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From: jwh@doc.ic.ac.uk (James William Handley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Hello!
Date: 13 Oct 1992 09:22:26 +0100
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Distribution: world
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Hello everyone!

I'm new to this echo (being a fresher 'n' all that), so I thought I'd just say
hi! 
I must say that I'm a big fan (surprise suprise), and have just finished Reaper
Man as it happens!!


I'm kinda used to these echos (being a FidoNetter), so i just figured I'd dive in!

Couple of little questions though (well, there had tyo be SOME point to this,
surely?)..

Firstly, Whilst browsing through Forbidden Plant in New Oxford St, I saw a poster
advertsing a new d/world novel, but I can't remember the title, and it might not
have even been a book.. so can anyone clarify??

Secondly, I heard something about someone putting on a play of Guards!Guards!,
and was wondering if anyone's got any more details??


Thanx!

				TTFN,
				   James

(I've really got to sort out a tag-line...)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: OYCSM - Review?
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:06:24 GMT

killip@csc.liv.ac.uk (Mr. L.T. Killip) writes:

>> Taken as a kids book, it was a very enjoyable read... 
>
> By what right do you consider there to be a quality distinction between
> kids books and those for adults. The differences (where they actually
> exist) are only those of taste.

Are you serious?

Nobody is suggesting (at least not that I'm aware of) that children's
books 'have less quality' then adult books.

They are two completely separate categories, however, and *in*
*general* kid's books are written to appeal to children, which means
that they are simpler, and do not involve events or concepts that do
not mean much to the audience. Winnie-the-Pooh is no 100 Years Of
Solitude, but by that I do not imply a relative ranking of the two,
because Winnie is one of my favourite children's books, and 100 Years
is one of my favourite adult books, it's just that comparing them to
each other is silly. Apples and oranges, and all that.

Within each category, books can be good or bad, and of course the
boundary between the catgeories is rather vague, and not all kids are
the same and not all adults are the same, etc. But is it so ridiculous
to suggest that a book, which seems a bit unsatisfying when read with
adult novel standards in mind, might become more satisfying if you
keep in mind what audience the writer was thinking of when he wrote
the thing?

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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From: lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: Re: Assorted stuff 
Organization: The Little Freesquids of the Poor
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 17:43:08 GMT

In <memo.674331@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

>For the record, since the message apparently asking this seems to have turned
>up twice, I'm not a Freemason.  Somehow, I don't think they'd let someone
>like me join, even though I have a hat with the words SECRET SOCIETY that
>flash on and off.

No wonder. You need an apron with the words ANCIENT SECRET SOCIETY that
flash on and off to pass mustard (and other condiments) with the Freemasons. 

Or am I giving away lodge secrets again?
--
     Lance "William Blake?" Smith     |   "Bring me my bat of burning gold!
         (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)          |    Bring me my pine tar of desire!
 "The Cat. He walked by himself, and  |    Bring me my glove! O clouds unfold!
    all places were alike to him."    |    Bring me my fastball of fire!"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Gormenghast and Pyramids
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 09:44:25 GMT

In article <leo.718382819@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes (in his .sig):
> > Kunt u mij de weg wijzen naar het dichtstbijzijnde intelligente zoogdier?

> Interesting quote, Peter. I wasn't aware that you knew Swedish!

Undskyld, ved De hvor det naermeste taenkende pattedyr er?
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   "Oletko halannut suttasi tnn?"
  'U`  
Dit kan mijn kamer niet zijn, ik adem geen ammoniak.
From: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: More Lovecraft
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:01:02 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology

In article <1992Oct16.151637.24113@ugle.unit.no>, jansunde@alkymi.unit.no (Jan Sunde) writes:
 > Keywords: 
 > 
 > Please correct me if I`m wrong but I also recall reading something about Io,the
 > blind idiot god in some of the DW books. this is in case also a reference to The 
 > Mythos, which calls some of the gods (there are several groups) "blind and
 > idiotic"
 > The Necronomicon is out as an actual book, but it is of course not the real one..
 > It is BTW illustrated by H.R.Giger (of Alien fame)

As far as I know, the H. R. Giger "Necronomicon" is nothing more than a collection
of Mr. Giger's art (possibly inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos and similar concepts).

