HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: porcupine =?= hedgehog
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:04:15 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND


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.

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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:08:48 +0000

In article <5537@evil.demon.co.uk> fis@evil.demon.co.uk (Neil Jones) writes:

>Someone recently commented on the lack of my messages in this conference.
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>Well now I am her and you only have yourself to blame.
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>NEVER EVER SAY YOUR GLAD FIS ISN'T SOMEWHERE BECAUSE I'LL HARASS YOU.

Hi fis :-)

You may be her, but you aren't *him*.

Glad you weren't there on Saturday ...

Nick Leverton
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Subject: Re: porcupine =?= hedgehog
From: richard@nacjack.gen.nz (Richard Vowles)
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:27:23 GMT
Organization: Malleus Maleficarum - Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre


> That too - they're about croquet ball size when curled up - maybe a little
> bigger. It may be quite fun to try juggling them, but catching three can be
> hard - they're speedy little buggers.

Fancy that. The majority of the ones I have seen (mainly around long expanses
of black material) are rather flat and squishy looking.


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From: giovanne@ccrs.emr.ca (Mark Giovannetti)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Summary: Clint Eastwood reference 
Keywords: Make my day, punk.
Organization: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:21:56 GMT

Don't know if this is an obscure or often missed joke but hope it
helps.

In Guards! Guards! the sign above the night watch's headquarters reads

FABRICATI (sp?) DIEM PVNK

which is said to mean 'To protect and serve'. But it looks a lot more
like 'Make my day, punk' in Latin.

For what it's worth. 


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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?                            
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:34:28 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.172257.5572@rdg.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
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>In article <1992Aug11.234157.29674@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
>Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:
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>|>Same for "bloody" (which I gather is equivalent to "damn"?)
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>"Bloody" derives from "Blood of Christ", I believe.

I heard it was "By our <?> Lady," or something, refering to Mary, or
Queen Elizabeth the first, or something like that...

I didn't mean "came from the same roots" as "damn," I meant, "has the
same shock value and politeness level in language and general emotional
meaning" as "damn." I.e., calling someone a "damn idiot" is no better
and no worse than calling someone a "bloody idiot," except it has more
syllabobbles. 

In other words, I was wondering if I was shocking the pants off uk
readers when I thought I was using something of mild to nil impoliteness
level. (Nil impoliteness to many if not most usa folk.)

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From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Cohen the Barbarian
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:53:42 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


Isn't Cohen the great-grandnephew of the mighty magician Tim?

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communication wizardry of all sorts at reasonable rates."  --  Sharassin of Shan
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Aircraft in the discworld
Summary: What was that bomb stuff there for?
Keywords: Aircraft discwordld
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 03:34:29 GMT

What on earth was the aircraft scene for (the one where where Rincewind and 
Twoflower are zapped into a different universe for a split second)?  This has
puzzled me for some time as it seemed to totally disturb the flow of the book
and was just placed as a random idea flitted across TP's mind.  Is there a 
deeper meaning?

Mike
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From: nad@cl.cam.ac.uk (Neil Dodgson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:02:47 GMT
Reply-To: nad@cl.cam.ac.uk (Neil Dodgson)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK

In article <714345663snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:
>As already noted, "Strata" is so deeply inspired by Larry Niven's two
>Ringworld books that it's pointless going into every correspondence.
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>Ringworld, and probably not from Niven at all.
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>On p.172 of the UK Corgi edition, when Kin Arad is exploring the
>Discworld control centre, she comes across a maintenance robot. She
>damages this robot and waits until another machine turns up to repair
>it. She damages this second machine and waits for a third one to arrive.
>The third one is "a tank-like machine ...".
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>This creates a strong echo in my memory but, as I say, I'm sure it isn't
>from Ringworld. It sounds more like Harrison. Does anyone know where the
>reference does come from ?
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It sounds suspiciously like the scene in "The Restauraunt at the End of
the Universe" (D.Adams) where Zaphod Beeblebrox is trapped by the police
in the Hitchhiker's Guide HQ building.  From distant memory the scene runs
like this:
A small robot whizzes past the spot where Zaphod, Marvin and friend(?)
are hiding:
  "What was that?", asked Zaphod.
  "An Altarian Scout Robot Type A out looking for you."
A slightly larger, meaner looking robot zips past in the opposite direction.
  "WHAT was that?"
  "An Altarian Scout Robot Type B out looking for you."
A few nervous seconds later a very large, spider like robot flew past, lights
flashing all over it.
  "And that?"
  "An Altarian Scout Robot Type C out looking for you."
  "Pretty dumb, these robots", commented Zaphod
A low rumbling filled the air, vibrating the floor they were sitting on even
more than the distant explosions at the foot of the skyscraper.
  "Err, what's that", said Zaphod, nervously.
  "An Altarian Scout Robot Type D coming to get you."
A large tank-like machine rumbled into view at the other end of the bridge.  
  "I think now would be a good time to get out of here."
  "I think your right."
  "Marvin, see that robot?", said Zaphod.
  "Yes," said Marvin, "I suppose you want me to stop it while you escape."
  "You got it," said Zaphod. 
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:50:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.154128.3757@samba.oit.unc.edu> Ann.Feeney@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ann Feeney) writes:
>>- [There was a very obscure joke involving an old British nursery rhyme.

