No woman ever won the award, so Nadia wears a shirt of lies. Presented at a lunch in London’s Savoy Hotel each January, the last recipient of the award was Stephen Fry. She has a shirt which says “pipe smoker of the year”. Pipe Smoker of the Year was an award given out annually by the British Pipesmokers’ Council, to honour a famous pipe-smoking individual. Cabs like these don’t tend to exist up in the North – people just show up in whatever random car they want and we blindly accept it. Black cabs like these are known as Hackney carriages, although the origin of the name is a little bit unclear. I’m worried Nadia may have magical southern powers. ![]() Nobody in the UK has ever whistled and had a cab magically appear. ![]() Always check to make sure they’re vegetable capsules when picking up your medication, friends. Is Daisy vegetarian? Because those gel caps likely aren’t. Pubs close in the UK around 10-11, so wherever Daisy goes next is probably going to be loud and popular. Bootleg recordings of particularly famous gigs are everywhere on the internet, and have become pretty collectable in general. In years gone by people used to tape the radio so they wouldn’t have to pay for the music themselves, or record gigs so they could play them back. I only got a C in my GCSE French, so i couldn’t really tell you.Ī bootleg is a copy of something, usually a recording of something. Speaking of going viral in the 1990s, in 1992 there was an outbreak of equine viral arteritis in Spain.Įsther’s French is actually incorrect at the top of the page, a classic case of Franglais – she means to say “un nouveau bas” according to Clark. But you’re on the internet, you’re probably well aware of that already. It mostly gets used incorrectly to try and stifle criticism of misogynistic traits in society. Misandry is the reverse of misogyny – a prejudice against men. It was adapted as a musical and then the musical was adapted into a movie, both of which made fun of the original film for it’s melodrama. The 1930s were a pretty paranoid time, by all accounts. It warned of the danger of marijuana, which would inevitably lead your children to ruin, medical horrors, and almost certain death. ![]() Esther also refers to Reefer Madness, which was the name of a propaganda movie (and subsequent satire) aimed at parents. It’s probably got a pretty dirty double-meaning, but Shelfdust is a good and wholesome place which shan’t delve into such particulars. “Ring My Bell” was released by Anita Ward in 1979, and reached no #1 on the chart. I stole that wholesale off Wikipedia, in case you were wondering how I came across that information. Information science in about studying the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information. Public boaking isn’t illegal in the UK, as far as I know – it’d be pretty harsh to arrest people who were genuinely ill in the middle of the street – but a lot of councils now do force people to clean up their, uh, work, the next day. Oh, those crazy Scots, always coming up with superior onomatopoeia than anyone else. “Boaking” is the way they say “vomiting” in Scotland. It happens all the time in The Beano, for example, which I still think might be in-continuity with this series. Having a moth fly out an empty wallet is a classic way to show that somebody has run out of money. Nadia is drinking a whiskey on the rocks, it looks like. For reference, if there are any 16-17 year olds reading this, there’s no real consensus on what constitutes a meal – you could probably get a plate of chips and that’d count. The legal drinking and voting age is 18 in the UK, although you can drink in a pub if you’re 16 – so long as someone else buys you the drink, and you have it along with a meal. “Street Legal” doesn’t mean what Esther thinks it means. If you thought the Scarface poster was popular, that’s nothing compared to how many posters of Uma Thurman you’ll see on any given day on campus. Howay for Shelfdust, then, as we pledge to annotate every issue of the series in turn! Get ready for a world of adventure and learning!Įsther kicks things off with a rousing refrain of “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon” by Urge Overkill, as made famous from the soundtrack of Quentin Tarentino’s university-favourite film Pulp Fiction. Created by John Allison and drawn by talents including Lissa Treiman, Max Sarin and Whitney Cogar, the series has been going strong for several years now, and has amassed a rightfully devoted fanbase.Īs it’s set in England, though, and because Allison has such strong instincts as a writer, there are a lot of jokes and references which might fly over the head of the international audience. ![]() Giant Days is a brilliant, weird, funny comic about three girls living together at Sheffield University in the UK.
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