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From: dwight@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Dwight Robert Stone)
Subject: Cripple Mr. Onion
Summary: Repost of the rules to cripple Mr. Onion please?
Keywords: onion game
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:54:46 GMT

Could someone re-post and/or e-mail me the rules to Cripple Mr. Onion?  I got
the posting that explains the rankings of hands, but not the one on how to
play the game.

Thanks,
Dwight    (dwight@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: s****y vs MELBOURNE vs tasmania
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:30:11 GMT

In <1992Dec14.163121.9594@ugle.unit.no> leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.024253.10931@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
> > In <Bz6L58.9AH@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > 
> > >Good god, did I start this?
> > I thought *I* did.

>Well, at least it wasn't me.

Yes it was - I'd recognise that handwriting anywhere!  You were the one
that offered TP a place in Sydney, weren't you?

Quetzal
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From: harris@scorch.apana.org.au (Michael Brown)
Subject: Re: TP is OZ 
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:47:56 GMT

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

|I'm going to Sydney as well.  Possibly Canberra too.  This isn't a proper
|tour -- it's really just the tail end of our holiday after Suncon.  But
|knowing Transworld, my three days on the east coast will be packed solid.

|Terry

	Terry !  Don't go to Brisbane !!

	
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From: rmv@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Robin Vickery)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies annotations
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:26:52 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh


---------leveret@warren.demon.co.uk writes-----------------

|In article <Bz6L3L.98x@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
|>In article <leo.724076499@draconis> leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
|>> The sleeping king + warriors who will awake are pretty stereotypical
|>> legend stuff, too. Although the only real reference that comes to
|>> my mind at the moment is Tolkien,
|>
|>How about King Arthur, you great steaming clockwork git? The krauts have
|>a similar legend about one of their canonised mythical bandit chieftans
|>too. I suspect every country that had a leather-and-chainmail period has
|>a similar legend if you dig through the mutated political propoganda we
|>call myths and legends.
|
|Ah, Peter, you decrepit cardboard-and-string boy hero! We'd already
|dismissed Arthur earlier in the thread due to a) lack of an associated
|warrier horde and b) lack of lupine solophagy in the accompanying
|legends.
|
|N.
|


Arthur is meant to be sleeping along with several knights ready to ride again when
necessary.

see Susan Cooper's books or 'wierdstone of Brisinghamen' I'm sure they both have
references to Arthur and a band of knights - although it has been quite a while since
I read them and I'm slightly hampered by not having read LAL yet and
also having missed the start of the thread.

don't flame me too hard, - please?
 
	-rob
 
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From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
Subject: Re: Witches Abroad annotation
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:49:23 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
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klein@frith.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein) writes:
>
>MMm...the French word is `chauve-souris', which means 
>flying mouse or winged mouse or something.

Umm, that's "bald mouse."  No kidding.  And don't ask me why.

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    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: TP is OZ 
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:04:46 GMT

In <1992Dec16.232447.588@citec.oz.au> sgcclmj@citec.oz.au (Liz Jones) writes:

>quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
>: In <1992Dec15.174756.1876@scorch.apana.org.au> harris@scorch.apana.org.au (Michael Brown) writes:
>: 
>: >	Terry !  Don't go to Brisbane !!
>: 
>: Terry!  Don't go to Houston !!  - hang on - that's not in Australia either.
>: 
>: Quetzal aka I need a passport to visit Queensland.

>terry was here a while ago.
>we thought we'd be generous and let you mexicans have a shot, and look what
>happens!  insults!!

Bloody Gringo!

>huh :)

Quetzal aka huh indeed.
From: ee89psw@brunel.ac.uk (Paul S Wain)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: A'Tuin is Male...?
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:46:16 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Dave Tong - Sun UK - Tech Support (davet@uk.sun.com) wrote:
: In the current edition of VIZ magazine, there's an advert for a
: Discworld graphic novel. The advertising blurb reads:
: 	"It's the turtle's b*ll*cks" [my *'s]
: Therefore A'Tuin must be male?

: Only a thought.

