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.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.177.21.167 (talk • contribs) 19:23, 7 May 2004
What do you mean? I feel it's a bit belittling if a person's wiki site tells nothing about the person himself even if that's know what he's known of. --Sigmundur (talk) 13:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
The IP address was probably referring to this April 2004 edit, though I don't see what's wrong with it, unless it's vandalism. Anyway, if you have notable information about him, feel free to add it (preferably with a citation). -kotra (talk) 16:58, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

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)

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[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)

In Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman, Adams is quoted as saying Johnstone "used to write appalling stuff about dead swans in stagnant pools". This is, of course, not proof of anything; if that's what DNA associated with Johnstone's work, it's what he'd put in a parody of it. Daibhid C 18:08, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What about biographical information?

Something is not right here. There's a page about this guy on Wikipedia and not hardly one word about him. It's all about this one time he got made fun of. Shouldn't there be something about him?

24.22.24.208 08:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The address

I don't know if it's relevant, but he altered the address in a similar manner as he did with the name "Slartibartfast"...change a letter or syllable to something close to the original. There IS a Beehive Court in Redbridge, Ilford, Essex (IL1 3RR - even the postcode alteration bears some likeness to the original). It's a standard block of flats, nothing particularly special about it either. Near the Gants Hill roundabout. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.192.155.145 (talk) 03:31, 5 February 2008 (UTC)