HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: alberti@ux.acs.umn.edu (Timothy Fay)
Subject: Re: Darkwing, Goof Troop, Raw Toonage, *Spoilers*
Originator: alberti@staff.tc.umn.edu
Organization: Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:21:26 GMT

In <Z44KTH2@taronga.com> arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:

>+ A reference to Steelbeak's beak!  Too bad they didn't go further and
>  make an allusion to the circumstances of how he got it (was it
>  intentional or the result of an accident, like Bulba's?).

As we all know, Steelbeak is really a grown-up Fowlmouth (from TINY TOON
ADVENTURES), who lost his beak in a fit of new-age rage from Shirley the
Loon.  He then turned to a life of crime...  ;-)

>Raw Toonage:  almost missed it cause it showed at 10 instead of 10:30...
>Then at 10:30 when RT was supposed to show, we had a repeat of the first
>one with Professor von Drake.  A whole hour of Raw Toonage.

Well, that explains why I only saw the repeat of the 1st RAW TOONAGE.
I wish CBS would announce schedule changes like this in advance...

-- 
		Reply to:  avatar@pnet51.orb.mn.org
 "Bowl a strike, not a spare; Revolution everywhere!"  -RABL credo

Newsgroups: alt.fan.disney.afternoon
From: bturner@hpcvusc (Bill Turner)
Subject: Re: Launchpad Question
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:59:44 GMT

Stephanie da Silva (arielle@taronga.com) wrote:
> In at least two episodes -- Hush, Hush Sweet Charlatan and Star Crossed
> Circuits -- Launchpad is shown sans helmet with a full head of hair.

I'd assumed that in Star Crossed Circuits it was a hairpiece (so that
he'd look like the male lead in "The Young and the Brainless").

--Bill Turner (bturner@cv.hp.com)
From: mam4161@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dice-man
Subject: Dice In concert
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:50:46 GMT
Reply-To: mam4161@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

I've seen Him in concert.  He is much funnier in concert, especially at a 
small venue, He gets into the crowd more.  I was in Row G when I saw him and 
the concert was incredible.  I will never be able to see another comedian
without comparing them to him.  
Does anybody have his concerts on tape?  I'm looking to get them all on tape.
					A Dice Fan,
						Angus PodGurney
						Angus Podgurney
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
From: luhmanjp@nxsci173a.mrs.umn.edu (Joe Luhman)
Subject: Does anyone care?
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:53:46 GMT

Does anyone care?

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
From: luhmanjp@nxsci173a.mrs.umn.edu (Joe Luhman)
Subject: Q is Coming!!
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:23:32 GMT

Q is coming back!!
On October 24, there will be a new episode of STTNG featuring Q.
It is titled:  Q-Me.
See rec.arts.startrek.current for more details.

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
From: ltabone@lonestar.utsa.edu (Lori L. Tabone)
Subject: Re: Does anyone care?
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 05:12:38 GMT

I do.
Really I do.
And if you don't believe me, I'll... I'll...
I'll reverse your gravity quotient.
From: mrang00@nx22.mik.uky.edu (Magesh Ranganathan)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: Test - Ignore this posting
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:37:04 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

Hi 
  You are the lucky ones to read what happpens to be my first posting. I  
happened on this newsgroup when I was looking for one with low traffic so  
I wont take up many readers' time. Hope this posting works.
 Have a good day. See ya in an another group at another time.

mag.
Organization: Masters student, Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 1992 21:35:28 -0400 
From: Quan vi Luc <ql00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Me, too


There must be something wrong with me.  I can't seem to find any posting
on this board also.  

But perhaps could that be that Q has not been on any episodes lately.  I
dunno.  I'm still depressed over that last rerun I saw where at the end
of the show Q took off with that pot-hunter...you know, the woman who
stole relics and was into Jean-Luc.  Uugh, men.

