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From: daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: tb meets tp
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:25:28 GMT
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In article <1992Jul29.221506.24218@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox) writes:
> I have but one question.  Why does your .sig have a picture
> of an invisible man with a fish on his head.  (Or is it a 
> fish on wheels?)
> 
> Fox
> 
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>   /\_/\ F   "Have you danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
>   \O O/ O
>    \o/  X   "Oh ha de ha ha. Now shut up and finish drawing that pentagram!" 

A little competition for you, Jim, try to re-arrange the following words
into a well known phrase or saying:

	"kettle" "black" calling" "pot"

You ought to read alt.fan.warlord sometime. You even made a personal
appearence there a few weeks back (as did Terry, do you believe, but that's
another story entirely...)

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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From: count@nyx.cs.du.edu (Carl Ount)
Subject: blame Terry
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 19:47:05 GMT


Anyone got a list of things (such as failed exams, hurt ribs, etc) that
Terry has been (whether in a humerous complimentary manner or not) blamed
for?
From: wjs@doc.ic.ac.uk (Bill Sharp)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: O-levels and A-levels (Re: Patrician's assassination, plus two questions)
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:36:10 GMT
Organization: Imperial College, London

In article <1992Jul23.164120.10960@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser) writes:
>lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) writes:
>
>>winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>>> 
>>> The O-levels and A-levels are achievement examinations.  Kind of like the
>>> College Board Achievement Tests in the U.S., except given in a lot more
>>> subjects and not used just for college admission.
>>> 
>>> --PSW
>
>>I've gotten (somewhere) the impression that O=Ordinary and A=Advanced,
>>thus making A-levels the more difficult...is this right?

Yes, but havn't GCE O-Levels, and CSE's all been replaced by the everso
tacky GCSE's ? 

Bill

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| /.\ /.\     worse, because at least death didn't happen to you every year.  
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: Dropping in again... 
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 03:08:34 GMT

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


>I don't post every day because (a) life, it's too short and (b) surely you guys
>want some discussion without me weighing in all the time.

>Terry

Why not?  Everyone else does.

Fox
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Re: Upcoming Stuff
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 08:20:48 +0000

Only You Can Save Mankind, the next TP title, is about a kid who's playing on
his computer one day when all the aliens in the latest goshwow computer game
surrender to him.  They don't want to be shot at any more.  Having
surrendered, they become his responsibility.  So he has to spend his nights
defending them from all the other kids in the world...

It's about war (the Gulf War is going on in 'real time' in the book) and
games and our whole strange attitude to both of them.

Terry
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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: CMOT Dibbler
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:37:04 GMT

johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:

> Throat Dibbler is alive and well beyond the end of "Moving Pictures", and was
> recently seen (in "Reaper Man") on a bridge, chatting to the late Windle 
> Poons.
> 
> I don't recognise the Dhblah character.

I'll go with the morphic resonance theory as far as the likeness between 
Moving Picture's Dibbler and Small Gods' Dhbla is concerned.

What people may not realize is that there is a possible third incarnation
of this ingenious person, postdating even "Reaper Man".

In "Witches Abroad" we encounter (alas not in person) none other than
Grand Master Lobsang Dibbler, who is the author of a booklet that 
Magrat Garlick, everyone's favourite new age witch, hopes will help her 
'find herself' through showing her the Path of The Scorpion, "which offers 
cosmic harmony, inner one-ness and the possibility of knocking an attacker's 
kidneys out through his ears".

Grand Mastar Lobsang has an address in Ankh Morpork, though...

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: morris
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:20:13 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA
Keywords: literature humor minor

bob@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) writes, on the subject of Morris dancing:
>
>Go into any village in the English countryside during the
>summer. They can usualy be found performing their arcane
>rituals on the village green.
>
>Ignore the cheap imitatators on top of vehicles in the
>nearby car parks.
>	Bob.

Yes indeed.  Nowadays it is hard to find a genuine Morris dancer -
the car park will be full of cars marked `BL' or `British Leyland'.
-- 
John Francis                                johnf@apollo.hp.com
The world can be divided into two classes :-
 those who divide people into two classes, and those who don't.
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: morris
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 01:03:21 GMT

Personally, when I think about Morris dancers I think of a cross
between a magpie and a human.  This is mainly due to their rather
strange clothing tastes (but at least they are not fasion victims) 
and the fact that they sew large numbers of jingly, shiny objects
to their appareil.  The odd hankerchief is also present (and I 
mean ODD!) but this may be substituted for rather strange club-
like objects with paper balloons on the end.  The dances they
weave invariably look like men with arthritis trying to walk on
hot plates and the music would make Beethoven turn off his hearing
aid.

