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From: bronson@engr.latech.edu (Patrick K. Bronson)
Subject: Re: Patrician's assassination, plus two questions
Summary: Bad spellers of the world untie!
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 05:39:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.203609.24523@aber.ac.uk> ans0@aber.ac.uk (Austin Newton Shackles) writes:
>someone mentioned flamefests etc., so here you are, i'll start a spelling 
>flamefest:
>
>the english spelling for disc is disc, unfortunately americans and (possibly) 
>small children just don't like the idea of the c being hard, so they have to 
>mess around with a perfectly good (if arcane) language, and replace it with a 
>k. funilly enough, the english spelling of licence has a soft c, but the have 
>to change that too, making it license...wierd.

Ah HA!  I knew I was right.  It was pointed out that I had made the mistake of
spelling license as licence on a database report.  As several areas of our
campus police use this program, and the results are sent on to one of our 
many Vice Presidents, I felt pretty stupid!  Turns out I had inadvertantly
given them a copy that was subconciously written for a Police department in
England.  Well....that's MY story and I'm sticking to it!!!!

Pat
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From: mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( )
Subject: Re: Where is this FAQ anyway?
Keywords: FAQ erm that's it
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:47:21 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.222822.25176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox) writes:
>Can someone tell me who has/is compiling the FAQ list and where it is
>available from?  I mean, people keep throwing suggestions for additions
>onto the net but I for one have seen no indication on how one goes about obtaining a copy.  It DOES exist doesn't it?
>
Oh, great, another one.

Shouldn't we put this in the FAQ?

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From: dmm0t@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dave Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: What's next?
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:37:18 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia
Originator: dmm0t@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU

What are the next Discworld books after Reaper Man?  I've seen
references to Witches Abroad and Eric; are there more?  And why does
the rest of the world seem to get them a year before they come out in
the US?

		Dave

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From: gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:31:47 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.

In article <1992Jul29.132834.18356@dircon.co.uk> tdc1004@dircon.co.uk (Barry Freeman) writes:
>gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton) writes:
>>err... Good Omens, by any chance :-)  (he does seem to have been
                                   ^^^

>That's Aziraphael - the Guardian of the Gate of Eden...
>BAzz

err... yes, I know.

(maybe my comic timing is slipping).

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From: gnort@daimi.aau.dk (Lars Balker Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Erm. Excuse me?
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:47:45 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) writes:

>To combine two threads here:

[snip!]
>  The Corgi editions are relatively error-free.  However, the Roc (US)
>editions are infamous for being absolutely *HORRENDOUS* in terms of
>the typo quotient.

>  So my question is, where are these typos coming from?  Please don't
>tell me that Roc has some poor fool typing the text in again from a
>printout...
Well, that WOULD explain the delay, methinks!

[snip!]
 
>  Also, Terry wanted to know the Roc typos:  probably one of the worst
>was in the first printing of MOVING PICTURES (don't know about
>subsequent printings) which has "Terry Pratchet" [sic] emblazoned atop
>every left-hand page...
That IS just one typo! Be gentle!

>Jonathan Lennox
>jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu


--Lars
From: bradfiel@phakt.usc.edu (The B-field)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: You geeks
Date: 31 Jul 1992 09:28:00 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

In article <eg7RoB33w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>bradfiel@phakt.usc.edu (The B-field) writes:
>> Well, he's had his say so let's just ignore him and keep up the IQ level
>> of the Internet.
>
>He said, posting to
>
>> Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett,misc.test,talk.bizarre
>                                ^^^^^^^^^
>I love it.

OK, OK.  I know it looks bad, but it wasn't my fault.  That post was only
supposed to come here.  My newsreader had a spasm or something (and I've
been regretting it since, because misc.test keeps sending me mail quoting
my message back to me.  8 times at last count!!)



