Links

Flash · 51788. Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:18 am

Post links that will get us from one D to another. Warning: these often end up getting cut, because one or other topic doesn't fly, but when they work it makes us look rather artful, I think.

Flash · 51789. Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:22 am

Linking Dragons with Dinosaurs - and maybe even Darwin: in the days when evolutionary theory and fossil-hunting were both young disciplines mythologists hypothesised that dragons were a folk memory of the dinosaurs, an idea which had to be abandoned as it became apparent that there was a 60 million year gap between the last dinosaurs and the first humans.

Flash · 51790. Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:23 am

Linking Dragons with Ducks via Drake: drake is a name used in English folklore for a small (or wingless) dragon.

MatC · 52253. Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:44 am

In line with your briefing notes suggestion, Flash, that we ask a few open-ended questions: if we asked the panel “What happens after death?” we could then give Stephen notes on the decomposing whale (post 50271), the southward maggots (50229), Pythagoras and the beans (50570), and no doubt many more ...

MatC · 52254. Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:44 am

Should this topic be sticky, by the way?

Flash · 52259. Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:10 am

Probably, though making it so would involve knowing how to make it so. Perhaps Chris could do the honours?

Gray · 53422. Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:22 am

Possible link from Dodgson to Dexterity (Alice, Looking Glass, Reflections, 'handedness'...)

Flash · 55018. Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:37 pm

Not that we have either topic on the go at the moment, but, lest I forget, a link from Delta to Dixie is that 'delta' is used to signify D in the phonetic alphabet everywhere except in airports, because there's an airline called "Delta Air Lines". The airlines use 'dixie' to signify D.

Flash · 55445. Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:53 pm

Damnation to Dancing via limbo

MatC · 58523. Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:29 pm

Drugs to Dystopia, via George Orwell:
see post 58521 and post 58520

Flash · 59436. Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:51 am

van Dyck painted Jeffrey Hudson, the dwarf who jumped out of Queen Henrietta Maria's pie and also Sir Kenelm Digby's dead wife.

Flash · 59936. Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:14 am

The Committee for Small-Body Nomenclature (formerly the Small Bodies Names Committee) links the Dave (minor planets) question to Dwarves.