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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Time travel (was Re: Discworld, Orbits and (probably) old threads)
Date: 5 Nov 92 05:41:30 GMT
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Organization: Syracuse University
In-reply-to: ccamfiel@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu's message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 15:35:34 GMT

In article <Bx77BC.DAE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ccamfiel@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Christopher Camfield) writes:

>In article <RSHOLMES.92Nov3135503@rodan.syr.EDU> rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>>This being neither alt.fan.terminator nor alt.fan.mcfly, I thought I'd
>>give this discussion a kick in the direction of relevancy by pointing
>>out that as far as I know, time travel has not yet been used in the
>>Discworld series and by wondering aloud what kind of havoc would ensue
>>if it were.
>
>Sorry, it has... read Eric.  (Don't want to give any of it away, but I
>enjoyed it a lot... particularly the parody on Troy.  :)  Will say no
>more...

Well then, GOD DAMN IT, GET SOMEONE TO RELEASE IT IN THE USA, RIGHT
FRIGGING **NOW**.

Sorry. Long day. Let me rephrase that.

GOD DAMN IT, GET SOMEONE TO RELEASE IT IN THE USA, RIGHT FRIGGING
**NOW**, please.

--
- Rich Holmes
"In general, the dance music of P.D.Q. Bach -- although we have no
 documentary evidence of this -- suggests that one of his legs was
 shorter than the other." -- Prof. Peter Schickele
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Elephants
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:06:03 GMT

hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:

>In article <1cjjorINNclk@oak41.doc.ic.ac.uk> jwh@doc.ic.ac.uk (James William Handley) writes:
><It makes you wonder what would happen if:
><"The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees..."

>If the next DW book is called "Gesundheit", you'll know what it's about.

Well if two of those elephants sneezed you could make an adventure out
of the population of the Discworld having to keep a balance of weight.
On the other hand: Maybe sneezing is quite common among the elephants
and merely the reason for discquakes.


May the Cold Be Not with Them!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
Xundheit is one of the few German words beginning with an X.
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From: davep@hpwin052.uksr.hp.com (Dave Porter)
Subject: Re: Blues Brothers
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 12:45:28 GMT
Organization: the HP UK Response Centre
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

$DIGRESSION_MODE ON$

Wes Simonds (ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: 
: Any other US stuff that has some popularity in England?  Or anywhere besides
: the US?  

Soap (remember Soap?) had a real following here - independant TV here is
still showing / has just finished showing the series. Me, I love it to
pieces - especially one time when Burt threw Bob out of a window for making
an even-more-snide-than-usual remark about Mary (or Jodie, I misremember
which).

$DIGRESSION_MODE OFF$

Cheers,
DaveP 
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From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:19:38 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
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fkschmid@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frank Schmidt) writes:
>
>In TCOM you wrote about the discworld dynamics, but it's not
>clear where the sun is at noon. Directly over the center of DW
>or more headwards/tailwards ?

First of all, Frank, keep in mind that the Great and Worshipful Master of All
only posts to this group on a *very* occasional basis.  We can hope and pray
for a correction or an elucidation from Him, but we rarely get it.

As to your question, my best guess is as follows (get out your compass and
straight-edge, folx, we're about to do a little constructive geometry):

1.) Draw a circle, representing the Rim.  Call its center C (for "Cori
Celesti").

2.) Mark a point somewhere on or within this circle, representing the
observer's location.  Call that point P.

3.) Draw a line L1 passing through C, representing the sun's current orbital
track.  This may or may not pass through P (if it does, and P is not identical
to C, then it is one of the Summer Solstices for the observer at P).

4.) Construct a line L2 perpendicular to L1 passing through P.  Call its point
of intersection with L1 Q.

When the sun is directly overhead at Q, it is noon at P (and everywhere else
on line L2).  Note that "morning" will only be equal in length to "evening" on
the days of the Summer Solstices!

Please note that this is all just my personal opinion, and that I was mostly
asleep during high-school geometry class.  Also note that this solution works
only for the first chapter of TCOM, where the Rim has seasons, and does *not*
work for anything else, where the Rim is tropical throughout the year.