Counter thought....

Didn't SHE go to watch her eggs hatch (or lay here eggs or something which
slips my mind just at the moment...) in The Light Fantastic????

Only female turtles lay eggs as far as I know...

Paul
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Annotation: inconsistencies
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:54:26 +0000

Leo, please add to the list of known inconsistencies Nanny Ogg's annual bath:

In "Witches Abroad", p.154 (Corgi pbk edition), Granny refers to Nanny
Ogg's proposal to take a bath with the words "My word, doesn't autumn
roll around quickly". But on page 128 of Lords and Ladies, as Nanny
takes a bath after manhandling the captured Elf, we read: "'But it ain't
April!', neighbours told themselves..."

Nick.
From: chris@eso.mc.xerox.com (Chris Heiny 73186 - SETA)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: New US DW publisher
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:03:05 GMT
Reply-To: chris@eso.mc.xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Corporation, Webster NY


Obviously, a condition of any contract with these folks must be importation
of the Kirby covers!

							Chris
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Subject: Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation 
From: hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 00:18:18 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Lethargy Inc.


In article <8383@charon.cwi.nl> sander@cwi.nl writes:

  > - In Good Omens, various misprinted bibles are mentioned. One of them
  >   is the bible where the word "not" was omitted from "thou shalt not
  >   commit adultery". I recently heard about this from another source;
  >   appearently this misprint really exists. Do any of the other bibles
  >   mentined?

Yes. the "Unrighteous Bible" ("...the unrighteous shall inherit...") 
is real. I suspect that the others, aside from the "Buggre Alle This 
Bible", are also real, but mt reference seems to have run away. There's 
also the "Breeches Bible", which speaks of Adam & Eve making 
themselves breeches from fig leaves.

Phil

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From: andrew@cursci.demon.co.uk (Andrew Trotman)
Subject: Crocodile joke...
Distribution: world
Organization: Current Drugs
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:24:03 +0000

Please, someone explain the crocodile joke that is told (at least twice) in
Witches Abroad.  Yes, I know there is an attempt to explain it in the book
but I still don't understand it.

Andrew
andrew@cursci.co.uk
From: jmorris@spider.co.uk (John Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: s****y vs MELBOURNE vs tasmania
Date: 16 Dec 92 10:30:20 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <1ghskiEINNs9k@uni-erlangen.de> uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:
>quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:
>>In <Bz6L58.9AH@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>>>Good god, did I start this?
>>I thought *I* did.
>No, _I_ did. You have no idea about how to start a flame war, you f***-
>ing imbecile morons!  :-)

And I thought it was some idiot asking "What's a Wollogong" or suchlike... :-)

John. 




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From: pete@sst.icl.co.uk (Pete Bevin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: A Wizard's Staff (Radio 5's version)
Summary: Words to the song.
Date: 16 Dec 92 12:24:09 GMT
Organization: Bracknell Lonely Hearts Club (Society Flirt)
Originator: pete@jura

For those of you who missed the words to A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On
The End from Guards! Guards! last Monday:

	A wizard's staff has a knob on the end,
	It's the shape and size of a bucket.
	It's a magic knob that glows in the dark
	And the fishmonger's wife said...

Pete.
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From: s914708@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Stuart Reeh)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: sydney vs MELBOURNE vs tasmania
Date: 14 Dec 1992 01:04:16 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:

>quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:

>>In <damiene.723889846@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:
>>>quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:

Anybody notice a pattern evolving here?

(*nasty sysadmin mode ON*)

Boys, boys, boys...could you PLEASE carry on this senselessness in private?
(do you want to start another flame-war here?)

(*nasty sys-admin mode OFF*)

Thank you.

(oh, yes, how could I froget... SHUT UP ECCLES!!!!! )
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From: jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner)
Subject: Re: TP is OZ
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:17:44 GMT

Regarding the advocacy of melbourne among other Australian cities:
Terry has obviously been to melbourne already. Where else could he
have gotten his ideas about the river at Ankh-Morpork except from the
Yarra. (Oozing not flowing, Purified by so many kidneys, etc.)
-- 
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From: an2810@anon.penet.fi
Subject: shamen and priests
X-Anonymously-To: alt.fan.pratchett
Organization: Anonymous contact service
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:21:19 GMT



WEll, I have no idea if this will post, but anyway...

