Talk:Mystick Alley: Difference between revisions

From Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Created page with "Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,<br> And live alone in the bee-loud glade? . . . --~~~~")
 
(more speculation)
 
(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,<br>  
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,<br>  
And live alone in the bee-loud glade? . . . --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:26, 6 December 2012 (PST)
And live alone in the bee-loud glade? . . . --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:26, 6 December 2012 (PST)
Aha! I just discovered that this version of the wiki can search as few as two characters. One could then search out the streets in a given sector, if one had nothing better to do. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 17:14, 11 December 2012 (PST)
Interestingly, several British towns which were formerly associated with aircraft manufacture, or with service industries supporting the RAF and British civil aviation, have industrial estates with roads named after classic British aircraft. In the Catton area of Norwich, adjacent to the civil airport which was formerly a major RAF base (also used by the Poles and trhe USAAF during WW2), streets on the adjacent industrial estate have interesting names like ''Spitfire Road, Hurricane Way, Vulcan Road''... and '''''Lancaster Way'''''.  Perhaps ''Runecaster Way'' is an echo? (Flight technomancy - a Dwarf workshop building or repairing broomsticks?)[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 10:15, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 10:15, 18 February 2015

Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade? . . . --Old Dickens (talk) 15:26, 6 December 2012 (PST)

Aha! I just discovered that this version of the wiki can search as few as two characters. One could then search out the streets in a given sector, if one had nothing better to do. --Old Dickens (talk) 17:14, 11 December 2012 (PST)

Interestingly, several British towns which were formerly associated with aircraft manufacture, or with service industries supporting the RAF and British civil aviation, have industrial estates with roads named after classic British aircraft. In the Catton area of Norwich, adjacent to the civil airport which was formerly a major RAF base (also used by the Poles and trhe USAAF during WW2), streets on the adjacent industrial estate have interesting names like Spitfire Road, Hurricane Way, Vulcan Road... and Lancaster Way. Perhaps Runecaster Way is an echo? (Flight technomancy - a Dwarf workshop building or repairing broomsticks?)AgProv (talk) 10:15, 18 February 2015 (UTC)