A Conversation for The Basotho hat
A620722 - The basotho hat
Is mise Duncan Started conversation Oct 1, 2001
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A620722
Short and sweet - but I can't really think of anything else to put in ...
A620722 - The basotho hat
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 1, 2001
There's not much I can say about the content of this entry, so I will point out a places where the grammar and punctuation could be improved.
Lesotho based --> Lesotho-based
Thaba Tseka which was the mountain fortress --> Thaba Tseka, the mountain fortress
Lesotho stands --> Lesotho, stands
goods shop this building --> goods shop, this building
Two other points:
Is Basotho the name for the people of Lesotho?
How big is a baseball?
A620722 - The basotho hat
Whisky Posted Oct 1, 2001
It would be nice to get some sort of link to a picture of the hat, so we could see what it looked like.
I couldn't find one, but I did manage to find a page with pictures of the Hat building being burnt down, i'll stick the link at the bottom of my personal space
PS, Nice article
whisky
A620722 - The basotho hat
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 1, 2001
Rereading the sentence about Thaba Tseka, I find I am confused. Is Thaba Tseka the mountain on which the fortress is built or is this mountain visible from Thaba Tseka? Which one is the shape of the hat? A bit of research (Google) gives the name of the mountain as "Thaba Bosiu". Perhaps you had better reword this sentence a bit more carefully.
A620722 - The basotho hat
Is mise Duncan Posted Oct 1, 2001
I have a map at home so I shall look this up this evening.
I think Thaba Bosiu is the current King's residence and also the seat of traditional learning...but I've been wrong before.
A620722 - The basotho hat
Infinity, Thingite Grand High Witch and wysiwyg the black cat. Please participate at A626221.South Africans to A579459 Posted Oct 4, 2001
You will find a picture of the building at
[URL removed by Moderator]
and a map at
[URL removed by Moderator]
(with the tripleW of course)
I am a little confused (not unusual for me). Is this article about the hat of the building? Maybe you could research Lesotho and it's people, the Basotho. This would reveal more info on a place many haven't been to.
Have you ever been to Africa Is mise Duncan?
A620722 - The basotho hat
Infinity, Thingite Grand High Witch and wysiwyg the black cat. Please participate at A626221.South Africans to A579459 Posted Oct 4, 2001
Even my fingers are confused...
Is this article about the hat of the building? should read
Is this article about the hat or the building?
A620722 - The basotho hat
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 4, 2001
Looking at Duncan's home page, I see he was born and lived much of his life in Africa, although he is now an honorary Irishman.
A620722 - The basotho hat
Is mise Duncan Posted Oct 4, 2001
I would say a dishonourary Irishman 
The article is about the headgear, and the reference to the building in Maseru is for completeness.
Having compared the hat to the mountain it is supposed to have been modelled after when I was there on my summer holidays I can only assume that this is a far-fetched story....
A620722 - The basotho hat
Wand'rin star Posted Oct 4, 2001
How the heck did I miss this? Sorry that someone else had the chore of correcting the spelling and grammar.
Dunx lived in Lesotho from 1977-1981, which inspired him to take his (already) long-suffering fiancee there for their recent hols. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I am not the slightest bit jealous of this last 
A620722 - The basotho hat
Is mise Duncan Posted Oct 5, 2001
Right - it is in a happy state so I'm moving on to cleaning up my "Sani Pass" article....we'll redress the lack of African guide entries yet
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Swiv (decrepit postgrad) Posted Oct 15, 2001
Congratulations Duncan 
a lovely little entry
this will now go in the queue for sub-edding and finally, the front page
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A620722 - The basotho hat
- 1: Is mise Duncan (Oct 1, 2001)
- 2: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 1, 2001)
- 3: Whisky (Oct 1, 2001)
- 4: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 1, 2001)
- 5: Is mise Duncan (Oct 1, 2001)
- 6: Infinity, Thingite Grand High Witch and wysiwyg the black cat. Please participate at A626221.South Africans to A579459 (Oct 4, 2001)
- 7: Infinity, Thingite Grand High Witch and wysiwyg the black cat. Please participate at A626221.South Africans to A579459 (Oct 4, 2001)
- 8: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 4, 2001)
- 9: Is mise Duncan (Oct 4, 2001)
- 10: Wand'rin star (Oct 4, 2001)
- 11: Is mise Duncan (Oct 5, 2001)
- 12: h2g2 auto-messages (Oct 15, 2001)
- 13: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 15, 2001)
- 14: Swiv (decrepit postgrad) (Oct 15, 2001)
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