HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Yet More Colourless Americanisms (Was Re: Swedish weather)
Date: 15 Aug 92 18:35:37 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <36867@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton) writes:
<In article <1992Aug15.015734.26802@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> ins448c@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Mills) writes:
<>Another good one is Gray.
<
<Joliffe perhaps ?

What means "Joliffe"? 'Tis a word I've not encountered before.

<lots of blank space cos my pesky rn server won't accept postings
<with more quote than reply ..... jeez

My rn doesn't give credit for blank lines, so I use :%s /^>/</ .

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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Men At Arms                             
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 13:02:12 GMT

Speaking of Twin Peaks take-offs, you all have GOT to see the episode of
Darkwing Duck (do you get it in England yet?) entitled Twin Beaks. It's
sort of a twin-peaks/body-snatchers take-off with Gary Larson thrown in
for good measure.

Hell, anyone reading this group needs to watch it anyway. Some of the best
episodes are so tongue in cheek they need plastic surgery.
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From: kcl@world.std.com (Katherine C Long)
Subject: Any Recorded TP Books?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:00:06 GMT

Have any of TP's books shown up on tape as recorded books?
I know that _Truckers_ is out on video in the UK, have not
heard of any of the others out in anything but print.

Terry, do you do readings from your works at cons?  Would
you be interested in narrating your books?

(P.S. I just finished _Small Gods_ and thought is was great!)



     Katherine Long
     kcl@world.std.com

  8-)
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From: chrisc@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Chris Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Hedgehogs need love too!
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:43:10 GMT
Organization: Polytechnic of Central London


I, as a fully paid up member of the British Hedgehog Preservation Soceity 
(true), would like to complain about all this talk of commiting indecent acts
with Hedgehogs. Sheep, goats, dogs etc. I don't have a problem with, but 
Hedgehogs - NO.

Uncle Terry, you should know better than filling young impressionable minds
with this sort of stuff and I will personally fight to protect the bottom of
any Hedgehog being molested in this way! That's all.

Chris.
From: msmith@crc.ac.uk (Mike Smith x3297)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Bugger off
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:51:21 GMT
Reply-To: msmith@crc.ac.uk (Mike Smith x3297)
Organization: MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre, Harrow, UK

In article <1992Aug11.190906.19435@col.hp.com>, lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) writes:
> hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
> > 
> > Neither "bug off" nor "bugger off" makes much sense to me as an emphatic
> > form of "depart". Perhaps "bug off" means "find your home rock and crawl
> > back under it", but I don't think so.
> > 
> 
> On the other hand, each makes about as much sense as "fuck off" which
> is quite frequently heard in the US (and means the same as the other
> two).
> 
> Laura Johnson
> lpj@hpctdls.col.hp.com

Isn't it strange how many verbs mean exactly the same thing if you say 'off'
after them.

Mike Smith
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From: mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( )
Subject: Re: Confused
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:20:01 GMT

In article <adavid.4@elaine.ee.und.ac.za> adavid@elaine.ee.und.ac.za (ANGUS DAVIDSON: FOURTH) writes:
>Can some out there please explain to me the meaning behind 'Reflected 
>sound...' as this is about the only phrase in Color of Magic that I could 
>not work out, and it is bugging me no end.

"Reflected sound as of underground spirits."
--------Echo----       ------gnomes-------

Echo-gnomes, or economics.

-- 
Michael Lucas				mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu
Einstuerzende Neubauten:  *real* heavy metal
From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:42:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Nick Leverton (leveret@warren.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: As already noted, "Strata" is so deeply inspired by Larry Niven's two
: Ringworld books that it's pointless going into every correspondence.
: 

It _sounds_ vaguely like a certain incident with Frogstar Scout Robots in
``Restaurant At The End Of The Universe''...
pete
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From: tdc1004@dircon.co.uk (Barry Freeman)
Subject: Re: Cohen the Barbarian
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:51:12 GMT


I always used to refer to him as 'Conan the Barbiturate' cos 
he always put me tov sleep... <grin>

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From: chrisc@debra.dgbt.doc.ca (Chris Camfield)
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
Organization: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:36:09 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.153844.25014@cc.tut.fi> rm104449@ee.tut.fi (M{kinen Riku) writes:
>
>Q: What exactly is a geek? Is it someone that doesn't know what geek is?
>I mean exactly. I think I get the drift...
>
>BTW, who are all you people? Is a typical a.f.p reader a nerd who is into
>role-playing, computers, splatter movies and possibly reads the Playboy?

