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Peer Review: A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
Whisky Started conversation Jun 18, 2003
Entry: Afonso de Portago - A1026541
Author: Whisky :- Consultant retro-phrenologist - U180644
Ok folks, do your worst... I've dug up about as much information as I could possibly find on this guy, but if anyone can add anything, just scream...
As usual, please feel free to rip this to pieces, I'm never happy with my writing style - so if you can do better - tell me!
Whisky
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
J Posted Jun 18, 2003
Did you recycle this A number from your entry on temperature scales 
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
Whisky Posted Jun 18, 2003
Just trying to do my bit for the environment 
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
J Posted Jun 18, 2003
Then that would make the Flea Market the recycling center and the Writing Workshop the compost heap?
But I'll go read the entry now
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
J Posted Jun 18, 2003
I don't know anything about the subject, but I did spot a typo-
As befits -> As benefits
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 18, 2003
By the time I post this, Jodan may well have covered some or all of these points 
A*l*fonso (but I'm sure you know that by now )
"easily accepted the lifestyle of a typical European playboy."
How about (for the benefit of those who don't know what it means) a few examples of the kind of things that lifestyle might include, like travelling, gambling, huntinshootinfishin.
I think 'Motorracing' should be two words, or at least hyphenated.
Some h2g2 entries you might want to link to:
A882902 Spanish Civil War
A139493 Spain
A262306 Cheltenham
A906572 An Introduction to Formula One
A297083 France
A297100 Italy
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 18, 2003
I think 'befits' is right in that context Jodan - if something is 'befitting', it means that it's apposite or appropriate
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
J Posted Jun 18, 2003
Nope
Like I said, (or did I forget to?) I don't know this subject.
Though I could have caught the links...
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
Rho Posted Jun 18, 2003
Hi Whisky
I'd suggest pasting the contents of this entry into a new entry, then submitting that one to PR. I'm almost certain that I read somewhere that it isn't possible to pick an entry in PR that had already been through PR and picked, even if its contents had been changed. 
RhoMuNuQ
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
Pimms Posted Jun 20, 2003
Is it Afonso or Alfonso (or both)?
Not a very complicated lineage (parents from two countries, born in a third), though I was left trying to guess where the bits of his name derived from - assuming Leighton came from the maternal side, but was it her maiden name or dead husband's?
The second mention of Buenos Aires needs an 'o'ectomy: not Bueonos
Definitely needs links to Formula one entries.
Pimms 
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
Whisky Posted Jun 20, 2003
Think I'll play around with this one over the weekend - as I said, I'm not totally happy with the style now I've had the chance to stand back and look at it...
A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
Whisky Posted Jul 14, 2003
And as I haven't got round to doing anything with this one in the last three weeks I'm pulling it out of PR for the time being... I'll put it back when I've had the chance to play with it
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Peer Review: A1026541 - Afonso de Portago
- 1: Whisky (Jun 18, 2003)
- 2: J (Jun 18, 2003)
- 3: Whisky (Jun 18, 2003)
- 4: J (Jun 18, 2003)
- 5: J (Jun 18, 2003)
- 6: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Jun 18, 2003)
- 7: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Jun 18, 2003)
- 8: J (Jun 18, 2003)
- 9: Rho (Jun 18, 2003)
- 10: J (Jun 18, 2003)
- 11: Pimms (Jun 20, 2003)
- 12: Whisky (Jun 20, 2003)
- 13: Whisky (Jul 14, 2003)
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