HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Merchandise
Cc: ada@taronga.taronga.com
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 3:41:24 CDT
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You people were asking about figures, so I went back and dug out
the message that talked about them.  Here 'tis [with comments]:


PLAYMATES has listed additional TALESPIN merchandise in their new catalog.
Whether these things show up in the stores is a matter of getting enough 
store orders to produce the toys.

New figures:  Wildcat, Shere Khan, Dunder, Hacksaw, Mad Dog and Gibber.

[Wow.   The only one of those I have is Dunder.  I'd kill for Wildcat
and Shere Khan, too.]

There's also a Don Karnage pirate kit consisting of belt, knife, patch, 
mustache, and a really cool sword.  (supply your own wolf nose)
They are also planning a collector's figure (oversized) of Don Karnage.

[In case you didn't know, there are already oversized figures of Baloo 
and Darkwing.  I thought about getting them, but they're 20 bucks a 
pop.  For that price, I'd much rather get the Chip & Dale plush.]

Darkwing merchandise: Gas gun with real smoke and laughing sound.  

[Supposed to be already available but I haven't see it.]

Figures: J. Gander Hooter, Gryzlikoff, Morgana MacCawber, Liquidator, 
Negaduck, Gizmoduck, and Quackerjack.  There will be a Darkwing cartoon 
kid that mixes and matches the bodies and heads of the various villains.  
There will be a Quack copter (not used in the show).  Small wind-up toys: 
Tuskerninni's penguins, Spike the flytrap, Macawber's carnivorous 
mushrooms, the Brainteasers and a small Eggman.  The sculptures are 
better this time around.

-- 
Stephanie da Silva                                    arielle@taronga.com
"I am *not* Tuskernini -- and this is an excellent disguise!" -- Tuskernini

Newsgroups: alt.fan.disney.afternoon
From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
Subject: Raw Toonage
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:18:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.151350.28413@rei.com>, fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
> When is "Raw Toonage" aired?  I couldn't find it in my TV listings.

This coming Saturday, September 19th on CBS.
-- 
Stephanie da Silva                                    arielle@taronga.com
"I am *not* Tuskernini -- and this is an excellent disguise!" -- Tuskernini
Newsgroups: alt.fan.disney.afternoon
From: mking@lizardo.WPI.EDU (Matthew Alexander King)
Subject: Re: New Season Schedule
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 00:11:54 GMT



I must comment on the shows.  They are all great and have much satire, 
but the best by far is...



				...DON CARNAGE!!!

He is too cool.
Matt

Newsgroups: alt.fan.disney.afternoon
From: ap005@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Aaron Lukacsko)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: Hello hello!
Date: 9 Sep 1992 01:23:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


Well, is there anyone else out there that thinks that Q is the ultimate character ever presented in ST:NTG or ST for that matter???


-- 
Disclaimer:  Nothing is guaranteed, but it works for me...

Aaron J. Lukacsko            ap005@cleveland.freenet.edu
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: Re: Hello hello!
Date: 11 Sep 92 11:31:02 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1992Sep9.130239.12714@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, nmgross@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu ( crayon ) writes:
> In article <18jjmoINNkj9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ap005@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Aaron Lukacsko) writes:
>> Well, is there anyone else out there that thinks that Q is the ultimate character ever presented in ST:NTG or ST for that matter???
>> 
> 
> Yes.
>  
Yes again.
I suppose we'd better find something to talk about then, like the fact that
Q is in fact The Q, and is not a single character.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:45:48 EDT
From: Don Stone <DRS121@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: Re: Question: Riker, almsot a Q

In article <1992Sep13.134453.1@acad.drake.edu>, aar001@acad.drake.edu says:
>                Is Riker such a weak minded schmuck that he couldn't
>        control his rampant desires and the power trip of becoming a Q,
>        or is the nature of the Q so un-inhibited that it corrupted him?
>                                                        AAR@acad.drake.edu
>
>        P.S.  Like anyone would really turn down a chance to almost be a god!
>              (Don't flame me, I know the reasons he didn't, I just want to
>                know why he couldn't control himself!)

Probably because it wasn't dramatically feasable for him to control himself.
If he'd done so, it wouldn't have been much of an episode.

I think Picard said something about absolute power corrupting absolutely,
but I doubt most Starfleet officers would immediately go ga-ga over
having the power of Q, since they've been bred to control their other
surreal experiences (no simulated orgies in the holodeck etc.) and probably
would have that measure of control (for a while anyway) over using the
power of the Q.

