HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gary@arkaig.turing.ac.uk (Gary Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: N. Rhymes
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:26:05 GMT
Reply-To: gary@uk.ac.turing
Followup-To: alt.fan.pratchett
Organization: The Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland.

In article <1993Jan25.124742.18752@aston.ac.uk>, e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk (Edward Julian Craft) writes:
|> 
|> Speaking of blood 'n' gore, the last verse of 'London Bridge is falling
|> down' is all about sacrificing childen to put in as the foundations.
|> 
|> Just the thing to get a kiddie off to sleep methinks.
|> 

   You can't make a posting like that!  I can only remember

     "London Bridge is falling down,
      Falling down, fallin down.
      London Bridge is falling down.
      .... ?"

   What is the remainder?

   (My "need-to-know" is based on the fact that my two two-year old nieces
    are staying with me for a week or two just now.)

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From: ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 3 of 3
Date: 26 Jan 93 10:15:27 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:

>+ [p. 21] "Some people are born to kingship. Some achieve kingship, or at
>  least Arch-Generalissimo-Father-of-His-Countryship. But Verence had
>  kingship thrust upon him."

>  I just *know* this paraphrases a well-known quote about leadership, but I
>  can't place it. anybody?

I believe the original was "Some are born great, some achieve greatness
and some have greatness thrust upon them." I can't identify the source
tho'.

I seem to recall Sgt. Colon thinking much the same thing, just before
Vimes returns to the Watch from his enforced convalescence with Lady
Ramkin.


<<  Adrian Ogden -- "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat" -- ano@csres.cs.rdg.ac.uk  >>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: My tuppence
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:49:07 GMT

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

>slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:

>>damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:
>>>
>>>Are you suggesting that knowledge is also affected by the second law
>>                                    I think you mean first ^^^^^^
>>>of thermodynamics? 

>>>Lets see, if we got a room full of blondes/arts students/favorite minority
>>>to pick on (knowledge 0) and placed someone who wanted to learn, oh, say
>>>statistics at one end, and soemone who knows stats at the other, could
>>>you beam the knowledge through the 'knowledge-vacuum' that exists in
>>>between them?>

>>Probably not.  Since the blondes/art students/etc. have absolutely no
>>knowledge whatsoever, knowledge will be sucked in from all corners of the room
>>to fill the void.  Not only does this usually deprive all the students (and
>>the teacher) of any knowledge they might once have had about statistics, but
>>there will often be an overlap into related fields (social "sciences,"
>>mathematics, engineering, sports) as well, and in extreme cases an entire
>>roomful of students may be left drooling and trying to remember how to spell
>>their names.

>>Remember--blondes(/art students/favorite minority) are dangerous, and should
>>only be used with proper safety precautions.  Don't try this at home, kids.

>So, how low must the knowledge density in such a person be to not only
>suck all the knowledge from its vicinity, but also to create a knowledge
>event horizon, out of which no knowledge whatsoever can ever be re-
>trieved again, no matter how much educational energy spent?

Oh, I'd say the average sociology student could be about it... ouch!
No, stop hitting me! Ouch!

Eccles aka Anyone else out there suddenly single?
From: pete@sst.icl.co.uk (Pete Bevin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: The Blind Watchmaker (Re: Small Gods Annotations)
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:12:33 GMT
Reply-To: pete@sst.icl.co.uk (Pete Bevin)
Distribution: alt
Originator: pete@jura

Simon Read writes:
> p.85 "or to put it another way the existence of a badly put-together
> watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker"
> 
> There's a deep philosophical tome by Richard Dawkins called "The
> Blind-Watchmaker" I guess this is a reference. I haven't read the
> book though so I don't know if that's a synopsis or a parody.

...which comes from an 18th century theologian called William Paley.
He argued that if you found a watch in a field, you would assume that
it had a maker, and in the same way, if you found a planet with life on
it, you would assume that it, too had a maker.

Personally, the first thought to go through my mind would be something
like: `Aren't I a lucky boy, then!'

Pete.
--
"Bring the little ones unto me, and I will get a good price for them."
From: ajw@manta.mel.dit.csiro.au (Andrew Waugh, 723 Swanston St Carlton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: RE: Reaperman Annotations
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:14:25 GMT
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)

From article <1993Jan26.163904.1@rchep.ph.unimelb.edu.au>, by bertram@rchep.ph.unimelb.edu.au:
> The corks around the pointy hats refers to the traditional headwear of
> Australian Swagmen (similar to American Hobos) who wear corks around
> the rim of their hats to keep the flies off their face.

