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From: nickles@sage.cc.purdue.edu (john a nickles)
Subject: Re: Actors for DW Film (was Re: new topic)
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:05:26 GMT

Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Keywords: 

And now for my two cents:

  Rincewind: Rowan Atkinson
                                                       
  Twoflower: John Candy (think of his Planes,Trains and Automobiles character)
  Death: James Earl Jones has the perfect voice
         but the guy who played Death in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
         could probably do it. (so could the guy in the Seventh Seal
         But he's NOT AVALIBLE, if you know what I mean)
 The Patrician: Patrick Stewart (though Jeffery Jones would work well too)

 Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler: Bob Hoskins
 Corporal Noddy: Tony Robinson
 Tom Baker has to be in this movie somewhere but I can't figure out what
he should play.

 John A. Nickles
Standard Disc- claimer: Purdue bears no resemblence to Unseen U.
"Frogs croaked in the rushes ( but were edited out of the final picture)


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From: ghouse@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Mujtaba Ghouse)
Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:56:16 GMT

gary@morlich.turing.ac.uk (Gary Smith) writes:
>In article <1drrbhINNql0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>, ST102315@brownvm.brown.edu writes:
><stuff deleted>
>|> p.168..."When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-
>|>   deep slurry."  Something or someplace has a motto, "When you're
>|>   tired of ____, you're tired of life" or some such.
>   This is a reference to Adams' "Restaurant At The End Of The Universe".
>   It was an advertising line which was thought up by the The Restaurant's 
>   marketing chappies - 
>   "When you're tired of Milliways, you're tired of life itself."
>   (For those who are unfamiliar with RATEOTU, "Milliways" was the name of 
>   this very special eating establishment.)

Very funny.  Of course, Pratchett may have been referring to both Adams' 
version and to the original quote, but I think it more likely that they
were both referring to the Samuel Johnson original, namely:

    "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in
     London all that life can afford."

Perhaps this also belongs in an "annotated Adams", should such a beast exist?


-Mujtaba Ghouse
"Somewhere else, the tea is getting cold."

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From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Subject: Re: the new kid
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:48:42 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
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mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu (Matthew Crosby) writes:
>Well, I don't know about Terry Gilliam.  He would be good, but the movie would
>have a somewhat, shall we say, downbeat tone?  (IMHO:  If someone can point
>me to a Terry Gilliam move that *doesn't* have a donwbeat tone, then I will
>consider myself flamed!)

_The Fisher King_ was downbeat? I think not!

>-Matt
>Mere anarchy is loosed upon the net!
>mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu  -or-  crosby@cs.colorado.edu

	Seth "the Lesser"

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    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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From: fnord@cs.mcgill.ca (Andrew KUCHLING)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v4.0, par
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:39:22 GMT

There's one joke in Reaper Man that some people (like me) might miss,
especially if you have the rhyming ability of a brick.
At the dance, Mrs. Flitworth partially recalls a saying "Corn be ripe,
Leaves be brown, petticoats up..."  Funny enough as it is; but when, in a
lecherous mood, I recited the line to my SO, she completed it with 
"...and trousers down!"  She thought of it because there is a school chant in
(possibly) Blackadder IV which ends "<something>, trousers down, life is
such a scream."

	Andrew Kuchling
	fnord@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca

Using come-on lines out of Discworld books... maybe I _do_ need therapy...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: litterst@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Stephen Litterst)
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry (etc. etc....)
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:57:15 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.135640.5611@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer) writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.104424.1@vax1.tcd.ie> eaobrien@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>>In article <1992Nov3.224027.29400@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu (Matthew Crosby) writes:
>>> In article <roddi.720758602@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> roddi@cs.monash.edu.au (Roddi Walker) writes:
>>>>lindap@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Linda Penington) writes:
>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> > IBRUNTON@ESTEC.BITNET () writes:

Okay, I'm not responding to any particular post, just the whole thread in 
general...
	CHILL OUT PEOPLE!!!!! There is no possible way that anyone of us can
hope to convince every other one of us that joe Schmoe is a better writer
than Jen Smithers.  Everyone has their own opinion about writers, and every
single opinion is correct to the person who wields it. You're _all_ right on
this matter...
	Now, as for my opinion... You can't compare Terry and Douglas.  They're
	two different authors in two different genres.  Also, Adams startas a
script writer.  He wrote comedy sketches at Cambridge and then for the BBC.
His novels (for the most parto are all based on scripts he wrote at some point
in time.  Terry is an author.  He writes books, (unless there's a BBC Discworld
series out that hasn't made it over the lake yet.)
		Anyway, that's my four cents (I went a little overboard)