Then again it's been awhile since I was imbued with the power to alter
reality, so who knows what would really happen? I'm sure Wesley would...
the primpy dork...I guess speculation on Wesley's efficacy (spelled it
right!) will have to redirect to alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die.

I wonder if Q will pay a visit to the Deep Space 9?
------
Don Stone, Axel, Stoner...             drs121@psuvm.psu.edu
'serving Queen and country'               drs@ecl.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
From: gunncs@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (C. Stephen Gunn, A2PRO SysOp)
Subject: Re: Hello hello!
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:45:18 GMT

Hmm.. does Q speak for the entire Q continuium. I dont think so. I can think
of several instances where he described being in trouble with the other "Q"
and trying to regain his place via being "nice" to the humans. Usually this
is a hoax, but none the less, he talks as if he is an individual, and not
an image that speaks for the collective (God! He sounds like a Borg Now!)
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: Re: Hello hello!
From: nmgross@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu ( crayon )
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:02:39 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <18jjmoINNkj9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ap005@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Aaron Lukacsko) writes:
> Well, is there anyone else out there that thinks that Q is the ultimate character ever presented in ST:NTG or ST for that matter???
> 

Yes.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Ref: Hogu Awards                        
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 02:13:00 +0000

>At the Worldcon Ranquet, Terry Pratchett came in a strong second for
>"Best Dead Author (must be living to qualify)".  William Shatner won.
>
>Seth            sethb@fid.morgan.com

Better dead than read, eh?

Terry
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: davidv@davidv.sco.COM (David Vangerov)
Subject: Re: box =/= balls
Organization: Apathetic Surf Club (we don't surf and we don't care)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:33:00 GMT
Keywords: American slang?

In article <18ppmjINNqqh@agate.berkeley.edu>, lee@soda.berkeley.edu (Lee Thompson-Herbert) writes:
|> In article <BuELnD.50z@newcastle.ac.uk> Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes:
|> >hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
|> >>Interesting. I've also heard that "box" is slang (American) for labia.
|> >
|> >Labia?!?! Vagina surely.
|> 
|> American slang?  It's certainly not any US slang _I've_ ever heard,
|> and I've lived in many different places in this benighted country.
|> 
|> Canadian slang, maybe?

i've heard "box" used a lot to refer to a certain portion of a woman's
anatomy, specifically the vagina (but not the labia, which is a part of
the vagina, but it didn't get that specific), including jokes told by my 
parents. 


-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Hello, folks:                           
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:11:00 +0000

Answering a couple of postings:

Yes, the whole setup of the Assassins Guild school has, uh, a certain
resonance with Rugby School in Tom Brown's Schooldays (note to Americans: a
minor Victorian classic of school literature which no-one reads anymore and
which is probably now more famous for the first appearance of the Flashman
character subsequently popularised by George MacDonald Fraser).  But it
doesn't matter if you spot this or not.  I like doing this kind of thing.
There are a number of passages in the books which are 'enhanced' if you know
where the echoes are coming from but which are still, I hope, funny in their
own right.

Computer games:  No-one, I mean NO-ONE, currently has any game rights.  But
all the time stuff comes back to me that 'company X  [fill in name] is doing
a game'.  Anything you hear is either a) jumping the gun b) wishful thinking
c) wild rumour d) a misunderstanding or e) pure invention.  If we ever close
a deal, I'll tell you.

Terry
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 02:45:59 GMT

In article <715601806snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:
>me :-) Rjinswand looks Dutch *to an Englishman*. Compare that well known
>Dutch SF character, also invented by an English speaker (well, American
>- we'll count it the same for this purpose :-)), Nicolas Rijn.

And we all know how much Van Rijn liked his Wand...
-- 
                                                                `-_-'
                         Have you hugged your wolf today?        'U`

Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y)
Subject: Re: Weatherwax
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 20:29:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.041814.1915@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox) writes:
 > Question: 
 > 
 > Were Galder Weatherwax, the chancelor of the University or whatever in
 > The Light Fantastic, and Granny Weatherwax, related at all?  I think
 > we should be told!
 > 
 > Mike
 > --
 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 >   /\_/\ F   "It's refreshing to see a woman who dresses like a woman
 >   \O O/ O    and not how a woman thinks a man would dress if he dressed
 >    \o/  X    like a woman"  -  Harrison Ford  -  Working Girl

They were.  They definitely were.  I can't remember in which book it was, but
there are VERY clear indications of them being VERY closely related--bloody hell,
if I could even remember which book this was, it's been a while since I read it--
I think they meet each other, and one asks the other if he/she has been home to
see Mother (or something vaguely like that).  Brother and sister, eh?  Or am I
completely wrong?

