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From: STUCS204@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Radio Frequencies and Guards Guards.
Date: 18 Nov 92 11:23:25 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

The Radio 5 frequencies are as follows - 909 and 693 Medium wave (thats 330 and
 433 metres). I hereby outrageously quote from the Radio Times.

Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel,dramatised in six parts, with Martin Jarvis,J
ohn Wood,Melvyn Hayes (as Corporal Nobby) and Helen Atkinson-Wood.
1.In Ankh-Morpork the Elucidated Brethren of Ebon Night have turned their hands
 to magic.When Zebbo Mooty is mysteriously vapourised in an alley,Captain Vimes
 knows it's time to act.

Sounds *ace* or what?

         replys please to

 Binky vs Mr Ed    /   stucs204@uk.ac.bham         \  aka Richard
 you decide.      / or stucs204@uk.ac.bham.ibm3090  \
From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: gifs
Date: 16 Nov 92 05:24:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

a little while back, there were a whole bunch of
gifs floating about the net with tp covers on them.
anybody who has them, could you mail them to me ?
thanks !
Simon
From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Another question
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:29:24 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Nov17.013438.1098@borland.com> daniel@borland.com (Dan Veditz) writes:
>
>And finally, has this group gone completely dead,
>or is it just us?  Haven't seen anything since
>Nathan sent out the FAQ and Bibliography.
>
>-Dan Veditz

To: daniel@borland.com
Subject: Re: Another question

there is something real funny going on : lots of people are
complaining they only get some of the messages. I get maybe 4
one day, 40 the next day, and lots of replies to threads I never
saw started.....

Simon
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: ianp@dktower.demon.co.uk ("Ian Preece")
Subject: 'Truckers' sequel 
Distribution: world
Organization: "What's 'organisation'?"
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:24:03 +0000


In article <1e88b7INN5pu@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> maujs@csv.warwick.ac.uk writes:


>        Is there going to be a 'Diggers' T.V. series?
>         Terry is wonderful, Terry is good, etc. etc.
>                Jonathan Morris



When I read "Trucker", etc, and again when I saw it on TV, I was struck 
by its similarity, in some ways, to "The Borrowers".  Little people 
living under the floors, "Borrowing" from us Biggers, and so on.

Now that "Borrowers" is on TV, too, I'm prompted to ask....


Terry, were the "Borrowers" books an influence ?  Did you get to sit
through the Radio 4 (or, should I say, Home Service:-) readings as a 
child ?

Regards,
ianp



-------------------------------------------------------
Ian Preece                      ianp@dktower.demon.co.uk

"The man who fell from grace into the sea..."
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: East of the Sun & West of the Moon      
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:04:00 +0000

Yep, I too have the Kay Neilsen version of the book.  I only borrow from
original sources!

Terry
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: Radio Frequencies and Guards Guards.
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:22:57 GMT

STUCS204@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:

> Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel,dramatised in six parts, with
> Martin Jarvis,J ohn Wood,Melvyn Hayes (as Corporal Nobby) and Helen
> Atkinson-Wood.

Oh gosh, please help me: "Helen Atkinson-Wood" ... I just *know* I've
seen this name before. But where? Isn't she a (comedy) actress? Isn't
she married to Rowan "Blackadder" Atkinson?

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: foxd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (daniel fox)
Subject: Re: Wolfman reference
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:31:51 GMT

Isn't a wereman a man who stays exactly the same under a full moon?

                                             Daniel B. Fox
                                             KF9ET
.stanard disclaimer
From: pcxsws@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (S.Ward-Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Western Mythological Literary Critique
Date: 20 Nov 92 12:32:40 GMT
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham

In article <722194380.10371@minster.york.ac.uk> car-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>slb22@columbia.edu writes:
>
>>Am I the only person in the world who 1) reads and discusses fantasy, 2) knows
>>how to appreciate "real" literature, and 3) has a keenly-honed appreciation
>>for Western European mythology, but 4) absolutely can't stand anything written
>>by J.R.R. Tolkien?

Hmm, I don`t really dislike LOTR, it is a good story, even if it isn't amazingly
written, what I do hate is the endless drivel regurgitated by his son.
"Collected Shopping Lists of JRR Tolkien Volume 25- The Sainsbury Years" etc..

I`m sure his dad didn`t want all this rubbish released.

Private Eye recently remarked "Tolkien wrote his fantasies to entertain his
children, now they are employed by them".

Hence the old joke "How does Chris Tolkien Power his house, by his father
spining in his grave".

And now for a change of thread, if the "Guards,Guards" radio series is a
success, hopefully Radio 5 will do more. We've had  the actor for the film
role thread, how about a voice for the radio thread?