The _supposed_ traditional headwear of swagmen. I have _never_ _ever_
seen a real hat, nor a photograph of a hat, nor read a printed
description of a person wearing a hat with corks dangling around it.
This is not to say that they didn't exist, but if they did they must
have been uncommon.  Anyone who has ever wandered around the
Australian bush would quickly realise that corks on strings would be
totally bloody useless in detering flies!

Chalk another one up to misconceptions -- like Australians using the
term 'cobber'.

andrew waugh
From: osterbar@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Andrew Robert Osterburg)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: My tuppence
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:38:32 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <memo.886964@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>We call universities storehouses of knowledge.  This must mean that knowledge
>builds up within universities.
>

	Then can we look at universities like convienent stores.  
"Ah, give me a small pack of organic chem, a quantum physics, and a
large bag of Victorian literature.  Thanks.  Hold on I think I change."
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: glink@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (gary g link)
Subject: Re: Favourite books : The solution ?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:58:43 GMT

Perhaps, the results for the US could be graded on a curve?

Gary 

ps: The best thing we brought back from our last trip to Toronto was
some hotel towels, the complete Diggers series and "Eric".
From: ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: No of posts from Cool
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:15:50 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

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:
> 
> >(C)OOL mcmxciii
> 
> Can you say - Holiday break :)
>

<clears throat>

Holiday break

Yep, I think I can.  Anyone else out there want to attempt this 
lingual stunt?

Mike 


By the way, why is Eccles named after a cake?
-- 
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 \O O/ O   no theiving git can nick it.  A shotgun helps too..."
  \o/  X					     - Ebeneezer Goode
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 1 of 3
Reply-To: dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:42:48 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.121034.7232@fmg.bt.co.uk> pky@fmg.bt.co.uk (Pete Young) writes:
>Incidentally, Terry came in for a bit of slagging off in The Guardian
>recently. An article described the attempt by two people to write a
>formula bestseller, and they were searching the bestseller lists for a
>style to copy. Paraphrased from memory....
>
>``How about Terry Pratchett? He seems very popular''
>
>``Not a hope. 20 years of anoraks and train spotting wouldn't even begin
>to get me into the mindset required for understanding him''
>

How insulting! Trains shouldn't be spotted (nice go-faster stripes are
preferable :)

Donal.
--
If the opinions above are anyone else's, that's their problem.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: nealk@maths.tcd.ie (Neal Kidson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Luggage (Where is it!!)
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:53:54 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

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.
From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: List of models & prices
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:49:28 GMT
Organization: Information Engineering
In-reply-to: mcsba1wsb@dct.ac.uk's message of 26 Jan 93 20:17:10 GMT

>Regarding List of models & prices; mcsba1wsb@dct.ac.uk adds:

 > This is my second attemt to post this price list, so I hope someone finds this
 > useful.

 > 		Figures					Price(in pounds)

 [others deleted]

 > 	DiscWorld					79 - 95

 *eighty* quid?
 How big is it?
 And does it actually conform to the books on-going geography?

 Paul
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From: BECKSA@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Discworld models
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:36:59 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
NNTP-Posting-Host: ibm3090.bham.ac.uk

==============================================================================
I've got two of the Discworld models, made by Clairecraft.  I've got a libraria
n and a death bookend, and they're both great.  You seem to be able to get them
in WHSmiths, some decent bookshops, but the House of Fraser stores sell them to
o.  They are expensive, but personally I think they're worth it.
From: cs92njc@cyrillus.brunel.ac.uk.ac.uk (Nicholas J Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Loyalist Opinions
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:56:27 GMT
Reply-To: cs92njc@cyrillus.brunel.ac.uk.ac.uk
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

In article 727521324@draconis, leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
>Personally, I still don't particularly like neither of those two books,
>while all three of "Moving Pictures", "Pyramids" and "Small Gods"
>(the first two of which get regularly slammed, the latter hardly ever
>talked about) are among my favourite Discworld novels.

I'll join you in your minority. Moving Pictures is one of my favourites, simply because of the "No one would have believed, in the last years of the century of the Fruitbat..." line. As a WotW fan, this raised an almighty chuckle from me the first time I read it.

Pyramids I found to be so-so. The Asassins Guild sections were excellent, and I wouldn't mind seeing another novel based around that Guild. The Djelibabi (I think that's the right spelling) left me lukewarm, since it wasn't really explained just how pyramids have this incredible power. OK, so time being flared off is all well and good, but none of the descriptions seemed to leave them as a coherent part of the Discworld. I'll swallow the notion of the Gods at Dunmanifestin, a world on the back of elephants


, and even Great A'Tuin. But the pyramids idea always seemed like cheating Death (witness Dios) and I think HE would have had rather more to say on the matter.

