HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: RESULT: comp.society.folklore unmoderation fails 729: 151
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:05:51 GMT

Bwah ha ha ha ha!

jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) writes:

>In article <BzD7GH.865@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:
>"ib.tmc.edu>
>"Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA
>"
>"In article <8145@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>">In article <BzCIKI.751@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K
>". Furr) writes:
>">>When you compare the incredible illogic of Brader's hijacking proposal with th
>"e
>">>simple reality that five minutes filling out a registration form at any of
>">>several free newsreading sites would have taken, you really wonder why he went
>"
>">>to all this bother.
>">
>">I've already shot this one down, but Joel keeps coming back to it...the facts
>">don't support his case. It's simply not as easy as he makes it out to be;
>">either there are expensive or difficult registration requirements, severe
>">access limits, or both.
>"
>"Sorry, Jay, but THE NET DIDN'T BUY THAT ARGUMENT.  Are you with me, Jay?  Your
>"stubborn, idiotic, Neanderthalistic argument that the entire net should be
>"forced to move alt.folklore.computers into a comp. group just so YOU could read
>"it without having to register at another site WENT DOWN IN FLAMES.
>"
>"You with me?  YOUR SIDE LOST.  YOUR ARGUMENTS LOST.  Are you getting this?
>"
>"So if you want to read alt.folklore.computers, you can either do it at another
>"site, which will take five minutes to arrange (as many, many people have
>"demonstrated during this flamewar), or you can sit in your sandbox and draw
>"messages in the sand.  Have fun!
>"
>"Bye, Jay.
>"
>"Bye!

>Hey jerk, lay off the guy.
> 
>Jay: Don't let assholes get you down. There are alot of them on the net
>and in the world. 

>PS: I'm sending you a Christmas present :->
>-- 
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From: aesba1ii@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: does terry exist? (was if reaperman=lawnmower man)
Date: 10 Dec 92 11:38:59 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology


  you mean if we stop believing in terry he may remain in the  shape of a small
tortoise or something?


  schleppel
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From: koerse@fwi.uva.nl (Niels Koerse (student??))
Subject: Re: Bonsai!
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:32:11 GMT

leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y) writes:

>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
The only thing I know about Bonsai that they are miniaturized tree's etc bred
or grown in Japan.

> > >>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-!-!-!
> > 
[Banzai" stuff deleted]

>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

Niels


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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies annotations 
Distribution: world
Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:58:00 +0000

In article <leo.724076499@draconis> leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl answers me:

>> p11:  "... a long time ago, in the past.*"
>>       [footnote] *Which is another country.
>> 
>>       "The Past is a strange country: they do things differently there"
>>       are the opening words of a book, I *think* "The Go-Between", and I
>>       *think* Iris Murdoch - any confirmation, anyone ?
>
>This has been mentioned by others, but nobody seems to know for sure
>where this comes from. People, come on! Surely there is *somebody* out
>there who knows this with certainty? Ditto for the "Besides, the bitch is
>.... older" sentence that comes after it.

I'll try to look it up this weekend ...

And how about "Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was
the cause of housework in other people" ? Page 19.

>> p126: "Yeah, everyone knows 'tis your delight on a shining night"
>>       - words spoken to Carpenter the Poacher.
>> 
>>       Chorus of an English folk song, "The Lincolnshire Poacher".
>
>Can you supply a few additional lines of this chorus?

Well, the chorus is only three lines:
[sticks finger in ear and commences droning noise...]

   "Ooooooooohhhhhhh 'tis my delight
    On a shining night
    In the season of the year!"

The verses, now ... they do go on a bit, and mercifully for you I can't
remember any of them now! I'm sure Rich Holmes can oblige, though - the
spiritual link between folkies and Morris dancers is very strong ;->
[commences hasty digging of large funkhole...]


Aha, right now, page 86: "universes swoop and spiral around one another
like ... a squadron of Yossarians with middle-ear trouble". Isn't
Yossarian one of the madder pilots in Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" ?


Nick.
From: nate@pinn.nacjack.gen.nz (Nathan Brazil)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: American covers
Date: 20 Dec 92 14:03:08 GMT
Organization: The Pinnacle Club BBS, Auckland, New Zealand. +64-9-631-5382

Hey Yanks, what do you have for TP covers if you don't have the British 
style artwork ? Describe it?

Nate
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
Subject: Re: More questions
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:18:07 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
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hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'SCHWAibo' Hobbs) writes:
>
>It'd be a neat trick doing any growing up in Deathsville, since time doesn't 
>actually pass there...

So, with the quantity of chocolate Ysabel consumes, the old saw about "growing
out not up" is literally true.

