Purdee Island - Revision history

Old Dickens: typo, layout

2013-04-26T01:07:48Z

typo, layout

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	May originally have been called Purdeighsland and represented one of the few places that idiot explorer Sir [[Roderick Purdeigh]] actually ''found'' rather than just looked for.		May originally have been called Purdeighsland and represented one of the few places that idiot explorer Sir [[Roderick Purdeigh]] actually ''found'' rather than just looked for.

	On the Discworld Mapp, it has a suspiciously Tasmania-like relationship to the continent of Fourecks. Tasmania was originally called Van Diemen's Land after its Dutch discoverer and kept this name in popular song lamenting transportation to the penal colony there, even after an Englishman called Tasman became its governor. Cf. the traditional ballad only to be sung ~~aftet~~ the sixth pint of Guinness, ''The Black Velvet Band'', in which a naive young Belfast lad is inveigled into crime by a scheming wench, caught by the bloody Brits, and transported to Van Diemen's Land. No doubt Ankh-Morpork has an equivalent song.		On the Discworld Mapp, it has a suspiciously Tasmania-like relationship to the continent of Fourecks. Tasmania was originally called Van Diemen's Land after its Dutch discoverer and kept this name in popular song lamenting transportation to the penal colony there, even after an Englishman called Tasman became its governor. Cf. the traditional ballad only to be sung after the sixth pint of Guinness, ''The Black Velvet Band'', in which a naive young Belfast lad is inveigled into crime by a scheming wench, caught by the bloody Brits, and transported to Van Diemen's Land. No doubt Ankh-Morpork has an equivalent song.

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Old Dickens: typo, layout

2013-04-26T01:04:36Z

typo, layout

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	May originally have been called Purdeighsland and represented one of the few places that idiot explorer Sir [[Roderick Purdeigh]] actually ''found'' rather than just looked for.		May originally have been called Purdeighsland and represented one of the few places that idiot explorer Sir [[Roderick Purdeigh]] actually ''found'' rather than just looked for.

	On the Discworld Mapp, it has a suspiciously Tasmania-like relationship to the continent of Fourecks. Tasmania was originally called Van Diemen's Land after its Dutch discoverer and kept this name in popular song lamenting transportation to the penal colony there, even after an Englishman called Tasman became its governor. Cf. the traditional ballad only to be sung ~~afte~~ the sixth pint of Guinness, ''The Black Velvet Band'', in which a naive young Belfast lad is inveigled into crime by a scheming wench, caught by the bloody Brits, and transported to Van Diemen's Land. No doubt Ankh-Morpork has an equivalent song.		On the Discworld Mapp, it has a suspiciously Tasmania-like relationship to the continent of Fourecks. Tasmania was originally called Van Diemen's Land after its Dutch discoverer and kept this name in popular song lamenting transportation to the penal colony there, even after an Englishman called Tasman became its governor. Cf. the traditional ballad only to be sung aftet the sixth pint of Guinness, ''The Black Velvet Band'', in which a naive young Belfast lad is inveigled into crime by a scheming wench, caught by the bloody Brits, and transported to Van Diemen's Land. No doubt Ankh-Morpork has an equivalent song.

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AgProv: The Black Velvet Band

2013-04-25T23:45:19Z

The Black Velvet Band

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	May originally have been called Purdeighsland and represented one of the few places that idiot explorer Sir [[Roderick Purdeigh]] actually ''found'' rather than just looked for.		May originally have been called Purdeighsland and represented one of the few places that idiot explorer Sir [[Roderick Purdeigh]] actually ''found'' rather than just looked for.

			On the Discworld Mapp, it has a suspiciously Tasmania-like relationship to the continent of Fourecks. Tasmania was originally called Van Diemen's Land after its Dutch discoverer and kept this name in popular song lamenting transportation to the penal colony there, even after an Englishman called Tasman became its governor. Cf. the traditional ballad only to be sung afte the sixth pint of Guinness, ''The Black Velvet Band'', in which a naive young Belfast lad is inveigled into crime by a scheming wench, caught by the bloody Brits, and transported to Van Diemen's Land. No doubt Ankh-Morpork has an equivalent song.

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	[[de:Purdee Insel]]		[[de:Purdee Insel]]
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Osiris: 1 revision: Discworld import 2

2012-09-24T00:09:54Z

1 revision: Discworld import 2

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AgProv at 14:24, 4 June 2009

2009-06-04T14:24:55Z

New page

Mentioned in {{TLC}}, this island, like [[Slakki]], is a place where the knobbly (or perhaps noble) savages live in a state of purity with nature (ie, they're nekkid)

May originally have been called Purdeighsland and represented one of the few places that idiot explorer Sir [[Roderick Purdeigh]] actually ''found'' rather than just looked for.

[[Category: Discworld geography]]
[[de:Purdee Insel]]
{{stub}}