					Steve
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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Mort - - play
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:13:20 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
In-reply-to: arcturus@spuddy.uucp's message of 3 Nov 92 19:53:50 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.195350.6213@spuddy.uucp> arcturus@spuddy.uucp (Geoff Riley) writes:

>If there were only 3 actors it was probably the University of Brent - I once
>saw their production of Gotter Dammerung (sp?) - only 3 actors in that ;-)

Pikers. Anna Russell did the entire Ring Cycle solo.
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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: wolfman reference
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:14:39 GMT

"steve degroof" <steve.degroof@canrem.com> writes:

>>>   There is a fantasy short story by a famous author [somehow
>>>   Larry Niven comes to mind. Anybody?] that has exactly the
>>>   same idea for a punchline.
>
> You're probably thinking of "There's a Werewolf in My Time-
> Machine". Yes, it was Larry Niven.

Eh, no, I wasn't thinking of "There's A Werewolf...", because that
is an entirely *different* Larry Niven story, and does not have the
punchline I was looking for. Thanks for the effort, anyway :-)

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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From: ianp@dktower.demon.co.uk ("Ian Preece")
Subject: Good Omens (error?) 
Distribution: world
Organization: "What's 'organisation'?"
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:33:57 +0000



>Meanwhile, is it just me or does there seem to be a problem somewhere along
>the line about names? In Good Omens at one point, there's a line that reads
>something like:
>  "Agnes rummaged amongst the cards..." (It should, I hope, be Anathema)
>I'm afraid I haven't got my copy to hand at the moment, but she and Newt
>were discussing prophecy..... It also crops up in at least one other place
>in the DW books, but I can't remember where....


"Omens", particularly the UK paperback edition, is by now famous for the
number of misprunts and proofer's goofs it contains.....in particular, 
somebody at the proof-readery seems to be unable to count (see the two 
 - at least ;-) - much-discussed arithmetic errors)  The US version, 
published much later, seems to have been checked and corrected rather more
thoroughly (perhaps as a result of all the "aha, gotcha!" posts in this 
group ?  I like to think we helped)


ianp



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Ian Preece                      ianp@dktower.demon.co.uk

"The man who fell from grace into the sea..."
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From: car-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Film(s) of the Book(s)
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:23:56 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

>Or how about what's his name Thewlis who plays Paul in "A Bit of a Do"?
>
>all joints and oo-errs.

I think his name is actually Paul Thewlis, but I'm not sure.
I saw him on TV the other night and the first thing that came
to mind was "Mort".  He would be even better than Nicholas
Lyndhurst (sp?).  What about Mel Smith as the voice of Gaspode?
He would be cheaper than Bob Hoskins for a start...

Has anyone read "Practical Demonkeeping", by a guy called Camray
(I think)?  I saw it in a booshop a while back and thought it was
a Pratchett, it has a cover illus. by Josh Kirby.

Does Josh Kirby have any books of artwork out?
 
Chris Reece.
If I annoy you that much - mail me.
"Relax, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should be",
							Evan Dando
From: wald@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David Wald)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Mort - - play
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:37:46 GMT
Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT

In article <RSHOLMES.92Nov5125948@rodan.syr.EDU>
rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>In article <1992Nov3.195350.6213@spuddy.uucp> arcturus@spuddy.uucp
>(Geoff Riley) writes:
>
>>If there were only 3 actors it was probably the University of Brent
>>- I once saw their production of Gotter Dammerung (sp?) - only 3
>>actors in that ;-)
>
>Pikers. Anna Russell did the entire Ring Cycle solo.

And in about 22 minutes, to boot.

With running commentary.

-David

(So nice to see her available on CD now.)
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From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Subject: Re: Death in general
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:37:37 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Nov11.025530.3572@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>Parallel evolution, I think.  Challenging Death to a game of chess (with one's
>soul on the line) is a fairly old literary device.  Terry remarks on this in

How old is it? The question is not rhetorical.

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up."
                                                            Terry Pratchett
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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:59:26 GMT

mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu (Matthew Crosby) thinks that the Discworld is
basically a 'happy place', but cautiously appends:

> (I haven't read Lords & Ladies yet..)

It's a good thing you haven't, because 'happy' and 'cheerful' are 
very inappropriate for some parts of this book.

