Son of yet still some more descriptions II: Electric Boogaloo

git-svn-id: https://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crawl-ref/trunk@4039 c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573

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diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/features.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/features.txt
index 8d84a62630..df24caf527 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/features.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/features.txt
@@ -109,6 +109,13 @@ of nightmare.
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 A rock wall
 
+"I know not whether Laws be right,
+  Or whether Laws be wrong;
+All that we know who lie in gaol
+  Is that the wall is strong;
+And that each day is like a year,
+  A year whose days are long."
+	-Oscar Wilde, "Ballad of Reading Gaol"
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 A roughly hewn altar of Beogh
 
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt
index 5cb82476e7..aea831e772 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt
@@ -376,6 +376,16 @@ A lump of cheese.
 choko
 
 An almost tasteless green vegetable, which grows on a vine.
+
+"I ought not to omit naming a vegetable which Mr Yates placed on 
+our table, and to which he directed our attention. It was the 
+Tchu-tchu (Sechium edule) called also by the people _pepinella_. 
+It is a small gourd, very much like vegetable marrow; one seed 
+covers a wall with its ramifications "
+	-John Overton Choules, _The Cruise of the Steam Yacht
+        North Star: A Narrative of the Excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's
+        Party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Malta, Turkey,
+        Madeira, Etc.  1854.
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 chunk of flesh
 
@@ -714,6 +724,20 @@ a skilled archer can use it to great effect.
 lychee
 
 A tropical fruit.
+
+"The Litchi is the most celebrated native fruit of China.  It is 
+nearly round, about an inch and a half in diameter, the shell is 
+tough, becoming brittle, of a chocolate brown colour covered all 
+over with wart-like protuberances. When fresh it is filled with a 
+white almost transparent, sweet, jelly-like pulp in which lies a 
+rather large, shining, brown seed; the pulp is of a delicious sub-acid 
+flavour when fresh.  The Chinese dry it when it becomes black like 
+a prune and thus preserve it for use throughout the year; in this state 
+it is frequently to be seen in the London fruit shops."
+	-John Smith, _A Dictionary of Popular Names of the Plants
+        which Furnish the Natural and Acquired Wants of Man, in 
+        All Matters of Domestic and General Economy: Their History,
+        Products, & Uses. 1882. 
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 mace
 
@@ -924,6 +948,20 @@ rambutan
 
 A small but delicious tropical fruit. How it got into this dungeon is
 anyone's guess.
+
+"The rambutan (_nephelium lappaceum_) is a beautiful fruit to which 
+I have already alluded, as resembling the mammoth arbutus; and you suppose 
+them at first, when at a little distance from you, a delicious dish of 
+some tropical strawberry. But you find on inquiring into the 'particulars 
+within' the outer coat, that there is concealed beneath the red and hairy 
+covering a semi-transparent pulp of a pleasant acid taste, enveloping a 
+single oval and oblong seed. I know not but I am peculiar in my memory 
+of the beautiful fruits of the straits, but none lingers in my recollection 
+so sweetly in its clustered beauties of the fruit-dish as the bearded 
+and rosy rambutan.
+	-Fitch Waterman Taylor, _A Voyage Round the World And Visits
+        to Various Foreign Countries, in the United States Frigate 
+        Columbia.  1847.
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 ring mail
 
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt
index 3dfd75962b..04c2f718e3 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ An evil mercenary with unusually large ears.
 Edmund
 
 A lightly armoured warrior.
+
+"When the forces stood in array Edmund proposed to decide their claims 
+by single combat; but Canute saying that he, a man of small stature, 
+would have little chance against the tall athletic Edmund, proposed, on 
+the contrary, for them to divide the realm as their fathers had done."
+	-Thomas Keightley, _The History of England_. 1839.
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 Ereshkigal
 
@@ -674,6 +680,21 @@ A giant eyeball, with a captivating stare.
 giant frog
 
 It probably didn't get this big by eating little insects.
+
+"Hello, my baby
+Hello, my honey
+Hello, my ragtime gal
+
+Send me a kiss by wire
+Baby, my hearts on fire
+
+If you refuse me
+Honey, you'll lose me
+Then you'll be left alone
+
+Oh baby, telephone
+And tell me I'm your own."
+	-Ida Emerson and Joseph E. Howard, "Hello My Baby!"	
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 giant gecko