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From: Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: You geeks
Date: 29 Jul 92 08:13:10 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

echeverr@chaph.usc.edu (5150) writes:

>I've been looking through this group and I've gotta say, what a bunch of
>geeks you guys are. You spend all your time ass-licking this Pratchet guy
>like he's good or something. Come on, Craig Shaw Gardener wipes the floor
				       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>with Pratchet, and that ain't saying much. His books are boring and
					    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>repetative, he just recycles the same tired old jokes again and again.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Why waste your time with such a looser?
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	For a minute there, I was going to say "Oh well, there's always
at least one idiot with unsophisticated tastes and a degree of literary
appreciation second only to that of a lobotomised Patagonian Guinea
Pig."

	But then I realised - judging from the above statements, the
pitiful tit has obviously got the two authors confused.

				Ade.

P.S. Watch out for the misc.test and talk.bizarre crosspostings on the
	original article.

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From: icklinck@cayley.waterloo.edu (Ian "Rhys" Klinck)
Subject: Re: Yawn.
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:07:32 GMT

So, you're not going to post a negative review because the author might read it?

a) Would it be better to do it where he won't?
b) Do you think the author never reads any reviews of his own work from other
sources (which are, I'm sure, even for Mr. Pratchett, sometimes negative)?
c) If you write a GOOD review, and point out what you don't like, maybe it'll
give Mr. Pratchett a chance to avoid such things in his future books - or at
least think twice about including them,

Summary: post the review!

I'm not going to go into how much I like the Discworld books. The fact that I
read this newsgroup, especially since the only other ones I read are course-
related, except for rec.org.sca, should speak for itself - Although Pratchett
and Asprin are the only authors (after McCaffrey's last) that I watch bookstores
"like a hawk" for. (Oh, yeah, the WildCards series, too...)

Ian

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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Re: Yawn.
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:51:53 GMT
Distribution: alt

leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:

   gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:

   > This group sure goes downhill as soon as the object of worship
   > arrives.  Suddenly we're all trying to outdo each other with puns, 

   So I am not the only one to have noticed this! 
   Since Terry Pratchett arrived, folks have been sparkling and witty and 
   funny, and I can't recall this group being such a bundle of laughs
   two months ago -- we're not trying to impress anybody here, are we?

I certainly hope not :) (tho' I must admit, I did get a chuckle out of
the idea of the Clay III).  I just think it's kinda sad that over the
last week or so, we've descended into blather.  What happened to
probing questions about the nature of the Disc?  Where are questions
about book availability, etc?  Where is Jimmy Hoffa?

   But I have to agree with him that it is remarkable how all of a sudden 
   everybody has become a comic. What is it about the presence of someone
   like Terry Pratchett that makes us react this way?

I wouldn't stretch the use of the word "comic" any farther than the
Americans have already - "would-be comic", perhaps :).  Why do we do
it?  An over-inflated sense of self-importance combined with the
collective IQ of Uncle Tommy's Ant Farm?  Oh no, sorry - that's just
the American UseNetters. :-)

Nat The Curmudgeon
(gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz)
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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Subject: Re: DW ideas
Keywords: ideas thoughts idea plot plots
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:51:09 GMT


Hmmm... I'm still wondering why the "Ghostbusters" reference in _Reaper
Man_ got under-used. Though I suppose the Rambo-esque scenes could be
seen as doing double-duty there...
(Page 98, US edition. "Who am I going to call?")

But then again, _Sourcery_ and _Equal Rites_ probably covered the "Evil 
Things Are Trying To Get Through Into Our World And Trash Property
Values" theme well enough already.
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser)
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes 
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 21:14:42 GMT

On the occasions when the publishers actually took the disc of your book
instead of paper did you do the typesetting and other DTP stuff at
home and include it in the disc or was that strictly their department?

Fox

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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: You geeks
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:36:45 GMT

drich@sandman.lerc.nasa.gov (Daniel Rich) writes:

>Why do some people have to deliberately start flame wars....

Because they're fun. YOU MORON!  :-)


May the Cool be with You!

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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Subject: Re: Erm. Excuse me?
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:22:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.164138.24718@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser) writes:
>Hang on a second.  It's not typos as in 'The Colour of Magic' instead of
>'The Color of Magic' is it?

I should hope not. That's not a typo. (Now, if only my own *personal*
brand of Elizabethean spelling could be so blessed. *sigh* I wonder if
my life-book got misfiled in the lot that were back before they invented
spelling, and therefore there's been anti-spelling contamination....)

>  \O O/ O               "What is a figment anyway?" 

Is it anything like a figgin?
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser)
Subject: Re: Terry Pratchett GIF on a.b.p.m
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 02:40:59 GMT

The bearded bloke is TP.  The one who's loafing on the barrier (or whatever it 
is) is NG.

Fox
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From: Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Erm. Excuse me?
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:38:54 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

rm104449@ee.tut.fi (M{kinen Riku) writes:

>I'm no expert on Mr. Pratchett's work (I've read only the DW books from 'The 
>color of magic' to 'Eric'). So I'm sorry if I'm wrong but *wasn't* there the
>same bit repeated in two different DW books. I mean the bit where someone is
>to be tortured, but
>i) the tiger is ill
>ii) the eternal fire ...um ...should be started first
>iii) *but* there is (always) the snake pit (where at least Rincewind found a
>hero with woollen underwear...)
>I think it was in 'Wyrd sisters' and 'Sourcery'. Question: WHY? 

	Answer: WHY NOT?
				Ade.

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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: New Questions for the FAQ
In-reply-to: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk's message of Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:24:18 +0000
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 23:44:29 EDT

In article <712088658snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:

>I wonder what props are necessary for performing the Rite of AshKibo ...
>Anyone got any mouse blood ?

Nonono. Mouse balls.




Well, SOMEONE had to.

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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: An Ogden Nash poem
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:12:01 GMT

I was reading a book of Ogden Nash poems, and came upon this one, which has
(I think) a definite Terry Pratchett 'feel' to it.

I suppose that people have been making fun of metaphors by taking them
literally ever since "Beowulf" first appeared on the scene.

Printed without permission. Enjoy.


VERY LIKE A WHALE

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor.
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons or Celts,
Can't seem just to say that anything is the thing it is
	but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

What does it mean when we are told
That the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold?
In the first place, George Gordon Byron had had enough experience
To know that it probably wasn't just one Assyrian, it was a lot of 
	Assyrians.

However, as too many arguments are apt to induce apoplexy and thus hinder
	longevity,
We'll let it pass as one Assyrian for the sake of brevity.
Now then, this particular Assyrian, the one whose cohorts were gleaming in
	purple and gold,
Just what does the poet mean when he says he came down like a wolf on the
	fold?

In heaven and earth more than is dreamed of in our philosophy there are a
	great many things,
But I don't imagine that among them there is a wolf with purple and gold
	cohorts or purple and gold anythings.
No, no, Lord Byron, before I'll believe that this Assyrian was actually like
	a wolf I must have some kind of proof;
Did he run on all fours and did he have a hairy tail and a big red mouth 
	and big white teeth and did he say Woof woof?

Frankly I think it very unlikely, and all you were entitled to say, at the
	very most,
Was that the Assyrian cohorts came down like a lot of Assyrian cohorts about 
	to destroy the Hebrew host.
But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent 
	a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people 
	they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in 
	gold and purple ate them.

That's the kind of thing that's being done all the time by poets, from Homer
	to Tennyson;
They're always comparing ladies to lilies and veal to venison,
And they always say things like that the snow is a white blanket after a 
	winter storm.
Oh it is, is it, all right then, you sleep under a six-inch blanket of snow 
	and I'll sleep under a half-inch blanket of unpoetical blanket 
	material and we'll see which one keeps warm.

And after that maybe you'll begin to comprehend dimly
What I mean by too much metaphor and simile.


