Talk:Picnic

message: I am starting off a talk page for this article. Capitalistroadster 10:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Never heard of that one. Why don't you add it to the language section? Lotsoflife 21:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm having trouble with this article because contributors attribute its origin to French, c. 16th/17th century, while the Deutsch Wikipedia entry on "Picknick" says that the earliest use was in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decamerone (1353) and shortly thereafter it appeared in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (c. 1387). Please help. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picknick  --- Trudi?    Gekritzl 00:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Follow-up - mea culpa - I had questioned the French origin, but after looking through Project Gutenberg I realized I had misunderstood the German Wiki. While it described outdoor dining references in the 1300s, the word "picnic" isn't mentioned in The Decamerone nor Canterbury Tales.      Gekritzl 01:15, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text: No, there's not any truth to it. The fact that some people were vile enough to consider a lynching "family entertainment" that they would bring the kids and pack a lunch doesn't have anything to do with what the word picnic refers to or the words origin. Public executions as entertainment go a long ways back, they used to be popular in Europe. Of course, deriving entertainment from a public execution is vile enough, but deriving enterainment from a lynching is even more vile. But it doesn't have anything to do with the word picnic.--RLent (talk) 16:50, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: German Wiki

message: If you check out reference 2 (the urban legend story linking picnics with lynching of blacks), some of the text will sound awfully familiar to that of this article. Jmdeur (talk) 18:11, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Borrowed Text

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message: The article has the phrase "Gallicized Lord Chesterfield".   I don't see how he is Gallicized, and given that the discussion is really about how picnic is an anglicized version of pique-nique I found the adjective confusing.  If someone could show how he is Gallicized, I would withdraw my comment.   
I'm a newbie, so forgive me if this is the wrong way to add this comment. JonMar50 (talk) 12:54, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Gallicized

message: The article had a lovely description of a picnic in a war setting. Here it is:
In Fernando Arrabal's Picnic in the Field, the young and inexperienced soldier Zepo is visited unexpectedly by his devoted parents. Despite the war setting they have a cheerful picnic together.
Unfortunately, the editor neglected to add the END to the story. And while the editor was not wrong in their entry, compare my updated version:
 Here's my updated version, just compare the two. It perhaps illustrates the importance of WHEN you finish telling a story. Finish early and it might be a happy ending but finish later and it reads utterly differently. 
ing off a talk page for this article. Capitalistroadster 10:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Never heard of that one. Why don't you add it to the language section? Lotsoflife 21:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Completely different sort of picnic