Jacqueline Simpson

2010-09-26T01:53:45Z

99.242.219.94: needs to be ''Cape Jugulum''

Dr Jacqueline Simpson is a long-standing member and office-holder on the Committee of the Folklore Society. Her publications include ''British Dragons'', ''The Folklore of Sussex'', ''Scandinavian Folktales'', and (with Jennifer Westwood) ''The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends''.

Dr Jacqueline Simpson was born in 1930, and studied English Literature and Medieval Icelandic at Bedford College, London University. She has been an active member of the Folklore Society since the 1960s, having served at various times as Editor, Secretary, and President. Her books include ''Icelandic Folktales and Legends'' (1971, 2004), ''The Folklore of the Welsh Border'' (1976, 2004), ''British Dragons'' (1980, 2000), and, jointly with Steve Roud, she has co-authored the definitive ''Dictionary of English Folklore'' (Oxford Paperback Reference)[http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780198603986]. (2000). She lives in West Sussex.

She has recently collaborated with Terry Pratchett on the 2008 book ''[[Book:The Folklore of Discworld|The Folklore of Discworld]]'', which follows the format of the successful {{SOD1}} series in exploring in greater depth the mythological and folk-traditional roots which TP has drawn on, to give the Disc greater depth and a sense of historical continuity.

She first met Terry Pratchett at a book-signing where he happily signed her copy of {{J}}. Terry then asked her the same question he had been asking everyone else in the queue, which was "Which is the magpie rhyme you know best and can you say it for me?", expecting the answer "errr...one. And it was the theme to that kids' show on TV in the seventies, wasn't it?". (This was part of his field research for {{CJ}}). When Dr Simpson said "About nineteen. Which of them do you want?", an association was born which eventually resulted in a co-authored book.

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Paradise Street

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99.242.219.94: urban geography

There are two Paradise Streets in the works of Terry Pratchett.

One is a rather unfortunately named residential street in the [[The Shades|Shades]] district of [[Ankh-Morpork]]. It continues turnwise from [[The Pitts]] at [[Elm Street]] until it realises its mistake and stops before reaching [[Shamlegger Street]].

The other is in the [[Blackbury]] conurbation and becomes a key transtemporal location in {{JATB}}.

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Talk:Book:Unseen Academicals

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The cover art referred to is the poor, lame Harper version, mind you. The original shows many of the usual suspects and a few newcomers lined up behind the Librarian, with ball, as for the team iconograph. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 20:20, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

== Publication date ==

Is October 6th still the official release-date? If thats the case my favourite store made a major booboo by selling me a copy this monday (I'll start my second redthrough tonight)? [[User:Iron Hippo|Iron Hippo]] 17:56, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

:Amazon and Waterstones still say something from the sixth to tenth of October. What edition is that? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 19:12, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
:: Doubleday hardcover (in Sweden) [[User:Iron Hippo|Iron Hippo]] 09:48, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
:Amazon.co.uk now says 1 Oct, i.e. now. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 23:25, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
::The nice girl girl at the store said they got their shipment earlier than excpected [[User:Iron Hippo|Iron Hippo]] 09:48, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

== Now published ==

Since the book is published, I suggest we move the entire stuff to something like "Unseen academicals pre-release discussion" and start on a proper Book: Unseen Academicals, liberally pasted with '''Here Be Spoilers!!'''

Would it not be more beneficial to simply delete the content of this page as a when it becomes irrelevant? personally i do not see the benefit of keeping old stuff online --[[User:BOZZ|BOZZ]] 13:27 1 October 2009 (UTC)
: I am a nice(-ish) guy so I don't like to flat out delete stuff, Nevertheless it's a moot point as I and others are doing exactly what I proposed. Get the book, read it once, jump in, read it again, correct what you wrote the first time and so on. '''Have fun''' [[User:Iron Hippo|Iron Hippo]] 22:25, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

no objection to "losing" the previous page content, esp. as it will still be there for retreival in the depths of history. --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 19:54, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

== Book Template? ==

One question, though: is there a book template yet for Unseen Academicals, something like {{UA}}? --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 19:54, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

There is now. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 20:27, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

==Cover==
The unidentified Wizards appear to be (front to back): Senior Wrangler, Indefinite Studies, Recent Runes, but of course I don't have the book out here on the edge of the universe. I'm not sure we need the duplicate covers: if we replace the automatic Amazon cover image with this one it could be blown up as desired. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 22:46, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
: Spoiler alert; the lineup on the cover doesn't actually come into play as is(ie Vetinari never refs). In the article I named the persons in the iconograph leaving three unidentified; one starter should be Bledlow Nobbs(no relation) but I can't picture him in the picture. [[User:Iron Hippo|Iron Hippo]] 22:55, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

==Series==
Is it Wizards Series or Ankh-Morpork Books?

