Talk:Three Men in a Boat

message: I guess the genre should be related to travel as the book actually was intended to be in it. Sayamsethi (talk) 05:32, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Shouldn't the Genre be related to  Travel

message: How is the name "Montmorency" correctly pronounced? *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 21:12, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Could someone provide an IPA transcription? --Jtir (talk) 11:24, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Saying something of the Dog!

message: Have deleted the following comment from the article (leaving the wikilink intact), as it has no bearing on the book itself:
 - by "joining" the river at Teddington Lock, and following the succession boxes upstream, it is possible to follow the journey over each reach.
Their journey (on the river itself) starts at Kingston and the first lock upstream from there is Molesey (spelt Moulsey in the book), some 4-5 miles away from Teddington Lock. --Technopat (talk) 20:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a description of the stretch of river above every lock, and there are succession boxes between the locks - so the power of wiki can be used to treat the reader to a virtual version of the "Three men in a boat journey". Kingston is on the reach above Teddington Lock as is clear from the article so it is best to start a virtual journey from there even if the book started about a mile upstream. That is why "joining" is in quotes. Motmit (talk) 17:25, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sigh! So Technopat gets to put 'is foot in it catch yet another crab at this article. Not quite sure whether Motmit agrees or disagrees with my wiping Teddington off the map (that "there" above is just too ambiguous), but I suspect he/she wants it back where it was (for effect? atmosphere? poetic licence?), even if it ain't mentioned in the book - or is it? I can take it or leave it. What's more, I publicly state here that from now on I will not argue a technicality with anyone who a) enjoys (re)reading 3 Men in a B; and b) enjoys messing about in boats... I'll just go with the flow. Regards, --Technopat (talk) 17:57, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted good faith edit 

message: Technopat undid my edit here. This good faith edit is an improvement to the article by addressing the "citation request" tags using sources from the Oxford World's Classics edition of the text. If Technopat has specific issues or concerns I hope he/she will take a moment and outline on this page so that we can work together in improving the article. I look forward to working together with Technopat. I am sure that we can make this a great article! Thanks! 71.191.40.106 (talk) 13:18, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My apologies to User 71.191.40.106 for reverting his/her good faith edits. I mistook them for vandalism.  I'm sorry. (Apology also being posted on corresponding user page.)--Technopat (talk) 20:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Working together with user technopat

message: Being bold & have removed the following because it is neither relevant to the novel nor referenced:
Other meanings
Among US troops in Iraq, "Three Men in a Boat" is slang for "stop", because of the shape of the Arabic word وقف‎ for "stop!": see List of U.S. Army acronyms and expressions#Field slang.
--Technopat (talk) 15:34, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of irrelevant expression 

message: Few days ago I wrote an article about Three Men... for the polish Wikipedia (it's there). I was verifying informations from english version and I have problem with one of them: The use of slang was condemned as "vulgar" and the book was derided as written to appeal to 'Arrys and 'Arriets - then-common sneering terms for working-class Londoners who dropped their Hs when speaking. Punch magazine dubbed Jerome " 'Arry K. 'Arry". There is a note, in which as the source is said Jerome's autobiography, which unfortunately I did not have in hand. Most of the websites with this informations looks like the clones of en.wiki... I looked to the other books on books.google.com and I didn't find any confirmation of it. Moreover, in Jeremy Lewis' Introduction to the Penguin's edition (s. xv-xvi) this fact is linked to the earlier novel of Jerome (The Idle Thoughts...), not to Three Men.... I believe, Lewis had Jerome's autobiography in his hands... 
In addition, if someone would be nice, and found some outside confirmation that Waterloo Station has been the object of jokes, I would be grateful. Regards, Grzegorz B. (talk) 21:30, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is mentioned in London Waterloo station, though unreferenced. I've got somewhere an annotated edition of Three Men which I think confirms this, though I'd have to find it to check this.Catsmeat (talk) 09:03, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

text: "It is not really witty or very brilliant; nay, in parts it is distinctly vulgar; but we can forgive Mr. Jerome K. Jerome till seventy times seven for all these drawbacks for the sake of the irrepressible laughter he causes us to enjoy" – Morpeth Herald, 14 december 1889 Hexmaster.se (talk) 14:13, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some doubt 

message: I see from various bibliographies that there exist abridged editions. I'd be interested to know which bits are typically cut in those editions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.7.28.145 (talk) 20:26, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abridged editions 

message: Unfortunately no longer true as the Crown at Marlow is now a kitchen shop. This needs re-wording to be 'most of the pubs and inns'   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robosb (talk • contribs) 19:04, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  For example, all the pubs and inns named are still open. 

message: May I respectfully point out the Punch article "Three Women in a kitchen" by Libby Purves, reprinted in Pick of Punch (1986)? 
Purves, along with Merrily Harpur and Mandy Rice-Davies recreated the journey in a somewhat girly but equally hilarious 80s-Punch manner. Bluedawe 08:23, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three Women in a kitchen 

message: ola  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roberchu (talk • contribs) 12:53, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ola 

message: The text says: "In Have Space Suit—Will Travel, by Robert A. Heinlein, the main character's father is an obsessive fan of the book, and spends much of his spare time repeatedly re-reading it.[citation needed]"
How is that supposed to be cited? The first page of the book contains the line: '"Certainly," he answered and looked back at his book. It was Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, which he must know by heart.' The next page has the father saying "Reminds me of this passage I'm reading. They're trying to open a tin of pineapple and Harris has left the can opener back in London. They try several ways." He started to read aloud and I sneaked out-I had heard that passage five hundred times. Well, three hundred.
For what it's worth, Heinlein's "Rocket Ship Galileo" also has a reference to that can opener scene. After they launch, Morrie is worried that he may have left the can opener behind on Earth.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.248.200.74 (talk) 23:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit - Will Travel" 

message: Colonel Montmorency, the frustratingly undersupplied organiser of a corps within the Home Guard, is the protagonist in Noël Coward's WWII song, "Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?".
:I can't see how this relates to the book, except that it happens to include the name Montmorency. Valetude (talk) 01:31, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevance? 

message: :) 223.223.148.123 (talk) 13:22, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why would Jerome remember their first trip up the river? 

message: "Dull, the sea-trip" doesn't make sense (at least to me). I haven't read the book so I don't know what it's supposed to be, but please fix it. Illuminati42 (talk) 02:34, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Illuminati42 it means " ... and the sea-trip is rejected after ...". It's good English but could be made clearer, obviously, as you found it opaque. You could have a similar structure of sentence "Jane bought coffee, Anne tea". PamD 08:18, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence which makes no sense