"Heigh Ho!" said Anthony Crowley.
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From: gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: explaining things
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:31:53 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.

In article <1992Aug18.132551.18751@cs.ruu.nl> jjverkui@cs.ruu.nl (Hans Verkuil) writes:
>I have another joke that I don't get, this one from Good Omens. Every tape
>that Crowley (sp?) plays in his car turns into a tape with music from Queen.
>Every reviewer of the book found it funny, but I don't see the joke. Then
>again, I also know very little about Queen.
>
>Anyone willing to enlighten me? Thanks in advance...
>
>				Hans Verkuil

I think you understand the joke, but no amount of explaining will now
make it funny.  IMHO it is one of the most inspired pieces of
imagination in the book.  Every car with a cassette player in it has
an attendant pile of often boxless and illegibly labelled tapes
filling up the glove compartment, the little pocket at floor level in
the door, the gap next to the handbrake etc.  At least one of these
tapes is *always* a Queen tape, most commonly 'Queen: Greatest Hits'
(which includes all the songs in GO), and this is the one that gets
'accidentally' picked out the most often.

Terry obviously has some theory about this, and he could be right.
Queen is the lowest common denominator of car music.

Gordon.

[I wonder if this is where "Wayne's World" got the idea ;-)]
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From: mxr@neptune.dsc.com (Max "Devious Ignition Collision" Rible)
Subject: Sam & Max/Good Omens teamup?
Organization: Digital Sound Corporation
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:54:10 GMT

In the recent SAM & MAX COLOR SPECIAL (a killingly funny comic book,
with several collected stories about a rabbit-and-dog freelance police
team), there's a scene where they get in to their office, and the
rabbit Max (no relation, honest) plays the answering machine, which
play out weird noises and "HA HA HA HA HA!  I am no one...  I am
RESISOLUBUSSSSSSS!  BRUUAAAAAAGGGGHHH!  thup thup thup click BEEP" and
Max remarks "It looks like the answering machine's demonically
possessed again.  Still, it's better than no messages at all."  Anyone
know which way the inspiration went, or if it's another Cosmic
Coincidence (TM)?  I think that particular story has been around for a
few years...
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From: graeme@abekrd.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Yet More Americanisms (Was Re: Swedish weather)
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:13:12 GMT
Organization: Abekas Video Systems, Reading, UK.

In <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:
>>gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton) writes:
>>: In article <19705@plains.NoDak.edu> hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
>>: >According to Janet Fielding Londoners have 37 words for gray.
>>: 
>>: Well I know that one of them is "grey" ...
>>: 
>>: [sorry, I just couldn't resist :-)]
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>>Another good one is Gray.

>Joliffe perhaps ?

Not forgetting, of course, the newest word for grey.........


		Major.


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From: ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Ian Heath)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Date: 21 Aug 92 09:29:27 GMT

In <714345663snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:

[Probable spoiler follows]


















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>On p.172 of the UK Corgi edition, when Kin Arad is exploring the
>Discworld control centre, she comes across a maintenance robot. She
>damages this robot and waits until another machine turns up to repair
>it. She damages this second machine and waits for a third one to arrive.
>The third one is "a tank-like machine ...".

>This creates a strong echo in my memory but, as I say, I'm sure it isn't
>from Ringworld. It sounds more like Harrison. Does anyone know where the
>reference does come from ?

The image that immediately springs to mind is from the Hitch Hikers
Guide to the Galaxy, where Zaphod and Rooster are in the Hitch-Hikers
offices when they are attacked by governmental forces.  Zaphod and his
companion (Roosta I think), hide and watch a series of robots (Frogstar
Scout Robots Class A, B and C) go past. The third one is a huge tank
like machine which Marvin (the paranoid android) is sent to deal with.

I must admit that when I read the book, this parallel when straight
over my head, but reading your posting made it all come flooding back.
Now where did I put those Hitch-Hikers tapes.......

Cheers,
	Ian
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From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:20:12 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

In <leo.714319738@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:

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

>> Men at Arms (20,000 words now and I still haven't
>> used all the Twin Peaks gags...)

>Oh Lord, please let him finish this book *quickly*. 

>Twin Peaks gags -- yes, yes, YES!

>-- 
>Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)

What are Twin Peaks gags??
From: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (S.P.Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The morris fetish
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:02:06 GMT
Reply-To: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (Stephen Thomas)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

In article <memo.573270@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>Re Rich Holmes' enquiry:
> [ ... ]
>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.

