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Timmy the Tortoise, R.I.P.
May. 4th, 2004 10:28 am(via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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BBC article: "Timmy the tortoise dies aged 160".
The article has a curious sidebar timeline:
TIMOTHY'S TIMELINE
Found Aged 10 (1854): Paddington station opens
Aged 26 (1870): First postcard sent
Aged 46 (1890): Electric underground railway opens
Aged 60 (1904): Peter Pan premieres
Aged 67 (1911): King George V coronation
Aged 77 (1921): British Legion formed
Aged 96 (1940): Food rationing introduced
Aged 156 (2000): New millennium celebrated
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askesis was intrigued by the timeline, and doubted the events had much relevence to Timothy's life.
Don't sell Timmothy the Tortoise short, or doubt the verasity and relevence of detail that goes into every carefully researched BBC article!
Here are some relevent excerpts from Timothy's diary:
1854: Mr. Trevethick has been quite appreciative of my reccomendation that a thicker iron "shell" around the boiler of his "locomotive" would allow for greater steam pressure and hence a more powerful machine. In thanks, he alowed me to cut the ribbon of Paddington Station. Quite an honor for a 10 year old tortoise!
1870: The cardboard cards with an artistic design on one side and space for address and a short message on the other which I ordered have just come back from the engraver. I shall drop a few in the post today. I think I shall call them "post cards".
1890: Am quite exausted from another day of burrowing tunnels, but "the Tube" is finally finished!
1904: I hope no-one will catch on to my pen-name of "J. M. Barrie"; these works are simply a bit of fluff to give me a break from my more serious work. The Swiss patent-clerk is being a good sport about letting me publish under his name.
1911: Thrice they offered me the crown, and thrice I have turned it down.
1921: I tried to warn them that invading Iraq would be more trouble than it was worth, but Lloyd George always thinks he knows best, the poor fool.
1940: What, no lettuce, no carrot? If I don't get any, then no one shall!
2000: Up all last night fixing the Y2K bug. Much work, but I am so glad the United Nations finally agreed with my proposal to change the leftmost digit of the calendar rather than chuck the whole business and revert to a bronze-age level of civilisation as they had all wanted to.
2004: My great project is finally done, although it is still secret and it will be centuries before the full benifit is realized. Time to settle down for a nice long nap.
kibology...)BBC article: "Timmy the tortoise dies aged 160".
The article has a curious sidebar timeline:
TIMOTHY'S TIMELINE
Found Aged 10 (1854): Paddington station opens
Aged 26 (1870): First postcard sent
Aged 46 (1890): Electric underground railway opens
Aged 60 (1904): Peter Pan premieres
Aged 67 (1911): King George V coronation
Aged 77 (1921): British Legion formed
Aged 96 (1940): Food rationing introduced
Aged 156 (2000): New millennium celebrated
askesis was intrigued by the timeline, and doubted the events had much relevence to Timothy's life.Don't sell Timmothy the Tortoise short, or doubt the verasity and relevence of detail that goes into every carefully researched BBC article!
Here are some relevent excerpts from Timothy's diary:
1854: Mr. Trevethick has been quite appreciative of my reccomendation that a thicker iron "shell" around the boiler of his "locomotive" would allow for greater steam pressure and hence a more powerful machine. In thanks, he alowed me to cut the ribbon of Paddington Station. Quite an honor for a 10 year old tortoise!
1870: The cardboard cards with an artistic design on one side and space for address and a short message on the other which I ordered have just come back from the engraver. I shall drop a few in the post today. I think I shall call them "post cards".
1890: Am quite exausted from another day of burrowing tunnels, but "the Tube" is finally finished!
1904: I hope no-one will catch on to my pen-name of "J. M. Barrie"; these works are simply a bit of fluff to give me a break from my more serious work. The Swiss patent-clerk is being a good sport about letting me publish under his name.
1911: Thrice they offered me the crown, and thrice I have turned it down.
1921: I tried to warn them that invading Iraq would be more trouble than it was worth, but Lloyd George always thinks he knows best, the poor fool.
1940: What, no lettuce, no carrot? If I don't get any, then no one shall!
2000: Up all last night fixing the Y2K bug. Much work, but I am so glad the United Nations finally agreed with my proposal to change the leftmost digit of the calendar rather than chuck the whole business and revert to a bronze-age level of civilisation as they had all wanted to.
2004: My great project is finally done, although it is still secret and it will be centuries before the full benifit is realized. Time to settle down for a nice long nap.
