[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

But in rhyming slang, you use the non-rhyming word (e.g. "china" = "china plate" = "mate")

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

someone who lives with the queen

Surely that would be the Queen's lodger?

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

NT (3.x & 4.0) and 2000 were also available as Workstation editions. They were concurrent with Windows 3.x, 95, 98 and ME (which did get missed on the above)

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

...where we came in.

The Wall ends with the first half of the sentence it started with.

I think this is...

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thanks. I don't know a great deal about Girl Guiding's programme in the UK, but I understand that there's a similar distinction between it and the Scout Association's programme as there is in the US.

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I (vaguely) remember reading a quote from Pterry who said that two types of people would come up to him and say how much they loved Small Gods: the religious and the non-religious.

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Soul Music follows on from Mort and Reaper Man (a bit) - it's one of the few (only?) Discworld books to start with a recap! It helps to get some of the references if you know something about popular music from the 50s to the 90s but it's not essential.

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