I was reading in Rbt. Pirsig's book "Lila" about the difference b/w shaman and
priest, in that priests are the protectors of the static forces of the world
and the shaman are the forces of dynamic change.  IT seemed to me to be 
similar to the diff b/w wizards and witches on the DIsc.  Any comments?

jeremy

e-mail:  jbryan@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu

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From: med50003@nusunix1.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN)
Subject: Re: Bonsai!
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:56:58 GMT

The bonsai / banzai is a pun. Mr Pratchett is rather fonf of them as you
may have guessed. The phrase banzai is 'ten thousand years' in japanese
which is a honorary greeting used in front of the emperor (e.g. scene in
The Last Emperor - I know, different context bu same meaning.) The
kamikaze pilots would shout this as they performed their suicide runs -
believing they were doing it for the emperor (god) and country. 

The dean is making a good show of a bad situation because he doesn't
know the right phrase. Anyone care to translate bonsai?

gervais

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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: s****y vs MELBOURNE vs tasmania
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:43:55 GMT

Good god, did I start this?
-- 
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  'U`    
Tarjoilija, tm ateria el viel.
From: gk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Gavin Kerr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Sequel to "The Colour of Magic"?
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:02:32 GMT
Reply-To: gk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Gavin Kerr)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U


The sequel to the colour of magic is The Light Fantastic.
It IS a sequel.
The other books are all self contained stories about the discworld...
Sourcery is almost a sequel to the light fantastic, but not totally..
Eric also has Rincewind, but as far as I know its the last one to contain him 
  so far..

Terry, if youre reading this CAN WE HAVE ANOTHER RINCEWIND BOOK????

Thanx...

Gav.

<To any monoites out there you know me as twoflower...>


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From: gk1@acpub.duke.edu (Gavin  Kistner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Sequel to "The Colour of Magic"?
Summary: It exists, right?
Date: 15 Dec 92 02:29:12 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

Obviously I'm not a hard-core Pratchett fan yet, but I'm working on it.
I just finished "The Colour of Magic", (loved it, of course.  The Luggage
was killing me.)  ((can you believe I'm spending time reading a book in the
middle of finals?))

Anyway, all the other books I read were rather non-linear in their approach
to one another...please tell me that this one's different.  Please tell me
that it has a definite sequel.  And after you've done so, please tell me
what it's called.

I'm gonna fail, but be laughing between exams...  :)

_____________________________________________________________________________
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gk1@acpub.duke.edu                No, I don't speak for Duke.  Duh. 
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From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher)
Subject: Another Witches Abroad Annotation
Organization: Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH, Zurich
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:51:22 GMT


I hope this has not been mentioned before:

On page 48 (Corgi Paperback Edition), the witches fly over

"...a maze of twisty little canyons, all alike"

which is, of course, a reference to one of the early computer
adventure games.

Matthias

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From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Guards!^2 on Radio5  - queries
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:21:50 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1992Dec17.112157.21678@spider.co.uk>, jmorris@spider.co.uk (John Morris) writes:
> In article <1992Dec16.125000.2528@dct.ac.uk> mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm) writes:
>>
>>i) Who's taken all the figgins away? I've listened to all 4 epsisodes and 
>>not once have I heard mention of these delicacies.
> 
> There was one quick mention: CMOT shouting "Sausages! Figgins!..."

But that just doesn't make sense without all the other figgin references.
It even prevents my favourite bit in the whole book, where the prisoner is
asked if he wants his figgin toasted...

IMHO the BBC should be dropped into the same pit as the mime artists (with a
new sign - "Keep the jokes!".....