>*******Frank Schmidt**********fkschmid@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de*********

	Seth "the Lesser"

Seth L. Blumberg          \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
slb22@columbia.edu (play)   \ cancer in laboratory animals.  Therefore, please
sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ do not let your white rat read it.  Thank you.
   > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer)
Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:31:13 GMT

In article <1drrbhINNql0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> ST102315@brownvm.brown.edu () writes:
>
>p.30...Albert's stove has a plaque on it that says "The Little Moloch
>  (Ptntd)".  One of my friends told me that Moloch is a God of the
>  Underworld, but had no real specific information.  Does anyone else
>  have any?
>
Ahem. From "The Trusty Brewer's" (no Home should be without one):
Moloch: Any Influence which demands from  us the sacrifice  of what we
hold most  dear. Thus \Iwar\R is  a Moloch, \Iking  mob\R is a Moloch,
the \Iguillotine\R was  the Moloch of  the French Revolution, etc. The
allusion is to the god of the Ammonites, to whom  children  were "made
to pass through the fire" in sacrifice. Milton says he was "worshipped
in Rabba,  in  Argob, and  Basan,   to the stream   of  utmost Arnon."
(Paradise Lost, book i, 392-398)

No, I didn't know it was in there, I just had to look the bloody thing
up. Strikes me an on-line version of Brewer's would be dashed useful -
but  since it's 1324 pages  long I don't volunteer to  sit up over the
OCR... :-)

>p.32-35...refers to such stories as Karate Kid, where a young student
>  is given many menial tasks to perform, which are revealed to be
>  integral to his/her (OK, mostly his) education.
>
...not to mention such gems of literature as "Kung Fu" and "The Empire
Strikes Back".
>
>p.86..."They could pee through a dozen mattresses..."  Albert here mangles
>  a fairy tale.  Unfortunately, I can't remember how it goes.  Anyone?
>  Anyone?
>
"The real princess", one  of Hans Christian Anderson's   fairy talkes.
The way you could tell a real princess was that if  you placed *a*pea*
(the small round  vedgetable) under a dozen  matresses, which she then
slept on, she could still feel the pea...
>
>p.168..."When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-
>  deep slurry."  Something or someplace has a motto, "When you're
>  tired of ____, you're tired of life" or some such.
>
Dr Samuel Johnson, of Dictionary fame. "When a man is tired of London,
he is tired of Life", by which reckoning  I died about three years ago
:-)

-&



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From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Casting
Date: 5 Nov 92 08:54:43 GMT
Distribution: alt
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In <GNAT.92Nov5182854@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz> Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz writes:

>It is interesting to see the large numbers of posts by movie-going
>trendoids in America that want to cast the stars of the latest
>box-office media-hype megabuck earner as the relatively sane members
>of the Discworld.  I mean, "Arnie as Carrot" has got to rate up there
>with "I don't know why your TV doesn't go - have you tried licking the
>mains cables" and "let's cast an ex-president as the sensitive
>teenager in a movie adaptation of _The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole_"
>as the least thought-out suggestions ever.

Although, let us not forget that Mr. Schwarzenegger is Viennese, not
American.  (Actually, if you look at it one way, there are almost *no*
American actors--most are European in descent, at least).

I agree with the sentiments in the above paragraph, but I don't think
that I agree with the entire post.

>I still stick by my opinion that the majority of the parts should be
>cast to English actors, in order that the movie be funny (and not a
>disastrous flop, a-la the majority of barfacious "humorous" movies

Starring Dudley Moore?  :-P

And I don't think that a country that vomitted forth _The Benny Hill_
show has any right to brag about the general quality of the humor that
they produce.  :-)

Let us remember Sturgeon's Law:  90% of everything, roughly speaking, is
crap.  In the movie and television worlds, I think the percentage may be
closer to 99%.  I think that it would be amazing, and a pure fluke, if a
decent Discworld movie were made in any country, with actors and
actresses of any nationality.  The only reason that I'd even support the
making of such a movie is the fact that it would give Terry lots of
money, so he could have more leisure to write his books the way he
wants, rather than writing under pressure to pay bills.  I'm not sure
that I'd actually want to _see_ what a horror a movie company would make
of these fine books.

