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From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Subject: Truckers in the US...
Organization: no.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:31:48 GMT

Well, ordered _Truckers_ from Lauriat's Books...

Was gritching to the lady behind the counter about Truckers being stuck
in the kiddie section, and it turned out that she was a Pratchett fan
too, and she showed off their computerized ordering stuff....

I'm getting a hard-cover of it -- is this wise? Or am I paying more than
I need to? No matter...

Anyway, for all you people who think that it's being mismarketed by
Doubleday, here's some entertaining info....
They have an 800 number. They have an address...

1-800-223-6834

666 Fifth Ave	<no kidding!>
New York, NY. 10103	<US, of course>

Doubleday Consumer Serv.
P.O. Box 5071
Des Plains, Ill. 60017-5071
^ -- this is a semi-decipherable squiggle on my notes. If I've got it
wrong, sorry.

<Notices the lady crossed her 7's. "Neat.">

Oh, and the ISBN for the hardcover is 0385299842.
(42? The answer?) Now, everyone can call up Doubleday and tell them that
their marketing policy for _Truckers_ & co. is screwy.

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From: ebu@vipunen.hut.fi (Erik Bunn)
Subject: Re: Pratchett in Sweden
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<VADER.92Sep1163600@meryl.csd.uu.se>
	<ins450m.715581852@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 4 Sep 92 12:39:05

>>>>> On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:44:12 GMT, ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles) said:

>Riku M{kinen asks which version of the books I mean when I say
>that I dislike the cover art. I meant Kirby's covers. But then,
>perhaps I am in a minority. Kirby is the only person I know of
>who can make a sexy girl look repelling.


I consent with this.. They _do_ have a certain personality and
original quality, but I almost skipped the whole DW series when I saw
the cover of my first book. Urgh.

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Nihilism should commence with oneself.
From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Dog latin
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:06:57 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <NEERI.92Aug27190130@iis.ethz.ch> neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher) writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.230857.23249@ugle.unit.no> snh@Lise.Unit.NO (St}le Norman Halvorsen) writes:
>
>>Nihil illegitemo carborundum
>
>I never understood that one, either.
>
>>Nothi te numquam opprimant
>
>Don't know.

 Don't let the bastards grind you down

Its a very very very loose translation for both of them.

Wilbur Smiths book on fighting the second world war in Ethiopia
(forget the title just now) has a character whose personal motto
is Noli illigetimi carborundum. Having taken O'level Latin in
the early 14th century, I have forgotten exactly how the Latin
should go ......

Saimon
From: d90-two@dront.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Pratchett in Sweden
Date: 1 Sep 92 09:47:57 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

In article <d0chris.715310276@dtek.chalmers.se> d0chris@dtek.chalmers.se (Christer Borang) writes:
>vader@meryl.csd.uu.se (]ke Eldberg) writes:
>
>>Terry Pratchetts books are very popular in Sweden, and one has even
>>been translated (I believe it was Guards! Guards!).
>
>I've only seen 'The colour of magic' and 'The light fantastique (sp?)'
>translated...Guards Guards might exist too, though. Anyhow, the translation
>looses a lot...like Rincewind being called Rensvind.
>
"Equal Rites" is translated too, and "Guards! Guards!" doesn't sound unlikely
as I believe that [ventyrsspel/Target Games will chop them off one by one.

The names isn't the only problem, I have a feeling that you miss a lot of
(other) jokes when you read the books translated into Swedish. And in English
I don't even see many of the jokes at all :-(

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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:43:58 GMT

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

> At one point in Guard's Guards Carrot is heard to say 'Thankyou for your 
> cooperation'.  A very likely link to Robocop.

Please folks, I appreciate all cooperation and feedback, but I have not
seen every movie or read every book that exists in the world myself.

If you can, try to be a *little* more specific...

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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: Stupid birds (Small Gods spoilers)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 02:52:19 GMT

I don't care what anyone else says, the chicken is the most STUPID bird alive,
constantly getting a lower IQ than your average turkey and not as good at
sports as a cormorant!

