Hi

I've worked out what Landen Parke-Laine and Kannon and Fodder mean, but I really want to know what Victor Analogy and Bowden Cable are meant to mean. It's really bugging me.

It took me most of a day to work out Sturmley Archer...

Jemima

Hi jemimaspare. Welcome to the Fforum. Help yourself to some pie.

You will find a description of a Bowden cable here. This should tell you more than you need to know about these cables.

My guess is that Mr. Fforde just likes the sound of the name "Analogy". I don't think that he is particularly analogous to anything. Perhaps one of the other escapees from Nextian chat can come up with a good reason for the name.....

About Victor Analogy, I guess that since literature holds such extensive cultural weight in Thursday's world, some people must have names that pay tribute to a preferred aspect of the literary, like an analogy. But I think I read somewhere on the site that Mr. Fforde just likes the way the syllables sound. I don't quite remember where, though.

My personal name-pun faves are, I think, King and Nosmo. But is there a joke around Chalk and Cheese? For give me if I sound dense, but....

I had to spend month trying to explain the Martin Molloy quip: "Orson Wells will take the title role for The Island of Doctor Moreau". I think that the explaining was actually funnier than the gag!

Hi Cheshire Cat. you may want to look here for an explanation of chalk and cheese.

Meanwhile, you will find us far more active in Nextian Chat, where you will be greeted with pies, refreshments and possibly even a pointy stick!

Thanks Skidmarks....

From reading the other forums and threads, you appear to tell each and every newbie about the "refreshments".....;-p

Yes, it is a tradition, charter or something (with all due acknowledgements to the Order of the Golden Sprout). The first one to greet a newcomer usually does it and I tend to be online at different times to some of the others and so am first greeter more often than I would expect.

When I joined, I was offered the cyber refreshments and even though lots of those who were around then have now gone, I like to keep the tradition going. As I live in the Wigan area of the U.K. I extended the refreshments to include pies, both sweet and savoury.