I've been able to read Small Gods yet, can't afford it <switch into "I'm a poor student" type rant>

Rgds, Nik
---
_/     _/ _/_/_/ _/  _/  For those who are wondering why,
_/_/   _/   _/   _/ _/   What we call SF ain't Sci-Fi,    
_/  _/ _/   _/   _/_/         It's just there a fine line 
_/   _/_/   _/   _/ _/        Between Robert Heinlein,      
_/     _/ _/_/_/ _/  _/  And "Son of the Two Headed Fly"  
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: Covers
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:18:37 GMT


In article <rdippold.727984983@qualcom>,
rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:

[regarding the US cover for Witches Abroad]
|>
|>Who was the artist?  DK Sweet or someone else?  Sweet is usually
|>fairly accurate in his renderings (except that he gives everybody red
|>hair unless it's otherwise noted in the book).

Whoever it was, the rendering isn't particularly accurate.  Greebo is a tabby
cat with two good eyes, instead of a one-eyed gray cat, and Magrat Garlick
has a bustline.

--PSW
From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Jessica Raine)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: HUH?!?!
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:53:58 GMT
Reply-To: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

In article <cesnyd01.728143686@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>, cesnyd01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Cris Snyder) writes:
>
> 
>--==-=-=-=-=-====-==-----===-=-====-----=-==-=-=-=-=-===-=-====-=----===-===---=
>			cesnyd01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu		
>
>		AlberCrombie ---- The One And Only Space Gopher
>
>				.sig?  what .sig?
>-===--=--==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---===-=--===-==-==-=---===----=-=-=-=---=-=-=-=-=--

	"Sometimes it's so easy, I'm ashamed of myself."--You Can't Do That
On Television

Jessica Raine | st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."--The Bard
From: dtrindle@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (D.J. Trindle)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Rob Reiner films
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:55:24 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

This beauty appeared in alt.fan.spinal-tap:

In article <foo> HR-5@ia.ph.bham.ac.uk 
(Connor MacLeod (of the Clan MacLeod)) writes:
>> [12 lines deleted. . .]
>>True... and just to push home the point, Nigel was in 'When Harry Met
>>Sally' as well - another Rob Reiner film...
>Who was he?
>
>   /  |\      -------
>  /   | \       |        |
> /    |  \      |        |
> \    |   \     |    _   |_    _        _    _
>  \   |    )    |   / \  | \  | \   /  / \  | \
>   \  |   /     |  |   | |  | |  | |  |   | |  |
>   /  |  /   \  |  |   | |  | |  | \  |   | |  |
>  /   | /     \ |   \_/  |  | |  |  |  \_/  |  |
> / .  |/   .   \|                  /
>
>S.D.Johnson@csv.warwick.ac.uk

Points against:
We have an identity crisis with the protagonist from _Highlander_, and 
spelled incorrectly at that.  We have 72 point Slash-Dash-N-Pipe 
Overextended.  We have fourteen lines included for an eleven-
character followup.  

Points for:
No Rush quote.  And he goes by initials.  That's about it.

Let's kill him.
                                                         -D.J.T.
From: kneale@noao.edu (ruth a. kneale)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: TOP TEN COOL THINGS ABOUT THE DRUIDS
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:50:24 GMT
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA

In article <1993Jan25.155439.10858@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>In alt.fan.letterman, motd@coos.dartmouth.edu (Peter A. Jolicoeur) writes:
>>
>>--
>>"I've got compassion running out of my nose, pal. I'm the sultan of sentiment."
>>                                          --Albert Rosenfield (Twin Peaks)
>>Peter A. Jolicoeur '95 : Dartmouth College : HB 1531 : Hanover, NH 03755 : USA
>>MOTD->We Will Ascend / e-mail: motd@mac.dartmouth.edu / motd@coos.dartmouth.edu
>>
>>        .       M   M  OOO  TTT DDD
>>     /\/ \/\    MM MM O   O  T  D  D
>>    / /vvv\ \   M M M O   O  T  D  D
>>   / /     \ \  M   M  OOO   T  DDD
>
>Meatheads of Today's Dartmouth?
>Morons of Terrible Drawings?
>

I personally prefer "Marsupial of the Day".