Seth L. Blumberg          \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
slb22@columbia.edu (play)   \ cancer in laboratory animals.  Please make sure
sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ that no white mice are allowed to read it.  
    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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From: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming)
Subject: Re: Crocodile joke...
Reply-To: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 07:40:00 +0000


TITLE: Crocodile joke...

In <724418643snx@cursci.demon.co.uk> Andrew Trotman

> 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.

WAITER: "Can I get you someting sir?"

CUSTOMER: "Bring me a crocodile sandwich and make it snappy"

Geddit?

| I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way -- Jessica Rabbit     |
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From: Jason_Mulligan@camelot.apana.org.au (Jason Mulligan)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: New Book
Distribution: world
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:50:16 EST
Organization: The TOWER BBS

Anyone know if there is a new diskworld book comming out soon. The latest
one I have is 'Small Gods'.

-Jason

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
From: gk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Gavin Kerr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Full list of TPs books..
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:06:31 GMT
Reply-To: gk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Gavin Kerr)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U

Look, Im a student who can only occasionally afford to buy books.

I have missed some of TPs books and what I want is a full list of ALL of his 
books.

If anyone can spare the time to do this Id much appreciate it.

If they could also put the discworld books in in order Id appreciate it even 
more..


Thanks a lot..

Gav



email:  gk@dcs.ed.ac.uk
	gk@castle.ed.ac.uk
	gkerr@nyx.cs.du.edu

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From: kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk (Keith Jackson)
Subject: Re: Crocodile joke...
Reply-To: kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:14:00 +0000


In article <724418643snx@cursci.demon.co.uk>, andrew@cursci.demon.co.uk (Andrew Trotman) writes:
>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.
>
A man goes into a restaurant where the claim is that they can serve any 
kind of sandwich. The man says "Give me an alligator sandwich - and make
it snappy!"



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From: klein@egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Witches Abroad annotation
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:32:03 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University College of Stunt Piloting

In article <1992Dec10.163032.25770@kth.se> d90-two@dront.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer) writes:
>[...]
>Ok, German "Fledermaus", Norwegian "Flaggermus", Swedish "Fladdermus", some
>English dialect "Flittermice"... 
>Odds are that this is a common Germanic word.
>So where does "Bat" come from? Is it those damned frenchies again? :-)

MMm...the French word is `chauve-souris', which means 
flying mouse or winged mouse or something.
-- 
Jeff Klein             | "Happily, Ral doffs his outer clothing for a
Browsing Boy of the LNH|  refreshing dip in one of the dangerous 
klein@frith.egr.msu.edu|  chemical vats." - Ty Templeton 
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: TP is OZ
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:26:30 GMT

jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner) writes:

>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.)

Remind me to visit Bondi Beach sometime.

Quetzal
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: ian@cc.uow.edu.au (Ian Piper)
Subject: Re: Witches Abroad annotation
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 01:37:47 GMT

sgcclmj@citec.oz.au (Liz Jones) writes:

>back to "die flabbergast" again, i ended up looking at a copy of the book about
>"gormenghast" which is a gothic-horror castle story.  so this does fit, too...

>greebo catches the bat, and thinks it's a mouse with wings.  yet another
>explanation, if you think about it!

>liz..

I seem to remember that "die flabbergast" was an inspired piece of 
pseudo-Wagnerian nonsense from Dudley Moore in Beyond The Fringe

(Yes, I realise that this dates me badly)

Ian.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies annotations
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:56:41 GMT

In article <BzBFCs.31E@dcs.ed.ac.uk> rmv@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Robin Vickery) 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.

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

Yes, you cheap imitation leather moccasins, in England "several nights" is
quite good enough for a horde. Remember, when you're tired of London you're
tired of freezing rain and festive IRA bombing. Not to mention unexploded
German skulls...
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi tnn?
  'U`    
Tarjoilija, tm ateria el viel.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Turning the world upside down
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 15:07:41 EST

Check p. 50 of the December Scientific American -- in a book club ad
is a picture of a book called "Foundations of Computer Science" by
Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman. The cover illustration shows what
appear to be a baseball player, a doll, a column, a dragon, and a
dinosaur standing on the back of a turtle. The turtle is standing on
the backs of four elephants. Yes.

I can't decide whether this is a promotion or a demotion for A'Tuin.

