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I didn't know this existed when I chose my name but ....
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It means something like (honorific-diminutive) Tails dunnit?

But knowing Shippous 'predilictions', ain't no way I am googling it from a works laptop.

sorta

it's the name of a charactor and his name is a bit of a pun as it sounds roughly the same as tail but is written differently


and the charactor is work safe
 
Ha. Didn't we have this fight in the grave-dancing thread I started when GMF went to the great potboiler in the sky?

In fact, looking it up, not a fist was raised with anyone in your impressive eight post thread either.

Grave-dance eh?

Must try harder.

He was an old empire-loving Hun though, some might call him an old cunt, but to call The Papers overrated is nonsense; it is well written, historically accurate and very funny, with side-swipes at the resident doltish generals, politicians, war-mongers and royalty who didn't give a damn about Johnny soldier given freely.

We can discuss racism and misogyny in the 19c too if you like.
 
Apparently Mrs Magpie is a Harriet Beecher Stowe character as well as a character in an Aussie kids book, but I didn't know that till long after I called myself Mrs M.
 
I'm not, but I'd like to change my username to someone from a book. Was thinking of John Uskglass from Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
 
Greebo is the name of a v disreputable tomcat, fed by Nanny Ogg in several books by Terry Pratchett.
 
Oh well, my username is derived from the Leo Baxendale comic character
Grimly Fieendish, who is a apparently indestructable, though inept supervillian, who'se various, though convoluted diabolical schemes to "take over the world/hold the M1 for ransom, etc..." (delete as applicable) always gets foiled by "Eagle Eye, Private Spy" in the strip of the same name...
 
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