>Adam "I'd like to Lynch those doughnut eating freaks" Levin
>(with apologies to Weird Al)

-- 
ruth a. kneale          Reality used to be a friend of mine.
rkneale@noao.edu                   -PMD
From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Macintosh vs Intel...
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:20:36 GMT
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $

In article <1993Jan22.195152.17453@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>In rec.arts.startrek.current, josh@bvsd (Josh "^f^h^h^s^j" Prismon) signs:
>>-- 
>>	JJ	PPPP		Joshua Prismon
>>	JJ	P  P		"I am a Hacker not a ______"-Fill in the Blank
>>   J    JJ      PPP              Send Mail To:josh@bvsd.co.edu
>>    JJJJ        PPP              Send Flames to:/dev/null  

   N  N     7777              The Prisoner
   NN N       7               "I am not a Hacker, I am a FREE GEEK!"
   N NN oo   7                   Send Mail To:josh@bvsd.co.edu
   N  N oo  7                    Send Flames to:josh@bvsd.co.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: mei172@cch.coventry.ac.uk (guru)
Subject: they never learn...
Organization: guru's eye clinic, Coventry University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:43:17 GMT

In article <C160tK.96p@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei297@cck.coventry.ac.uk (SCUMWALKER) writes:
         				
					     -><-|-|||-"-
SCUMWALKER         cei297@cck.cov.ac.uk      
OTBR  HGCS				     -////-||||-|||||-"-"-\\\\-   


guru sez:
	anybody got a clue what this is about?

-- 
      /~~~) /   / /~~~) /   /  	A dangerous subversive cruising on the razor's	
     (___/ (___/ /     (___/ 	edge of reality, moving faster than the speed 
        /                      	of thought, ready to challenge your ideals, 
   (___/ mei172@cch.cov.ac.uk   morals and way of life. Listen if you dare...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
From: nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
Subject: Re: Fandom
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:19:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.083809.20618@hsr.no> dimmen@hsr.no (Kjetil Dimmen) writes:
>
>Something strange has happened to me recently. Well, actually no to _me_, but
>to some three or four warlords I posted last week. They simply disappeared.
>Or rather, they were never posted, even though xrn said they were. And, yes,
>I _did_ edit the Newsgroups: line. Ya think I'm stOOpid? And even if I _had_
>forgotten to, they ought to have appeared in the original newsgroup...
>
>I tried to reach Chuck Dammit, but someone had stolen the file with his address
>in. P'haps this crime is related to the other? Someone get Chuck for me, please.
>(Rheal, I know you used to hang out with him earlier. Any chance of making a
>contact here?)

Chuck Dammit here.

No point asking Rheal for help.  He has no idea what I'm up to.  I plan
to keep it that way.  He's warned my targets of my activities just once
too often.  (I'm sending this from his account as a warning to him.  If
he gets in my way again, I just might rearrange his Internet links.)

Sorry Mr.  Dimmen.  I won't be accepting your case.  I looked into it
for a few minutes.  No gorgeous blonde showed up in my office (or my
bed).  No one shot at me or tried to beat me up.  Obviously, this is not
a case for Chuck Dammit, Private Investigator.

Try one of those wimpy investigators.  Poirot or Maigret or Miss Marple.
This should be more in their line.

                Chuck Dammit, Private Investigator
                       dammit@private.eye
From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: Artificial Universe
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:37:03 GMT
	<1993Jan22.184557.10848@ugle.unit.no>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
In-reply-to: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO's message of 22 Jan 93 18:45:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.184557.10848@ugle.unit.no> eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
| -- 
|      //|                             | DISCLAIMER: I don't HAVE opinions.
|     // |                             | I just repeat what everyone else says!
| \\ //--|miga: There can be only one. |
|  \X/   |         eyvind@lise.unit.no | Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!  Ackpth!

Amiga: one is one too many.

Blurgh! (tm)
--
Simon Oke, 3rd year Computer Science
undergraduate at the University of Essex, UK.
From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: The first line says it all....
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:07:59 GMT
Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Organization: University of Arizona

In article <C1F313.82w@cck.coventry.ac.uk>, mei172@cch (guru) writes:
>In article <C17GF8.BF7@demon.co.uk> James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> ===> James Petts <===
>>
>>*** CAUTION - READ THIS .sig AT YOUR OWN RISK! [snip]
>>*                                              [snip]
>>* Q. Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? [snip]
>>* A. Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt [snip]
>>*    gersput!                                    [snip]

I could be wrong, but isn't this "The funniest joke in the world", from
the Monty Python sketch of the same name?

>guru sez:
>	yep, this one's got it all, silly "oh no, scary .sig" line at the
>	start, nice ASCII star border and shiteloads of whitespace...
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Pot.  Kettle.  Bang.

>	Anybody get the relevance of the preferred address?
>-- 
>      /~~~) /   / /~~~) /   /  	A dangerous subversive cruising on the razor's	
>     (___/ (___/ /     (___/ 	edge of reality, moving faster than the speed 
>        /                      	of thought, ready to challenge your ideals, 
>   (___/ mei172@cch.cov.ac.uk   morals and way of life. Listen if you dare...

Dave "shiteloads?" Schaumann
Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord