The Meaning Of Liff
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Nov 2020
9:12pm, 17 Nov 2020
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LindsD
Belmont near me?
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Nov 2020
9:29pm, 17 Nov 2020
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Columba
Belmont just south of Hereford?
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Nov 2020
9:31pm, 17 Nov 2020
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Columba
Someone whose name I've forgotten (it'll come back to me) used to write a column (in the Observer, I think) called Oddly Enough. He used to give definitions of place-names. One I remember was BODMIN. - one-sixtieth of a man-hour.
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Nov 2020
9:52pm, 17 Nov 2020
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Diogenes
No, Belmont near Sutton.
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Nov 2020
9:53pm, 17 Nov 2020
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LindsD
Aha
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Nov 2020
9:56pm, 17 Nov 2020
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Lizzie W
Paul Jennings, apparently, Columba.
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Nov 2020
9:58pm, 17 Nov 2020
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Diogenes
Which reminds me of one of my favourite definitions from the original Meaning Of Liff Sutton and cheam (nouns) Sutton and cheam are the kinds of dirt into which all dirt is divided. 'Sutton' is the dark sort that always gets on to light-coloured things, 'cheam' the light-coloured sort that clings to dark items. Anyone who has ever found Marmite stains on a dress-shirt or seagull goo on a dinner jacket (a) knows all about sutton and cheam, and (b) is going to some very curious dinner parties. |
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Nov 2020
10:02pm, 17 Nov 2020
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Diogenes
Paul Jennings may well have been a pseudonym as Paul Neil Milne Jennings was a contemporary of Douglas Adams whose work was the inspiration for Vogan poetry, and was cited in the original radio shows as one of the two poets worse than the Vogons. For legal reasons he was later referred to in the hitchhikers books as Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings
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Nov 2020
10:03pm, 17 Nov 2020
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Columba
Yes! Paul Jennings it was; thank you, Lizzie.
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Nov 2020
10:16pm, 17 Nov 2020
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LindsD
Yes Dio! I hope it was
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