Author Topic: My daughter's a page 3 girl!  (Read 1251 times)

My daughter's a page 3 girl!
« on: 16 May, 2019, 10:51:52 am »
She has a quote published on page 3 of the Guardian today!  And on the website.

Opps, forgot to link:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/16/latin-hebrew-proto-romance-new-theory-on-voynich-manuscript


 :)

ElyDave

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Re: My daughter's a page 3 girl!
« Reply #1 on: 16 May, 2019, 12:08:41 pm »
i read that this morning!   :thumbsup:
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Re: My daughter's a page 3 girl!
« Reply #2 on: 16 May, 2019, 12:40:37 pm »
Nice one! I recommend a google image search for the manuscript to see what the fuss is about, the Guardian article doesn't do it justice.

T42

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Re: My daughter's a page 3 girl!
« Reply #3 on: 16 May, 2019, 01:13:54 pm »
Well done that lass!

I gather that the name of the manuscript doesn't really derive from that of a Polish bookseller but is Alsacien from voy a corruption of voire, to see or, indirectly, to understand; and nichts, the German for nowt.
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Redlight

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Re: My daughter's a page 3 girl!
« Reply #4 on: 16 May, 2019, 02:48:36 pm »
Seeing the title of this thread brought back memories of a day in the late 1980s when a work colleague of mine came into the office saying exactly the same thing but brandishing a much smaller newspaper.  It was very unsettling to see his obvious pride as the men in the office commented on his 18 year-old daughter's breasts  ???
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Re: My daughter's a page 3 girl!
« Reply #5 on: 16 May, 2019, 03:24:51 pm »
I'm not sure it trumps it, but it almost certainly Trump's it: Around that time I had a similar where a colleague shared his pride (along with printed content) that his girlfriend was now a model for, er, um, Readers Wives..