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From: whippy@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Whiplash)
Subject: Re: Just a long note *&)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:52:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.125329.19934@infodev.cam.ac.uk> dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
>[So much stuff that I won't quote any of it!]
>So, cutting out all the drivel and stupid smileys, there are at most 5
>simple questions, and a not unreasonable .sig
>
>I am sure that you gan get this into a shorter posting than that!

I'm sure I could. I'm a waffle person.  Or maybe just a waffle *&)
AND MY SMILEY IS CUTE NOT STUPID!!
Glad you like the .sig

		~Whippetty Chicken

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From: v206gb6c@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (My stuffed shark is eating my toenail clippings)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Favourite books : The solution ?
Date: 24 Jan 93 01:57:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <memo.889482@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes...
>But those people of the American persuasion haven't seen anything after
>Reaper Man...so are you going to weight the results?
> 
>Terry

    As if this guy's opinions matter :)  From what I can tell we American's
haven't gotten everything from before then either.  I have 9 Disc World books
(see the FAQ/biblio), Strata, and Good Omens.  I can't find a single other one 
here.  Sigh.

PauL M SchwartZ  (-Z-)  |  Follow men's eyes as they look to the skies
v206gb6c@ubvms.BitNet   |         the shifting shafts of shining 
pms@geog.buffalo.edu    |        weave the fabric of their dreams
pms@acsu.buffalo.edu    |                    - RUSH -
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From: Edward Julian Craft <e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Favourite books : The solution ?
X-Xxdate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 07:56:05 GMT
Organization: Aston University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:49:19 GMT

In article <memo.889482@cix.compulink.co.uk> Terry Pratchett,
tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>But those people of the American persuasion haven't seen anything after
>Reaper Man...so are you going to weight the results?

OK - everyone who votes please include which books you CAN'T get hold of
( most have already when they pick their possible prize ) and I'll take
these into account. 

(Total no. of votes for each book multiplied inversely by their
availability - hold on, that would give Men At Arms a weighting of
infinity, hmmm.).
																																		
																									Edward.
From: rob@spencer.demon.co.uk (Robert Sadler)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Crippling Onions
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:47:36 GMT
Reply-To: rob@spencer.demon.co.uk
Organization: What Organisation?
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)

In article <memo.899107@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:

>I can't find in my file here who, in this group, invented the rules for
>Cripple Mr Onion...would he or she be kind enough to email me?  When they May
>Hear Something to Their Advantage...
>
>
>Terry
>
And to me too please; although I cannot promise advantageous
information like the illustrious Terry I wouldn't mind a copy of the
rules, and I seem to have missed them.
Also, Does anyone have suitable words for The Wizards Staff has a Knob
at the End, or for that matter The Hedgehog can never be Buggered at
all.
--
Rob Sadler                                       rob@spencer.demon.co.uk
This item was brought to you by the letters R, O and B and the number 24.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Merchandise Etc
In-reply-to: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO's message of Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:06:15 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
	<RSHOLMES.93Jan21103728@rodan.syr.EDU>
	<1993Jan21.170615.24069@ugle.unit.no>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:16:46 EST

In article <1993Jan21.170615.24069@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:

>In article <RSHOLMES.93Jan21103728@rodan.syr.EDU>, rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
> > Not really. Who said "00000100" was in binary? Could have been base
> > sqrt(8), now couldn't it?
>
>Could it?  Can you have fractional bases?  Is this why I failed my math exam?

Why not?

There are a few minor inconveniences, like that some of the integers
have to be written as infinite non-repeating decimals, but hey, life's
full of tradeoffs.

   0.
   1.
   2.
  10.011001...
  11.011001...
  12.011001...
  20.022002...
  21.022002...
 100.
 101.
 102.
 110.011001...
 112.011001...

In fact, it seems to me that base sqrt(8) and certain of the denizens
of Unseen University would be made for one another.

--
- Rich "mcmxciibo" 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
From: oscar@maths.tcd.ie (Owen Carter)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Luggage (Where is it!!)
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:04:03 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

nealk@maths.tcd.ie (Neal Kidson) writes:

>oscar@maths.tcd.ie (Owen Carter) writes:
>>P.S. wanna buy a sig, no questions asked? Cheap!
>>Only slightly shop-soiled...