Of course, considering the *nature* of Giger's art, the words 'nothing more' in
my previous sentence are probably a grave understatement.  For those of you who
aren't familiar with Giger, and haven't seen any of his works:  Be very careful
the first time.  This is the guy who thought up the design on the creatures in
the Alien movies.  Yikes.

BTW, has anyone fantasized about what could happen if Giger and the late M. C.
Escher were to meet and cooperate on art projects?   Yikes again.

Leif Kj|nn|y
leifmk@lise.unit.no
From: jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Leavitt)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Cripple Mr Onion
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:20:23 GMT
Organization: Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

My reader did the same while I was out of town these past few days.. anyone
have this on an ftp site?  or couls someone mail them to me?  Thanks.

-John.

jrrl@cs.cmu.edu
From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Equal Rites annotations
Date: 9 Oct 92 09:37:01 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

One more, which I'd forgotten yesterday:

The magical duel between Granny Weatherwax and Cutangle is modelled on
the duel in one of T.H. White's Arthur novels: I *think* "The sword in
the stone". I just *know* somebody's going to correct me on this,
and post the exact ref....


-- 
&ndy Holyer, School of Cognitive and     |"Boy, they were big on
Computing Studies, University of Sussex, |  crematoriums, weren't they?"
JANET: andyh@cogs.sussex.ac.uk           | - George Bush while touring
                                         |   Auschwitz, Sept. 1987
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming)
Subject: Re: Chocolate covered Good Ome
Reply-To: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:39:32 +0000

)

> As part of EuroStandardization, it was decided that there
> would be a standard number of Condoms in each packet.
> Naturally everyone had a different idea of how many
> condoms there should be.
> 
> The French wanted 6, Monday, Tuesday Wednesday ... Saturday.
> The Italians wanted 8, Monday Tuesday .. Saturday plus Twice
> on Sunday.  The British wanted Twelve.  January February...
> 

Sad but true |8-(

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From: ins534z@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: Gormenghast and Pyramids
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:01:55 GMT

ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles) writes:
>ins534z@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
>>leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:
>>>>Ah, so you know Dutch as well...
>>>>
>>>>But can you do it in Botswanian?

>>>That's tseTswana to you, boikie ...

>>Hey!  What about Quechua?

>Stop that - thats silly.
>Besides, you've been warned, have you, and she's going to get you.

I don't want to start a thread here, or anything, but . . .
In that case - Aymara!

>>"Hayk'atan kubranki llamaykimanta?" - How much do you charge for your llama?
>"Excuse me, this record is scratched" - I would like to buy some cigarettes.
"My hovercraft is full of eels" - Ask alt.fan.monty-python - I dunno . . .

Quetzal
From: d90-two@musta.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Apropos necrotelecomnicon
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:33:48 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

In article <1992Oct15.125951.527@email.tuwien.ac.at> nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos) writes:
>jansunde@solan.unit.no (Jan Sunde) writes:

>:[...]"Necrotelecomnicon"[...]  H.P.Lovecraft's Cthulhu
>: Mythos, whose "Bible" was called the Necronomicon...
>:
>Well, that book was (according to Lovecraft) written by some mad Arab called 
>"Abdul Alhazred" (or something like that), and according to H.P.Lovecraft
>it was full of "dark history", about daemons, beings that had lived
>long before mankind on the earth, all kinds of spells to summon such 
>beings, and similar things... Although I don't think that book did
>exist, H.P.Lovecraft is very convincing, and I have heard some rumours
>(mainly from fellow members in our Role-Playing club) that a few
>libraries have some of it's pages hidden deep down in a cellar etc... :)
>
You can go to your favorite bookstore (if you have any taste when it comes
to books :-) and buy a copy of it. Note however that it is (most likely) a
fake written after Lovecraft wrote his stories...

