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The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest 'c*nt' citation is dated 1230: at this time, in the Stews (brothel) area of Southwark, there was a street called Gropec*ntelane. Peter Ackroyd cites further examples: "there was a Gropec*ntelane in the two parishes of St Pancras and St Mary Colechurch (also known as Groppecountelane, 1276 and Gropecontelane, 1279)" [Ackroyd, 2000]. Similarly, there was a Gropec*ntlane in Oxford (later renamed Magpie Lane), a C*nte Street in Bristol (later renamed Host Street), and, in London, a C*ck Lane ("Clarice, of cokkeslane" [Langland, 1362]), P*ssing Alley, and Sh*tteborwelane. Gropec*ntelane may have been shortened to Grope Lane, and a similar (though less graphic) example can be found in York, where a Grope Lane was "renamed [Grape Lane] by staid Victorians who found the original Grope - historically related to prostitution - too blatant" [Wainwright, 2000]. In addition, the USA boasts a Ticklec*nt Creek. Graeme Donald cites another form of public usage of 'c*nt' as a proper noun, this time in medieval surnames, two of which predate the OED's earliest citation: "such female names as Gunoka C*ntles (1219), Bele Wydec*nte (1328) and presumably promiscuous male sporting names such as Godwin Clawec*nte (1066), John Fillec*nt (1246) and Robert Clevec*nt (1302)" [Donald, 1994]. Explaining that "Any part of the body which was unusual [or] remarkable was likely to provide a convenient nickname or surname for its owner" [McDonald, 1988], James McDonald cites the further example of Simon Sitbithec*nte (1167, again predating the OED).

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xLy7AAAAIAAJ&q=Tupkyrtell&dq=Tupkyrtell&client=firefox-a&pgis=1

• Popkirtle - Pupkyrtell, Tupkyrtell

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xsU0AAAAIAAJ&q=Popkirtle&dq=Popkirtle&client=firefox-a&pgis=1

• Popkirtle - Pancras Lane, Popcurtles, Pupekertillane 1275, Popekertelane 1276,

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source Addle St City.Adelstrete 1537, Addelstrete 1557, earlier Addelane 1304, Adellane 1360, from Old English adela 'a dirty, muddy place'.

women's names

Madame Chimpanzee

http://contexts.org/socimages/2008/06/18/whites-blacks-apes-in-the-great-chain-of-being/

Damaris Page

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wywh bits

all-black plastic wrapper (dark blue for the Columbia/CBS releases). Bruce Lundvall, then-president of the band's US distributor, Columbia Records, was (according to Hipgnosis member Storm Thorgerson in the book that accompanied Pink Floyd's 1992 box set Shine On and also his own book Mind Over Matter : The Images of Pink Floyd) appalled at the suggestion that they deliberately hide their product, so an additional image featuring the band name over the top of two robotic hands in front of the four elements was included as a sticker on top. A postcard with an alternate version of the latter picture – and "Wish you were here" written on the back – was also included. All four photos in this design appeared to have each element 'breaking' (or burning) into the surrounding white margins.

The picture was taken at The Burbank Studios in Hollywood, California.

The vinyl record's custom picture labels depicted the robotic handshake (as on the wrapper) with a mainly black with blue prisms background. This picture label was then used again for the 1995 SBM Mastersound reissue and the 1997 Columbia/Sony remastered CD.

Columbia originally released the LP with a slightly different sleeve, using an alternative picture showing the burning man standing up straight (instead of leaning toward the other businessman) and taken from a lower angle. Columbia started using the more familiar EMI photo in 1982 for their first CD issue and kept using it in subsequent reissues, the only exception being the "SBM MasterSound Collector's Edition". There are other, subtler differences in the artwork of the more commonly-found remastered CD: the naked female is clearly visible behind the veil in the LP artwork, but is almost completely obscured in the remastered CD booklet; the photo of the diver used in this booklet is larger, and shows more of the background salt formations; additional black-and-white photos of the band working in Abbey Road Studios were added to this booklet as well.

Wish You Were Here, like its predecessor, shared its title with an album by another band, in this case Badfinger.

In April 1982, CBS/Sony Records opened the first commercial compact disc pressing plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The first "Wish You Were Here" on CD was launched in Japan on October 1, 1982. The CD was a two-track version of the five-track album and subsequent CD releases.

The 1992 remaster was made available again in 1994 as regular CD in the UK and Europe, on the EMI label with a running time of 44:11 on the CD; its picture label depicted a flame with a black background.

"Wish You Were Here was a very good title for that album. I've often said what that album should have been called was Wish We Were Here because we weren't really."

– Roger Waters, July 1989, In the Studio with Redbeard for The Making of The Wall.

"It's hard to say but it just happens to be the album for me that from the moment it starts 'til it finishes, it flows, the songs flow into each other and it just has a wonderful feeling in it".

– Richard Wright, March 1994, US World Premiere of The Division Bell with Redbeard and In the Studio with Redbeard for The Making of Wish You Were Here (first aired in September 1995).

"The line sounds like a weak joke, but it used to be a fairly common question".

-Richard Wright commenting on the line "Oh by the way, which one's Pink?" in "Have a Cigar". From an interview cited in Pink Floyd — Through the Eyes of the Band, Its Fans, Friends and Foes, ed. by Bruno MacDonald, Da Capo Books, N.Y.C. 1997.

At the 2005 Live 8 concert, a reunited Pink Floyd performed "Wish You Were Here" for the first time since 1977, with both Waters and Gilmour sharing lead vocals during an emotional performance, which Waters dedicated to "everyone who's not here, but particularly, of course, for Syd".

In 1986, Slitz (at that point the leading pop/rock magazine of Sweden, with strong new wave/post-punk credibility) invited its readers to vote for the best produced rock album of all time. Wish You Were Here was voted #1 and Dark Side of the Moon #2.

Sessions - Monday 7 - Sat 19 July 1975 (discontinuous recording and mixing)

PF

During the BBC1 programme "Which One's Pink?," when asked if the band would reform Gilmour ambiguously replied with "Ain't gonna happen" and "Anything could happen". Which of these two phrases were said is debatable. During the same documentary, Wright stated that he "wouldn't mind playing the Pink Floyd 'music' again," but said nothing solid about reuniting with the actual members.