> 
> John.
> -- 
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: TP is OZ & Sydney is OZ
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:06:10 GMT

In <1992Dec16.100337.6716@ucc.su.OZ.AU> neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s)) writes:
>>(Quetzal) writes:
>>> > In <Bz6L58.9AH@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>> > 
>>> > >Good god, did I start this?
>>> > I thought *I* did.
>>
>>>Well, at least it wasn't me.
>>
>>Yes it was - I'd recognise that handwriting anywhere!  You were the one
>>that offered TP a place in Sydney, weren't you?
>>
>Hang on, I thought I started it. Anyway, you can yell and scream
>as much as you like, but that doesn't change the fact that you still
>are a victorian.

My point precisely, n.s.welshperson.

Quetzal
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From: green@phx.mcd.mot.com (Jim Greenfield)
Subject: Re:bats
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, Az.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:24:18 GMT

According to my handy "Webster's Ninth New Collegiate", _bat_ is an altered
form of Middle English _bakke_, probably of Scandinavian origin, akin to
Old Swedish _natt-bakka_.

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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: Wollongong vs Somerset vs Rest of the World
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:13:27 GMT

What happened to all the real talk on this group?

Quetzal

Oh!  Found it!  it was hiding in the kitchen cupboard.

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From: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y)
Subject: Re: Bonsai!
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 16:34:31 GMT

In article <1ghu67EINNsqe@uni-erlangen.de>, uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:
 > nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Innocent hootenanny brides" Neilski) writes:
 > >esi104@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Jo) writes:
 > 
 > >>Just been re-reading 'Reaper Man', and there's one thing I don't get.....
 > >>when the Dean is doing his Rambo impressions, just before going to the
 > >>Queen, he goes on about bonsai. Could someone explain? Am I watching the
 > >>wrong films? (and yes I have read the ATP).....
 > 
 > >Reminds me of the most excellent pinball, Banzai Run ...
 > 
 > >B-A-N-Z-A-I-I-I-!-!-!
 > 
 > Meaning "forever," as far as I know. Or rather F-O-R-E-V-E-R-R-R-!-!-!
 > Many of them were Kamikazes, you know, which was probably a measure to
 > economize on medals.
 > 
 > 
 > May the Cool Be with You!
 > 
 > (C)OOL mcmxcii
 > "Who's Pearl Harbor?" (Mia Farrow)

Well, I thought the literal translation of "banzai" was "ten thousand years old"
or something in that vein.  Don't blame me, my Auntie told me when I was little.

-Leif Kj|nn|y
From: jtb2@itri.bton.ac.uk (Jeff Best)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: The Pratchett annotations...
Date: 15 Dec 92 08:20:58 GMT
Reply-To: jtb2@itri.bton.ac.uk
Organization: ITRI, University of Brighton, UK

I hope you are all taking very careful notes. In a few years time
they'll be setting this stuff in English Literature exams and your kids
will be asking you for the answers...
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Subject: DEATH and the art of Software Eningmaeering ?
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:02:37 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Apologies if this is already in the A.P.F. - I haven't read one recently.

In Reaper Man - DEATH calls himself "Bill Door" - could this be a reference
to a certain other Bill "Portals", from MacroSfot?

flames to /dev/null please.

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From: casimira@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Paula Mickevich)
Subject: Re: Witches Abroad annotation bat
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:01:05 GMT


Can't blame it on the French!

From Webster's Third New International Dictionary:

3bat \"\ n - [alter. of ME bakke, prob. of Scand. origin;
akin to OSw nattbakka bat]

bat meaning to beat is from ME  and bat meaning stick
kind is ME and OE probably Celt origin

ME being Middle English
OE Old English
OSw Old Swedish
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: Mort and Reaper Man
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:57:16 +0000

In article <724085339.28465@minster.york.ac.uk> dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>	It is true it is. Honest. Fit's in with such wonderful local rhymes
>such as:
>
>	Berkshire born and Berkshire bred,
>	Strong in the arm and thick in the head.

Except that it's "Derbyshire born and Derbyshire bred ...", and 'thick'
is supposed to be a corruption from outwith the county of the local
dialect work 'wick', meaning smart of clever.

Nick Leverton
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