Actually, I'm just a tad biased as we were once thrown out of a 
pub full of Morris dancers for shouting Monty Python lines at
each other over our beer.  Some people have no sense of fun!

Fox 

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: bronson@latech.edu (Patrick K. Bronson)
Subject: Re: Patrician's assassination, plus two questions
Summary: do tell
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:37:00 GMT

In article <RSHOLMES.92Jul26174014@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>In article <1992Jul25.053900.4536@engr.latech.edu> bronson@engr.latech.edu (Patrick K. Bronson) writes:
>
>>Ah HA!  I knew I was right.  It was pointed out that I had made the mistake of
>>spelling license as licence on a database report.  As several areas of our
>>campus police use this program, and the results are sent on to one of our 
>>many Vice Presidents, I felt pretty stupid!  Turns out I had inadvertantly
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>I'm not gonna say it... I'm NOT gonna say it...
>
>--
>  - Rich Holmes - - - - - - - - - - - - - rsholmes@mailbox.syr.edu -
>	WARNING: This .sig has been cruelly tested on animals.
>


Say it...SAY IT!

-- 
-----------
Pat Bronson (bronson@engr.latech.edu)
  "Are you going to come quietly or do I have to use earplugs?"
                                                    ---- From The Goon Show
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From: t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman)
Subject: Re: You geeks
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:23:04 GMT

echeverr@chaph.usc.edu (5150) writes:
<load of garbage deleted>

Wow! We've been flamed by a person who thinks it is neat to have 2 different
email-adresses in his .sig and who thinks that Rush is great. He even managed
to crosspost to misc.test and talk.bizarre. There is no way we can defend
us against such a clever and witty person.
: 
: -- 
: Ron Echeverri                     |
: echeverr@chaph.usc.edu            |       "I don't THINK so."
: rone@skat.usc.edu                 |                 - Homey The Clown
: flames: nobody@usc.edu            |
: 
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: ' )  )               /  `     /
:  /--' ________      /--   _. /_  _ , __/> __  __  o
: /  \_(_) / / <_    (___, (__/ /_</_\/ (__/ (_/ (_<_
: 
: 
: RUSH are way, way kool!!!
: 

--
Sven Wallman, S:t Larsg. 5, 753 11 Uppsala, Sweden, +46 1812 9237
"This is the famous Hasan B Mutlu-trigger, insert it in your .sig file today!"
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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Re: Where is this FAQ anyway?
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:45:09 GMT

Yes, the FAQ exists.  The most recent posted version can be picked up
from FTP sites which archive news.answers.  I'm sorry about the delays
in posting, but I've been having rather a large number of problems with
the automagic posting software.  *mumble foo mumble foo*.

Indeed, the most recent release of the FAQ should be winging its way
toward you in twenty-eight hours time. (It should be posted on the 1st
and 15th of every month).

Cheers,

Nat.
From: uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Reepor Man
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:15:26 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

In article <RSHOLMES.92Jul24002846@rodan.syr.EDU>, rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
|> In article <BrsvB9.FrL@apollo.hp.com> johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
|> 
|> >Oh - you said Roc?  Never mind!
|> 
|> Hitting a roc is a bad idea, too, unless you manage to kill it on the
|> first try.
|> 
If you are careful enough, the Roc might not notice, but I won't try...

Uli
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Not anything to do with a.f.p at all
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 04:36:16 GMT

Ok, I have a question for you guys on a totally un-Pratchett-related subject.
It is a tad egotistical (IMHO) but I'll post it here anyway.
I'm asking this question here as, from what I've seen, the people who
read this group seem to have roughly the same mindset as myself (so go
and see a psychiatrist at once!).

What I want to know is, do people think that posting things under an alias
(in my case Fox) is a tad stupid or is it generally thought of as 'just
one of those things'?  I've noticed that with my own posts people tend to 
reply to 'Mike' and not to 'Fox' and it caused me to wonder.  The alias 'Fox'
has been with me for a number of years now but maybe it's time to grow out of
nicknames?  I don't know.  Which is why I asking here.

Thanks for any feedback.

