Power Cable - Revision history

Moishe Rosenbaum: ce

2016-07-06T15:00:26Z

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	Used in the [[Bromeliad]] and [[Johnny Maxwell]] series as descriptive of the sort of parochial inward-looking American town where tumbleweed rolls aimlessly down the main streets. Not, and the author has clarified this, the sort of outward-looking well-educated North American towns and cities where people have the good taste to buy his books.		Used in the [[Bromeliad]] and [[Johnny Maxwell]] series as descriptive of the sort of parochial inward-looking American town where tumbleweed rolls aimlessly down the main streets. Not, and the author has clarified this, the sort of outward-looking well-educated North American towns and cities where people have the good taste to buy his books.

	~~after~~ publication of {{CDA}} and the revelation about the existence of the [[Great Outdoors]], it would be nice to think this corner of the Discworld has a settlement called Power Cable.		After publication of {{CDA}} and the revelation about the existence of the [[Great Outdoors]], it would be nice to think this corner of the Discworld has a settlement called Power Cable.


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AgProv: Expanding with information from TCDA

2016-05-31T13:34:08Z

Expanding with information from TCDA

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	Used in the [[Bromeliad]] and [[Johnny Maxwell]] series as descriptive of the sort of parochial inward-looking American town where tumbleweed rolls aimlessly down the main streets. Not, and the author has clarified this, the sort of outward-looking well-educated North American towns and cities where people have the good taste to buy his books.		Used in the [[Bromeliad]] and [[Johnny Maxwell]] series as descriptive of the sort of parochial inward-looking American town where tumbleweed rolls aimlessly down the main streets. Not, and the author has clarified this, the sort of outward-looking well-educated North American towns and cities where people have the good taste to buy his books.

			after publication of {{CDA}} and the revelation about the existence of the [[Great Outdoors]], it would be nice to think this corner of the Discworld has a settlement called Power Cable.


	[[Category:Locations]]		[[Category:Locations]]

Osiris: 1 revision: Discworld import 2

2012-09-24T00:08:22Z

1 revision: Discworld import 2

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Zdm at 04:04, 30 June 2011

2011-06-30T04:04:50Z

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'''Power Cable, Nebraska''' Is a [[Roundworld]] town that does not exist in our universe. It was cited by [[Terry Pratchett|the author]] as the [[Wikipedia:litmus_test|litmus test]] for commercial acceptance in the U.S., usurping the position of {{wp|Peoria, Illinois|Peoria, Illinois}}. The town has since entered the language, to a lesser extent than [[Mrs Cake]], as the quintessential middle-class, mid-western, middle-American community sought by all corporate marketing executives.

Used in the [[Bromeliad]] and [[Johnny Maxwell]] series as descriptive of the sort of parochial inward-looking American town where tumbleweed rolls aimlessly down the main streets. Not, and the author has clarified this, the sort of outward-looking well-educated North American towns and cities where people have the good taste to buy his books.

[[Category:Locations]]