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• Charlie Stross commented on Why Wikipedia is the writer's friend
  Ah, pub names. Here in Edinburgh there is a fine drinking establishment called Dagda, on Buccleugh Street. (Note for Americans: of the three nouns in that sentence, only one is pronounced even approximately the way it is spelled.) If you want to go there, you need to know to tell the cabbie to take you to Proctor's Bar ......
• Feòrag commented on Why Wikipedia is the writer's friend
  It's a little bit more complicated than that, and not true to type, as the canonical form seems to be "Dagda, on Buccleugh Street, used to be Proctor's Bar". I don't think it was Proctor's for long enough for it to have stuck that well....
• bellinghman commented on Why Wikipedia is the writer's friend
  Or even a couple of hours away, if the ships had been hanging around Hong Kong harbour. (I allow two hours for getting out of that harbour simply because it's the heaviest marine traffic I've ever seen.)...
• Charlie Stross commented on Why Wikipedia is the writer's friend
  It is indeed name-checked (twice) in the latter two Merchant Princes books....
• bellinghman commented on Why Wikipedia is the writer's friend
  Checked: ~26 years, not 126. It just seems longer. Pointless factoid - as noted in a full page article in our local newspaper* - Sun Hill was named from a street here in Royston, at one end of which the old Police Station was. (There's a newer station, much bigger, behind which is our house.) The lesson: no matter how slight the detail, someone will know more about it than you. For almost any value of you. *It was obviously a slow news week, as the front page picture was one of a small bunch of people displaying vegetables. One...