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UmberGryphon168 karma

Tollmache-Tollmache

Correct! From https://sites.google.com/site/qitranscripts/transcripts/7x07:

Stephen There was a member of the aristocratic family here, Tollemache, spelt T-O-double-L-E-M-A-C-H-E, Tollemache. There was the Tollemasche-Tollemasche family – double-barrelled – same name, but… each half was pronounced differently.

Alan Oh no.

Stephen It was pronounced " Toolmake Tollmash ".

UmberGryphon140 karma

Are you ever going to continue your alternate-history Mars story? http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1lpj64/if_mars_had_the_exact_same_atmosphere_as/

UmberGryphon14 karma

In the comic book Lucifer, the title character and a Navajo girl travel to First World (they never call it Nihodiłhił) through Tsoodził. How do you feel when European-American culture borrows from Navajo culture that way?

UmberGryphon3 karma

From her Web page, right above her map: "The Guinness World Record rules require the rider to cover 28,970 kilometers by bike...." I assume that number was chosen because it's (almost exactly) 18000 miles.

So you only have to bicycle 72% of the circumference of the Earth at the equator. ;-)