Slainte,
Steve

"2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps please"
From: dan@dunaad.co.uk (Daniel Hunter)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: US and UK sitcoms
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:30:31 GMT
Organization: Johnson Hunter Limited

>>> >Any other US stuff that has some popularity in England?  Or anywhere besides
>>> >the US?ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
>>> MASH is quite popular, Wayne's World is very popular and The Simpsons is quite
>>> popular, although mostly with kids who can't really see the funny side of it
>
>> Cheers is V E R Y ! ! ! popular aswell *8)
>
>and Rosanne, Dream On, the Presidential Elections,...

Rosanne is one of my favourite prog's,Waynes world is great Dream on was
great(hasn't been on for ages). But you cannot beat the Great British RED
DWARF ,MARY WHITEHOUSE EXPERIENCE and last but not least BOTTOM.
So there!
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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: Castings of Pratchett Film
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:08:40 GMT

Benedikt_Heinen@firemark.fido.de (Benedikt Heinen) writes:

> e> My favourite DW casting ideas (and some new ones..)
>Let's see, whom I would choose instead...

> e> Magrat              - Hattie Hayridge
I don't offer an opinion - I've only seen her head :)


> e> Death               - still Jeff Goldblum
Yes,! I hadn't thought of him, but he would be great.
If anyone has seen the Favour, The Watch and The Really Big Fish,
they will know why....

> e> People I would most like to see the Luggage eat..
> e> a) Axl Rose
> e> b) Madonna
> e> c) Wogan
>    d) Sigourney Weaver

*laugh*

Eccles
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:25:00 +0000

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents will get written during 1993,
ostensibly as a children's book (nudge, nudge)

Terry
From: nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: 'Truckers' sequel
Date: 20 Nov 92 12:58:22 GMT
Organization: X-Tel Services Ltd.

In article <722172243snx@dktower.demon.co.uk>, ianp@dktower.demon.co.uk ("Ian Preece") writes:
|> When I read "Trucker", etc, and again when I saw it on TV, I was struck 
|> by its similarity, in some ways, to "The Borrowers".  Little people 
|> living under the floors, "Borrowing" from us Biggers, and so on.
|> 
|> Now that "Borrowers" is on TV, too, I'm prompted to ask....

Terry has posted about this some time ago. He said that he didn't like the Borrowers
much cos they seemed to have no history, no  culture of their own. They seemed to
just exist for the purposes of the story or whatever. Having seen a couple of the
borrowers episodes, I have to agree really. In the Truckers trilogy, once I realised
what the nomes were, where they came from, what they had LOST, I felt really moved
and was totally absorbed for three books. The borrowers are very like the nomes
when they lived in the store... they were totally reliant on humans, and had 
forgotton how to do things for themselves. 

Also, notice the way the borrowers know about loads of sophisticated stuff like 
watches and clocks, but have never actually made anything themselves. (except out
of other peoples stuff).

|> 
|> 
|> Terry, were the "Borrowers" books an influence ?  Did you get to sit
|> through the Radio 4 (or, should I say, Home Service:-) readings as a 
|> child ?
|> 
|> Regards,
|> ianp
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> -------------------------------------------------------
|> Ian Preece                      ianp@dktower.demon.co.uk
|> 
|> "The man who fell from grace into the sea..."
|> -------------------------------------------------------

Neil.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk (Keith Jackson)
Subject: Re: Annotated Pratchett File
Reply-To: kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:36:05 +0000

In article <1drrbhINNql0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>, ST102315@brownvm.brown.edu writes:
>In the last Annotated Pratchett file, there was a request for more Mort
>annotations.  So I read Mort again, and came up with the following
>annotations (hopefully not all obvious) and questions.  Actually, most
>are questions, which is why I posted this to the list and didn't send
>it directly to the AP compiler.
>
>p.62..."Igneous Cutwell, DM(Unseen)..."  DM may be a reference to
>  Dungeons and Dragons, where the DM (or Dungeon Master) knows
>  everything that is going on and controls what happens in the game.
>  He is clearly not above trying to inflate his credentials, as he
>  soon admits to Mort.

I suspect that is his qualification - Doctor of Magic. Doctor of Divinity 
is DD, although most doctorates are PhD - Doctor of Philosophy.

>p.86..."They could pee through a dozen mattresses..."  Albert here mangles
>  a fairy tale.  Unfortunately, I can't remember how it goes.  Anyone?
>  Anyone?

The name of the story is "The Princess and the Pea". The mangling is that a
true princess can be identified because she could feel a pea through a dozen 
matresses.

>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.