-- 
 _.^._  |\_|\_|\ V2.0 /|_/|_/|"There's no tomorrow,           |
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos)
Subject: Re: Apropos necrotelecomnicon
Organization: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:34:25 GMT

d90-two@musta.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer) writes:
: In article <1992Oct15.125951.527@email.tuwien.ac.at> nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos) writes:
: >jansunde@solan.unit.no (Jan Sunde) writes:
: 
: >:[...]"Necrotelecomnicon"[...]  H.P.Lovecraft's Cthulhu
: >: Mythos, whose "Bible" was called the Necronomicon...
: >:
: > [my brabblings deleted]

: You can go to your favorite bookstore (if you have any taste when it comes
: to books :-) and buy a copy of it. Note however that it is (most likely) a
: fake written after Lovecraft wrote his stories...
:
I know about that "fake" version, a friend of mine has it, but it's not
what I'd expected after reading "The Call of C'thulhu" ... :)

-MY

Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: Apropos necrotelecomnicon
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:22:20 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <1992Oct15.125951.527@email.tuwien.ac.at> nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos) writes:
>jansunde@solan.unit.no (Jan Sunde) writes:
>: Apropos the phrase "Necrotelecomnicon". I think I ought to mention this is a pun
>: on . . . H.P.Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, whose "Bible" was called the Necronomicon.
>:
>Well, that book was (according to Lovecraft) written by some mad Arab called 
>"Abdul Alhazred" (or something like that) . . .

Also known as "Abdul the Mad", although some sources suggest that
he preferred to be called "Abdul I just get these headaches" :-)
-- 
John Francis                                 johnf@apollo.hp.com
with 9 cats to feed, I don't have time to think up a clever .sig
From: adrian@robots.ox.ac.uk (Adrian Cox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Equal Rites question + annotation
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:59:20 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Oxford University
In-reply-to: jhb@maths.su.oz.au's message of 14 Oct 92 01:27:39 GMT

In article <jhb.719026059@monet> jhb@maths.su.oz.au (John Brownie) writes:
   In the first few pages, Granny is explaining about gods, and describes
   Hoki, who sounds like Pan.  Any ideas on where the name Hoki comes
   from?

One of our local supermarkets introduced a new line last year: `Hoki -
the fish of the future, from the cold, deep waters of New Zealand.'
Naturally I was a trifle suspicious of a fish that only existed
wrapped in breadcrumbs, so I investigated, by asking a New Zealander.
I was told that the hoki is an enormous and ugly fish that lives in
deep water and eats anything that falls to it.  The reason it only
appears in fillets is that the whole fish would revolt the customers
and wouldn't fit in the freezer.

I hope that makes things clear.  Hoki, the fish of the future, may
soon be starring in his own comic from Alleged Literature, Oxford.

- Adrian
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: Equal Rites annotations
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:12:01 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <718629893snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:
 [ . . . . . . . ]
>  They [Morris Minors] were still manufactured up until the 1970's, although
>by that time they had gained a whole 1000cc of head-end power and a somewhat
>smoother look than the 1948 model - the famous Moggie Thou.

To pick yet one more nit - the final years of production produced nothing but
Travellers (mostly in the familiar light blue shade), and the eventual power-
plant (if you could call it that :-) was the 1098cc engine from the "1100".
-- 
John Francis                                johnf@apollo.hp.com
Seen passing on the net:  Spotted Owl - the *other* white meat!
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From: macaj2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (MACKINNELL AMANDA)
Subject: placenames
Keywords: hmm..
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 02:03:42 GMT

	I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this previously,
	but isnt the name of "howondaland" the place that one of  
	the clicks is set in, a parody of "Gowondaland", which is the name
	given to the Earth when the continents were all joined up????