I think that the typical a.f.p. reader is a person who probably has a
whimsical sense of humour, and (obviously) likes Terry Pratchett's
books.  This is a rather childish question, and if it is really Riku
who made this post:  you're asking for a good flaming, which I'm not
going to give to you in case it wasn't, but someone who else using your
account.
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From: heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au (George Heard (Laurie 8))
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books? 
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:16:15 GMT

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

>Transworld have bought the recorded book rights to all the DW books and I'm
>hoping to see the first ones early next year.  You heard it hear first,
>folks. They've got the Truckers trilogy, too.  Me narrate them?  Hear my
>speaking voice and understand why not...

I have heard Terry speak (at the Melbourne Science Fiction Club a few years
ago - thanks for signing my copy of "Dark Side of the Sun", Terry) and I think
he has an excellent voice for reading his own material. I think it is the
writer who knows his work best, although I was disppointed with the reading
given by a certain writer in 1988, who totally refused to sign my copy of
"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" when I met him at Melbourne Airport.

If Terry hasn't turned off from the flattery yet, are you thinking of coming to
Australia again (missed you last time), and will you pay our little island a
visit? There is now a Terry Pratchett fan club at Melbourne niversity, btw.

Cheers
George

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Opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of the Uni of Tasmania
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: I'll be Back...
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.14 $
Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:30:58 +0000

In article <1992Aug18.183302.14478@tdb.uu.se> t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman) writes:

>ObPratchett: Was it Terry Pratchett who wrote something about all urban 
>folklore being true? Something about females on Saturn saying "But it's my
>mating-unit's something". 
>	Could someone tell me what book it is, if he has written something
>like that. 

That sounds like the running joke in the early pages of Strata. On Kung,
Kin Arad is repeatedly asked to sign her book :

Kin: "Of course it's not for you, ... it's for your nephew Sam ..."
Kung: "I have no nephew Sam, although I had intended it for my
      son-brother Brtkltc. How did you know?"

Ehft: "Understand! Not! Self! For! Pup! Belong! Sibling!"
Marco: "He means..."
Kin:  "I understand", she said wearily.


Nick Leverton
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From: ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:14:50 GMT

In <crystal.714370812@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:

>What are Twin Peaks gags??

Jokes about identical mountains.

:-)

-- 
Andy Lewis  (ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: The morris fetish                       
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:11:45 +0000

Re Rich Holmes' enquiry:

1) I have never waved a hankie in anger
2) I do not peronally know any morris dancers
3) But morris dancing is kind of funny and weird at the same time.  On the
one hand there's these bearded schoolteachers and computer consultants
bobbing around outside the pub to general embarrassment of all concerned--
and on the other, there's something there...can't say what it is,
exactly...but most European folk dancing is jolly girls in long skirts and
smart guys in buckled shoes having a hoedown, while morris seems more ancient
and less of a way to meet up on a Saturday night.  Its survival fascinates
me.   You accusing me of getting cheap laughs?  I assure you I use only the
most expensive laughs available.

Terry
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Undoubtedly a FAQ, but . . .
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:54:52 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

In article <36637@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
<Okay, in _Moving Pictures_, as Silverfish harangues the audience of
<disinterested Ankh-Morporkians about how incredibly great movies
<are:
<
<  "He waited for the applause. There wasn't any. The crowd just
<watched him. You needed to do more than end your sentences with
<exclamation marks to get a round of applause from an Ankh-Morpork
<crowd."

Yup, you have to write, write in fragments, and use more than one
exclamation mark per sentence fragment.