So there.

Mike
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From: cwquak@cs.ruu.nl (Wilko Quak)
Subject: Wyrd systers,the musical
Summary: What would you think of...?
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:05:55 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
Keywords: Wyrd Systers,music

Hello there,
A friend of mine,a musician, got really excited when he read "Wyrd Systers".
He almost immediately wanted to turn it into a musical theatre play,but unfortonately,he didn't have the time
to do so.(It was about a year and a half ago).Now he has got the time and is seriously planning to compose the music(The lyrics seem to be a bit of a problem).The play will be made so that it can be played by community theatre groups.The play will be obviously not produced to make money(That is because it's his first musical play,but you have to start somewhere)

Do any of you people out there have any tips for staging this really fantastic book,or if the author of this book gets to read
this,what does he think about the idea and what do YOU think about the idea?
Is it worth doing ?    

Please send your reactions to me(My friend hasn't got an E-Mail connection).
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Latin
Keywords: Oh god, not again
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:35:18 GMT

In article <BtwpCr.G6D@apollo.hp.com> johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
>In article <ano.715336532@reading> ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:
>>The last one is the "Malleus Maleficarum". Can anyone translate that?

>     "Hammer of Evil"  or  "Hammer of the Evil Ones"

The usual translation is "The Hammer of/against/for Witches".
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From: spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Subject: Re: explaining things
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
Organization: Live Organ Transplants
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:11:17 GMT

In article <EeYaLOa00WB5Q41mx7@andrew.cmu.edu>, jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Leavitt) writes:
>h0sagg@gdt.bath.ac.uk (Simon Granville) says:
> > JApanese names are always portrayed in some form of monosyllablic
> > version (unlike Si-mon, things like Cho, Hsu, Lao etc)
>
>BUZZ.  Sorry next contestant.
>
>Chinese names may tend to be
>monsyllabic (eg. Mao Tse Tung and Lao Tse), but Japanese names lean in
>the other direction.

Chinese names more than tend to, they ARE monosyllabic.  There ARE no
polysyllabic words in the Chinese language.

That is to say, each written character corresponds to one single
syllable when spoken.  For concepts and objects more complicated than
"book" or "tree" you take two or more syllables and string them
together (Well, they have to be the CORRECT syllables for the object or
conccept in question :-) )

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Don't even think about trying to escape."

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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: HELP: Lee Tin Wheedle.
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:56:04 GMT

In article <BtJqpr.42@apollo.hp.com> johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
>Interesting that the disc's most famous philosopher is found once
>in a bar, and once at a party!  Must be more to this philosopher
>business that meets the eye.

Wot, you never heard the philosopher's drinking song?

	Socrates himself will be particularly missed...
	A lovely little fella but a bugger when he's pissed!
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From: prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Paul James)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: GO and Queen
Date: 27 Aug 92 07:18:01 GMT
Originator: prj91@spenser

In <714754949.29996@minster.york.ac.uk> stuart@minster.york.ac.uk writes:

>Paul James (prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote:
>: Having read GO again this weekend, and having just seen the thread on
>: Quenn Greatest Hits, I realised that 'Radio Ga Ga' was mentioned at
>: one time, a track not present on the aforementioned album 

>Its on Queen Greatest Hits II.

I don't think this was out when GO was written though (I thought GH II
came out in 91)

>Q. Does the other side of the tape mutate into Queen Greatest Hits II?

>Stuart
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From: michaell@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Michael Lazarou)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Men at Arms (was: Any Recorded TP Books?)
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:17:06 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex at Brighton
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de wrote:
: In article <leo.714319738@galaxy>, leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
: > tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
: >
: >> Men at Arms (20,000 words now and I still haven't
: >> used all the Twin Peaks gags...)
: >
: > Oh Lord, please let him finish this book *quickly*.
: >
: > Twin Peaks gags -- yes, yes, YES!
:
: Oh s**t. When it was on the TV here I preferred reading TP instead of
: watching TP... Now I'll have to get video tapes somewhere :-)
: 						Michal

This could be great for advertising. To get a film to "open" in the states all
the publisists have to do is mention that Terry Pratchett is going to spoof it
in one of his future books. Loads of people would then watch the film good or
bad just to understand the book when it comes out. ;)

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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: Pratchett in Sweden
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:44:12 GMT

vader@meryl.csd.uu.se (]ke Eldberg) writes:

>Riku M{kinen asks which version of the books I mean when I say
>that I dislike the cover art. I meant Kirby's covers. But then,
>perhaps I am in a minority. Kirby is the only person I know of
>who can make a sexy girl look repelling.

Well, the covers are different, but I like them... they add a bit
of flavour to the books. As a matter of fact, I once accidently borrowed 
a Craig <unwritable> book, because the covers were similar, ans the
blurb claimed to be amusing.... and missed a copy of Mort because it
had the American cover.....

by the way - has anyone noticed how jarring it is to read a name
that has { it it..... oh, well no English accents ... :)

>(Finland & Norway? Ya mean East and West Sweden, of course... :-))
I won't say it!! I won't say it!!! Fin <thud>

Eccles
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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: I'll be Back... 
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:43:39 GMT

hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson) writes:


>In article <ins450m.714444710@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

>  > Well, while we're into Nationalist jokes, I've noticed there 
>  > seems to be an awfully large number of New Zealanders posting
>  > here, so..... baaa.

>There is nothing awful about a large number of NZers. Awe-inspiring, 
>perhaps...

> ----------------------------------------------
Not when, for some bizarre reason they are all over our political
ads.........
The Labor Party is really beginning to worry me.
Eccles
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Stupid birds (Small Gods spoilers)
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.14 $
Organization: Indexed; Access: Random.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:21:12 +0000

In article <GNAT.92Sep1022203@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz> gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:

>fact is that the dodo was caught out when several hundred years of
>evolution caught up to it in the form of hungry sailors.

On a point of order, I seem to remember it was rats from the ships which
ate the dodo's eggs. Certainly some small or middling mammal did for
them - definitely not, directly, humans.

>Nat.
>(a Kiwi :)
Ah, related to the Moa, I believe ? :-)

Nick Leverton
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From: flostran@fraser.sfu.ca (Andrew Flostrand)
Subject: Chef Sham
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:32:03 GMT

I must say that I snorted in disgust at the "Play it again Sham" line
at the end of MP.  I mean I was entertained, but disgusted at the same
time.  I'm wondering if Terry had that one gag in mind right at the beginning
of the book when he introduced the Sham character.  (you should be 
ashamed of yourself if you did, sir)

Andrew
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Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books? 
From: lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Lesley Walker)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 11:04:22 GMT
 <1992Aug23.000003.11268@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz> <1992Aug26.094848.18760@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ

froggy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Robyn McNamara) writes:
>
>Um.  You don't know Australian geography very well, do you?

Yes, yes, I know it's a big place.  I just thought if you were really keen
you would make the effort.  I mean, I know someone in Wellington who's
planning on going to Perth.

If it's a non-trivial trip for to get to Perth (which it is, I agree), then
surely it's non-trivial for Terry to make the detour, too.

(Or is Oz like NZ, where it's further for Aucklanders to go to Wellington
than for Wellingtonians to go to Auckland?)


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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 03:27:14 GMT

Don't know if anyone else knows this but the scene in The Light Fantastic
with Cohen the Barbarian in a yurt with the nomadic tribes of the plains
was in fact a take off from Conan the barbarian. Conan says something
to the effect that 'the best thing in life is to slay your enemies and
listen to the wailing of their women folk'.  Cohen's vision of perfection
is 'warm shoup and soft toilet paper' which proves he had a better idea
of what was were with what and when!

Oh, and Conan...Cohen...get the idea?