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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: DW ideas
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:05:42 GMT

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

>Anyone posting DW ideas: PLEASE put on the top TERRY, DON'T READ THIS.  I
>hate people giving me DW ideas -- if they're good, I'm stealing, if they're
>not, what the hell...

So what? Call it inspiration and just make sure you make enough money
with the idea to be able to ward off legal challenges. Oops! Looks like
I've just given away the secret of my success.
Anyway, I put my Copyright down there just for fun.
*chuckling guilefully while innocently staring at ceiling*


May the Cool be with You!

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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Explaining stuff in TP books ( was Re: Yawn.)
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:56:55 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.150906.1894@samba.oit.unc.edu> Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy) writes:
>Is ambi-sinister having two left hands?

Ambisinistrous means "equally clumsy with both hands". Like me. I bought
\Juggling for the Complete Klutz/ and spent a month dropping beanbags during
economics lectures and I STILL couldn't "get" it.
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From: ac463@yfn.ysu.edu (Rich Yauman)
Subject: Re: Upcoming Stuff
Reply-To: ac463@yfn.ysu.edu (Rich Yauman)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:05:48 GMT


In a previous article, lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) says:

>morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (The Jack Elmo Society Black Book) writes:
>> 	Anybody have the address and name of Roc's publisher so we can badger
>> and hedgehog him into releasing TP books faster?
>> -- 
>
>We must wolverine him. Much nastier.
>
>On the same subject, does anyone know (Hi Terry) *why* we Americans are
>thus disadvantaged? Do the DW books actually sell so poorly here that it's
>not even worth publishing the hardcovers? That's kind of hard to believe,
>at least for us rabid fans. 
>
>-Laura
My big question is why do American booksellers insist on only stocking
one or two TP books at a time.  I just read the newest book out here, 
Reaper Man, and I have to admit that it was well worth reading.  After that
I read Equal Rites,  mainly the reason I read the books in that order is
that is the order in which I found copies of them.  I still know of 
one DW book that I haven't found, the first one with Rincewind.  
     Speaking of Rincewind,  I keep waiting for his return from the
dungeon Dimensions.  Afterall, as the book Sourcery states, a wizzard
always comes back for his hat.
     And to the author who actually participates in his group:  Terry
keep up the good work,  I can't wait for the next bizzare trip to DiscWorld.


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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Subject: Explaining stuff in TP books ( was Re: Yawn.)
Organization: Chaos, usually.
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:09:06 GMT

>        gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz
writes of including 
>  * "ambi-sinister"
in his explaination errata stuff.

Is ambi-sinister having two left hands? (Or all left hands, for those of
us reading this from alpha centari.) Sounds like a terrible affliction,
worthy of a Discworld book...

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From: davidv@sco.COM (Uncle David)
Subject: Re: hejsan
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:34:11 GMT


rm104449@ee.tut.fi (M{kinen Riku) writes:

>And BTW, who is Mike Jittlov (or something).

Mike Jittlov is an animator and film director who lives in Los Angeles.
a number of years ago he did an animated short film called The Wizard
of Speed and Time, which was then expanded and made into a feature film
of the same name. The Wizard of Speed and Time (both the short subject 
and the full length feature film) are his best known works. he's done
numerous other things, as well. 

the feature-film ended up being a rather true-to-life chronicle of what 
Mike had to do to get the feature film made. an interesting story to say
the least.
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:54:34 GMT

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

>Go on...tell me more about comic timing...

Well, the most important thing is to be concise and to the point, so the
audience is hit with the punch line before they even know it. Let me
show it in an example:

Two men are walking down the street. No, they are crossing the street.
Two men crossing the street when the man says to the woman -- Huh? Now I
remember, one of them is a woman. Anyway they walk down -- cross the
street when one of them is run over by a car. No, before one is run over
the other man says to him -- They are two men after all, the woman is
the driver I think. No, let me start all over again...

etc.


May the Cool be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii

P.S.: I don't think they were men at all, they were chickens. No, toma-
      toes. I THOUGHT the bit about the ketchup didn't make much sense.