Mike/Fox
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From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Subject: Re: Newsfeed
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:43:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.124511.14293@cs.nott.ac.uk> nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook) writes:
>Why do I get all the postings in this group the wrong way round?
>
>I read people's postings from Finland relating to a message which Terry
>posted in Britain, which I still haven't got! I've pieced together the whole
>message from different Re:s by the time the original post gets to me!

  Must be some embarrassingly strong magical field surrounding your site.
  Known to slow down light - probably same with newsfeed.

>
>Neil Cook.


	- Mika		;)

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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Re: SFBC selection                      
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:57:59 +0000

While the SFBC covers aren't that great as covers the artist -- usually --
makes an effort to get detail right (I'm thinking of Wyrd Sisters and
Pyramids, certainly not of Mort )  You at least get the impression they've
had a look at the MS.

Terry
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From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Subject: Major Finnish bookstore switches to US DW - dang!
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:25:19 GMT



 To my utter, utter, utter dismay I found out today, having just decided
 to buy all the DW novels I'm missing at once, that the biggest and best
 nation-wide bookstore Akateeminen Kirjakauppa - Academic Bookstore - had
 switched to the US edition paperbacks of DW.  Dang.  Dang!  Double dang!
 One might even say 'Bugger!'

 The reason for this outrage being money.  Apparently the US publications
 are on average a pound+ cheaper than the UK ones.  I mentioned, that
 an integral part of the books is the unsurpassed cover-art of Josh Kirby,
 and the two salespersons quite agreed, but said it was out of their hands.
 
 Well, I had to order the missing DW-novels (by Corgi).  They're going to
 cost me a few pounds extra (or Finn Marks, to be precise...), but what
 the heck!  It's well worth it.

 I also noticed that 'Eric' is published by VGSF in association with
 Corgi Books.  Apparently, no Corgi-published version even exists, right?
 Well, at least the VGSF version has JK cover-art.

 And speaking of 'Eric' - I'm only on page 35, but it seems to be guaranteed
 TP.  

	- Mika


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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (The Jack Elmo Society Black Book)
Subject: Re: New Questions for the FAQ
Organization: Okefenokee Glee and Purloo Union
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:01:52 GMT
X-Posted-From: fnalo.fnal.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <54765@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, nickles@sage.cc.purdue.edu (john a nickles) writes:
> Q: Is this the only newsgroup in which the object of affection himself
> appears?
> 
> To the best of our knowledge. It is said that Neil Gamain reads the
> Sandman posts on rec.arts.comics and some of the rec.arts.books posters
> have published books with a popular following but this is the only spot where
> writer and fan are so clearly delianated.
> 
	Peter David posts to rec.arts.comics and rec.arts.startrek.  Mike
Jittlov posts to alt.fan.mike_jittlov.  Crawford Kilian posts to
rec.arts.sf.etc.
-- 
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee.  For Hate's sake, 
I spit my last breath at thee, thou damned whale!"
--Herman Melville, _Moby Dick_

elmo (morrow@fnal.fnal.gov,morrow@physics.rice.edu)
From: lavonius@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Ville Lavonius)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Major Finnish bookstore switches to US DW - dang!
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:53:00 GMT
Organization: Vidal Sassoon's Mosh&Go

In article <1992Jul27.202519.2692@jyu.fi> mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano) writes:

    To my utter, utter, utter dismay I found out today, having just decided
    to buy all the DW novels I'm missing at once, that the biggest and best
    nation-wide bookstore Akateeminen Kirjakauppa - Academic Bookstore - had
    switched to the US edition paperbacks of DW.  Dang.  Dang!  Double dang!
    One might even say 'Bugger!'

This is indeed worrisome, usually we got the books (paperbacks only) in _quite_
short time after the release. But this bodes ill for Witches Abroad and
thereafterly books.

    The reason for this outrage being money.  Apparently the US publications
    are on average a pound+ cheaper than the UK ones.  I mentioned, that
    an integral part of the books is the unsurpassed cover-art of Josh Kirby,
    and the two salespersons quite agreed, but said it was out of their hands.

    Well, I had to order the missing DW-novels (by Corgi).  They're going to
    cost me a few pounds extra (or Finn Marks, to be precise...), but what
    the heck!  It's well worth it.

I have never talked anybody at the Acanemic but usually they stock the Corgi
book and switch over to the Rocs when they become available. I ought to hurry
with those remaining truckers-books.

