The Meaning of Liff

[bigmamabadger]

Anyone read The Meaning of Liff? By Douglas Adams and er, someone else...
They took placenames and made up meanings for them:

Take the placesnames from the A-Z thread and come up with your own meanings for them.

Wigan - A lady who makes hairpieces

BMB
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[PeterBale]

Gravesend - time for an exhumation

[NeilW]

The same principal was used in the "not the 9-o-clock news" book "Not 1984" with the Oxtail English dictionary.

The two entries I remember (without going and finding it!) were:

Pimlico: a miscellaneous thing (cf a Pimlico box where you put all the bits and pieces that you find around the house that don't really have a home)

Shoeburyness: that feeling you get when you sit on a warm seat that someone has just got up from.

[ronnie_the_lizard]

Anyone read The Meaning of Liff? By Douglas Adams and er, someone else...

Could this perhaps be Douglas Adams and John lloyd (producer of both HHGG and Nt9oCN)?


The same principal was used in the "not the 9-o-clock news" book "Not 1984" with the Oxtail English dictionary.

The "Meaning of Liff" project was a direct outcome of the Oxtail English Dictionary, which was written for the yearbook by DA.

The text of “the Meaning of Liff” can be found (not sure if this is a copyright breach though) HERE (folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html).

& more on Douglas Adams, and indeed the whole world, can be found here:

www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/

[mikelyons]

I have both the meaning of liff and the deeper meaning of liff (though I don't think this is as good)

Chester : One whose breasts arrive before the rest of her does.