	*shrug*


	Amanda MacKinnell


	"I never claimed to be a hero, and I never said I was a saint."

Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: jansunde@alkymi.unit.no (Jan Sunde)
Subject: More Lovecraft
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 15:16:37 GMT

Keywords: 

Please correct me if I`m wrong but I also recall reading something about Io,the
blind idiot god in some of the DW books. this is in case also a reference to The 
Mythos, which calls some of the gods (there are several groups) "blind and
idiotic"
The Necronomicon is out as an actual book, but it is of course not the real one..
It is BTW illustrated by H.R.Giger (of Alien fame)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: lsmith@exa.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: Re: Assorted stuff
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 20:17:22 GMT

In <Bvx5Mv.BHy@acsu.buffalo.edu> hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (DOG BASEBALL!!!) 
plans the overthrow of the western world then writes:

>Inscribed upon tablet <lsmith.718738988@deci>, the mighty lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) records thusly:

>-=>Or am I giving away lodge secrets again?
>-=>--

>	nope, you need to know the ANCIENT SECRET HANDSHAKE to be a mason, and
>you have to be a mason to know the ANCIENT SECRET HANDSHAKE.  or was that
>ANCIENT SECRET MILKSHAKE?

Probably MILKSHAKE. Once you're ancient, the hands tend to shake on their own.
--
     Lance "William Blake?" Smith     |   "Bring me my bat of burning gold!
         (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)          |    Bring me my pine tar of desire!
 "The Cat. He walked by himself, and  |    Bring me my glove! O clouds unfold!
    all places were alike to him."    |    Bring me my fastball of fire!"
From: hs0sagg@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (S A G Granville)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Annotations
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:34:27 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: School of Social Sciences, University of Bath, UK

Could someone please post me any annotations that have
already been done.

Thanks and all that.

Toodle pip

Simon.
From: proberts@castle.ed.ac.uk (P Roberts)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Reaper man (for the APF)
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:05:55 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Edinburgh University

Just a quick one I noticed last night.  'fraid I haven't got the page
no. with me but it's near the beginning where the wizards are talking. 
One of them has the title the "Senior Wrangler"; this is the title of
the top maths graduate at Cambridge University (England, of course). 
Basically, in maths, for some reason, those who get firsts are called
wranglers, seconds are senior optimes and thirds are junior optimes.
No idea if this is the origin of the term in the book but ...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
ReplyTo: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Gormenghast and Pyramids
Distribution: world
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:27:50 +0000

In article <leo.718549864@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:

>Ah, so you know Dutch as well...
>
>But can you do it in Botswanian?

That's tseTswana to you, boikie ...

Nick Leverton
-- 
"Politician! Where's your credibility ?
You promised to lay down your life to set your people free!"  -  Hugh Masekela.
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ReplyTo: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Equal Rites annotations
Distribution: world
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:24:53 +0000

In article <BvtHFo.Cu1@apollo.hp.com> johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:

>In article <1992Oct8.115509.4860@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer) writes:
>>
>>The rickety broomstick was like a "split-windscreen Morris Minor":
>>
>>	I'm not going to try to describe what a split-screen Moggie is
>>like - this is  one of those cases  where having pictures  in the file
>>would  be of  infinite  value. Could  some   car  buff  post a  potted
>>history/description? (Or were Morris Minors universal? I bet you can't
>>find one in America)...
>
>You'd lose that bet - I know of at least one (in Peterborough, NH).
>It's a late-model estate, with the obligatory light blue paint.
>Just like the one I used to own back in nineteen-mumblety-mumble,
>before I got a Triumph Vitesse convertible.  But I digress . . .

Ah well, if it's an "estate" then it's a Morris Traveller, not a Minor ...
the Traveller, the half-timbered car :-), dates from several years after
the Minor was introduced, and the Minor itself was only made in split-
screen form for a few years.

