Talk:Paul Neil Milne Johnstone

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Does anyone actually know anything about Johnstone? It'd be nice to have at least one sentence actually about him... --Spikey 13:20, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Be careful what you wish for. (See April.)

The article implies that the poem linked to, and viewed in the TV series, was actually written by Johnstone. Looking at the link, the site says only that it is the poem used in the TV series. Given that it reads like someone trying to make up a bad poem, and not someone actually trying badly to write a good poem, I think that's unlikely. Does anyone know differently? DJ Clayworth 17:01, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings

Should it be mentioned in the article that the picture of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings in the TV series is a picture of Douglas Adams drawn as a woman? I'm not sure of any online source, but I think it is mentioned on the "behind the scenes" subtitles on the BBC DVD. JP Godfrey (Talk to me) 21:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] removed the poem

The poem to which Douglas Adams indirectly referred in the original radio series (and directly referred in the television series) is as follows:

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.

They lay. They rotted. They turned

Around occasionally.

Bits of flesh dropped off them from

Time to time.

And sank into the pool's mire.

They also smelt a great deal.

The poem can also be viewed here.

I removed the poem until somebody can demonstrate -- with a source -- that it was in fact written by Paul Neil Milne Johnstone, and not something made up for the TV series. - furrykef (Talk at me) 02:05, 24 February 2007 (UTC)