Leif
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman)
Subject: Re: Why do wizards need to be celibate?
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:21:17 GMT

lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Lesley Walker) writes:
: t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman) writes:
: >
: >I don't understand why wizards need to be celibate. In 'Mort' the reason is
: >that impure thoughts destroy the ability of doing magic, but in Sourcery
: >it is because wizards get children who are too good at magic.
: >any comments?
: 
: From Sourcery, it's to prevent the possibility of them having a eighth son,
: because an eighth son of a wizard is a sourcer, and you saw what happened
: when a sourcerer came along.

But the wizard who works for the queen in Mort looks at the queen when she
is getting dressed and he knows that he wont be able to do magic for a couple
of days because of the erotic thoughts that occur.
--
Sven Wallman, S:t Larsg. 5, 753 11 Uppsala, Sweden, +46 1812 9237
"I think, therefore I'm right."-Hugo Rune
"who's more important to you?
me or your stupid boyfriend?"-lpm@fert2.fe.psu.edu in an email addressed to my
girlfriend
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow)
Subject: Re: HELP: Lee Tin Wheedle.
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
	<ins450m.715014358@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
	<1992Aug28.183303.8970@csd.brispoly.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:42:09 GMT
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

what is small gods?

--
Brian Postow :: The Pasta Knight - that noodle head in shiny armour

Didn't your parents tell you not to talk to strangers?
	And I'm STRAAANGER than you are!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman)
Subject: Re: Celibate wizards
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:43:01 GMT

vader@meryl.csd.uu.se (]ke Eldberg) writes:
: In all myths and legends I know of, wizards are celibate. I believe
: it has something to do with the idea that anyone who has sex with
: women/becomes enamoured of a woman will no longer be fully in power
: over his own life. It's like Samson losing his hair or something;

That didn't stop Aleister Crowley from doing magic by using sex, but perhaps
different rules apply to wizards who are in liasion with the Devil.
--
Sven Wallman, S:t Larsg. 5, 753 11 Uppsala, Sweden, +46 1812 9237
"I think, therefore I'm right."-Hugo Rune
"who's more important to you?
me or your stupid boyfriend?"-lpm@fert2.fe.psu.edu in an email addressed to my
girlfriend
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: Ideas.Terry Don't Read This (but all ideas held within are creative pd
Keywords: elves elf ideas more ideas and a banana
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 00:29:56 GMT

ngp@st-andrews.ac.uk (Neil Grant Piggot) writes:

>Doesn't Rincewind mention elves to Twoflower in The Light Fantastic, while
>they meet Swires in the Forest of Skund? I seem to remember that he makes
>reference to elves removing teeth and fingernails if they get upset?

>OK, so it isn't an appearance, but it is at least a mention...

>Neil.

Yeahy, I was re-reading TCoM and TLF when I noticed that bit and that's what
started me thinking along those lines.  The extremity-covering removal bits
sounded a tad like something a mafia torture squad might pull.  

Mike
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  \O O/ O    and not how a woman thinks a man would dress if he dressed
   \o/  X    like a woman"  -  Harrison Ford  -  Working Girl
From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: Weatherwax
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:32:31 GMT


In article <1992Sep9.202951.27558@ugle.unit.no>,
leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y) writes:
|>
|>In article <1992Sep8.041814.1915@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
|>mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox) writes:
|> > Question: 
|> > 
|> > Were Galder Weatherwax, the chancelor of the University or whatever in
|> > The Light Fantastic, and Granny Weatherwax, related at all?  I think
|> > we should be told!
|>
|>They were.  They definitely were.  I can't remember in which book it was, but
|>there are VERY clear indications of them being VERY closely related--bloody hell,
|>if I could even remember which book this was, it's been a while since I read it--
|>I think they meet each other, and one asks the other if he/she has been home to
|>see Mother (or something vaguely like that).  Brother and sister, eh?  Or am I
|>completely wrong?