So, I say, go ahead and cast "Arnie" if it'll make more money for Terry.
-- 
Chris Waters    | the insane don't | "Don't you boys know NICE songs?"
xtifr@netcom.COM| need disclaimers |                 -- Joe's mama
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:28:15 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <1992Nov5.104424.1@vax1.tcd.ie> eaobrien@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>          . The other reason why I prefer Terry to Douglas is that Terry's
>   universe is basically a happy place. OK, so some of the funniest passages
>   rely on confusion and misunderstandings, but the DW books do have a very
>   cheerful tone. Even the villains are all either misguided (Coin) or not
>   quite sane (Felmet),  . . . . . .

But surely Felmet is not the *real* villain - he is just a catspaw.
-- 
John Francis                                 johnf@apollo.hp.com
with 9 cats to feed, I don't have time to think up a clever .sig
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From: matoh@lysator.liu.se (Mats \hrman)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v4.0, part 1 of 2
Reply-To: matoh@sssab.se
Organization: 3S AB
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:54:26 GMT

leo@unseen.u.A-M.edu (Leo Breebaart) writes:

>+ [p. 95] The names of the Fresh Start Club members.
>  Count Notfaroutoe refers to Count Nosferatu, but for the life of me I
>  can't recall who that was. Anybody? Furthermore I am pretty sure
>  'Lupine' is the French word for wolf. Ixolite somehow makes me think
>  of some kind of fuel, or am I reaching here?

Nosferatu is another well-known movie vampire from an early German
film by a famous director whose name I unfortunatly cannot remember
right now :-(. The joke is that he is more of the pure monster, not
the haughty noble. Sort of a working-class vampire...

>+ [p. 97] "Every full moon I turn into a wolfman. The rest of the time
>  I'm just a ... wolf."
>  There is a fantasy short story by a famous author [somehow Larry Niven
>  comes to mind. Anybody?] that has exactly the same idea for a punchline.

Peter David, over at r.a.comics (and the writer of Hulk and X-factor)
has written a novel, "Howling Mad" on this subject. 

-- 
     _
Mats Ohrman     E-mail:   matoh@lysator.liu.se.se
From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v4.0, part 1 of 2
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:08:20 GMT
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH


In article <1992Nov6.024019.10283@hellgate.utah.edu>,
speterse%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu writes:
|>
|>MOVING PICTURES
|>
|>
|>>+ [p. 28] "'[...] what is the name of the outer-dimensional monster whose
|>>  distinctive cry is 'Yerwhatyerwhatyerwhat'?' 'Yob Soddoth,' said Ponder
|>>  promptly."
|>
|>Also a blatant H.P. Lovecraft reference, to Yog Sotheth(?).  I don't know
|>Lovecraft well at all, except that YS is one of his many supernatural
|>nasties.

That's Yog-Sothoth.  Indeed one of the chief supernatural nasties in H. P.
Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos".  See especially the novel The Dunwich Horror.

--PSW

			Smile!  Cthulhu loathes you!
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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 01:13:20 GMT

In article <0R3SBF2G@cc.swarthmore.edu> nparkhu1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Nao Parkhurst) writes:

> So, Terry, you're saying that there is a small cafe directly over the
> centre of the Disc?

The Cafe at the Centre of the Earth :-)

Nat
(in reference to Douglas Adams' 2nd book)
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From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: Death in general
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:55:30 GMT


In article <1do57qINNngs@finch.doc.ic.ac.uk>,
jwh@doc.ic.ac.uk (James William Handley) writes:
|>
|>Don't know if any have you have seen Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, in which Bill &
|>Ted die, and play Death to get back to life...
|>
|>In Reaper Man (??) Death talks about playing Monopoly, and in B&T they play a
|>whole variety of board games, and I was just wondering which came first, or if it
|>was just parallel evolution???