Felmet was just insane. You could laugh at Vorbis, sometimes.  But
Terry's Elves are just plain *evil*. As in: not nice at all. Though I
suppose that *they* are, in a way, very happy with how they are and
what they do. Have you ever seen "The Silence of the Lambs"? Wasn't he
a happy, cheerful fellow? But did you laugh at/with Hannibal Lector?
Thought not.

There is not a single line in the entire book that allows for a laugh,
a smile, or a chuckle, about the Elves as they appear in "Lords And
Ladies".

(Just talking about the Elves here, I hasten to add. If you like to
laugh, Terry is still the one to go to. Otherwise "Lords and Ladies"
wouldn't have Casanunda *and* the Librarian *and* Ridcully *and*
Granny Weatherwax in it, now would it?)

> How about The Mall Lifeform?  That is pretty evil!  Or the Dutchess.

I'd say that the Dutchess compares to the Elf Queen as a cranky
crocodile compares to the Queen Mother from 'Aliens', evil-wise.

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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From: lindap@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Linda Penington)
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry 
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:03:06 GMT

MR S VAN ONSELEN (g91v3505@giraffe.ru.ac.za) wrote:
: HEY!
: 
: This is looking more and more like some serious character bashing here. 
					 ^^^^^^^^^^
Wo Wo Wo WO!!!!  Hold on one moment!! Are you accusing Roddi and I of
being... (pause for dramatic effect)... SERIOUS?????
Good Heavens, No!  We've never been serious about anything in our lives
(and to Roddi's indubitably wounded and hurt response, I have one thing
to say - Yes, Dear.), certainly not about abusing each other!!
What a terrible thing to say!  

: Could we please leave this sort of thing to more degenerate groups than 
: a.f.p. , which I prefer to think of as amusingly genteel!  Slay each other 
: privately, the sarcasm and originality of insult does nor redeem this thread 
: in my eyes.

Nor in mine - sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Quite appropriate for the esteemed Mr Walker, I feel...oops...sorry.
Lost control of myself for a moment there...

: ( Sits back and waits for the two in question to BOTH flame him.  Such is 
:   the role of the peace-maker. Sigh. )

Well, we most certainly would flame you, but I feel I speak for both Mr
Walker (yes, Roddi - I capitalized your name - enjoy it while it lasts!)
and myself when i say that even the horrendous insult you did us by
suggesting that we could for one moment be serious is not enough to
cause either of us to flame anyone - Mr Walker is certainly far too
courteous and polite even to consider such a thing, and I hope I may, in
time, aspire to a similar level of courtesy and elegance of expression 
- the sort of compliment that would freeze the fires of Hades is, i feel,
a knack which few are fortunate enough to possess. 

Yours in considerable surprise,

				Linda
From: ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry
Date: 9 Nov 92 10:45:55 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

: eaobrien@vax1.tcd.ie wrote:
: :
: :   Now, if we could find a Robert Rankin fan..
: : 
: 
: Here's one.
: 
: Mine's a pint of Large,
: pete

Here's another.

Gahd we get about don't we

Mike
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From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Subject: Re: the new kid
Keywords: posting
Reply-To: dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:53:15 GMT

That was a prime example of how not to post. You should have posted masses of
articles, each a followup to the appropriate thread. This makes it much easier
for our kill-files to work.

However, the thought is nice, and I hope that you enjoy the newsgroup.

Donal.
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From: lindap@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Linda Penington)
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:08:04 GMT

Wes Simonds (ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: >Hah!  I can recite the first 9 chapters of the HHG word perfect!  (A friend
: >tested me once!)
:  
: >"Far out, in the uncharted regions in the unfashionable end of the western
: >spiral arm of the galaxy there lies a small, unregarded little yellow sun.."
: >(I won't say any more due to copyright lores ;-)
:  
: Ah, but laddie, you misquote the VERY FIRST LINE.  It's "backwaters of" and
: not "regions in."  One must be careful when one cries one's own omniscience.
:  
: Wes

And if we're _really_ going to be picky, it's a small, unregarded yellow
sun.  Certainly not a small, unregarded _little_ yellow sun.

"are you sure you mean think? Pick your words with more care."

:)

Linda

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From: ins534z@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: Rowan Atkinson (was Re: Actor for DW films)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:04:22 GMT

<Goons mode on>

nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook) writes:
>Way But Loose", it seems that they were both portrayed very similarly. The
>librarian manages to convey the entirety of human (anthropoid) emotion with a
>single "ook", and they did a similar thing in the film, using basically a shot
         ^^^   SPELLING, my friend!  You could have your swonnicles removed
               for a typo like that.  The spelling is "oook" - now don't
               you forget it!  There are some very irate orang utans out
               this way, you know.