Imagine, if you will, a curvaceous jelly-mould in the shape of a crouching
rabbit, like Granny used to use. Turn it open-side-down and fit four wheels,
near the corners. On the rabbit's back build a cabin, with picture windows
and a windscreen in two parts at an angle to each other. Add turn
indicators consisting of little arms which flip out of the body at roof
level, just behind the doors. Furnish the cabin in a post-War austerity
style, and power the result with a 1935 vintage 850cc flat four engine
pulling about 30bhp. In its day, in 1948, this was the height of desirability
- so much so that for its first few years it was only available for export.

Even in the Nineties, a fair number of Moggies are still going, err,
strong. You can actually pay a couple of thousand pounds for a good one
which works, because they're so easy to maintain. And the split-screen
ones are very definitely collectors' items. But most Minors are lovingly
cared for by owners with more sense than money, and not much of either;
you invariably find them pottering along at the front of a queue of
traffic, or "parked" outside a terraced house on three wheels and a pile
of bricks. They were still manufactured up until the 1970's, although by
that time they had gained a whole 1000cc of head-end power and a somewhat
smoother look than the 1948 model - the famous Moggie Thou.


Nick Leverton
-- 
"Politician! Where's your credibility ?
Little did we know you were only into money and publicity"  -  Hugh Masekela.
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From: speterse%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (soren--Ms. Jackson if you're nasty)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v3.0
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:42:36 MDT
Organization: The Erland Cult

In article <annotated-pratchett_719035203@ph.tn.tudelft.nl> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:

>WYRD SISTERS

>- This whole novel brims with Shakespearian references, to the Scottish
>  Play and Hamlet in particular (the three witches, the blood that won't
>  come off, the king's ghost, etc.). Some of the more striking references
>  are documented below, but the list is far from exhaustive.

The first scene of the first act of Hamlet starts at midnight, and ends
at dawn.  The only "problem" is that the action of the scene lasts abut
15 minutes.  This is alluded to a couple times in the book (I believe
when the witches conjure up the demon is one--I don't have the book to
hand, and can't look it up).


>PYRAMIDS


>+ [p. 197] Philosophers' names. Xeno refers to Zeno, of aforementioned
>  paradox. Copolymer ("the greatest storyteller in the history of the
>  world") probably refers to Homer. 

Copolymer is an obvious parody of Herodotus, the "father of history" (or
"the father of lies"), who has a very chatty and discursive style, and
who basically made his living as a story-teller/dinner guest.

My guess is that Copolymer's monologue is a take off on a particular
translation of the *Histories*, but I don't know which.  

Terry?


>[This covers them all, except for Endos the Listener? Anybody?]

My initial reaction was that Endos was introduced was that he was meant 
to be a professional second-man-in-a-socratic-dialogue--the man who spends 
the entire dialogue saying things like "That is correct, Socrates", "I 
agree", "you're right", "your reasoning appears correct", and the like.

On the other hand, I didn't see anything in the text that directly 
supported that.


"Go tell the Ephebians..." is a parody of "Go tell the Spartans..." 
which is the beginning of the memorial for the Spartan soldiers
who got massacred by the Persians at Thermopylae as a result of
Greek treachery.  I don't recall the whole enscription, but it was
something to the effect of "Go tell the Spartans that we obeyed
orders, and did not run away in the face of overwhelming odds."

--
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speterse@peruvian.utah.edu :  THE university OF utah  :
"How could I dance with another/When I saw him standing there"  --Tiffany
From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Assorted stuff
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:35:01 GMT
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH


In article <1992Oct11.192339.2639@spuddy.uucp>,
arcturus@spuddy.uucp (Geoff Riley) writes:
|>
|>In article <Bvx5Mv.BHy@acsu.buffalo.edu>
|>hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (DOG BASEBALL!!!) writes:
|>>	of course, masonry opens doors.. 
|>
|>I thought masonry was used to _build_ doorways ;-)

Throw a cinder block at a glass door sometime and you'll find that masonry
*does* open doors.

--PSW