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The Deeper Meaning of Liff

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Author: Douglas Adams

Publisher: Crown Archetype

ISBN: 0307238741

Category: Humor

Page: 192

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Does the sensation of Tingrith(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone Ahenny(2)? Can you deal with a Naugatuck(3) without causing a Toronto(4)? Will you suffer from Kettering(5) this summer? Probably. You are almost certainly familiar with all these experiences but just didn’t know that there are words for them. Well, in fact, there aren’t—or rather there weren’t, until Douglas Adams and John Lloyd decided to plug these egregious linguistic lacunae(6). They quickly realized that just as there are an awful lot of experiences that no one has a name for, so there are an awful lot of names for places you will never need to go to. What a waste. As responsible citizens of a small and crowded world, we must all learn the virtues of recycling(7) and put old, worn-out but still serviceable names to exciting, vibrant, new uses. This is the book that does that for you: The Deeper Meaning of Liff—a whole new solution to the problem of Great Wakering(8) 1—The feeling of aluminum foil against your fillings. 2—The way people stand when examining other people’s bookshelves. 3—A plastic packet containing shampoo, mustard, etc., which is impossible to open except by biting off the corners. 4—Generic term for anything that comes out in a gush, despite all your efforts to let it out carefully, e.g., flour into a white sauce, ketchup onto fish, a dog into the yard, and another naughty meaning that we can’t put on the cover. 5—The marks left on your bottom and thighs after you’ve been sitting sunbathing in a wicker chair. 6—God knows what this means 7—For instance, some of this book was first published in Britain twenty-six years ago. 8—Look it up yourself. From the Trade Paperback edition.
2005-04-26 By Douglas Adams
Performing Arts

A Book about the Film Monty Python s The Meaning of Life

Katie Binn, “Where I Live: Bradford and West Yorkshire,” BBC, http://www.bbc.co.
uk/bradford/content/articles/2006/05/12/bradford_irish_katie_feature.shtml. 282.
Almost unrelatedly, except it's from Douglas Adams: In Adams's Meaning of Liff, ...

Author: Darl Larsen

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN: 9781538115978

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 444

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This reference identifies and explains the cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the film Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, the Pythons’ third and final original feature as a complete group. In this resource, virtually every allusion and reference that appears in the film is identified and explained —from Britain’s waning Empire through the Winter of Discontent to Margaret Thatcher’s second-term mandate, from playing fields to battle fields, and from accountant pirates to sacred sperm. Organized chronologically by scene, the entries cover literary and metaphoric allusions, symbolisms, names, peoples, and places; as well as the many social, cultural, and historical elements that populate this film, and the Pythons’ work in general.
2020-06-29 By Darl Larsen
English imprints

The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books 1986 to 1987

Author: British Library

Publisher:

ISBN: 0862917433

Category: English imprints

Page: 435

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1988 By British Library
American fiction

Twentieth century Science fiction Writers

Adams has collaborated with John Lloyd to produce The Meaning of Liff a
supposedly comic glossary ( complete with index ) made up by giving meanings
to place names ( some few of which are comic in themselves ) . The definitions
are ...

Author: Curtis C. Smith

Publisher: Saint James Press

ISBN: 0912289279

Category: American fiction

Page: 933

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1986 By Curtis C. Smith
Science fiction, American

Twentieth century Science Fiction Writers

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ISBN: UOM:39015061593326

Category: Science fiction, American

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1986 By
Bibliography, National

The British National Bibliography

Author: Arthur James Wells

Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105117839287

Category: Bibliography, National

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1993 By Arthur James Wells
Great Britain

British Books in Print

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Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105015553394

Category: Great Britain

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1986 By
Electronic journals

Notes and Queries

W. Sykes , M.R.C.S. with their remains are interred Lord Roystoun , Mexborough ,
near Rotherham , Yorkshire . who died in 1744 ... to a person of the above name
word is rendered in the Septuagint by one meaning about A.D. 1500 , and was
probably of Scandinavian ... of little value . clair's Statistical Account of Scotland
under the It may be said that " cypress ” is a guess , too ; parish of Liff and Benvie
.

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ISBN: MSU:31293025590625

Category: Electronic journals

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1884 By
Names, Geographical

The Place names of the West Riding of Yorkshire

... clyf 1321 YD vi ( p ) , Toftclyf 1297 WCR , Topcliff , - clyff , - clyf ( e ) 1454 Willy ,
1510 FF , 1589 PRLds , 1616 FF , Toplyfe 1583 Willy , - liff 1603 FF . ... Like
Skewkirk ( Tockwith ) pt . iv infra , which has the same meaning , it was a cell of St
 ...

Author: Albert Hugh Smith

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015072451845

Category: Names, Geographical

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1961 By Albert Hugh Smith
Great Britain

The Illustrated London News

DRURY, Markeaton, Derbyshire, farm liff. ... Stockton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire,
brickmaker-J.N. DUMBRILL, jun., Eastbourne, baker. ... That appeared to him to
be the fair spirit of the meaning of the Conference, which was anxious to stop an
effusion of blood, but was also *...anxious to stop those contributions of war; but ...

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ISBN: PRNC:32101059281095

Category: Great Britain

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1864 By
Law

The Irish Jurist

... not because the Liff's book in 1855 , and the defendant's books in 1860 , that
amount was excessive , but because the fee had been ... Keenan v : Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway fourteen years in the United States of America , and took
lodgSecurity for costs . ... In a personal action brought to recover no trial within
the meaning of the 97th section of the Com- penalties under the Corrupt
Practices Act ...