I think you're thinking of the scene in Reaper Man where a delegation of wizards
goes to the Patrician's office and finds that there's a delegation of priests
already there.  A small fight ensues between the two factions.  The
Archchancellor and the High Priest of Blind Io go off to one side and have
a discussion, during which one asks the other if he's been home to see mother.
The Archchancellor in question is Ridcully, not Galder Weatherwax, and the
High Priest in question most definitely is not Granny Weatherwax.

--PSW
From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: box =/= balls
Date: 11 Sep 92 07:47:37 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
>Interesting. I've also heard that "box" is slang (American) for labia.

Labia?!?! Vagina surely.

L.
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: clement@arp.anu.edu.au (CJ Canon)
Subject: Song words - "A Wizard's Staff..."+others
Organization: Centre for Information Science Research ANU
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 07:01:36 GMT


I finally managed to get a copy of "Witches Abroad" from the public library.
On page 104, (UK ed, ISBN 0575049804) Nanny Ogg sings a few verses of her
other drinking song - "A Wizard's staff has a knob on the end". Does anyone
(especially tp) have the words for this song?

Also, I've introduced a friend to TP with Mort. What is the best (no flamewars
please) sequence to read the discworld series in?

Tia,

CJ

   Internet: clement@arp.anu.edu.au

         `"Nil mortifi, sine lucre" - "No killing without payment".
          And don't forget to give a receipt !'
					Terry Pratchett, "Pyramids"


Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: jengagne@wam.umd.edu (Jenny Lynne Gagne)
Subject: Re: Weatherwax
Summary: celibacy 
Keywords: weatherwax
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:35:58 GMT

Okay, time for another half-baked theory.

I can understand that celibacy was imposed in order to keep sourcerers from
running amok.  Therefore, like all myths, the "fact" that you can't do magic
after having sex has got to be a rumor spread in order to cover up the plain
truth that if you have 8 sons you'll end up with a sorcerer.

Makes sense to me.  The reason why Cutwell couldn't do magic after seeing
Keli in her underwear was because of headology.  He believed the celibacy
rule, and thus really couldn't concentrate enough to perform magic.

Or it's just a standard confliction and I'm way off base.  Whatever, if
we spent time mucking around with uncertainty we'd never get anywhere...
:-)

Anybody care to help support or negate this?  Maybe I'm missing a paragraph
somewhere...

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From: keith@csc.liv.ac.uk (Keith Halewood)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Latin
Keywords: Oh god, not again
Date: 6 Sep 92 17:38:45 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University

In article <8424@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>, nick@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Nick Falkner) writes:
> The most common translation of this is 'Witch Hammer' - since the witches were 
> the 'evil ones'.  It was written by two very strange monks and had a LOT of very
> nasty stuff in it - a lot of it obviously fuelled by a hatred/obsession towards
> women.
> 
> Share it with someone you hate.....

Our univ. library has a 1492 copy of it which I viewed on Friday. My Latin
is ok but stretches only as far as roman, rather than middle. Even so, reading
a few odd pages left me feeling rather chilled. It even has what could loosely
be described as case studies. Urgh.

I can't get used to those silly abbreviations for common syllables, p-underscore for per, etc..

Keith
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: _WHAT_ Annotated Pratchett File?
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:35:33 GMT

Michael.Gunderson@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Michael Gunderson) writes:

> My reading of this newsgroup is a bit erratic, and I've just come back
> amidst a whole slew of Re:sponses to a message about Annotated Pratchett
> file.  However, I seem to have missed the original.  Is this file
> available via e-mail or ftp?  Or is the compilation still ongoing?

The Annotated Pratchett File is posted every three weeks to
a.f.pratchett. Scheduled release date for the next update (v2.1) is
23 September.

It is not available for ftp (if anybody has space on their ftp-site
that they want to donate to the good cause, let me know!), but if you
really can't wait another week you can always e-mail me, and I'll send
you a copy in return.

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: cweller@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au (Catherine Weller)
Subject: Re: The Hedgehog Song
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 00:19:35 GMT


Actually I came up with a chorus if sorts to the hedgehog song, the music is in the style of "99 bottles of beer", etc.

here goes:

But the Hedgehog can never be buggered at all,
Never buggered at all
Never buggered at a-a-a-all
With a <animal here> if you <practice here>
But the Hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

{onto the next verse}

Well, that's all I came up with, hope it helps.

Cath,
cweller@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au
no bart, no buaf, no stupidquote(tm). Has been proven to be cancerous to rats