<Okay, and why not? Jaded cowd, surely it'd take more than
<punctuation abuse to impress them. But in _Reaper Man_:
<
<  "Windle knew his fellow citizens. They'd go to look at anything.
<They were suckers for anything written down with more than one
<exclamation mark after it."

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"This dream is brought to you by Sharassin of Shan. Dreams and
communication wizardry of all sorts at reasonable rates."  --  Sharassin of Shan
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Witches Abroad queries                  
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:36:09 +0000

Emily Rizzo -- sorry, can't do message numbers, but it was today's posting,
raises Witches Abroad questions -- always willing to help:

>I've been reading the British hardcover edition of "Witches Abroad" --
>all page references below are to that edition:
>1) On page 134 Nanny Ogg says: "Not a Ronald in sight, look."  Does the
 >  rhyming slang refered to in the footnote about Ronald the Third rhyme
 >  on "third" rather than "Ronald"?  That is to say, is Nanny Ogg talking
 >  about turds?
Yep...direct use of existing East London rhyming slang there (Richard the
Third=turd)

>2) On page 79 there are various uses of a glyph which looks like a lower
>case
  > "f" with the right half of the crossbar omitted:  diforders, sicknefs and
  > cheft (all the "f"s here represent this strange glyph).  I haven't found
  > this glyph elsewhere in the book.  What is this strange character (which
  > I guess is somehow related to German sharp S)?  and what is the point of
  > it's appearance in this one section of the book?

In fact the long or medial S -- somewhat similar to an f or ASCII code 159 --
turns up all over the place in _written_ stuff, like Granny Weatherwax's
letters, in the entire series.  It's a handy cod way of simulated 'olde'
writing. Strictly speaking it should only be ufed infide words, with the
familiar s ufed at the end. The practice was commonplace in the US and Europe
and died out early last century, although I think it carried on in Germany
for longer in some scripts.  As far as I know its usage is just one of those
things, like capital letters at the start of sentences. It's...er...a kind of
joke...after all, Magrat just EXACTLY quoted her old herbal (and that sort of
book always used the long s)...er...um.

>3) What is the point of the stars which appear over various random (as far
>as
>I can see) page numbers throughout the book (for example, 82, 111, 184)?

Simple.  Unsatisfactory pagination by Gollanz -- they insist of putting in a
star if the page turns on a sub-chapter, which normally would be a gap of
several spaces.

Terry
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Witches Abroad queries
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:05:29 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
In-reply-to: spt1@ukc.ac.uk's message of 18 Aug 92 13:19:09 GMT

In article <1473@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> spt1@ukc.ac.uk (S.P.Thomas) writes:

>In article <rizzoe.137.714138492@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU> rizzoe@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Emily Rizzo) writes:
>>2) On page 79 there are various uses of a glyph ...:  diforders [disorders],
>>   sicknefs [sickness] and cheft [chest]. ...  What is this strange character
>>   and what is the point of it's appearance in this one section of the book?
>
>I haven't read WA yet, but I can guess that, as Terry might put, "it's
>written in Old, before they invented spelling." :-).  Seriously, in the
>18th Century (maybe others), this glyph is how the lower-case S was
>usually written.  Clearly, there were different S's in use depending
>on where in a word they were used.  Or ufed.

What he faid. Take a look at a facfimile of the Declaration of
Independence, for inftance.

If anyone has a definitive explanation of this "long s" (is that the
term?) versus the usual s (in English) I'd like to fee it.
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:06:48 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

In <memo.584154@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

>Transworld have bought the recorded book rights to all the DW books and I'm
>hoping to see the first ones early next year.  You heard it hear first,
>folks. They've got the Truckers trilogy, too.  Me narrate them?  Hear my
>speaking voice and understand why not...

>I sometimes to readings at cons, but only of unpublished stuff or
>work-in-progress.  If I do any later this year it's likely to be from Johnny
>and the Dead or possibly Men at Arms (20,000 words now and I still haven't
>used all the Twin Peaks gags...)