Sincerely,

 -- Quan Vi Luc

"Yet at that moment in the sunrise, it was all so beautiful, everything,
from all directions, evenly, perfectly, balancing day with night, summer
months with winter.  The valley was enclosing this totality, like the
mind holding all thought together in a single moment.  The strength came
from here, from this feeling.  It had always been there.  He stood there
with the sun on his face, and he thought he might make it after all." --
L.M. Silko
From: arcturus@spuddy.uucp (Geoff Riley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Assorted stuff
Date: 11 Oct 92 19:23:39 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain

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 ;-)
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: fp101@sci.kun.nl (fp1 course)
Subject: Annotations
Summary: annotations about RM and others
Keywords: discworld terry pratchett annotations
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:14:47 GMT

I have some annotations from Reaper Man:
1. On page 146 Death says he plaid 'Exclusive possessions'. I'm sure this is 
Monopoly because he refers to having 'streets'
2. On page 270 there are some hints to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
The Lost Temple of Offler is named the same, and one of the priest refers to

'a guy with a whip'. Also the traps: large bolder, spikes etc are tipical 'indy'.
I also think I found an annotation from Good Omens.
At one point of another the writer(?) points out that even creatures who don't
breathe sometimes cough(or something like that).
In Douglas Adams 'Restaurant at the end of the universe' a same statement is
made. Here, a waiter sighs, which isn't nessecary because the gases he breathes
get injected directly into his bloodstream(he is of a small green species).
Can somebody check on that?

cheery ho! from a Mad DM.

"He, geef dat lulijzer eens hier, bordeboer'
.
:
From: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Apropos necrotelecomnicon
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:56:25 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology

In article <1992Oct15.163425.6870@email.tuwien.ac.at>, nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos) writes:
 > 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
 > 

Look:  If you've found a book claiming to be the Necronomicon, it is a fake.
The real Necronomicon would contain no claims except for its title.  Such concepts
as an index, a foreword, or a table of contents were not known at the time it
was supposedly written.  Page numbers weren't necessarily used, either.

If you've found a *paperback* book claiming to be the Necronomicon, it is a 
lousy fake.

If a real version of the N-con exists (and I really hope it doesn't), then you're
about as likely to find it as....as....as a very, very unlikely thing.  And it
will probably not be very readable.

For those who with further interest in the matter, I can point out the continual
"The Necronomicon is real!  No, it isn't!  Yes, it is!  No, it isn't!" debate on
alt.horror and alt.horror.cthulhu.  A debate which will probably still be raging
long after all of us are dead and gone......

Leif Kj|nn|y
leifmk@lise.unit.no
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: ins534z@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: Gormenghast and Pyramids
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:58:37 GMT

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?

Tim Pickett
"Hayk'atan kubranki llamaykimanta?" - How much do you charge for your llama?

Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: No APF update this time, sorry
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:43:52 GMT

Sorry folks, I tried, but have been too busy with Real Work to be able
to merge the annotations I received into the Annotated Pratchett
File in time for yesterday's scheduled release.

So you're going to have to settle for a repost of v3.0. Please keep all
suggestions and annotations coming, either to this newsgroup or directly
to me at leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl.

Thanks,

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett,news.answers
From: speterse%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (soren--Ms. Jackson if you're nasty)
Subject: Re: Assorted stuff                          
Date: 10 Oct 92 17:57:13 MDT
Organization: The Erland Cult

In article <memo.674331@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk 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.

Well no wonder!  It should say SECKRET SOSAYETI.

--
    "From your signature it is obvious that you are a homosexual"
soren f petersen           :        i AM NOT          :    --Doc
speterse@peruvian.utah.edu :  THE university OF utah  :
"How could I dance with another/When I saw him standing there"  --Tiffany
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: jhb@maths.su.oz.au (John Brownie)
Subject: Equal Rites question + annotation
Organization: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:27:39 GMT

I re-read Equal Rites over the weekend, and noticed a couple of
things.

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?

As they arrive at Unseen University, Treatle says "Gaudy armours eagle
tours."  This is a mangled reference to the old students' drinking
song, "Gaudeamus igitur":

Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus.
Post iucundam iuventutem,
Post molestam senectutem,
Nos habebit humus, nos habebit humus.

A rough translation (my Latin is _very_ rusty):

Let us be merry, therefore, whilst we are young men.
After the joys of youth,
After the pain of old age,
The ground will have us, the ground will have us.

The song has to be reasonably old - it's used in Brahms' Academic
Festival Overture (it's the last melody).

--
John Brownie
School of Mathematics and Statistics   |    Wycliffe Bible Translators
University of Sydney NSW 2006          |    Graham Rd
Internet: jhb@maths.su.oz.au           |    Kangaroo Ground Vic 3097 AUSTRALIA
From: tao@ginger.princeton.edu (Terry Tao)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: TCOM
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:40:09 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

I was just reading through the Color of Magic again, and I have a few questions.

First of all, Rincewind is said to know "most of the languages on the western
half of the disc" or something similar, the implication being that he can't
understand Krull.  But is there a west in the Disc? I thought there was only
Hubward, Rimward, Turnwise, and Widdershins.

Secondly, while Unseen University is the premier college of magic, is it the only
one? there are wizards in Krull, and Xxxx, and enchanters and the like all over
the Disc.  Did they all come from UU? unlikely! after all, there is a strict
limit to the number of wizards at UU: 8 at the eigth level, 16 at the seventh, etc
if I am not mistaken.  In which case, what is the highest "level" of the wizards?
in UU it seems to be eighth; but foriegn wizards tend to call themselves
fifteenth level or so.  Oh yes, finally: suppose a UU wizard disappears but is not
known to be actually dead, like Alberto Malich.  Does he leave a vacancy in the
ranks? for example, is there now only seven eighth level positions?

These are all irrelevant questions really, but I thought I'd bring them up.
From: clement@arp.anu.edu.au (CJ Canon)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: placenames
Date: 17 Oct 1992 03:18:26 GMT
Organization: Centre for Information Science Research, ANU, Canberra, Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.20.5
Keywords: hmm..

In article <1992Oct17.020342.8936@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>, macaj2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (MACKINNELL AMANDA) writes:
|> 	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????
|> 

That's Gondwanaland

-- 

   Internet: clement@arp.anu.edu.au

         `"Nil mortifi, sine lucre" - "No killing without payment".
          And don't forget to give a receipt !'
					Terry Pratchett, "Pyramids"
From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Gormenghast and Pyramids
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:11:04 GMT
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology

peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

> > > 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?

Ah, so you know Dutch as well...

But can you do it in Botswanian?

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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 12:59:51 GMT

jansunde@solan.unit.no (Jan Sunde) writes:
: Leo, thanks for putting together the amusing APF. I thoroughly enjoy it, and it
: even makes me read them good ole books again to make sure I haven't missed
: anything. GREAT!!
: Apropos the phrase "Necrotelecomnicon". I think I ought to mention this is a pun
: on both British Telecom(the English phone company) and H.P.Lovecraft's Cthulhu 
: Mythos, whose "Bible" was called the Necronomicon. I can't recall excactly the 
: nature of this book's contents, but I'll try mailing some more info if you're
: interested ... 
:
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... :)

-M.Y.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: Gormenghast and Pyramids
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:30:56 GMT

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.

>Tim Pickett
>"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.

Eccles

Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Equal Rites question + annotation
In-reply-to: jhb@maths.su.oz.au's message of Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:27:39 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 11:06:51 EDT

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?

Loki (Norse god) + hokey (slang word meaning fake or contrived)

--
- Rich Holmes
"In general, the dance music of P.D.Q. Bach -- although we have no
 documentary evidence of this -- suggests that one of his legs was
 shorter than the other." -- Prof. Peter Schickele
From: esa@acpub.duke.edu (EMILY ANGERER)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Equal Rites annotations
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:59:17 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Oct8.115509.4860@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer) writes:
>	Plasticine is  a sort  of modelling  clay often  used by young
>children at kindergarten (Is this just a British thing? or not?)

No, I had Plasticine when I was little, but I think in general no one
calls it that.  That's just considered a specific brand of clay, and we
always just called it "clay."  The exception would be Play-dough, which
is a non-toxic very commercial clay sort of thing.

-Emily
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: Equal Rites annotations
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:59:29 GMT

andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer) writes:

>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....

the fight b/w Merlin and Morgana?
Sounds familiar......

Eccles
From: keith@csc.liv.ac.uk (Keith Halewood)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Equal Rites question + annotation
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:58:45 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University

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?

It may be no more complicated than a modification of 'hokum' which is
associated with fun, merry-making, practical joking... sorry don't have
a dictionary to hand.

Keith
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de
Subject: Re: circus comes to anhk morpork
Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:27:08 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.132851.635@dct.ac.uk>, aesba1ii@dct.ac.uk writes:
> 
> 
>         Has anyone noticed the slight similarity between 'Anhk' and
>     the russian word meaning 'circus'? I wonder if they're related, Mr.
>   Pratchett?
> 
>        ian

Four letters and the last 'k'... 'Extremely slight' if you ask me...
And does not even sound similar. You might as well point to the
similarity between York and Anhk (now trying to hide from York
residents :-)
						Michal
-- 
.sig
#include .sig
<ESC>append FROM .sig
ADD FINALLY THIS [....] .sig!!!
OK, OK, forget it...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Assorted stuff                          
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:06:00 +0000

Stuff I posted days ago seems to have gone into the Pit, or at least it's not
turned up in what I'm getting bac here -- I'm logging on less frequently
right now because of signing tours and stuff.  Here's a resume:

Only thread crying out for comment concerns the famous Kitkat advert.  I'm
pretty sure this started about the same time as Good Omens, because:

One night I was sitting there typing away when I looked up and there the
angel and the devil were, having a teabreak (it's not really a particularly
GO idea, but I know why people like it...)  And I though, hey, great...

And about half an hour later there was an ad (some UK viewers might remember
it) for an insurance company which showed a businessman with wide angel wings
walking down the street...

And then, just when I was doing the bit where Crowley muses that people are
much better than demons at thinking up horrible things to do to  one
another, I switched on the radio; there was a performance of The Tempest, and
someone said "Hell is empty and all the devils are here". It was a weird
evening, really.

The magical duel is Equal Rites is certainly not lifted from T H White.
Beware of secondary sources.  Said duel (usually between a man and a woman,
and often with nice Freudian touches to the things they turn into) has a much
longer history; folkies out there will probably know it as the song The Two
Magicians.

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.

Terry
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Equal Rites annotations
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 11:34:26 GMT

In article <5905@news.duke.edu> esa@acpub.duke.edu (EMILY ANGERER) writes:
> In article <1992Oct8.115509.4860@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer) writes:
> >	Plasticine is  a sort  of modelling  clay often  used by young
> >children at kindergarten (Is this just a British thing? or not?)

> No, I had Plasticine when I was little, but I think in general no one
> calls it that.

In Australia (and I seeume in Britain) Platicine is almost the generic word,
like Kleenex. And Play-Dough is NOTHING like Plasticine.

Anyone want to send me some? I can't get any in Houston, and I'm tired of
digging Play-Dough (which is water-soluble, therefore sticky) out of
everything. :-<
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   "Segodnja volka obnimal?"
  'U`  
Dette kan umulig vaere mitt rom, eftersom jeg ikke puster ammoniakk.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 03:01:42 +0100
From: Benedikt_Heinen@firemark.fido.de (Benedikt Heinen)
Subject: Re: Assorted stuff
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
X-Comment-To: (Tpratchett)
Organization: Firemark.BBS - 1st Atari ST Node Aachen 

 t> Stuff I posted days ago seems to have gone into the Pit, or at least it's
 t> not turned up in what I'm getting bac here -- I'm logging on less
 t> frequently right now because of signing tours and stuff.  Here's a
 t> resume:
Hmm, I hear the words "signing tours"... Will there also be a signing tour to 
Germany in the next time?

yours,

    Benedikt