That sounds like DNA to me (can't remember where in HHGTTG) but he could
have been parodying something too. It's Ursa Minor Beta, I think, in the
DNA version.

Keith

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From: ans0@aber.ac.uk (Austin Newton Shackles)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Okay, let's get those flamethrowers out of the closet....
Date: 20 Nov 92 11:50:19 GMT
Organization: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

flames....

hsssssclikclikclikwhooomphhhrrrtsplutt!...clikclikclikclikclikclikclikclik

darn, out of gas!

-- 
   Austin Newton Shackles   |  Give me serenity to accept the unchangeable,
   ans0@uk.ac.aberystwyth   |  Courage to change the changeable, and wisdom to
   DoD#0467 1981 Z440 Ltd   |  know the difference.  My opinions are just that 
   shackles@uk.ac.lampeter  |  Physics dept. University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: US and UK sitcoms
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:07:50 GMT
Organization: Information Engineering
In-reply-to: ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk's message of 16 Nov 92 11:19:31 GMT

> car-a@minster.york.ac.uk wrote:
>> ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds) writes:
>> >Any other US stuff that has some popularity in England?  Or anywhere besides
>> >the US?ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
>> MASH is quite popular, Wayne's World is very popular and The Simpsons is quite
>> popular, although mostly with kids who can't really see the funny side of it

> Cheers is V E R Y ! ! ! popular aswell *8)

and Rosanne, Dream On, the Presidential Elections,...

> Mike

Paul
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: 'Truckers' sequel                       
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:04:00 +0000

I know about The Borrowers, and read one of the books in my teens, but I
disliked them; they seemed unreal, with no historical background, and it
seemed odd that they lived this cosy family life more or less without any
supporting 'civilisation'.  The nomes are communcal,, and have to think in
terms of nomekind.  No.  Any influence at all is from Swift, in this case.

Terry
From: jimmy@pyra.co.uk (Jimmy Aitken)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: 'Truckers' sequel
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:59:04 GMT
Reply-To: jimmy@pyramid.com (Jimmy Aitken)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Ltd.

In <1e88b7INN5pu@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> maujs@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J D Morris) writes:


>	Is there going to be a 'Diggers' T.V. series?
>	 Terry is wonderful, Terry is good, etc. etc.
>		Jonathan Morris

I heard recently that the company that made the series (and also
'Dangermouse', 'Count Duckula', 'Toad of Toad Hall') and many others
[Cosgrove Hall ] has just recently had to lay off 40 of it's staff due
to no orders.  It seems that US "Animation" (for want of a better
word) is too readily available over here and hence no one wants to buy
the their stuff as it's too expensive.  ALl the people laid off were
animators as well.

Unfortunate news for the possibility of a sequel.  This news was on
Radio 4's 'Today' programme about 4 weeks back, so HOPEFULLY the
situation may have changed, but I doubt it...

Jimmy
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Reaperman...
From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:41:20 GMT
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand

In article <1992Nov18.075841.7863@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> macaj2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (MACKINNELL AMANDA) writes:

> Is anyone familiar with Emily Dickinson's poem that begins:
>
> "Because I could not stop for Death,
>  He kindly stopped for me-
>  the carriage held but just ourselves-
>  And immortality."

Yes, but I think you'll find that "Immortality" has a capital I.  It
may sound trivial, but when you're talking about Death, CAPITALS
MATTER. :-)

Nat
(just finished ENGL105, and "Because I could not stop for Death" was
in last year's exam :-)
From: sander@cwi.nl (Sander Plomp)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: APF format & layout
Date: 19 Nov 92 10:05:15 GMT

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


>So I hope you will forgive me for again asking the following questions:

>  [Q1]  "How do you like the current lay-out of the APF?"
>  [Q2]  "What format should I use for the next version?"

>The second question is particularly urgent. V4.0 was already too large
>to post in its entirety, and this will only get worse. But there are
>so many ways to solve this problem.

>- I can just encode and split up a one-volume APF and leave it up to
>you to connect stuff together again (e.g. using shar-files? uuencoded
>files? Something else?)

I prefer to keep it directly readable - I would rather not have lots
of newbies react with "How can I read it/What is it/Does it run on
an IBM PC" each time you post it. It's more fun if the discussion is
about the annotations rather than about the format.

>- I can also logically split up the APF into smaller parts, e.g.
>Discworld/ Non-Discworld, or one file for each book, and simply post
>those as normal text.

I would be quite happy with this, I simply mark all in my newsreader
and write it to a single file if that's what I want. The current split
into DW/non-DW is fine with me, I'm sure you can invent others if the
files get to large (e.g. split of the Nomes books, early/later DW). 

>- Not post at all anymore, and just post pointers to an ftp-site and
>to the mailing list.