Parallel evolution, I think.  Challenging Death to a game of chess (with one's
soul on the line) is a fairly old literary device.  Terry remarks on this in
one of the Discworld books (Sourcery?), where he says that Death does not like
to play chess because he can never remember how the knight's supposed to move.

--PSW
From: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (S.P.Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Actors for DW Film (was Re: new topic)
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:47:23 GMT
Reply-To: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (Stephen Thomas)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

In article <ano.721043083@reading> ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:
>nickles@sage.cc.purdue.edu (john a nickles) writes:
>> The Patrician: Patrick Stewart
>
>Hmmm, Jean-Luc Vetinari... has anyone seen him in anything other
>than ST:TNG?

Yes - he was Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's _Dune_, and he was also
Sejanus in the BBC's dramatisation of _I, Claudius_.

Keep well,

Stephen
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From: Richard.Dalton@newcastle.ac.uk (Richard Dalton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Last Starfighter
Date: 13 Nov 92 13:42:16 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

D.M.Jones@newcastle.ac.uk (D.M. Jones) writes:


>In article <721406214.27609@minster.york.ac.uk>, car-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>>I don't know if anyone particularly remembers The Last Starfighter.  While the
>>film itself WAS pretty crap, the graphics were absolutely spectacular - for 
>>thier time.  All of the space-flight and combat sequences were computer graphics
>>and I seem to remember them being astonishingly seamless.  I read somewhere that
>>they actually constructed and animated all of the sequnces using a CAD program 
>>and then fed it all into a ray-tracer/rendering system.  Apparently it took some
>>super-fast computer (well fast in those days) over three weeks solid processing 
>>to finish about 25 minutes of animation.  Just thought I'd bring that one up.
>>
>>The film wasn't entirely crap - 25 minutes of it was worth watching.  It wasn't 
>>at all funny, though, so Terry can do nothing but improve on it.
>> 
>>Chris Reece.

>	Having read about the making of this film in Computer and Video Games, 
> I remember that the graphics were generated upon a CRAY supercomputer. Even 
> though technology has improved quite a bit, this machine still stands up as 
> one of the fastest machines in the world, retailing at well over 1 million 
> pounds, give or take. In fact CRAY have got to the stage where to make the 
> computer any faster they have to move the components closer together so that 
> the digital signals don't have to travel as far and so can get to their 
> destination in a shorter time
>

Yeah don't they build them in a horse shoe shape now to minimise the 
distance and supercool them with liquid nitrogen?

	Rich 'Z'

P.S. Why weren't there any line feeds in this article?


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From: mimi@ssd.intel.com (Mary-Suzanne King)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Yet Another Re: Actor for DW films
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:40:09 GMT
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel

Hello, All. Greetings from the underbelly of humanity...

I haven't got all the way through all of the suggestions for actors...
(I do have a job, I should be working!) but here is my $.02...
...Partly re-iterated, partly my own thoughts. Bear in mind that I'm in 
Portland, Oregon, USA, so my knowledge of british actors is limited to
what filters through on PBS. I do agree, it should be predominately british...

First of all, under NO circumstances should Winona Ryder be anywhere 
NEAR this, unless she is dismembered in the first scene by the Luggage..
Same goes for Arnie S.  (IMHO)

Second, and needless to say, ROWAN ATKINSON IS A MUST!
As is: Tony Robinson, Tom Baker, and Whoopi Goldburg (Yeah, that might 
be difficult... Maybe the Illustrious One can write Guinan into the script...
...NO FLAMES! IT WAS A JOKE!)

Here's my other $.01:

CMOTD:     Bob Hoskins, Robert DeNiro (Brazil!), D.Devito, Joe Pesci

Rincewind: Rowan Atkinson. Definately. IMHO.

Gran's Ogg and W.Wax:
           the old lady in "Waiting For God," Mollie Sudgen, or
           Margaret Thatcher (she needs a new career, right?)

Eric:      How about the kid who played Pitt the Younger?

Death:     I agree with Jeff Goldblum...