>Terry

Terry, I don't see what your speaking voice has to do with anything! Fans 
are fans and if that sort of things turns a few of them off, then that's
THEIR problem, not yours.  Lots of people would dearly *love* to hear the
voices (and see the pictures) of the authors they read.  And I seriously
doubt one's voice is a problem.

Crystal
  ;>
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Swedish weather
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:23:35 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Why does this require a net.query? In Fargo, ND we get, but do not
necessarily appreciate, weather reports for all over
the US, sometimes the planet. We usually get reports for Minneapolis-
St. Paul about 200 miles away. Of course one can always make a long
distance call to get weather reports from 'foreign' recordings.
Do they have those in Britain and Sweden? Do the British ones, if
any, always say 90% chance of fog an 50% chance of rain? According
to Janet Fielding Londoners have 37 words for gray.

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"This dream is brought to you by Sharassin of Shan. Dreams and
communication wizardry of all sorts at reasonable rates."  --  Sharassin of Shan
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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:23:38 GMT

sander@cwi.nl (Sander Plomp) writes:

   The forms of these two fragments are not identical, but too similar to
   be a coincidence. I haven't got the original H. G. Wells novel, but
   I suspect it starts in much the same way. Can anyone look this up for me?

Wow - well done!  Another one I didn't spot :) Your suspicions are
well founded, as to the start of _War of the Worlds_.  Using the
Project Gutenberg etext (mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu:/etext92/warw10.txt), I
see that it begins:

--begin
   No one would have believed in the last years of the
nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly
and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as
mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their
various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps
almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scru-
tinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a
drop of water.  With infinite complacency men went to and
fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their
assurance of their empire over matter.  It is possible that the
infusoria under the microscope do the same.  No one gave
a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human
danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life
upon them as impossible or improbable.  It is curious to recall
some of the mental habits of those departed days.  At most
terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars,
perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a mis-
sionary enterprise.  Yet across the gulf of space, minds that
are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish,
intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this
earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their
plans against us.  And early in the twentieth century came
the great disillusionment.
--end

Cheers;

Nat.
(gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz -- Nathan Torkington -- is the electronic text and
 MS-DOS archivist for the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: porcupine =?= hedgehog
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:51:27 GMT
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH


In article <19681@plains.NoDak.edu>,
hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
|>
|>This American TP fan knew that porcupines and hedgehogs were quilly creatures
|>before reading his first DW book, but usually forgets whether they are the
|>same or just similar species.

They're quite different.  The only similarity is that both are mammals
with spines.

--PSW
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From: daniel@csgi63.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:31:57 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi63.leeds.ac.uk
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <Bt7Eo7.Ax7@world.std.com>, kcl@world.std.com (Katherine C Long) writes:
> Have any of TP's books shown up on tape as recorded books?
> I know that _Truckers_ is out on video in the UK, have not
> heard of any of the others out in anything but print.
> 
> Terry, do you do readings from your works at cons?  Would
> you be interested in narrating your books?
> 
> (P.S. I just finished _Small Gods_ and thought is was great!)
> 
> 
> 
>      Katherine Long
>      kcl@world.std.com
> 
>   8-)
>    XXXXxxxx=
> 
> 
> 

On a similar note: Terry, is there any reason why you do book signings, but
not (it would appear) book readings? I trot along to the Waterstones
"literary events" at Leeds quite regularly, where authors read passages from
their latest, then answer questions, then sign books. All round these are
excellent evenings and always persuade me to buy more of the author's books
than I would at a simple signing. I was most dissapointed when you only did
a signing at Leeds, not the full "evening". Any particular reason? Was Leeds
just unlucky, or do you shy away from such do's?

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Anfient letters
	Re: Witches Abroad queries
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:35:14 GMT
Organization: Taronga Park BBS

Greek, infidentally, ftill ufes two verfions of the lowercafe Sigma:

		*******			  *****
	       *   * 			 *
	       *    *		and	  ****
	       *    *			      *
		****			    **

The latter being the terminal figma.
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