>At this point I would like to announce a REWARD for the person who beats the
>crap of Owen and retrieves my sig (as well as sending it back to me).

>The reward is free membership of the LAS 

>(Luggage Appreciation Society for those not up to date <Shame on you!>)

>P.S. This normally costs $1500 (US) + Beuraucratic (Tounge twisted up) Expenses
>     ($20000)
>P.P.S Or in real money (ie IRISH PUNTS) IR(Pound Sign (or "#" as this terminal
>                                                       thinks it is) 2.50


>This sig space temporarily to rent.
Sigs for sale! Get 'em while they're hot! Made from only the
highest-quality ingredients!
Today's special offer: free membership of the L.A.S. with every
sig purchased on the premises
             Only at "Honest Owen's Sigs Sales-finest sigs in town"
           "We stand by everything we sell"
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From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
Subject: Re: Shakespeare, Shawn Ogg, and St Crispin's day
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:30:50 GMT


>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>+ [p. 236]  Shawn's speech.
>
>  The part in Shawn's speech about people hiding under the bed instead of
>  gloriously fighting etc. *might* be drawn from Shakespeare's "King Henry
>  V" (Act IV, Scene iii), where Henry V makes his 'St. Crispin's Day'
>  speech, in which he also mentions beds in the context of stay-at-homes.
>  Frankly, I'm a bit skeptical about this one...
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------

I also disagree with the *might* *has* would be a better word.

Compare
"In fact it was better that there where so few here to face the enemy..."

with
"The fewer men, the greater share of honour. "

"people would look back upon this day ,... and proudly show 
their scars"

with
        He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
        Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
        And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
        He that shall live this day, and see old age,
        Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
        And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
        Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
        And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'


Of course the last part of Shawn's speach come from Nelson
but that again is neither here nor there.

To suggest that Shawn's speech is not based upon
Henry V suggests that Terry doesn't know Henry V which
would be awefully suprising as I would think he would have
had to study it at school. and that Terry and Shakespear think
very similar when it comes to inspiring speeches, which is
possibely but unlikely.


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And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
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From: casimira@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Paula Mickevich)
Subject: Re: Fave books
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
	<1993Jan22.134459.27498@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:00:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.134459.27498@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> whippy@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Whiplash) writes:



   Waaaah! Thats not true! I'm a very nice & trustworthy person! Don't believe
   him folks, he's just jealous because I'm cuter than him *&)

		   ~Whippy Chick

Don't worry. Anyone who says


        -Guards! Guards!:
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                Another one to rank up there with Mort, another stunner of a
        book. Carrot, the trolls, Gaspode (my hero sigh), and the other
                                  ^^^^^^^
        characters all made for a good read, (the plot helped too).

        -Moving Pictures:
                A bit of a let down. A good idea but it was mediocre. Sorry!

can't be believed. Gaspode is one of my favs (bark) but I sure don't
remember him in GG!
--
paula mickevich              MIT
casimira@hq.lcs.mit.edu      Laboratory for Computer Science
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: ajw@squid.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Andrew Waugh)
Subject: Re: Magrat's Huge Tracts of Land
Organization: CSIRO, Division of Information Technology, Melbourne
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 01:44:53 GMT

In article <30852@castle.ed.ac.uk> cmac@castle.ed.ac.uk (Colin MacDonald) writes:
>The Josh Kirby covers are not too bad IMHO, except for the inevitable
>glaring inaccuracies.  Rincewind, for example, was described (in TCOM I
>think) as having a short scrubby beard, "the sort of beard worn by
>people who were never meant to wear beards" or something like that.  Yet
>the various covers with Rincewind on have this great flowing hairy thing
>on.  I'm sure folk will come up with other favourites...

