Talk:Grimethorpe - Revision history

Guybrush at 12:01, 24 March 2023

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	I wouldn't have supposed that Blackbury/Grimethorpe was supposed to be as significant or cosmopolitan as Greater Manchester. The area has a small-city feel where the housing "project" is one building. Blackburn/Accrington/Burnley perhaps? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 04:09, 15 October 2018 (UTC)		I wouldn't have supposed that Blackbury/Grimethorpe was supposed to be as significant or cosmopolitan as Greater Manchester. The area has a small-city feel where the housing "project" is one building. Blackburn/Accrington/Burnley perhaps? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 04:09, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

	~~== Is Grimethorpe only mentioned in US editions? ==~~

	I’ve searched my copies of {{T}}, {{D}}, {{WI}}, {{OY}}, {{JATD}} and {{JATB}} and I can’t find any mention of Grimethorpe in any of them. Is this a US localisation? If so, what’s the evidence for saying it’s a neighbouring town to Blackbury? Or is that just a bit of artistic license to say they’re the same place? -- [[User:Guybrush\|Guybrush]] ([[User talk:Guybrush\|talk]]) 11:59, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Guybrush at 11:59, 24 March 2023

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	== Is Grimethorpe only mentioned in US editions? ==		== Is Grimethorpe only mentioned in US editions? ==

	I’ve searched my copies of {{T}}, {{D}}, {{WI}}, {{~~OYC~~}}, {{JATD}} and {{JATB}} and I can’t find any mention of Grimethorpe in any of them. Is this a US localisation? If so, what’s the evidence for saying it’s a neighbouring town to Blackbury? Or is that just a bit of artistic license to say they’re the same place? -- [[User:Guybrush\|Guybrush]] ([[User talk:Guybrush\|talk]]) 11:59, 24 March 2023 (UTC)		I’ve searched my copies of {{T}}, {{D}}, {{WI}}, {{OY}}, {{JATD}} and {{JATB}} and I can’t find any mention of Grimethorpe in any of them. Is this a US localisation? If so, what’s the evidence for saying it’s a neighbouring town to Blackbury? Or is that just a bit of artistic license to say they’re the same place? -- [[User:Guybrush\|Guybrush]] ([[User talk:Guybrush\|talk]]) 11:59, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Guybrush: /* Is Grimethorpe only mentioned in US editions? */ new section

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Is Grimethorpe only mentioned in US editions?: new section

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	I wouldn't have supposed that Blackbury/Grimethorpe was supposed to be as significant or cosmopolitan as Greater Manchester. The area has a small-city feel where the housing "project" is one building. Blackburn/Accrington/Burnley perhaps? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 04:09, 15 October 2018 (UTC)		I wouldn't have supposed that Blackbury/Grimethorpe was supposed to be as significant or cosmopolitan as Greater Manchester. The area has a small-city feel where the housing "project" is one building. Blackburn/Accrington/Burnley perhaps? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 04:09, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

			== Is Grimethorpe only mentioned in US editions? ==

			I’ve searched my copies of {{T}}, {{D}}, {{WI}}, {{OYC}}, {{JATD}} and {{JATB}} and I can’t find any mention of Grimethorpe in any of them. Is this a US localisation? If so, what’s the evidence for saying it’s a neighbouring town to Blackbury? Or is that just a bit of artistic license to say they’re the same place? -- [[User:Guybrush\|Guybrush]] ([[User talk:Guybrush\|talk]]) 11:59, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Old Dickens: not so metropolitan?

2018-10-15T04:09:02Z

not so metropolitan?

