Mel wrote: |
They never changed Titty in Swallows and Amazons! |
Loryat wrote: |
They did change those names but I've never noticed whether or not Dick and Aunt Fanny in Famous Five are also changed. Maybe it's just cos Faraway Tree is for younger readers? |
Fiona Mc wrote: | ||
Famous Five hasn't been changed. They did an anniversary edition which I picked up a couple to complete my set and the names were the same Thank goodness. |
Alison H wrote: |
A colleague who was trying to do the Daily Telegraph crossword just asked me if I could think of a 7 letter word for nightmare - i-something-c-something-something-something-s. I suggested "incubus", and he'd never heard of the word and looked it up, and apparently the most common meaning of it (on the internet, anyway) is a demon who attacks women in their sleep. I will never be able to see Juliet Carrick in the same light again ! I thought it just meant either "burden" or "nightmare"! |
annah wrote: |
had made for the pleasuring of his young French wife."
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KB wrote: |
I know this is an old thread, but I had to share! I was reading Jan of the Fourth by Christine Chaundler and discovered that, after one of Jan's escapades, she is put into silence by the staff and "no one is to have intercourse with her".
Umm..... |
Joyce wrote: |
Doesn't Tom sniff at some mild lovemaking scenes in a book written by Joey?
I assume the hero and heroine kiss, rather than the whole hog! |
Loryat wrote: |
Worse though, is Gwensi Howell's being the 'pet and plaything' of Ernest and her grandfather (or whoever). Just shows how warped all our minds are (or maybe just mine) eighty years on! |
Alison H wrote: |
I read an EJO one last week which I thought bettered most of EBD's! 4 girls got on a bus and then realised that they didn't have enough money for their fares, so one of them told her friend that she'd have to "make love to the conductor" so that they wouldn't have to pay . |
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It was left to the ever-fertile Clem to solve the difficulty. |
Lisa_T wrote: |
I'm another who always quietly had hysterics at Annis and the screw in Island. |
Tan wrote: |
There was in one of the Island books, when they are putting on the Willowplate Pattern play. I remember that they were 'making love' in a boat (I think?)
It was a book I read as an adult so immediately drew the wrong conclusion .... |
Pat wrote: |
Do you find it worrying? When you're such a gifted exponent of the art yourself? |
Mrs Redboots wrote: |
Just re-reading "Prefects" and discover, to my slight horror, that Carlotta von Eschenau's brother was "a gay young man". Poor Wolfram, how very disappointing for him! |
Lulie wrote: | ||
He probably wasn't disappointed, but his parents may have been |
Catrin wrote: |
I noticed in the new GGB edition of Mary-Lou that OOAO was "removed incontinent from the garden" at one point. |
Laura V wrote: |
I haven't got any of my books here but two of my favourite double entendres come from Joey and Co where EBD describes Roger Richardson's "six foot of manhood" and him panting heavily whilst the girls nurse him |
Aquabird wrote: |
I know I'm spreeing here, but I was reading Caroline the Second today, and one of the mistresses at Janeways is called Miss Gaylord. I had to read it several times to make sure I wasn't imagining it! |
Lorna wrote: |
When I was in LOs Angeles last year there was a tower block (may have been a hotel?) that had the word Gaylord proudly displayed on it in (very) large letters! |
leahbelle wrote: |
Not that EBD ever mentioned virgins - or did she!? |
leahbelle wrote: |
Then came the terrible day when she referred to our dad as a virgin because my mum was moaning that he never cut the grass!
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Mrs Redboots wrote: | ||
Like the small girl who asked what "pregnant" meant, and was told that it meant "with child". So next day at school she wrote "The fireman went up the ladder and came down pregnant"..... |
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'Yes; you're quite right' he said 'Felicity likes men - she's accustomed to any number of them' |
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