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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: My tuppence
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:54:56 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
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slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:

>damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:
>>
>>Are you suggesting that knowledge is also affected by the second law
>                                    I think you mean first ^^^^^^
>>of thermodynamics? 

>>Lets see, if we got a room full of blondes/arts students/favorite minority
>>to pick on (knowledge 0) and placed someone who wanted to learn, oh, say
>>statistics at one end, and soemone who knows stats at the other, could
>>you beam the knowledge through the 'knowledge-vacuum' that exists in
>>between them?>

>Probably not.  Since the blondes/art students/etc. have absolutely no
>knowledge whatsoever, knowledge will be sucked in from all corners of the room
>to fill the void.  Not only does this usually deprive all the students (and
>the teacher) of any knowledge they might once have had about statistics, but
>there will often be an overlap into related fields (social "sciences,"
>mathematics, engineering, sports) as well, and in extreme cases an entire
>roomful of students may be left drooling and trying to remember how to spell
>their names.

>Remember--blondes(/art students/favorite minority) are dangerous, and should
>only be used with proper safety precautions.  Don't try this at home, kids.

So, how low must the knowledge density in such a person be to not only
suck all the knowledge from its vicinity, but also to create a knowledge
event horizon, out of which no knowledge whatsoever can ever be re-
trieved again, no matter how much educational energy spent?


May the Coo-coo goo goo goo gagaga--

(C)OOL xcvmmiildvv
No ledge is power.
From: cstadgs@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R J Tinsley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:30:14 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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In article <1993Jan23.165257.28397@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) writes:
>For American's out there, British rail are either the nationalised railway
>system in the UK or a running national joke. Or perhaps both.
                       ^^^^^^^
I think you mean 'not running' :-)

-Bob
From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Merchandise Etc
Date: 24 Jan 93 14:32:51 GMT
Reply-To: dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

In article <RSHOLMES.93Jan23170801@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.163339.22791@infodev.cam.ac.uk> dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes:
>>If the base was fractional,
>>you would be completely unable to represent the results of simple
>>arithmetic (In base sqrt(8) what is 1+1+1 ?)
>
>10.0110010120020210210021...
>
>Got a problem with that?
>

Yes. See below.

>(Check it: 1 x sqrt(8)**1   = 2.82843...
>         + 1 x sqrt(8)**-2  = 0.125       total is 2.95343...
>         + 1 x sqrt(8)**-3  = 0.04419...  total is 2.99762...
>         + 1 x sqrt(8)**-6  = 0.00195...  total is 2.99957...
>         + 1 x sqrt(8)**-8  = 0.00024...  total is 2.99982...
>         + 2 x sqrt(8)**-9  = 0.00017...  total is 2.99999...
>etc.)
>
>Granted it's not quite as simple as 1+1+1 = 3 or 11 or whatever, but
>it's no more unrepresentable than sqrt(8) is in base 10.
>

OK. So it is representable, but it completely defeats the idea of
having numbers to count with (personally, I prefer to use 0,1,2 and
lots as my counting system.... :).

Donal.
--
If the opinions above are anyone else's, that's their problem.
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Covers
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:03:03 GMT

rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>-- I found the American edition of _WA_ at my local bookstore.
>Complete with cover showing Magrat with about a 38" bust and green
>hair. Sheesh. (It definitely wasn't padding; her dress was too low-cut
>for that.)

Who was the artist?  DK Sweet or someone else?  Sweet is usually
fairly accurate in his renderings (except that he gives everybody red
hair unless it's otherwise noted in the book).
-- 
You are an insult to my intelligence!  I demand that you log off immediately.
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Favourite books : The solution ?
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:51:00 GMT
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk

And there you have the reason...well, one of the reasons...why I've said
goodbye to Roc.  They haven't even sent me a copy!

Terry
From: ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: FUCKIG SHOUITES
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:12:53 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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Mr C J Hughes (cstadec@csv.warwick.ac.uk) wrote:
>  Well, much as it pains me to have to say, this posting was most probably
> posted by J S Graley.  Oh well, just thought I'd let you know were not all
> like this at Warwick. 
> 
>                 Chris.

Sorry to let everyone know but the majority of peeps in Warwick ARE like
this.

It's something to do with the water, or just the mind altering effects of the 
Koan

Mike
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From: pm3_norr@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Yorklings unite
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:34:17 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol


The yorkites are wittering on:

}	Hmm, there do seem to be a lot of us York peeple on this newsgroup,
}but then again, knowing our mailer, I doubt that anything we say reaches
}the outside world anyway (our mailer seems to have a censorship daemon running
}on it - anything produced by a york student is just not worth reading.
}	Doug.