    I also noticed that 'Eric' is published by VGSF in association with
    Corgi Books.  Apparently, no Corgi-published version even exists, right?
    Well, at least the VGSF version has JK cover-art.

The Corgi version is indeed a rare beast (I think it's the Corgi one). It's
bigger and contains lots of internal illos. By Kirby - no less. I've seen ONE
copy of it and of course I was flat broke then :-(. The VGSF ed. is bearable
however.

    And speaking of 'Eric' - I'm only on page 35, but it seems to be guaranteed
    TP.  

Yeah, in addition to druids also demonologists use computers, with references
to MS-Dos and Source Codexes.

	   - Mika
--
Ville Lavonius	        University of Helsinki, Dept. of Computer Science
lavonius@cc.helsinki.fi : With friends like that, who needs anemones
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From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: Erm. Excuse me? 
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:59:20 GMT


In article <1992Jul22.210637.11252@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike blaser) writes:
|>
|>I would have thought the reason is fairly obvious.  A machine readable 
|>DW novel can be copied using a five minute disk swap at worst.  A papery
|>type DW book either needs an infinite amount of bored monkeys and copy 
|>checkers, someone with a lot of time and a strange desire to transcribe the
|>thing into a computer or someone with a photocopier,

Desiring to transcribe anything into someone with a photocopier really *is* a
strange desire.

--PSW
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: CMOT Dibbler
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 22:17:21 GMT

johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:

>I don't recognise the Dhblah character.  

For your info his full name is Cut Me Own Hand Off Dhblah so he is obviously
no relation at all *8)

Fox
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: gip10@sci.kun.nl (gip cursus)
Subject: The Carpet People
Summary: about the CC
Keywords: carpet people terry pratchett
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:32:26 GMT

I want to know why I havn't heard anything about the Carpet People?
I've red it, and found a remarkable refreshing story, after reading more than a dozen DW novels. I know it was originally written for kids, but the current version has some nice touches to it.
It is quite different to TP's other novels because it has really some suspence and thrilling action in it.(It looks a little bit like an adventure film of Steven Spielberg). It has some quite different characters in it, and not all just stupid or self centered. I would like it if some other people would write down their reactions to the CC


A happy(but still mad) DM.



(In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness.
Then came the Carpet....
-The Carpet People-:) 
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: DW Ideas                                
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:21:50 GMT

In article <memo.542280@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>4) And I'm superstitious about it.  Don't ask me why.

Don't you know it's bad luck to be superstitious?
-- 
                                                                `-_-'
                         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: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Dropping in again... 
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 09:42:56 GMT

mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox) writes:

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

>>I don't post every day because (a) life, it's too short and (b) surely you guys
>>want some discussion without me weighing in all the time.

>Why not?  Everyone else does.

Yes, but our pointless lives consist solely out of buggering around here
making remarks that we think are funny, while He also has a higher task,
namely making our pathetic and pointless lives cheerful and pointless
lives. So don't distract Him.

WE ARE UNWORTHY! WE ARE UNWORTHY!


May the Cool Be with You!
(To the guy who mailed me: It's not supposed to be particularly funny.
It's like "Have a Nice Day" meant to soothe after the general amount of
nuisance you produced again. Anyway, since you put me into your killfile
I don't know why I'm wri--

(C)OOL mcmxcii
From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: DW setting and typoes
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:37:23 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <4132@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> gordon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Gordon Buxton) writes:
>I found it a bit off putting to read the conversation on the left hand
>page, with this *HUGE* 'YES.' staring out from the page opposite,
>destroying the comic tension (IMHO).  The surprise (and therefore
>humour) element could have been immeasurably improved by arranging the
>page breaks so that the 'YES.' came at the top of a left hand page,
>ie. it's *supposed* to be the first thing you read, rather than the
>first thing you *actually* read

Intriguing ... I have the English hard cover edition, and here
they got the spacing right, and the YES is on a left hand page,
I loved the effect... similar to Death ALWAYS SPEAKING IN TONES
SOUNDING LIKE LEAD SLABS FALLING ON GRANITE etc etc. What copy
do you have ? I dread to think what the US producers could
do with that bit : just put it in ordinary capitals tucked
beneath Deaths OWN WORDS.

In the meantime, where does Azrael (the name) come from ... I
know I have heard it before.

Toodle-pip, tally-ho and a whip bam boo.

Simon.
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