Line #33 Website/FrillyShirt


1	[[http://www.frillyshirt.org/ [=FrillyShirt=]]] is a humour and commentary website with a UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain theme, dedicated to "historical facetiae and archaic nincompoopery" - in other words, to the sillier side of history. Created by [[PenName Sir Frederick Chook]], colonial fop, [=FrillyShirt=] has updated (sporadically) since 2005. As well as pieces of historical fiction or questionable advice columns, the site includes some arts and culture news from around Australia, as well as the occasional political rant or serious academic text. Two CollegeRadio programmes were derived from [=FrillyShirt=] in the 2005-2006 period: ''Sir Frederick Chook's Highly Enjoyable Wireless Entertainment Hours'' and ''The Difference Hours''.
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3	!![=FrillyShirt=] provides examples of:
4	%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Very common.
5	%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * AntiquatedLinguistics
6	%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BigScrewedUpFamily: The Marigolds clan.
7	* TheChosenZero: Burly-Man, a huge lunatic in a dress who is the inheritor of the ancestral powers of a line of warrior-heroines.
8	* ConMan: The [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2012/01/10/beyond-your-means/ FrillyShirt Personal Credit Cads.]] You can apply for one to swindle for you.
9	* {{Eagleland}}: Mixed Flavour. Americans are generally wild, brash, uncultured and materialistic, but rarely actually villainous.
10	* FakeBand: Most prominently, The Three Swell Chaps, known for their single "Song about our Moustaches."
11	* FedToPigs: Dribble of the Yard investigates a case of this. It turns out to actually have been a case of pigs being fed to people.
12	* ForeignQueasine: [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2010/06/08/two-oilmen-in-charing-cross-hotel/ The Charing Cross Hotel Restaurant]], which serves an experimental hybrid of French cuisine and heraldry.
13	* GenteelInterbellumSetting: Used for such stories as [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2012/02/25/clauses-and-consequences-with-the-reverend-fenchtoast/ Clauses and Consequences with the Reverend Fenchtoast.]]
14	* HighClassCallgirl: The staff of Madam C's House of Pain - "You'll come for the pain, but you'll stay for the humiliation!"
15	* InherentlyFunnyWords: [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2010/07/13/more-recollections-of-dr-john-h-watson/ "Charlington."]]
16	* InsaneTrollLogic: Displayed by Mr Lucius Bumblebeigh, [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2013/09/18/the-socrates-of-south-london/ The Socrates of South London]].
17	* {{Invisibility}}: [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2009/08/03/of-restaurants-and-revenants/ The Invisible Man's Dining Room & Cabaret Revue.]]
18	* LeaveBehindAPistol: A number of [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2012/06/02/sir-frederick-chooks-helpful-guide-to-deflecting-awkwardness-by-the-strategic-employment-of-anagrams/ anagram-based alternatives]] to honourable suicide are proposed.
19	* LetsPlay: A screenshot-and-text Let's Play of ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'', [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/the-most-boring-man-in-fallen-london/ starring the city's dullest man.]]
20	* LongList: Not infrequent, including [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2011/07/30/bucking-cump-picture-publishers/ Bucking & Cump]], [[ItsNotPornItsArt Picture Publishers.]]
21	* MadwomanInTheAttic: [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2010/04/28/a-cornwall-scene/ Wilbur Partridges]], who lives in the coal cellar.
22	* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Hegel's [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2010/10/12/hegel-an-analogy-of-hegel/ philosophy of history.]]
23	* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: The Labyrinth of the Society for Farcical Research.
24	* NonsenseClassification: The wings of the aforementioned Labyrinth, which divide artefacts from the most to the least specific.
25	* OccultDetective: Lucifer Marigolds, Esoteric Detective!
26	* OfCorsetHurts: Opposed by the Radical Dress Society in their pamphlet "Of Corsets Tight: A Cage to Bust."
27	* ParodyCommercial: For such products as Willoughsby's Extra-Rigid Cigarillos, Uncle Chester's Flavourited Hair Paste, and Sir Frederick's own patented Leopard Oil.
28	* PunnyName: Lady Marjorie Butter-Tapenade. The Electro-Magnates. Winston Lewisham, GentlemanThief.
29	* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: Over the years, the site's content has become less politics and social criticism, more humour and history.
30	* SmithOfTheYard: Superintendent Dribble of the Yard, who investigates cases of literary crime.
31	* SnakeOilSalesman: Sir Frederick, whose Leopard Oil contains Zest, Hoop-Lah and Argh Crikey!
32	* SteamPunk: Discussed, parodied and reconstructed.
33	* WackyRacing: [[http://www.frillyshirt.org/2006/09/19/third-annual-international-mixed-doubles-quadricycle-race/ The Annual International Mixed Doubles Quadricycle Race.]]

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