Hmm,  does Bristol count as the outside world?  Maybe not.

My newsserver problem is that I seem to be constantly six days behind the 
pace on any group I read.

Paul
-- 
"Rick, what are you doing in that dog?"            Northern Exposure
"I missed you..."                                  Animals R Us
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Reaperman Annotations
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:29:19 GMT

bertram@rchep.ph.unimelb.edu.au writes:

>G'Day Leo,

>I have just picked up your wonderful annotation file (the ps version). It is a
>great document and you have done an incredible amount of work.

>Here is some information on Reaperman

>[p 132] ``On the fabled continent of Xxxx, somewhere near the rim, there is a
>lost colony of wizards who wear corks around their pointy hats and live on
>nothing but prawns.''

>XXXX is indeed a brand of beer produced by Castlemaine brewery, they once had
>an add witch included I can feel a XXXX coming on, which is unintentionally
>amusing in Canada where XXXX is a brand of condoms.

>The corks around the pointy hats refers to the traditional headwear of
>Australian Swagmen (similar to American Hobos) who wear corks around the rim of
>their hats to keep the flies off their face.

Which I have never seen anyone around here do seriously.
Please do not ask any australian for a hat like this.
Especially if you're from Finland.

>The shrimps reference comes from an Australian tourism add featuring Paul
>Hogan in which he tells tourists to come on down to Australia and we'll toss
>another shrimp on the Barbie for you. Hence the misconception that all
>Australians cook shrimps on the BBQ. (Shrimps are bloody big prawns).
No, its.... super yabbiE!

Eccles

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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: Small Gods & Lords and Ladies
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:56:11 GMT

In <damiene.727752737@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:

>neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s)) writes:

>*giggle* Well, I thought of thje salesman lark while reading Sourcery 
>in a CS lecture, does that count?

Ahhhhhh.   That might explain a bit.
"Have you got a . . . . . . . . ?"
"FISH!"

>>P.S Taking the piss out of physicists is done best by
>>mad demented physicist honours students, mere amatures
>>don't stand a chance.

>No, its best done by two lunatics - one a science/Cs student, who will
>read anything anytime, and understand enough to completely cock up
>an explanation, and the other a Science Engineering Student who sits there
>and adds the technical details L)(

He's right.  (Now how come I know?  Is it because he is a Science/CS
student and I am a Science/Engineering Student?   Naaaaaaaah. . .)

>>P.P.S try comparing the one day finial in sydney with the
>>one in melbourne and you will see that melbourne doesn't
>>have a pitch worthy of a b grade side in the middle of
>>a desert.
>Right, thats it. Its on again. Well you can tell Sydney's real
>exciting, when people go there to play Bridge at each other.
>Why not just go to Adelaide and play Trivial Pursuit on New
>Years Eve, or go to Hobart.... and... um.... there must be something
>to do there?
Yep, It's on again.  Might I mention that the only Test match so far
*not* to be marred by rain was the one in *Melbourne*?

Tim.
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From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Holyer)
Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
Organization: University of Sussex
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:14:11 GMT

In article <SR.93Jan20190147@zen.mp.co.umist.ac.uk> sr@mp.co.umist.ac.uk (Simon Read) writes:
>
>p. 15 "You Don't Have To Be Pitilessly Sadistic To Work Here But It
>Helps!!!"
>
>In the UK (and probably the US) it is popular to pin up signs in
>offices saying: "You don't have to be insane/mad to work here but it helps!"
>
Hasn'e PTerry already mentioned this joke once? Somewhere I seem to remember
a discursion about "The people who have 'You Don't Have to be Mad to
Work here -But it Helps' on their desk/wall/etc are invariably the most
humorless and dogmatic people in the place...". Where did I read this? Help?

>
>p.67 "Give me that old-time religion ..."
>
>Isn't this the first line of a song? Tell me which.
>
Give me that old time religion,
Give me that old time religion,
Give me that old time religion,
Cos it's good enough for me.

American song. I encountered it in a book of filk songs. The only verse
I remember was:

It was good enough for Dagon
That inveterate old pagan
Who still votes for Ronald Reagan
And it's good enough for me.
(That dates the version I saw :-)

>
>p.85 "or to put it another way the existence of a badly put-together
>watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker"
>
>There's a deep philosophical tome by Richard Dawkins called "The
>Blind-Watchmaker" I guess this is a reference. I haven't read the
>book though so I don't know if that's a synopsis or a parody.
>
"The Blind Watchmaker" is'nt about philosophy. It's about Evolution.
Damn Fine(tm) IMHO. The title refers to (I think... my copy's gone walkies)
the original debate on evolution in the 1850's between Bishop Berkely (again, I
think...) and Thomas Huxley. Berkely presented an answer that because the
world is so intricate this implies that someone designed it - that "there was
a watchmaker". Dawkins adapted this by commenting that evolution amounted to
a "blind watchmaker". I don't remember the context of the quote, but i seem
to remember that the spirit wasn't too far away from Dawkins'
-- 
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Moving Pictures inconsistency?          
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:04:00 +0000

Ridcully and jokes...

