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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:15 pm
by Istenem
hmm, fairies in the 1890s
was he barrie's inspiration for peter pan?

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:35 pm
by harry2
He illustrated in a certain magazine.

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:44 pm
by Istenem
dickens's magazine, all the year round?

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:47 pm
by harry2
Think it was later than this, Isty.

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:54 pm
by Istenem
this is a subject i know quite a bit about but i've never heard the name before :o ops:

the illustrated london news?

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:27 pm
by HornyNick
private eye?

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:08 pm
by harry2
Some magazines had crosswords. This introduced crossnumber puzzles



http://jig.joelpomerantz.com/fun/dogsmead.html



THE PUZZLE:



ACROSS
1. Area of Dog's Mead in square yards
5. Age of Farmer Dunk's daughter, Martha
6. Difference in yards between length & width of Dog's Mead
7. Number of roods in Dog's Mead times nine down
8. Year that Little Pigley came into occupation by the Dunks
10. Farmer Dunk's age
11. Birth year of Farmer Dunk's youngest child, Mary
14. Perimeter of Dog's Mead in yards
15. Cube of Farmer Dunk's walking speed in miles per hour
16. Fifteen across minus nine down

DOWN
1. Value of Dog's Mead in shillings per acre
2. Square of Farmer Dunk's mother-in-law's age
3. Mary's age
4. Value of Dog's Mead in pound sterling
6. Age of Farmer Dunk's son, Ed, who will be twice as old as Mary next year
7. Width of Dog's Mead in yards squared
8. Length in minutes Farmer Dunk needs to walk one and one-third times around Dog's Mead
9. See ten down
10. Ten across times nine down
12. One more than the sum of the digits in puzzle column two
13. Length of tenure in years of Little Pigley by the Dunk family



It also introduced the Gentleman thief Raffles !!

Whose author will lead you very close to the answer.

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:37 pm
by Istenem
i'll admit i had to cheat to find out who wrote about raffles.

e.w. hornung? never heard of him.

so none the wiser: the herald?

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:49 pm
by harry2
Hornung had a very famous brother-in law whose creation is the most filmed is the most filmed subject in history.

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:53 pm
by Istenem
sherlock holmes, arthur conan doyle? that would make it the strand quarterly?

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:58 pm
by harry2
Paget was the illustrator to Holmes words.

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:03 pm
by Istenem
phew. :)

with all this semanya furore...
striking a blow or women who don't have a cock, barbara blackburn holds an allcomers world record which she set in the 1950s and which still stands. what did she do 212 times in a minute?
(most men could only get about 30)

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:56 pm
by steveseagull
Chat/nag?

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:18 pm
by aaamusements.co.uk
Masturbate.
Sorry, someone had to say it...

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:42 pm
by Istenem
you said nag, our survey said uh-uhhhhhh.

you said masturbate, our survey said uh-uhhhhhh.