(And how does the note on Bengo Macarona clarify anything? Why would there be another one?) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 04:41, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

: It's not so much that only one has matriculated, as such, it's more that there's ONLY ONE! As in, no-one else with that name is as good at his speciality as he is. For his supporters, anyone mentioning the name Macarona will only and for always conjure up that one image, whatever else they are talking about. As in "There's only one Paul Gascoigne" (as so memorably portrayed by Aggers on a recent post). For older (English) fans of Foot-the-ball the only cock-up was "There's only two Trevor Stevens"...

::Not that we non-Merkins should be aware of the game of baseball but the New York Mets a few years ago ended up with the play-by-play note ''Bobby Jones relieved Bobby Jones'' - [[User:Iron Hippo|Iron Hippo]] 21:38, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

:::Now the Swede is teaching me baseball trivia. What a wonderful thing is a wiki, as I said before. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 23:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

::::A man was ''relieved'' by another man? Or even by himself? Can you see [[Nobby]]'s dirty grin??--[[User:Knmatt|Knmatt]] 11:06, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

It's a baseball thing, not given to the British to understand (any more than we can figure out when a cricket match ends). It doesn't even involve the ritual grabbing of the jockstrap, actually. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 14:37, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

== Shakespeare annotation (or not) ==

Don't know '''the Hack''' well enough but: '''-How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless Dean''' Doubleday p.46 sounds like something of the Hacks that Pterry could paraphrase--[[User:Iron Hippo|Iron Hippo]] 22:54, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

'''''How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child''''' -

from '''''King Lear''''' [http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/188900.html]

''If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen; that it may live,
And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!
Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;
With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;
Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt; that she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Away, away!
''

so in it can go as an annotation? --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 23:11, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

:My blood alcohol level is paramount to my ability to write something comprehensible. Or not --[[User:Iron Hippo|Iron Hippo]] 23:26, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

And I have the same old complaint. Why aren't the annotations on the annotations page? . --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 23:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

An independent annotations page has now been set up and appears to work. Although I'd be glad if somebody with more experience of HEX/PEX/WIKI could check it out, as it still reads red on the index page despite being able to receive and store material. --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 20:55, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Nope. Refresh your browser. Much neater, thank you. --[[Special:Contributions/99.242.219.94|99.242.219.94]] 21:46, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

==Football and Foot-the-ball==

I vote we have 2 separate articles. There is the ancient and outlawed practice of kicking each other in order to get a leather object to a post at one end of an agreed area. Then there is the new-fangled game under creation during the events of {{UA}}. I think keeping one article will be confusing, especially considering where you reference [[Dimmers]], [[Dolly|Dollies]], [[Pork Packers]] etc ''as well as'' two sets of rules, champion players, traditions, events of the big game... what do we think? --[[User:Knmatt|Knmatt]] 13:30, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Two articles seems like confusion to me. I'd prefer one showing the development of the game from ancient to new versions. See Wikipedia's {{wp|Football|''Football''}}, which covers many more varieties and their history. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 14:16, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

But has links from it to main articles on Association Football, Rugby Football, Medieval Football, Australian Rules Football etc etc with a potted version of each on the main article...But hey! Majority rules OK! If that's what we think then fine. --[[User:Knmatt|Knmatt]] 14:21, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

It covers many more games about which a lot more is known, and the reader probably has a better idea of which he's looking for. Here (and of course I don't have the book), it seems to be the transformation of one game. I'd still prefer to start from one article on the game involved in the book. If we can come up with so much material on both versions that it becomes unwieldy the old game can still be hived off later. (One for and one against ain't a majority.) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 14:41, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

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2009-09-19T16:24:07Z

99.242.219.94: getting it right

[[Mr. Tulip]]'s favourite syllable. This conveys a lot of very specific meaning in one small space, as in the discussion of an antique virginal:

''So called because it was an instrument for –ing young ladies!''<BR>
''My word, was it? I thought it was just a sort of early piano!''

It also has its uses in polite discourse when one does not want to have to ''completely'' spell it out.

Reference [[Harga's House of Ribs|Love In A Canoe Coffee]] and [[Lu-Tze|Sna-Fu]], where an ''–ing'' needs to be hazarded to convey the derivation of the phrase, without turning the Wiki blue.

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