Any Questions?

[TheMole]

Katariina, you are marvellous!! Thanks so very, very much!!!!!

 

[Katariina]

'bows'
Don't mention it.

 

[Jinx]

I just had a thought about the Keldas... I've only read The Wee Free Men so far from the Tiffany Aching series. It was mentioned that a Kelda must take a husband and make lots of little Nac Mac Feegle. Tiffany was smart enough to figure her way around this, at least for a long time. It was also hinted that the queen tricked the clan or a clan or possibly all clans into becoming their Kelda.

Has it ever been explained how/if the queen got around this? Though the thought of lots of elf/pictsies running around the place drunken but elegant is pretty funny.



-The elfs remind me of another favourite quote: "Are you Elvish?"

 

[Tonyblack]

My understanding was that Feegles used to live in the land of the Fairy Queen - it's never explained (to my satisfaction) if this is the same queen from Lords and Ladies or not - my feeling is that it's not.

Anyhow, the Feegles were expelled from Fairy Land for being... "pished" and they came to live in Discworld.

As far as we know each clan of Feegles has its own Kelda and the majority of offspring are male. When a girl is born she is trained by her mother until it is time for her to leave and then she takes a group of her brothers and goes off to a clan that doesn't have a Kelda.

And before anyone says it - NO! Not like Smurfs.


Just to add - when Tiffany stopped being Kelda another female Feegle from another clan came to be Kelda in Tiffany's place. She brought several of her brothers and chose her Big Man.

 

[Jarmara]

I've only read the Tiffany books once each, but I don't remember anything about the Queen of the Elves being a Kelda, so I don't think there are any elaborations.

 

[TheMole]

Hey, English-speaking lads, what actually is a tuppenny upright? And I don´t wanna be told "It´s a kind of jam doughnut" :twisted:

 

[Jason]

I think you will find that it refers to some private time with a lady of negotiable affection. Probably standing up in some back alley somewhere.

 

[chris.ph]

couldnt say anything about kneetremblers on this forum children might see

 

[Tonyblack]

I'll bet it costs more than tuppence as well.

 

[silverstreak]

I think you will find that it refers to some private time with a lady of negotiable affection. Probably standing up in some back alley somewhere.

Very well put Jason.

 

[Katariina]

The roundworld expression is threepenny upright, from Victorian times.

 

[Tonyblack]

Incidentally, The Bank of England is in a street in London named Threadneedle Street. It was named this after the erm... Seamstresses who worked in that street. Before it got that name it had a much more vulgar nickname, which I won't be able to post on this forum.

 

[chris.ph]

pm me the nickname please tony im 39 i can take it honest

 

[chris.ph]

no you definately cant post that very funny tho

 

[Tonyblack]

What can I say? It's history innit!

 

[Katariina]

I believe I've heard the name before. Ah, the innocent Victorian times...

 

[chris.ph]

whod would have thought it of the prudish victorians. are we talking of the same people who covered up piano legs just in case they were sexy

 

[Tonyblack]

Well I suspect it goes back a lot further than the Victorians. It was probably the Victorians who changed it to the more respectable name.

Edit to add that the Oxford English Dictionary confirms that the street had that name as far back as 1230 AD.

 

[Jarmara]

Only on the surface. All that repression just bubbled up in places where 'society' had the good grace not to look.

Take a look at Whitechapel around the time of the Ripper murders, it's a whole other world

 

[chris.ph]

read the nightside series by simon r green they are set in modern times but remind me of the time of the gin palaces