Hmm.  Out of curiousity, have you ever read Mythago Wood by Robert
Holdstock?  I think that in this book, and also in it's sequel, Lavondyss,
he explores the ideas that fascinate you...

Keep well,

Stephen Thomas
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From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
Subject: Re: Bugger off
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:06:14 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

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

As a direct result of this thread, I plan to begin telling annoying
people to "oook off."  

I predict that they will understand me perfectly.

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From: dug@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Dug Smith)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:19:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ISG-SBU-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett

>may have something to do with it.  ("he's buggered off!" "he's scarkered!"
>(scarkered?  whatever that is...))

  ^^^^^^^^^ scarpered - run away, made a run for it, that sort of thing. :-)
From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: I'll be Back...
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:25:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <3821@keele.keele.ac.uk> csa18@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R.J. Husmo) writes:
>Hence the old joke: 'How to sink a Swedish ship?' 'Launch it.'
>(I've been told that the same story applies to the Mary Celeste. Anyone
>care to comment?)

How do you sinke a Norwegian ship ? ask the swedes to build it

How do you sink a Swedish submarine ? swim down and knock on the
door ...

and so on ad infinitum

Simon (lots of Swedish and Norwegian friends at high school who
kept teaching me these jokes, but curiously enough, the Swedes
insisted the Norwegians were the lousy ship builders ....)
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 21 Aug 92 10:23:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <crystal.714370812@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
>
>What are Twin Peaks gags??

They're these things you put in the mouths of Twin Peaks fans so's
you can't hear 'em talk. (Ho ho ho)

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (Totally off subject - - I can't wait until the Twin Peaks movie
("Fire Walk With Me") is released, because David Lynch's movies
are, well, rather more "interesting" than the typical Twin Peaks fan
will be expecting.)
   (For instance, this would be a good time for him to do Eraserhead
II)
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From: f1rima@uta.fi (Riku M{kinen)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: My .sig
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:37:39 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland

...somehow wasn't included (the computer with the news program is down so I
had to use the University's computer and it doesn't seem to operate the same 
way the computer in *my* university, that is, University of Technology,
operates).
So: Hejsan,

Riku


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From: rm104449@ee.tut.fi (M{kinen Riku)
Subject: Vasa
Originator: rm104449@ee.tut.fi
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, FINLAND
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 19:52:05 GMT


...or is it Wasa (the ship)? I've heard thet when they got it up again they
found something (can't remember what it was) that *defenetively* didn't belong
in there. Something that wasn't four (?) hundred years old. 
Later they found out that a group of enterprising students had dived and put
this what-ever-it-was in there, just for fun.

So Swedes, any truth in this? I'd like to hear.

Hejsan,



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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Any Recorded TP Books?                  
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:00:06 +0000

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
From: ken@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:15:10 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

John Francis (johnf@apollo.hp.com) wrote:
: Chad Childers <chad@quality.ta.ford.com> writes:
: >"he's buggered off!" "he's scarkered!" (scarkered?  whatever that is...)
: 
: That's "scarpered" - run away.
: 
: I've been told that the etymology is rhyming slang:  Scapa Flow => Go
: I have absolutely no definitive evidence that this is true - I'm just
: repeating what I heard.

Typical net news, always degenerates into US vs real English usage. Well,
to continue the theme:

Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th Ed., Copyright 1991 Oxford Univ. Press

/scarper/ <<"skA:p@(r)>> v.intr. [Brit.] [sl.] run away; escape.

prob. f. It. scappare escape, infl. by rhyming sl. Scapa Flow = go


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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: I'll be Back...                         
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:08:00 +0000

I come back after four days in Sweden, log on, and my hard disc cries
'Mercy...' I think the only way it'll survie more than a fortnight of me at
worldcon is to teach the house-sitters how to long on and download stuff
every few day...

Right now all I can do is briefly scan stuff but:

1) Sure, why not ask people what the weather's like where you're going?  The
reply normally makes more sense than more weather reports, and probably isn't
the most trivial posting ever...

2) My vote is definitely for 'By our lady'...I've always understood that's
the origin.

3) It was an extremely good con.  A very nice bunch of people -- and they
took me to see the Vasa too...a genuine SF experience, I just stood there
with my mouth open (and then made a lot of notes).  And I reflected coming
back that almost all Scandinvaina and mainland European fans I've met have a
good-to-superb command of English.  When I signed at a specialist SF
bookstore, I must have signed eight UK (or, rarely, US) editions for every
one Swedish translation.

4) I would hate to be responsible for a rash of hedghog bouncing scandals.
People though eating goldfish would never catch on...

That's it for now...got to answer the mail.  If I find any specific questions
to TP that I haven't answers already when I re-read the backlog, I'll be back
(I'm pretty sure I did the definitive 'what it was like writing Good Omens'
answer only a week or so ago!)

Terry