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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Jun 11, 2009
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Jun 11, 2009
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Jun 11, 2009
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Jun 11, 2009
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BMT Posted Jun 11, 2009
**You see this is what gets me down I enjoy writing but feel like nobody wants to pick my pieces**
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/RF1
Last paragraph explains it.
ST.
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Jun 11, 2009
In my eyes you and lil are the leading lights of h2g2.
I know ST but I feel some researchers entries get picked far more frequently. Sometimes I wonder whether I've done something wrong regards my entries or otherwise.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 11, 2009
Personally, I never pick entries whose authors are hinting that it's time the entry was picked. But that's just me
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Jun 11, 2009
I didn't realise I was doing that just merely responding to people's comments.
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Jun 15, 2009
Under 'Changes in Attitude', I came across a snippet yesterday which would be well worth including if you can find some more information.
I attended a family Ba-B-Q yesterday and the subject of goggiwogs somehow cropped up. My son said he has a cloth golliwog (in Scout uniform) which was produced by the Scouts Association just about the time that gollies were being seen as politically incorrect. Hence it had to be withdrawn.
I've googled this briefly but haven't been able to find any more info as yet, but I'll keep trying.
This cloth gollie was in addition to the enamel Scout gollie badge that also exists.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jun 15, 2009
It's not surprising. There was a thankfully swift revision of attitudes after, in the wake of Powell's famous 'Rivers of Blood' speech, certain elements took up the 'Golliwog' taunt to nharass black people.
I heard Carol Thatcher on 'Loose Ends' on Saturday. Here stance is still 'It was a private conversation' (which it wasn't) and that it was very rude of someone to report it - and that all this PC nonsense has gone too far.
I wonder if she's genuinely unable to understand how out of line she was?
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Jun 15, 2009
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jun 15, 2009
Sure. Wasn't suggesting any change. It was somply educative hearing her point of view - especially the week after Jo Brand's. Clive Anderson was gentle with her and gave her every opportunity to say if she could see why there'd been such a fuss.
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Jun 15, 2009
'BigAl nothing coming up this end either '
No, I've tried a bit more, but to no avail . I'll email one of my former Scout Leader colleagues to see if he knows anything.
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Smokehammer Posted Jun 15, 2009
Could the role of the Golly in Alan Moore's "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier" be mentioned?
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jun 15, 2009
I was open to the idea that this was a major pop-cultural reference that I'd missed. But on googling...am I right in thinking that a golliwog makes a minor appearance in an addendum to the series?
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Smokehammer Posted Jun 15, 2009
No.
It's a MAJOR character in the third installment. "The Black Dossier" is in no way an "addendum", unless Return of the King is an "addendum" to the Lord of the Rings, say.
http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Jess%20Nevins/Black%20Dossier/dossier.html
Search this page for references to Golliwog.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Jun 15, 2009
It's that page I looked at.
Don't get me wrong...things like that make me realise that there's probably enough in that series to grab my attention (I'm not usually big on graphic novels - I should try and get around to more)...but is this reference promiment enough to merit a mention?
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Smokehammer Posted Jun 15, 2009
Don't know. I'd have thought so, having read the book. Given the political sensitivities surrounding the character, its use in such a recent work is probably noteworthy. It's also a fascinatingly strange creature, with a bizarre dialect all its own, not remotely connected, as far as I can see, to any character in literature or real life.
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Jun 22, 2009
Added the League of Gentleman bit and Scout bit under references
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