The annotated Pratchett should contain a section containing all the
cover errors...

andrew waugh
From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Just a long note *&)
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:43:10 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <memo.886963@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>All right, if you WANT to send personal emails in a.f.p. (hope you remember
>the answers, because cutting and pasting the questions on this otherwise nice
>OLR is a pain):
>1) Yes.  My god, yes.
>2) No.
>3) None.
>4) There's a rather nice shop in Walcot Street, Bath, that orders them
>specially for me.
>5) 1973
>
>No, all those who DON'T know the questions -- just think of the fun you'll
>have making them up.
>
OK, ummm....
1) Is the sex in England really as good as we hear?  I mean all the
vibes from the Victorian era couldn't have faded completely away.
Public repression leade to private abandon, isn't that right?
2) Do you have any plans to turn the Discworld novels into an American
sitcom with Tony Danza as Rincewind and Michelle Pfeiffer as The Librarian?
3) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
(For all those Oracle fans out there)
4) Where do you get your story ideas?
5) When did you last visit the Watergate hotel?

>Terry (who's had to buy another 500 meg hard drive).
JEEZ!  Is the next book going to be THAT long?  Man!  I don't know if I
can afford it?


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Jason "corleyj@gas.uug.arizona.edu" Corley  Physicist, Mathematician, Liar
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: eeyimkn@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (M. Knell)
Subject: Re: Just a long note *&)
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:40:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.144318.27121@infodev.cam.ac.uk> dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.204310.18267@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley ) writes:
>>In article <memo.886963@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>>>Terry (who's had to buy another 500 meg hard drive).
>>JEEZ!  Is the next book going to be THAT long?  Man!  I don't know if I
>>can afford it?
>
>I don't care! So long as it comes out in paperback... :)
Too right.. some of us impoverished students have to wait until the paperbacks
come out, because, being students we're all impoverished and can't go around
borrowing the hardbacks from each other, because nobody can afford them.. :-)
Ever thought of sponsoring any students with free books in exchange for having
your name put on published papers and/or assignments etc? :-)
(Not that it would be much use of course, except that being billed as an author
on 'Spectrographic Characteristics of Dimethylnitrobenzochlorotoluene-4' would
be a nice change..)

Mike

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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Terry Pratchett Bibliography
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:11:24 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

d0chris@dtek.chalmers.se (Christer Borang) writes:

>I vote for }{|, and I definately vote for lines that are 80 or below
			    ^
Shouldn't that read defin{tely?


| t** th[nk th@t @ll th[$ m@k&s t&xt$ m]ch m*r& [nt&r&$t[ng.


M@y th& C**l B& w[th Y*]!

(C){{l mcmxc[[[
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Re: My tuppence                         
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:25:00 +0000

We call universities storehouses of knowledge.  This must mean that knowledge
builds up within universities.

Talk to someone before they go to university, and it's clear that they know
everything about everything.  Talk to them just before their finals, and they
admit to knowing damn all about anything.  They've added to the university's
store of knowledge, see?

Terry
From: arcturus@spuddy.uucp (Geoff Riley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Just a long note *&)
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:31:03 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain

In article <memo.886963@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>Terry (who's had to buy another 500 meg hard drive).

And that's just for the 'someone gave me this email address, are you TP
or what?' emails, yeah? ;-)
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: No of posts from Cool
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:46:47 GMT

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

>Eccles (damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
>> uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:
>> 
>> >mcodogno@nyx.cs.du.edu (Maurizio Codogno) writes:

>Holiday break

Such linguistic ability!

>Yep, I think I can.  Anyone else out there want to attempt this 
>lingual stunt?
ehem. Chminey sweep. No thats not right, damn. um....
Hol... hol.... holy war! No argh!

>By the way, why is Eccles named after a cake?
I'm not, iggerant cretin. how dare you profane the Milligan great
what? Time for my pill?

Ok

Eccles
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Rankin.
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:44:50 GMT

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

>Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES (ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk) wrote:
>> 
>>  > Whats wrong with glow in the dark condoms?
>>  > P.
>>  > -- 
>> 
>>   What worries ME is: what kind of radioactive compound do they use
>>   to make them glow? :-)
>>

>Oh gawd,  think about the cancer!

*laugh* I'm leaving that one alone.

