phÂœnix +86, china calling: "harro"

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:15 pm

hmm, fairies in the 1890s
was he barrie's inspiration for peter pan?

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:35 pm

He illustrated in a certain magazine.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:44 pm

dickens's magazine, all the year round?

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:47 pm

Think it was later than this, Isty.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:54 pm

this is a subject i know quite a bit about but i've never heard the name before

ops:

the illustrated london news?

HornyNick · Post by **HornyNick** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:27 pm

private eye?

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:08 pm

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.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:37 pm

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?

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:49 pm

Hornung had a very famous brother-in law whose creation is the most filmed is the most filmed subject in history.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:53 pm

sherlock holmes, arthur conan doyle? that would make it the strand quarterly?

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:58 pm

Paget was the illustrator to Holmes words.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:03 pm

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)

steveseagull · Post by **steveseagull** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:56 pm

Chat/nag?

aaamusements.co.uk · Post by **aaamusements.co.uk** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:18 pm

Masturbate.
Sorry, someone had to say it...

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:42 pm

you said nag, our survey said uh-uhhhhhh.

you said masturbate, our survey said uh-uhhhhhh.