Patrician: Peter O-Toole

Twoflower: Bob Hoskins, John Candy

Reg Shoe:  I TOTALLY agree with whoever said Michael Palin.

Librarian: Bill Clinton... but he couldn't really bring the integrity
           or intellegence that the part needs... 
           Can he even peel a banana with his feet???

I have two other ideas, but they're both pretty useless. 
First is Mort: my friend Fred looks and acts JUST like Mort. 
unfortunately, he's an Avian Science major, not an actor, and he won't 
read ANYTHING unless Tolkien wrote it. 
Second is Herrena the H.H.H.: ME! I WANT TO BE A HARRIDAN! 
Sorry, had to be said. Staring at this screen all day doesn't release 
any of my pent-up aggrivations.


On a stupid yet distantly related string, who would YOU want to play?

(YES, I WAS ONCE A THEATRE MAJOR! LET ME GET ON WITH MY LIFE!)


             Ouch the Assasin
   Dirty Deeds...        ...Done Dirt Cheap
From: ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Time travel (was Re: Discworld, Orbits and (probably) old threads)
Date: 9 Nov 92 09:31:07 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk (Keith Jackson) writes:


>In article <1992Nov4.132527.16971@ugle.unit.no>, eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen) writes:
>>Time travel, huh?  What about the librarian in Guards!  Guards! - doesn't HE go
>>back in time?

>No, he travels in L-space between the libraries.

Yes he does. He uses L-space to get back in time to the same library
a week before. That way he could read the book before it was stolen,
then follow the thief.


<<  Adrian Ogden -- "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat" -- ano@csres.cs.rdg.ac.uk  >>
From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re:  Suns, orbits, & all that
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:11:15 GMT+12
Distribution: world
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, NZ

In article <Bx57xt.Bws@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ccamfiel@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Christopher Camfield) writes:
>In article <alien.00o4@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
>>It's well established that the outer rim of the Discworld is tropical while
>>the hub (around Dunmanifestin) is polar. But it should be the other way
>>around -- on average, the sun is closer to the centre than any point on
>>the rim, so the centre should be warmer. (I worked this out years ago
>>after I first read "Strata"; I remember the general result but I've long
>>since lost the actual calculations.)
>>
>I thought about it too (no calculations though) ... but wouldn't it depend
>on whether the sun travels in a semi-circle over the disk?  What if it was
>a high parabola? :)

Well, strictly speaking, it can't be a parabola because that's an open curve,
not a closed loop ... how many Pedant Points do I get? :-)

I could imagine it travelling in an eccentric ellipse, though, and that
would also solve another problem. Most of the system's mass is obviously
in Great A'tuin, not the Disc itself, so the centre of the Sun's orbit
should be inside A'tuin's shell, well below the centre of the Disc. If the
sun's orbit is circular, it would be above the Disc's horizon for much less
than half of each day. But that problem can be solved by a carefully chosen
elliptical orbit.

This may be an interesting point of discussion for us scientific types, but
we should keep in mind that Terry is writing humorous fantasy, not hard SF.
He's under no obligation to be bound by anything as dull and boring as the
laws of physics if he doesn't feel like it :-)

Still, all this stuff about orbits and so on is fun if we don't take it
too seriously. I'll do some more calculations and get back to the Net with
the results...


--
...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
                  "Sir, trust me. My whole case hinges on
               proving you're a dork." (Kryten, "Red Dwarf")
From: jwh@doc.ic.ac.uk (James William Handley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
Date: 12 Nov 1992 13:53:47 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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In article <BxKBAt.Cow@ns1.nodak.edu>, hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
|>  
|> <|> Where is the sun at noon?
|> <|> 
|> <|> There are two answers.
|> <|> 
|> <|> A) It's directly over the centre of the Disc;
|> <|> B) it's in a small cafe.
|> <|> 
|> <Does this mean it's in a seedy tavern in the Shades at midnight? ;-)
|> 
|> No. This means it has a power lunch with some of the more skilled wizards
|> at the Unseen Cafe.
|> 
Unseen presumably 'cos the sun's inside shining out, as opposed to vice versa?

;-)

			James
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