Fox

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From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Latin
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:47:48 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <3902@keele.keele.ac.uk> cla02@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R. Wallace) writes:
>> In article <ano.715336532@reading> ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:
>>>
>>>Another latin / dog-latin query:
>>>
>>>The last one is the "Malleus Maleficarum". Can anyone translate that?
>> 
>Malefica is normal late Latin for witch. So the title means 'Hammer of
>the Witches'. It is indeed a real, and very nasty, book.

I've always thought the book's German title, "Der Hexenhammer," adequately
sums up the dire nature of the work.

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From: che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Dog Latin qvote reqvest
Date: 24 Aug 92 11:29:03 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <80720004@hpldsla.sid.hp.com>, ssouth@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Steve South) writes:
> tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell) writes:
> 
>>I can't be buggered to search through all the TP books to find the
>>latin version of "Buggered if I know"; could someone who knows it
>>post it?
> 
> Sodomy non sapiens.
> 
> 
> Steve (Semper in ordure sumus, solem profundum variens) South.

Was it one of the wizards that said it?

David (Nihil illegitemo carborundum)


PS Steve, Si tacuises philosophus mancisses
From: joak@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jonathan A. Kung)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: _Good_Omens_ -- eh?
Date: 23 Aug 1992 22:34:59 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: tsunami.berkeley.edu

Please, please, would someone explain "Dick Turpin" from Pratchett's
and Gaiman's _Good_Omens_?  I am totally lost in the dark.

-Jon Kung, a dumb American who didn't get Manchester or some of the other
 stabs at British sensibility
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 14:11:06 GMT

ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ) writes:

>In <crystal.714370812@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:

>>What are Twin Peaks gags??

>Jokes about identical mountains.

Hmm, does this have dirty connotations of some sort? (Like anatomy.)


May the Coolie Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:53:51 GMT

thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

> >- [p. 193] "1ST WITCHE: He's late.  (Pause)"
> >  Refers to Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot".
> 
> It seemed very Harold Pinterish to me - or does he just use a similar
> style?

Don't know about that, but this is Waiting for Godot, believe me. I'll
add an exact quote from that play to the next APF version.

> >- [p. 117] Ptraci. Should be pronounced with a silent 'p', of course.
> >  [Are there really people out there who did not get this one?]
> 
> What's so funny about the name 'Traci'?

It's not funny at all, and it's one of those things I wouldn't have 
thought of including myself, but apparantly a number of folks fail to
see that Ptraci *is* pronounced the same as Tracey.

> Century of the Fruitbat - Twentieth Century Fox. I know it's obvious
> but it should be added in for completeness.

Check.
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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: Stupid birds (Small Gods spoilers)
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:17:00 GMT

csa18@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R.J. Husmo) writes:

> Anyway, in SG TP writes that the penguin is the second most confused bird
> in the world (as it can only swim underwater). This, of course, begs the
> question: which is the _most_ stupid bird? 

The dodo?

> Is this a reference to one of his other books? 

No idea. Let us know if you find out.

> And here's one for the spoiler FAQ:
> The scalbie-turtle combination is presumably lifted out of the BC cartoon,

Can you be a bit more specific as to which part of the Small Gods this
appears in? (The AFP now uses page numbers, and it is rather difficult
to find something in a 200+ page book if you have no idea where to 
look.)
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From: froggy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Robyn McNamara)
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books? 
Organization: Monash General Access UNIX System
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 02:52:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.110422.1140@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz> lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Lesley Walker) writes:
>
>If it's a non-trivial trip for to get to Perth (which it is, I agree), then
>surely it's non-trivial for Terry to make the detour, too.

The two biggest airports in Australia are the ones in Sydney and
Melbourne, both of which are on the east coast.  Perth does have an
international airport, but there are more flights to Sydney.

>(Or is Oz like NZ, where it's further for Aucklanders to go to Wellington
>than for Wellingtonians to go to Auckland?)

Well, I have heard Melburnians returning from Perth complain of sensory
deprivation... is it true Perth closes at 6:30?   :)

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