--
- Rich Holmes
"Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of
accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave
like this." -- Douglas Adams
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies annotations
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:53:15 +0000

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.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett,news.answers
From: lam@festival.ed.ac.uk (L Munro)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Flying Things perform Mort
Date: 16 Dec 92 12:26:26 GMT

I suppose someone has posted a list of all dates MORT is being performed
but anyway I missed it if it did happen so could someone post any
Scottich dates or anything near ,
		Thanks,
			Lin.
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: does terry exist? (was if reaperman=lawnmower man)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:06:45 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:

>That depends. Can anybody confirm that he wears reflector Ray Bans all
					^^

Arrgh! I didn't capitalize the pronoun referring to Him!

*Scourge*, *Scourge*, *Scourge*,...


may the cool be with you!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies annotations
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:28:40 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

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

>Can it be that this is forgotten?  Yossarian -- the 'hero' of Catch-22 -- was
>the bomber pilot who flew to the target twisting and jinking in an effort to
>avoid the flak -- as opposed to the Ivy League types who just flew nice and
>straight...

I only remember Col. Scheisskopf.


Sieg Cool!

(C)OOL mcmxcii

P.S.	For those of you who know enough German to have gotten that:
	Ever wondered why General Schwarzkopf's family never translated
	their name after emigrating to America?
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From: barretpj@cs.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett)
Subject: Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation
Reply-To: barretpj@cs.aston.ac.uk
Organization: Aston University (Comp Sci)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:23:07 GMT

In article 92Dec16125122@iis.ethz.ch, neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher) writes:
>
>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

The earliest computer adventure game of them all, Crowther & Woods'
classic ADVENT, now known as Colossal Cave.

That annotation was one of the two I've been meaning to post for ages.
Of course, I can't remember the other one at the moment. Typical.

Phil

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From: Edward Julian Craft <e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk>
Subject: Net influence BTW
X-Xxdate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 10:08:23 GMT
Organization: Aston University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:03:02 GMT


I believe I have a concrete example of Net influence in DW !

Long, long ago there was a computer system called Micronet, a part of
BT's Prestel that was a glorified BBS. Once a week on this they had a
feature called Celebrity chatline where a 'famous' person would log
on to answer messages from the users.

One week the celeb was a Mr. T. Pratchett. While busily answering 
questions he noted that one of his inquisitors had a terriffic name -
Grism - and asked if he could nick it.

Recently I've been re-reading the older books ( while waiting for santa 
to let me have the signed L+L I saw my wife getting recently ) I came
across a reference, in passing, to the 'Great Smoking Mirror of Grism'.
I've only just thought of it and decided it's the sort of obscurity that
this newsgroup likes.

I know it's a bit vague without even the name of the book but it is
DEFINITELY (sp?) net influence ( even if it's not internet ).

																															Edward Julian Craft.

P.S.    I'm off this afternoon until Jan 4th so ...

																**** MERRY XMAS ****
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From: oneill@cs.sfu.ca (Richard O'Neill)
Subject: Can't find recent TP books anywhere...
Summary: Finding Witches Abroad (and Lords and Ladies too), in North America.
Keywords: Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Canada, North America, Publishers
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:55:48 GMT

I'm in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and I seem to have had no luck so far in
having even the very existance of Terry's most recent books acknowledged.

Previously, the paperback editions of Terry's books have been published in
Canada (and the USA believe) by ROC, a division of the Penguin Group. You
can also find some of the early books in the Discword series in Corgi
editions.

One large bookstore I tried was willing to order the books from England if
necessary, but couldn't find any trace of _Witches Abroad_ or _Lords and
Ladies_ in their lists.

This is obviously very frustrating... If you can offer any help or advice,
I'd be grateful. (You can send me e-mail (and if requested, I'll summarise)
or if you think it's worth everyone's reading, post away...).

Best Regards (with thanks in advance),

    Richard.

P.S.
The most recent TP book I have is _Reaper Man_, in a ROC paperback, of
which the first printing was July 1992.
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: TP is OZ 
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:28:27 GMT

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.
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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies annotations 
In-reply-to: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk's message of Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:58:00 +0000
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:49:22 EST

In article <724114320snz@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:

>The verses, now ... they do go on a bit, and mercifully for you I can't
>remember any of them now! I'm sure Rich Holmes can oblige, though - the
>spiritual link between folkies and Morris dancers is very strong ;->
>[commences hasty digging of large funkhole...]

Sorry, I don't do poacher songs... I specialize more in Berryman
covers, that sort of thing...

>Aha, right now, page 86: "universes swoop and spiral around one another
>like ... a squadron of Yossarians with middle-ear trouble". Isn't
>Yossarian one of the madder pilots in Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" ?

Yep.

--
- Rich Holmes
"The one that I'm cheatin' with's cheatin' / The one that you're
cheatin' with's too / Yes, the one that I'm cheatin' with's cheatin' /
With the cheat who is cheatin' with you." -- Peter & Lou Berryman
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)