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	There is a Roundworld [http://www.grimethorpeband.com/ Grimethorpe] (with a brass band Yo-less would love) in S. Yorkshire, UK, for those who may not have passed that way. It's not very near Blackburn, though. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 03:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)		There is a Roundworld [http://www.grimethorpeband.com/ Grimethorpe] (with a brass band Yo-less would love) in S. Yorkshire, UK, for those who may not have passed that way. It's not very near Blackburn, though. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 03:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

			==Annotation==
			I wouldn't have supposed that Blackbury/Grimethorpe was supposed to be as significant or cosmopolitan as Greater Manchester. The area has a small-city feel where the housing "project" is one building. Blackburn/Accrington/Burnley perhaps? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 04:09, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Old Dickens: /* */

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	== ==		== ==
	There is a Roundworld [http://www.grimethorpeband.com/ ~~Grimethorp~~] (with a brass band Yo-less would love) in S. Yorkshire, UK, for those who may not have passed that way. It's not very near Blackburn, though. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 03:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)		There is a Roundworld [http://www.grimethorpeband.com/ Grimethorpe] (with a brass band Yo-less would love) in S. Yorkshire, UK, for those who may not have passed that way. It's not very near Blackburn, though. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 03:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Old Dickens: /* */

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	== ==		== ==
	There is a Roundworld [http://www.grimethorpeband.com/ Grimethorp] (with a brass band Yo-less would love) in S. Yorkshire, UK, for those who may not have passed that way.~~<BR>~~		There is a Roundworld [http://www.grimethorpeband.com/ Grimethorp] (with a brass band Yo-less would love) in S. Yorkshire, UK, for those who may not have passed that way. It's not very near Blackburn, though. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 03:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
	It's not very near Blackburn, though. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 03:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Old Dickens: the other Grimethorp

2016-03-17T03:29:24Z

the other Grimethorp

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	Aha. I did some Googling which disabused me of the idea that it meant a giveaway paper, but despite a number of hits, including quite a long essay on the history of the Sun, no one said where the actual word came from. We have Suns in Canada as well, and pretty greasy they are, but not down to Rupert's standard, I don't suppose. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 23:22, 2 August 2008 (UTC)		Aha. I did some Googling which disabused me of the idea that it meant a giveaway paper, but despite a number of hits, including quite a long essay on the history of the Sun, no one said where the actual word came from. We have Suns in Canada as well, and pretty greasy they are, but not down to Rupert's standard, I don't suppose. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 23:22, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

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			There is a Roundworld [http://www.grimethorpeband.com/ Grimethorp] (with a brass band Yo-less would love) in S. Yorkshire, UK, for those who may not have passed that way.<BR>
			It's not very near Blackburn, though. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 03:29, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Osiris: 1 revision: Talk Namespace

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Old Dickens at 23:22, 2 August 2008

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New page

The rest of the world needs an explanation of the term "soaraway". I suspect it means "free", but I wonder why. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 15:28, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah. good point. The word was coined some years ago as part of an advertising campaign for what was, at the time, Britain's best-selling daily tabloid paper. The '''''Sun''''', Gods help us all, sold five million copies a day. with a population of fifty-five million, on the principle that on average four people will see any one copy of a daily paper, this meant that nearly '''''half''''' the British population would at least have the opportunity of reading a copy of this paper every day.

Seeing itself as glamorous, cheeky, and in touch with the public zeitgeist of Eighties Britain, the Super Soaraway Sun advertised heavily on TV (helped by the fact Rupert Murdoch, the owner, now also had SKY TV to advertise it on). As said, the word "soaraway" was invented by the advertisers to convey the impression that it was flying miles above the opposition in terms of quality (!) as well as sales.

Now apply the word "soaraway" to a rather desperate, dull, bland and unimaginative local paper, sold in a grim post-industrial Northern English town where nothing much happens, staffed by journos of the quality of Jeremy the Thumb. You see? Irony. --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 21:51, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Aha. I did some Googling which disabused me of the idea that it meant a giveaway paper, but despite a number of hits, including quite a long essay on the history of the Sun, no one said where the actual word came from. We have Suns in Canada as well, and pretty greasy they are, but not down to Rupert's standard, I don't suppose. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 23:22, 2 August 2008 (UTC)