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12:15 AM

Geez

> Questions about the play "Henry VI, Part III" by William Shakespeare. Questions about this work should be tagged with [willima-shakespeare].

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Rand al'Thor

12:22 PM

Our QPD has slipped back to 3.2 (as currently shown on Area 51). We had a good streak of 5-6 QPD for a while.

Tsundoku

12:35 PM

I have also noticed that. But the number of answers per question hasn't gone down, so I wouldn't be worried.

At least we don't need to deal with questions like this: Is one user unilaterally reviewing/closing 1500 questions in a single day okay, or too much?

Rand al'Thor

1:37 PM

My personal number of answers per question has gone down: I now have significantly more Q than A :-) Fortunately that slack is taken up by people like Gareth Rees and Peter Shor who have even more significantly more A than Q.

G Warner

I am welcoming any pointers on how to find a specific publication. I haven't found anything on archive.org. And I really haven't been able to navigate the immensity of the Library of Congress. Is that my last hope? The publication itself was a monthly booklet for reading classes of grade school aged children.

I recall reading these booklets in the mid to late 70's. It was a 10-20 page booklet called Read. I know it was 'published' by Scholastic for the NEA (Natural Educators' Assoc.)

b_jonas

2:06 PM

@GWarner First, search the internet, which apparently you've done. Then look in your local library catalogs. Once that fails, ask the internet. You may ask us here, but there are dedicated forums like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/… . Alternately, become internet-famous so that thousands of people read your blog, and then ask your blog readers, offering them a small bounty, such as adding them to your public hall of fame.

@GWarner And if you ask on internet, please be as specific as you can, as in give as many biographical details of the article or book as you could track down, don't just link to a webpage of a journal that gives details.

G Warner

@b_jonas Thank you.

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Bookworm

5:15 PM

Q: "Yum yum pig's bum"

I saw a vernacular poem that appears to have been passed down and passed around in various parts of the UK. A couple of different versions: Yum yum Pig's bum Wrap it up In chewing gum Have a slice Very nice! Yum yum Pig's bum My first question is why wrap it up in chewing gum? This version is p...

Bookworm

6:07 PM

Q: Is there a commonly accepted way to measure the relative "popularity" of Shakespeare plays?

A mention in this answer of the "popularity" of Richard III, compared with some of Shakespeare's other history plays, made me wonder if this claim can be quantified. Of course there are various ways of measuring the "popularity" of a play: number of different productions, overall number of perfor...