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- 21:00, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+370) . . N A 132 37 (Created page with "* {{PP|132|37}} "Now you ask Mr Punch if hes ready" This is a fairly traditional Punch and Judy introduction, and the show that follows sticks closely to the usual story (Punc...") (current)
- 21:00, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+509) . . N A 131 12 (Created page with "* {{PP|131|12}} "A border fents it were Bad Mercy {{Ix|Fents}} you wont fynd it now its long gone .... Weaping {{Ix|Form}} is what it is now" See Places....")
- 20:59, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+200) . . N A 131 3 (Created page with "* {{PP|131|3}} "Hes so old he cant dy is what Granser tol me" This is also what Hoban was told by a famous Punch showman, who one hopes did not otherwise resemble Granser....") (current)
- 20:59, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,578) . . N A 129 10 (Created page with "* {{PP|129|10}} "The wife is the sof and the sweet you see which is took off by the sharp and the salty" Goodparley is now talking alchemical allegory. Medieval European alch...")
- 20:57, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+730) . . N A 125 15 (Created page with "* {{PP|125|15}} "by the time they done 1997 years they had boats in the air and all them things and here we are weve done 2347 years and mor and stil slogging in the mud?" Of ...") (current)
- 20:57, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+496) . . N A 124 32 (Created page with "* {{PP|124|32}} "some kynd of paint callit fidelity" Goodparley's inability to understand the word ''fidelity'' is ironic: besides the altered sexual mores of the ...") (current)
- 20:57, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-4) . . A 123 14 (current)
- 20:56, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+248) . . N A 123 14 (Created page with "* {{PP|123|14}} "The Legend of St Eustace" This text is taken verbatim from the handwritten commentary that is displayed next to E.W. Tristram's reconstruction of the pain...")
- 20:56, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+153) . . N A 122 5 (Created page with "* {{PP|122|5}} "the head wer swimming then agenst the tide" Eusa's oracular {{Ix|head}} here follows the same course as Orpheus. Category:Chapter 14") (current)
- 20:56, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+225) . . N A 121 33 (Created page with "* {{PP|121|33}} "the Ram which is the head of Inland" Apparently the government has indulged in some wishful reconstruction of history, believing that Ramsgate has always ...") (current)
- 20:55, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+108) . . N A 119 13 (Created page with "* {{PP|119|13}} "Spare the mending and tryl narrer" Experimenting, trial and error. Category:Chapter 14") (current)
- 20:55, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . A 119 6
- 20:55, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,512) . . N A 119 6 (Created page with "* {{PP|119|6}} "the yellerboy stoan the Salt 4" This is of course sulfur, which is not found in England; the nearest source for it would be southern Europe. {{By|EB}} Sulfur ...")
- 20:52, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+322) . . N A 115 37 (Created page with "* {{PP|115|37}} "the terbel sharp {{Ix|pong}} from the dy working where they boyl up the {{Ix|pig shit}} earf" Composting manure is one way to get ammonia and nitrates such as...") (current)
- 20:51, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+355) . . N A 114 5 (Created page with "* {{PP|114|5}} "there ben the goast of a batcherd living there ... where he use to play with his cubs" Badgers are native to the area; also, Hoban's best-known work before ''R...") (current)
- 20:51, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+137) . . N A 113 35 (Created page with "* {{PP|113|35}} "its like a short valley its that place they call Mr Clevvers Roaling Place" See Places. Category:Chapter 13") (current)
- 20:50, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+311) . . N A 107 29 (Created page with "* {{PP|107|29}} "The strong and the weak inner acting" The strong and the weak interaction are two of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_force fundamental forces] i...") (current)
- 20:49, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+136) . . N A 107 18 (Created page with "* {{PP|107|18}} "We do some poasyum" Symposium. (This word is derived from the Greek for "drinking together.") Category:Chapter 13") (current)
- 20:48, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . Chapter 12
- 20:47, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+109) . . Chapter 12
- 20:47, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Mapdetail3.jpg (current)
- 20:45, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+342) . . N A 105 4 (Created page with "* {{PP|105|4}} "and the bow and {{Ix|arrows|arrers}} for Lissener" Why is it the blind Lissener who takes the bow and arrows? {{By|SW}} Riddley has reason to be confident in L...") (current)
- 20:44, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+433) . . N A 104 24 (Created page with "* {{PP|104|24}} "Hol it in your hans and you can feal it in them stoans and scrabbling to get out you can hear it hispering to its self and clacking like a skelter of crabs" {...") (current)
- 20:43, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+132) . . N A 103 19 (Created page with "* {{PP|103|19}} "His dad ben 1 Stoan Phist" "One stone" is the English translation of "Einstein." {{By|EE}} Category:Chapter 12") (current)
- 20:43, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+578) . . N A 100 10 (Created page with "* {{PP|100|10}} "they wer some kynd of iron dint rot it wer all shyning ... you cud see girt shyning weals" It has been suggested that this is digging machinery left over from...")