<Goons mode off>

Just my 3 cents worth (exchange rates and banker's fees and inflation and so on)

Tim Pickett
From: pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk (Philippa Hogben)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Death in general
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:09:30 GMT
Reply-To: pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

In article 3572@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com, winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>
>Parallel evolution, I think.  Challenging Death to a game of chess (with one's
>soul on the line) is a fairly old literary device.  

"The Lord and the Devil are now playing chess.
 The Devil still cheats and wins more souls
 And as for the Lord, he's just doing his best."

This is a quote from a Chris deBurg song (A Spanish Train) where the Devil
challenges the Lord to a poker game over a dead man's soul. The Devil cheats
and the Lord therefore loses thousands of souls (105k is mentioned). The song
ends (more or less) with the above quote.

I know this isn't _quite_ to do with DEATH playing chess but I've just noticed
the connection and I thought others might be interested. 

Philippa


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From: car-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: The Last Starfighter
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:36:55 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

I don't know if anyone particularly remembers The Last Starfighter.  While the
film itself WAS pretty crap, the graphics were absolutely spectacular - for 
thier time.  All of the space-flight and combat sequences were computer graphics
and I seem to remember them being astonishingly seamless.  I read somewhere that
they actually constructed and animated all of the sequnces using a CAD program 
and then fed it all into a ray-tracer/rendering system.  Apparently it took some
super-fast computer (well fast in those days) over three weeks solid processing 
to finish about 25 minutes of animation.  Just thought I'd bring that one up.

The film wasn't entirely crap - 25 minutes of it was worth watching.  It wasn't 
at all funny, though, so Terry can do nothing but improve on it.
 
Chris Reece.
If I annoy you that much - mail me.
"Relax, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should be",
							Evan Dando
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From: "steve degroof" <steve.degroof@canrem.com>
Subject: casting
Reply-To: "steve degroof" <steve.degroof@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:49:23 EST

>Beeny Hill is inexcusable. However, ALL similar US shows are
>inexcusable, whereas England has some good short shows to their
>cridit : Eg. Hitch Hikers, Yes Minister, Black Adder. I can't
>think of any passable US sitcoms.  Disclaimer: This is entirely
>my own opinion. If you disagree, I think that you are mad. this is
>also entirely my own opinion.
I'd have to say that US and UK series have about the same amount
of humour, pound for pound. Both have enough good material for
about a dozen episodes. The problem is that the UK series tend
to pack that material into about 6 episodes whereas the US
series spread it over 5 years and fill in the gaps with dribble.
SD
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From: Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: PTerry and DNA
Date: 5 Nov 92 06:13:37 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand

Interesting opinions being ventured here.  I have my own opinions
about TP's and DNA's works, but I remind you all that they are just
opinions - holy wars and slanging matches about the relative appeal of
authors is pointless when you think that opinions are subjective.

Especially pointless, given my attitudes (which are the *right* ones
*pbbt* :).  I think they are both capable of excellent humour, but
that Terry manages to come out with more polished work than DNA.  This
may be a combination of Terry's method ("write, revise, revise,
revise, revise, ah fuck it, sell it") vs DNA's ("travel to exotic
countries, install an answering machine, don't return publisher's
calls, get bailed up by publisher on lecture tour, run away fast, get
tracked down in Bali by publisher's private eye, write a book in two
weeks in a hotel room, return to Bali and spend the royalties"), and
the fact that DNA seems to be increasingly interested in non-fictional
works.

I would dearly love to see another book like "Last Chance to See", by
DNA, in which he both exhibits an interest in the subject, and a
suitable amount of revision that the work is consistently
entertaining.  But I would also like to see Terry polish a book up to
the point where the thought it was as close to perfect as he could
make it without selling his soul to the red horned one.

But, this is all subjective and fantasy.

Nat.
From: J.M.A.Gilman@newcastle.ac.uk (J.M.A. Gilman)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: The Film(s) of the Book(s)
Date: 10 Nov 92 12:01:28 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU


    For CMOT Dibbler or Nobby, what about James Beck, who played
Walker the Spiv in Dad's Army fifteen years ago ? 
    (For the benefit of USA and other non-Brits, the programme in 
question was a World War II sitcom about an incompetent Home Guard
group of old, ill, too young men, and a skiver called Walker).

 
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:50:09 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <memo.738817@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>
>
>Where is the sun at noon?
>
>There are two answers.
>
>A) It's directly over the centre of the Disc;
>B) it's in a small cafe.

        In which case, where is the dung beetle ?


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