Talk:Drabble

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I understand that there was a previous article under this title that was deleted from Wikipedia. I don't know the content of that page, but to make knowledge the present version refers to real and veritable facts. There also seems to be a comic strip with the same name, so it might be useful to create Drabble (comic) as well. --Chino 04:26, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

So drabble has nothing to do with the English SF-fan Drunken Rabble Project (which emerged (I believe) from Beccon fandom duing the early 1980s ? --62.25.106.209 07:32, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

That was the title of a filk songbook, published sometime around 1990. The publisher is Beccon Publications. So there is a very indirect connection, but nothing significant. British SF fandom is small enough that everyone is pretty closely connect. There was also a British writer and broadcaster named Phil Drabble; I think he died a few years ago. All this seems Googleable. 88.110.243.55 12:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I've always suspected that the Monty Python game was named after novelist Margaret Drabble, but I have no evidence of this. Daibhid C 19:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

An unsourced comment was added to Buxton

Lisa Drabble whom inspired Monty Python to create    
'The Drabble' - an extremely short work of fiction   
with exactly 100 words.

by User:Drabbinski. Any evidence for that Billlion 21:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] JD

I've dumped the ref to James Drabble, not only bcz it is unsupported by the ref its adding editor cited, and not only bcz the term probably comes from "drivel" (that which is deficient of meaning) and "dribble" (a pitifully small flow) and "drab" (unable to stimulate interest): the contributor has an unseemly interest in "James" and "Drabble", and vanity should be suspected. --Jerzy·t 28 June 2005 09:00 (UTC)

[edit] So...

Maybe it's best it points to a disambig. page

[edit] Less than a 1,000 words?

I was taught (and this is 30 odd years ago, mind) that a drabble was a short story of exactly 100 words, no more, no less. I talked to my father about this and he was taught the exact same thing during the 1950s.