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The Jelly Man
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.clspco.adelphia.net)
Date: November 12, 2005 03:16PM
Hi! Can someone please tell me what nursery tale has the jelly man in it?
I am in Colorado in the US and we can not find him anywhere. Any info will be greatly appreciated.
I am in Colorado in the US and we can not find him anywhere. Any info will be greatly appreciated.
Re: The Jelly Man
Posted by: robert (---.nsw.bigpond.net.au)
Date: November 13, 2005 10:08AM
Hi cranniegrannie
Use the 'search' button, type in 'jellyman' and you'll then know everything that we know....
****SPOILER ALERT******
.... which is basically very little.
Use the 'search' button, type in 'jellyman' and you'll then know everything that we know....
****SPOILER ALERT******
.... which is basically very little.
Re: The Jelly Man
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.houston.res.rr.com)
Date: January 16, 2006 01:06AM
We think that the Jellyman is a British (or Welsh) version of the Muffin Man.
Re: The Jelly Man
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.greateryellowstone.org)
Date: January 18, 2006 04:29PM
In The Big Overy Easy special features, Fforde says that the Jellyman is NOT a nursery rhyme character, that he made him up.
Re: The Jelly Man
Posted by: Zuki-pah (210.84.46.---)
Date: April 07, 2006 06:58AM
I was pondering this last night (after Kitten said she'd lasso a Jellyman for me - see Nextian chat)...
I guess the reason we don't see many Jellymen today is that they are cursed with deliciousness, which makes it almost impossible for them to develop from Jellybabies through infancy, childhood, and adolescence into adulthood, as they are perpetually being consumed.
'Who looks after the animals?'
I guess the reason we don't see many Jellymen today is that they are cursed with deliciousness, which makes it almost impossible for them to develop from Jellybabies through infancy, childhood, and adolescence into adulthood, as they are perpetually being consumed.
'Who looks after the animals?'
Re: The Jelly Man
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: April 15, 2006 12:24AM
I kind of thought he sounded a LOT like Santa Clause. And it is true that Santa's belly shakes like a "bowl full of jelly", so there's a clear connection! Santa's long-lost brother, maybe?
Re: The Jelly Man
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.washdc.east.verizon.net)
Date: May 11, 2006 08:25PM
I did a google search, and discovered that besides "Jellyman" being an Oxfordshire family name it is the name of a relatively new animation company. The head of that firm "The Jellyman" would certainly be treated by the nursery characters as Fforde describes. The question is, which came first, the chicken (the animation company) or the egg (this book)??
Re: The Jelly Man
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: May 12, 2006 12:24PM
Good question, this one.
"The head of that firm "The Jellyman" would certainly be treated by the nursery characters as Fforde describes."
- what would you mean by that?
Design #3609494995:
It's a newly-discovered breed of fish that keeps your teeth clean, tastes delicious and dissolves in water.
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"The head of that firm "The Jellyman" would certainly be treated by the nursery characters as Fforde describes."
- what would you mean by that?
Design #3609494995:
It's a newly-discovered breed of fish that keeps your teeth clean, tastes delicious and dissolves in water.
generated with The Prior-Art-O-Matic
Re: The Jelly Man
Posted by: Puck (---.sfldmidn.dynamic.covad.net)
Date: June 02, 2006 07:52PM
I thought "Jellyman" sounded like it could have been a distant variation on "Bellman" - both figures of some authority. The Bellman is from Carroll, but I agree that the Jellyman, whoever he is, was created by Fforde.
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