Well, I used to know someone just like him.  He had no sense of humour
whatsover but some weird compensatory mechanism meant that told jokes all the
time, usually ancient, plodding ones which he didn't understand and got the
punchline wrong, and laughed at himself (this particular person was the oly
one I've ever met who actually laughed 'ha ha ha', it was like hearing
Gaspode say Woof Woof). But at the same time he was deeply suspicious of any
humour originating in anyone else because he suspecting, usually accurately,
that he was being got at.  Granny Weatherwax has the same approach.

Terry
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From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Subject: Re: Charades.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:14:25 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1993Jan17.143047.26374@csd.uwe.ac.uk> ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox) writes:
>Have they done Cocktail yet?

Cocktails was done on Newhart.

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up."
                                                            Terry Pratchett
From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Reaper man...SPOILERS
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:29:13 GMT
Organization: Information Engineering
In-reply-to: robinv@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 25 Jan 93 18:54:03 GMT

>Regarding Re: Reaper man...; robinv@castle.ed.ac.uk (Rob Vickery) adds:

 > The way I see it is that because Sal gives Him some of her life he's able
 > to pick up non-dead (or un-alive) objects, The Harvester was not _really_
 > Death until it had killed Bill Door, because you can't have two Deaths.

  WRONG!
  What about all the little Deaths that sprang after *the* Death got retired?
  You know, like the Death of Rats?

 > Bill Door does after all have some experience in people trying to cheat
 > Death whereas the Harvester is a mere beginner.

 >  	-rob

 Paul
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Loyalist Opinions
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:01:23 GMT

cs92njc@cyrillus.brunel.ac.uk.ac.uk (Nicholas J Clayton) writes:



One thing - for god's sake learn where return is!!!!!

>>In article 727521324@draconis, leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
>>>Personally, I still don't particularly like neither of those two books,
>>>while all three of "Moving Pictures", "Pyramids" and "Small Gods"
>>>(the first two of which get regularly slammed, the latter hardly ever
>>>talked about) are among my favourite Discworld novels.
>
>I'll join you in your minority. Moving Pictures is one of my favourites, simply because of the "No one would have believed, in the last years of the century of the Fruitbat..." line. As a WotW fan, this raised an almighty chuckle from me the first time I read it.

*grin* I loved all of MP, but 'woof bloody woof' had me in fits on the 
floor

>Pyramids I found to be so-so. The Asassins Guild sections were excellent,
>and I wouldn't mind seeing another novel based around that Guild. The 
>Djelibabi (I think that's the right spelling) left me lukewarm, since it
 Djelibeybi - I just bought it Thursday :)

>
> wasn't really explained just how pyramids have this incredible power. OK, 
>so time being flared off is all well and good, but none of the descriptions
> seemed to leave them as a coherent part of the Discworld. I'll swallow the
> notion of the Gods at Dunmanifestin, a world on the back of ele
>, and even Great A'Tuin. But the pyramids idea always seemed like cheating
> Death (witness Dios) and I think HE would have had rather more to say on
> the matter.

The point of this is that one of New Age (spit) ideas of pyramids
is that the pyramid was the source of some sort of mystic power. 

Look, I'm not going to comment, b/c I'll probably get it wrong - but
my G/f (another fan :) is also a egyptology student, and was killing
herself laughing all through Pyramids, because it was accurate  to 
Ancient Egypt, but with a different slant :)

>>I've been able to read Small Gods yet, can't afford it <switch into "I'm a
> poor student" type rant>
I got money for Chistmas.... went mad, bought Small Gods, and Lords and Ladies
in hardcover :)

eccles
>
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From: polowin@chem.queensu.ca (Joel Polowin)
Subject: Re: Herne the Hunted (annotation request
Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Queen's University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:12:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.031805.9136@ugle.unit.no> snh@Lise.Unit.NO (St}le Norman Halvorsen) writes:
 
> > Naah! It was the politically-correct token black guy that really
> > had us going. :-)

>What I really disliked about the film was that Robin had an American
>accent... (and not one wolf in the entire film !)