This is not a very good idea since (1) many people do not have ftp access,
(2) It's bothersome to go out and get it rather than just save it from
the new reader and (3, and most important) every time you post the APF
it evokes so many reactions from people who happen to read it. I'm affraid
that would dissappear if it wasn't posted anymore.

>So what would you people out there like best? Any possibilities I have
>missed? And while you're at it think about the first question, too: is
>the APF readable enough? Do you want more whitespace? Less whitespace?
>Dividers between annotations? Is the introductory section too large?
>Too short? Should I rearrange the sections?

What I would like is a conversion script to translate it into LaTeX
format so that I can have a nicely typeset version. This will probably
require some small changes in the current format, but I think it would
be possible to keep it "clean" (i.e. no stupid markup in the text).
I am willing to try making such a script myself, if you're willing to
agree on a more or less formal definition of your format and stick to
it.
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From: maujs@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J D Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: 'Truckers' sequel
Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:39:51 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk

	Is there going to be a 'Diggers' T.V. series?
	 Terry is wonderful, Terry is good, etc. etc.
		Jonathan Morris
From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Good Omens (error?)
Date: 23 Nov 92 05:33:40 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <qa5NuB4w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie) writes:
>
>> Or, of course, that well-known line
>>    Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard...
>> (vintage Carrott (Jasper, that is), nineteen-eighty-something :-)
>
>And I thought it was
>
>Beelzebub has a devil with a scythe for meeeeeee....
>

No, no! Very few know this, but the original line was:

Beelzebub has a DEVIL with a SCYTHE for meeeeeee.....

("Can you use a scythe?"---Miss Flitworth)
	Jason
	Our Reporter on the Dungeon Dimensions
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: 'Truckers' sequel                       
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:03:00 +0000

In article <memo.762868@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>I know about The Borrowers, and read one of the books in my teens, but I
>disliked them; they seemed unreal, with no historical background, and it
>seemed odd that they lived this cosy family life more or less without any
>supporting 'civilisation'.  The nomes are communcal,, and have to think in
>terms of nomekind.  No.  Any influence at all is from Swift, in this case.

As far as I remember (and we're going back 20 to 25 years, here) the
Borrowers were supposed to be the last survivors of a widespread
community of Borrowers, who lived in every available nook and cranny
both indoors and out. I remember references to many other Borrower
families, either deceased or Gone Away, both within the Big House - the
Overmantles, for instance - and outside. In one book Arrietty meets one
of the fields Borrowers who has survived the coming of Agriculture.

I don't think their background is any more sketchy than that of the Nomes.
Their *culture* is indeed an attempt to have a "cosy family life" copying
that of full sized humans, but that was the whole point of the books.

Nick.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: melanie@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk
Subject: Re: The Spell
Organization: Comp. Sci. Royal Holloway & Bedford New College
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:46:04 GMT

In article <1e57p8INNi55@lester.appstate.edu> GRS00021@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (APHiD) writes:
>In <1dgijiINNf0@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk writes:
>> I've only read TCOM and S so far, and I have two queries:
[stuff deleted]
>What's a S? I figured out you meant the Univerity when you said UU but I
>can't figure out what you mean by S. Please don't use one letter acronyms
>for words you haven't made extremely obvious reference too. It's easy to
>figure out multiple letter acronyms like TLF and TCOM and CMOT but just S?
>What the heck is S?

Since he's referring to Rincewind, I imagine he means 'Sourcery'. On the other
hand, he could mean 'Strata' ... although I never saw Rincewind in it. :)

Mel.

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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: You know, I hate to say this, but....
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:57:02 GMT

ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox) writes:

> Random reader : 'Hah hah hah!	 This bit in Equal Rites is amazingly funny'
> 
> A.F.P guru	: 'What bit?'
> 
> Random reader : 'Oh the bit where Esk (dum de dum de dum)'
> 
> A.F.P		: 'Ah yes.  That's funny because so and so is a parody of 
>		 thingumy-jig and there's a cunning side reference to
>		 what`s-his-face aswell compounded with the fact that
>		 it's all done in front of oojumiflip's face'

Random reader : 'Wow, that's amazing! I *thought* it sounded familiar,
	       but I would never have thought of thingumy-jig!
	       This makes it even funnier! Say, how come you know these 
	       things so well?'

A.F.P. guru   : 'Because I've read the a.f.p's Annotated Pratchett File,
	       available via anonymous ftp from theory.lcs.mit.edu
	       in the file pub/dmjones/annotated-pratchett'

Random reader : 'Gee, thanks. I'll go fetch a copy immediately.
    	       Here, have another cookie -- no, I insist!'


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