Eccles
From: gjw2824@hertz.njit.edu (Greg Weston)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Ahmed the I-just-get-these-headaches
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:11:11 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

> "Upon the diurse and diwertinge eventes concearneing the pigmentatione
> offe Advanc'ed Tekknollogee"

Those last couple words are dangerously close to 'the color of magic'.
	Greg
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Subject: Re: My tuppence                         
Reply-To: dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:14:19 GMT

In article <C1Er92.1rD@wm.estec.esa.nl> hevans@estcs1.dnet.estec.esa.nl writes:
>In article <memo.886964@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
>|>
>|>We call universities storehouses of knowledge.  This must mean that knowledge
>|>builds up within universities.
>|>
>|>Terry
>|>
>
>And it follows that a university specialising in Geography would be 
>a wherehouse!
>

Perhaps it is just my dirty mind, but I mistook one of the e's for an o...

>Or a philosopy/political department a gas station?
>

What about a hot (air) house?

Would the out-of-town teachine hospital be the Killing Fields? :)

Donal.
--
If the opinions above are anyone else's, that's their problem.
From: paul@eunet.co.at (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Realism in Guards!Guards!
Date: 24 Jan 1993 23:38:39 +0100
Organization: EUnet EDV Dienstleistungs GmbH A-1010 Wien Austria
NNTP-Posting-Host: hp4at.eunet.co.at
Keywords: Flynn

I was disappointed that the Patrician's own pet swamp dragon (that
appears briefly in Mort, dancing behind Death, didn't appear in G!G!.  I
guess it was quite intelligent, since its thoughts related to running
like buggery next time it passes an open window!
-- 
Paul Gillingwater
Home system: paul@actrix.co.at (Waffle)
From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Fred Astaire
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:35:23 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

To get back to something I promised Leo ages ago. The Fred Astaire
quote is not normally attributed to a specific person, just "someone
at RKO". However Fred Astaire's producer when asked about the story
said it was complete nonsense (whihc is pretty obvious considering
that Fred Astaire was a *major* Broadway star at the time)

L.
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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Merchandise Etc
In-reply-to: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO's message of Wed, 20 Jan 93 12:04:12 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
	<1993Jan20.120412.6251@ugle.unit.no>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 10:47:29 EST

In article <1993Jan20.120412.6251@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:

>In article <1993Jan20.103616.300@aston.ac.uk>, barretpj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett) writes:
> > Simon Harwood (sfch@dmu.ac.uk) wrote:
> > : to find out exactly what happened, READ THE BOOK.) Therefore, after Rincewind
> > : et al. had finished with Bel Shammaroth, he wasn't going to be summoned by
> > : a wizard saying 00001000. Logical?
> > 
> > 00000100 even.
>
>OK, let's work it out:
>
>
>128   64   32  16   8   4   2   1
>  0    0    0   0   1   0   0   0   =8  (Original poster)
>  0    0    0   0   0   1   0   0   =4  (barretpj)
>
>Well, I think that says it all, really, doesn't it? ;)

Not really. Who said "00000100" was in binary? Could have been base
sqrt(8), now couldn't it?

--
- Rich "mcmxciibo" 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
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Terry Pratchett Bibliography
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:55:50 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

etxmarr@eos.ericsson.se (Marek Repinski) writes:
> In article <30540@castle.ed.ac.uk>, benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge) writ
> |> In article >, d90-two@hemul.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer) writes:
> |> |> In article  dharding@pollux.lssec.bt.co.uk (Derek Harding) writes:
> |> |> >In article , d90-two@tintin.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer) writes:
> |> |> >
> |> |> >|> i.e., ae, aa and oe instead of {}|. What do people prefer, Swedish 
> |> |> >|> those abominable ae etc?
> |> |> >
> |> |> >I really dont care either way, since I dont understand Swedish :)
> |> |> >
> |> |> Well, the question was aimed at potential readers of the blurbs, ie Swe
> |> |> speaking people. (You couldn't guess, could you? :-)
> |> |> But no one has answered so I guess they don't care either.
> |> |> 
> |> 
> |> Well, I'm not a Swede, but as I speak some Swedish, I'll give my 2p - agre
> |> ae etc. are vulgar, but I prefer them just because I never remember which 
> |> are which out of {}|.  So ae, aa, oe  has my vote. 
> |> 
> |> And if mine's the only vote, then I guess I win :-)
> 
> Not !!!
> I vote for {}|, so I guess it's a tie :-)
> 

Why not use 8-bit coded MIME posts? There are a number of posters in the
net who use the REAL characters without too many problems......

here's a list of examples:



:-)

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