"The Imagination Workshop", a radio-comedy group from somewhere around
Kansas, did a pretty good spoof: "Robin Hood, Prince of Dweebs".  One of
the better bits of dialogue went something like,

"What are you, a Saracen, doing in this story?"

"Ah, this is the *politically correct* version of the story!"

"'Politically correct'..?"

"Inaccurate, yes."

Joel Polowin
polowin@silicon.chem.queensu.ca, polowin@chem.queensu.ca,
polowinj@qucdn.queensu.ca
From: S_MARTIN@IRAV19.ira.uka.de (|S| Ralf Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Clarecraft stuff
Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:45:01 GMT
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In <memo.890989@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:

> I've just seen the pix of Clarecraft's next bunch of DW figures (I had sharp
> words with them over the Detritus bookend, which was _not_ right, and was
> never shown to me ahead of production).  This lot look good, from what I can
> see of the unpainted models.
> 
> They are: a token Assassin, not what I'd imagined but pretty good.
> The Death of Rats
> Gaspode
> Sgt Colon, Corporal Nobbs and Captain Vimes.
> 
> The only problem is scale.  Theoretically the Death of Rats should be half an
> inch high, and Gaspode only and inch or so.  They've had to make them larger.
> 
> Terry

Someone out there to tell me where I can get those?
In GERMANY ?
I think i'll have to start my own TP-Import-Service(again).
Any reservations?

Ralf
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Herne the Hunted (annotation request
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:56:40 GMT

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
>Oh, dear.  Surely _nothing_ could be sillier that the Kevin Costner Robin
>Hood film, which embodied all the worse aspects of Golden Age Hollywood

Not to mention a total no talent in the lead role.  Could you be just
a little bit more emotionless, Kevin?

Did you know they used an ass-double for him for the butt-shot?  Honest!


>"Gazooks, we will be at my father's castle ere nighfall!"  Um.  In a Porsche,
>maybe.

Britain is what, 30 miles across?  Or so you'd think from some of
these movies.


>Have you noticed that, in every Robin Hood film ever made, Friar Tuck always
>hits a soldier over the head with a jug and then blesses him as he collapses?

I think Jung has cataloged this as one of the primary archetypes.
-- 
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
  -- Heisenberg
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From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Holyer)
Subject: Re: Endless Discworld                       
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:49:03 GMT

In article <memo.900662@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
> ...I can't imagine how anyone can be _forced_ to write a book.
>
Oh, I dunno, the mind boggles :-)


-- 
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Computing Studies, University of Sussex, |  nothing, which exploded."
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 -
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:58:00 +0000

Re: Leiber stuff...

No, not guilty this time.  If I put a reference in a book I try to pick one
that a generally well-read (well-viewed, well-listened) person has a sporting
chance of picking up; I call this 'white knowledge', the sort of stuff  that
fills up your brain without you really knowing where it came from. Enough
people would've read Leiber, say, to pick up a generalised reference to
Fafhrd, etc, and even more people would have some knowledge of Tolkien -- but
I wouldn't rely on people having read a specific story.  "Seeing the
elephant" is a genuine phrase, although when I tried it out on CIS I found
that no two Americans are in agreement as to its precise meaning...

Terry
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From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Holyer)
Subject: Ahmed the I-just-get-these-headaches
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:28:37 GMT

This one's just *too* silly to send to Leo, and besides, I feel it might
start of a nice little cascade...

I just reread the footnote in Moving Pictures about Ahmed the Ma^H^HI-just-
-get-these-headaches. 

As well as the Necrotelicomnicon, PTerry reports that ATIJGTHs was also
resonisible for "Ahmed the (damn!) I just get these headaches' book of
silly cat stories". Now, this has got me thinking. In a future book, the
Librarian is searching down in the deepest dungeons of the library, and he
uncovers a long lost stack of Ahmed the (oh, forget it :-), of Ahmed's other
books. With a querulous "Oook?" he opens the first volume to read the title:

	"Upon the diurse and diwertinge eventes concearneing the pigmentatione
offe Advanc'ed Tekknollogee"

Any more suggestions? I've thought of one or two, but I thought I'd let
everyone else have a chance, too.

&.

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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:38:31 GMT
Distribution: alt

sr@mp.co.umist.ac.uk (Simon Read) writes:

> p. 111 "'Thesis plus antithesis equals hysteresis', said Ibid."

From "thesis plus antithesis equals synthesis".  Some famous
philosophical quote, which is very handy to remember when bashing out
essays.

Does the APF have annotations for Lords&Ladies -- I picked up the only
copy in the bookshop, and it's *excellent*.

Nat.
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