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105061851734

Category: Law

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Architecture

The Builder

A moveable ' liff Gaslight and Coke tremity . ... indeed , in 860 0 a sixth volunteer
only escaped by being rapidly Yorkshire generally , by the common people , rat 0
Barrett 840 00 drawn to the top . ... 6 , 549 6 , 518 den - town , is rebuilding the
organ , which is pression used at first in a limited meaning has Conder 6 , 184 ...

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ISBN: PRNC:32101079220628

Category: Architecture

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1867 By
English language

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

(1681) # Chees-liff, the bag wherein House-wives prepare and keep their Runnet
or Rennet for their Cheese. ... cheeters in Yorkshire. ... 105) as “tame Cheater”;
but apart from the fact that this phrase elsewhere has a clear meaning, no
channel is known through which Shakspere could have heard of the Cheetah.
Cheeve ...

Author: James Augustus Henry Murray

Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105015710622

Category: English language

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1893 By James Augustus Henry Murray
Yorkshire (England)

Record Series

Yorkshire Archaeological Society ... meaning. to. say. : ut. pren. spynt. Mem . that
the last day of Juny John Hoggeson , couke , otherwise called John Couk , in
Conyngstrete , hath ... duryng the liff of the said John Couke and Alice his wiffe
the said iiij yren spytts yerely the Maier for the tyme beyng to have theym from
Saynt ...

Author: Yorkshire Archaeological Society

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015005259257

Category: Yorkshire (England)

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1941 By Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Names, Geographical

English Place Name Society

... vi ( p ) , Toftclyf 1297 WCR , Topcliff , - clyff , - clyf ( e ) 1454 Willy , 1510 FF ,
1589 PRLds , 1616 FF , Toplyfe 1583 Willy , - liff 1603 FF . ... Like Skewkirk (
Tockwith ) pt . iv infra , which has the same meaning , it was a cell of St Oswald ...
ARDSLEY COMMON , the Common 1708 WYEnr 176 WEST RIDING OF
YORKSHIRE.

Author: English Place-Name Society

Publisher:

ISBN: WISC:89005486790

Category: Names, Geographical

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Addenda and corrigenda to vols. 1-8 are in v. 8.
1961 By English Place-Name Society
Social Science

Prehistoric Britain

and cannabis, raising the interesting question as to whether the person buried in
Liff's Low might have been a shaman or medicine man. ... Duggleby Howe, East
Riding of Yorkshire, already referred to, illustrates the point. ... In 1971 Ian
Longworth defined four sub-styles of Grooved Ware – Clacton, Durrington, Rinyo,
and Woodlands – based on the incidence and range of decorative motifs and
schemes.

Author: Timothy Darvill

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136973048

Category: Social Science

Page: 416

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Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now in its second edition, examines the development of human societies in Britain from earliest times to the Roman conquest of AD 43, as revealed by archaeological evidence. Special attention is given to six themes which are traced through prehistory: subsistence, technology, ritual, trade, society, and population. Prehistoric Britain begins by introducing the background to prehistoric studies in Britain, presenting it in terms of the development of interest in the subject and the changes wrought by new techniques such as radiocarbon dating, and new theories, such as the emphasis on social archaeology. The central sections trace the development of society from the hunter-gatherer groups of the last Ice Age, through the adoption of farming, the introduction of metalworking, and on to the rise of highly organized societies living on the fringes of the mighty Roman Empire in the 1st century AD. Throughout, emphasis is given to documenting and explaining changes within these prehistoric communities, and to exploring the regional variations found in Britain. In this way the wealth of evidence that can be seen in the countryside and in our museums is placed firmly in its proper context. It concludes with a review of the effects of prehistoric communities on life today. With over 120 illustrations, this is a unique review of Britain's ancient past as revealed by modern archaeology. The revisions and updates to Prehistoric Britain ensure that this will continue to be the most comprehensive and authoritative account of British prehistory for those students and interested readers studying the subject.
2010-07-02 By Timothy Darvill
Architecture

Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects

This officer , in St. Oswald's priory at Nostel , in Yorkshire , about 1380 , painted
the refectory with his own hands ... in all things as we have appointed it by the
oversight and assent of the said Bisshop of Sarum during his liff , and after his ...
with the privilege of doing and performing the painter's work ; from which it would
appear that the meaning of the term had been altered equally with that of
Supervisor .

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ISBN: PRNC:32101067663540

Category: Architecture

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English language

A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words

Author: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps

Publisher:

ISBN: SRLF:AA0016133035

Category: English language

Page: 960

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1904 By James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Library catalogs

Catalogue of the London Library St Jame s Square

Author: London Library

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015082947410

Category: Library catalogs

Page: 1626

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1903 By London Library
Architecture

The Building News and Engineering Journal

This officer , in St. Oswald's priory at Nostel , in Yorkshire , about 1380 , painted
the refectory with his own hands ... in all things as we have appointed it by the
oversight and assent of the said Bisshop of Sarum during his liff , and after his ...
with the privilege of doing and performing the painter's work : from which it would
appear that the meaning of the term had been altered equally with that of
Supervisor .

Author:

Publisher:

ISBN: UIUC:30112051957055

Category: Architecture

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