Recurring in-jokes in Private Eye Recurring in-jokes in Private Eye The fortnightly British satirical magazine "Private Eye" has long had a reputation for using euphemistic and irreverent substitute names and titles for people, groups and organisations and has coined a number of expressions to describe sex, drugs, alcohol and other aspects of human activity. Over the years these names and expressions have become in-jokes, used frequently in the magazine without explanation. Some have passed into general usage and can be found in other media and everyday conversation. "From the message boards" is a parody of on-line discussion threads (especially those of BBC Radio 5 Live)
The Eye of the World an all-female committee, headed by a Wisdom. This was also illustrated in the introduction of a world ruled by the White Tower, which represented an exclusively female group of powerful political players, the Aes Sedai. These women did not only wield the One Power but they were also manipulators of the world leaders, directing the course of history, and the lives of ordinary people. In January 2002, Starscape Books released "The Eye of the World" into two halves, part one being titled "From the Two Rivers" () and part two titled "To the Blight" (). ATOM, a British publishing house,