- 20:42, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+577) . . N A 99 7 (Created page with "* {{PP|99|7}} "we come in unner some thing and out of the rain" The main railway line in Folkestone enters a tunnel near the section of cliff-bordered shoreline that Riddley c...")
- 20:42, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+556) . . N A 96 28 (Created page with "* {{PP|96|28}} "45 counting me. Which they axel rate it roun the circel you see .... They all ways breed us up to moren a nuff and then they kul us down to that" As the Eusa f...")
- 20:41, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-13) . . A 96 4 (current)
- 20:41, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+109) . . N A 96 4 (Created page with "* {{PP|96||4}} "the place they callit Rose & Power" See Places. Category:Chapter 12")
- 20:33, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+95) . . N A 95 13 (Created page with "* {{PP|95|13}} "<font size="-1">MANY COOLS OF ADDOM</font>" Molecules. Category:Chapter 12") (current)
- 20:33, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+415) . . N A 94 34 (Created page with "* {{PP|94|34}} "its a fealing comes on you when youre falling a sleap. Youre jus going off easy when suddn its like a bersting in you like youre bersting in 1000 peaces then ...") (current)
- 20:32, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+86) . . N A 94 8 (Created page with "* {{PP|94|8}} "We come on to the A20" See Places. Category:Chapter 12") (current)
- 20:30, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+230) . . N A 90 7 (Created page with "* {{PP|90|7}} "keaping the circel which thatwl be axel rating the Inner G" Accelerating the energy. G is also the symbol for the force of gravity, or "{{Ix|hevvy|hevvyness}}"...") (current)
- 20:29, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+265) . . N A 89 14 (Created page with "* {{PP|89|14}} "a mynd flash of colourt lites with clicking and bleaping .... a line of grean lite sweaping roun that circel from the senter" One of the few cases where Riddle...") (current)
- 20:29, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+365) . . N A 89 4 (Created page with "* {{PP|89|4}} "Blobs your nunkel" From the British slang "Bob's your uncle," meaning "you've got it made" or "it's as simple as that." Hoban points out that "Blobs" is also s...") (current)
- 00:04, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Index (→A)
- 00:03, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . Index (→A)
- 00:03, 29 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . Index (→A)
- 23:55, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . A 5 2 b
- 23:54, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-17) . . A 1 29 (current)
- 23:51, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . Main Page
- 23:48, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Fathers Ham
- 23:46, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+482) . . N Littl Salting (Created page with "'''Seasalter''' {{By|TH}}, a north Kent town which, as its name suggests, was a long-time center of salt harvesting: seawater was collected there in tidal troughs called salt ...") (current)
- 23:43, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+929) . . N Inland (Created page with "'''England''' (or what's left of it). See also {{Ix|Outland}}. Though Riddley's map only shows a small area, the general geography is consistent with a rise...") (current)
- 23:41, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+478) . . N Fork Stoan (Created page with "Modern '''Folkestone''' is a small hilly seaside town, slightly larger than Dover. It is now known for the Channel Tunnel terminal—a long scar of bewildering ...") (current)
- 23:40, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+11) . . Fathers Ham
- 23:40, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+668) . . N Fathers Ham (Created page with "'''Faversham''' has a long industrial history reflected in its name, which comes from the Old English for "blacksmith's village". It was a major center of gunpowder manufactur...")
- 23:37, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+57) . . N Dunk Your Arse (Created page with "'''Dungeness''', the site of Kent's two nuclear reactors.") (current)
- 23:37, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Crippel the Farn (current)
- 23:37, 28 July 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Cambry (current)
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