing himself to be manipulated and set up as a fall-guy by [[Lord Hong]]. The other lords are relieved by this, as when the Emperor is looking for somebody to blame, as he soon will do, his eye is sure to alight on Tang first, thus saving their persons from that unspecified thing they do with a wire waistcoat and a cheesegrater. <br /> <br /> The others are the [[Sungs]], [[Fangs]], [[Hongs]] and the [[McSweeneys]].<br /> <br /> ==Annotation==<br /> <br /> George McDonald Fraser provides a ''very'' specified account which will remove ''all'' doubt as to what the wire waistcoat and the cheesegrater are for, in the novel ''{{wp|Flashman|Flashman and the Dragon}}''. In which the adult bully and poltroon from ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'' narrowly evades such a fate himself, at the hands of an insane Chinese mandarin...<br /> <br /> Tang was also the name of the Chinese Imperial Dynasty that proceeded the Sung. This is probably not happenstance.<br /> [[Category:Groups]]<br /> [[de:Tang]]</div>

92.7.206.252 http://disc.osiris-web.com/index.php?title=Velvet_Gown&diff=7265 2010-09-26T10:04:19Z

<p>92.7.206.252: /* Annotation */</p> <hr /> <div>It's in the [[Beggars' Guild]] charter: &quot;Some in rags and some in tags and one in a velvet gown&quot;. The current incumbent of the velvet gown of power (at least during the events of {{MAA}}) is [[Queen Molly]].<br /> <br /> ==Annotation==<br /> <br /> This comes from the nursery rhyme ''Hark! Hark!''. The Mother Goose version goes: <br /> <br /> :''Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark, <br /> :''The beggars are coming to town; <br /> :''Some in rags, some in tags, <br /> :''And some in velvet gown.'' <br /> <br /> <br /> Opies' Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes gives the last two lines as: <br /> <br /> :''Some in rags, some in jags, <br /> :''And one in a velvet gown.''<br /> <br /> Halliwell's ''The Nursery Rhymes of England'' (second edition, 1843) reverses it as:<br /> <br /> :''Some in jags, some in rags,<br /> :''And one in a velvet gown.''<br /> <br /> [[Category:Discworld culture]]</div>

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