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From: dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Yorklings unite
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:07:18 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

In article <727463191.4042@minster.york.ac.uk> car-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>PUBLIC APOLOGY:
>
>...sorry Zog
>
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	Hmm, there do seem to be a lot of us York peeple on this newsgroup,
but then again, knowing our mailer, I doubt that anything we say reaches
the outside world anyway (our mailer seems to have a censorship daemon running
on it - anything produced by a york student is just not worth reading.

	Doug.

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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Puff, the Magic Drag-On ?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:45:31 GMT

ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox) writes:

>Eccles (damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
>> [Re: Truth to songs]
>> 
>> And most people know that a certain children's song has 
>> more blood and gore in it than your usual Freddy movie....
>> 
>> I leave the title as an exercise for the student.
>>

>Hi there, I'm a student.

>Do you mean Hickory Dockory Dock (all about guillotines) or 
>Ring A Ring O' Roses (the black death)?

I meant ring a ring o' roses...... what do you mean you think I
couldn't remember the name? Blasphemy.

T.F. Eccles
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Planet Urrhghth (was: Frying Duck, or something)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:19:29 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
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car-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:

>And another thing, how come all those space aliens out there call
>thier planet Zak or Quargotron or Jpimpzxx, not Earth or Home or
>something a bit more logical like that?  And why do there names 
>always contain rather too many Zs and Qs and Xs?  Probably so's
>they can get very high Scrabble scores.

"Earth" may not sound very impressive to YOU.  It always did to ME.  I
always thought that when an alien asked me what my planet was called I
could be proud to call it Earth.  Of course there's sf-short stories
that tell us a different version of such a dialog:

"What's the name of that planet of yours again?  "Urf?"  Sounds like a
sexual disease!"  Soldier in "Ngang Xtuk"
				    ^
This was explained to be a peculiar transcription, pronounced "sh."


May the Quul Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxciii
"Melmac!  That's the name of my planet.  'T's also what it was made of."
Alf
From: S_MARTIN@IRAV19.ira.uka.de (|S| Ralf Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Herne the Hunted (annotation request
Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:14:57 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In <damiene.728185427@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

> Stuart_Foster@kcbbs.gen.nz (Stuart Foster) writes:
> 
> >> I still want to know how they got that great curved sword out of the  
> >> scabbard that was thinner at the top than the blade.....  
> >>  
> >  
> >Was it a magic sword ??  
> 
> Stop that, thats silly :)
> 
> Eccles
> 

No my dear,this is one of the fundamental questions to ask if we are to
understand the time of the crusades.
You see ,that kind of scabbard was suposedly invented by the great craftsman
Abdul "The only real great craftsman" ben Abitch (the term ben meaning"son of")
to be used against the first crusaders.
The idea is that every crusader seeing a saracen with his scimitar in such a 
scabbard says "By Santa Catarina,the saint virgin of blondes and students,
blessed with an infinit emptiness of the brain,and her 73 children, all
saints in their own right(but nowhere else),what easy prey."
And then,when the crusader stands there,blade above his head and a long speech
of "why all those unbelievers must be vanquished" upon his lips,the scimitar
comes out and ZIP ,one more mark on the handle.
Err,you wanted the actual trick?
Sorry ,old family secret.

Ralf

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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Loyalist Opinions
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:56:57 GMT

dharding@pollux.lssec.bt.co.uk (Derek Harding) writes:

>In article <leo.727521324@draconis>, leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:

>|> Oh well, it takes all kinds I suppose.

>Mmm, I think I could also be in a minority.

>I was disappointed with Moving Pictures, loved Pyramids, liked Witches Abroad, 
>was
>mildly amused by Small Gods and really enjoyed Lords and Ladies.

Loved them all, different amounts of humour in each tho....
Small Gods wasn't as funny as the rest, but it had a _brilliant_ story
Any book that manages to give me goosebumps is a good one by me.
Then again, any magic does that for some reason (I hate Craig Shaw gardener
so be warned),

>So, are they going to come and take me away or wot?
Yes, you let the was in you sentance go around the page :)

eCCLES
sIGH
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Small Gods & Lords and Ladies
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:09:28 GMT

neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s)) writes:

>Quetzal writes (types actually)
>>Yep, It's on again.  Might I mention that the only Test match so far
>>*not* to be marred by rain was the one in *Melbourne*?

>Well might I mention that the only test match where you saw any decent
>batting displays was in Sydney. And anyway the sydney test was not marred by
>rain, and test match where both sides score over 500 in the first innings,
>obvioulsy wasn't marred by rain.

Wasn't markled by any skill either.

Eccles aka I love personal flame wars on a newsgroup, 'bout you?
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Subject: Re: Herne the Hunted (annotation request
From: Stuart_Foster@kcbbs.gen.nz (Stuart Foster)
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:11:40 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

> I still want to know how they got that great curved sword out of the  
> scabbard that was thinner at the top than the blade.....  
>  
> Eccles  
  
Was it a magic sword ??
From: S_MARTIN@IRAV19.ira.uka.de (|S| Ralf Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Endless Discworld
Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:43:12 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In <memo.900662@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:

> I've had one of thoese mailings hwere the author says, why not answer in
> a.f.p rather than privately 'cos other'll want to know...so...
> 
> Question was: do the publishers force me to write DW books? (the subtext
> being, we'd like you to do other stuff). And the answer is, no, you can't
> work like that. It works the other way round -- I say I'm planning two more,
> they say, fine, here's a contract.  The DW is sufficiently big and vague that
> it can cover Small Gods and Eric, so I've got a wide field to work in.
> But...I'll say here again...the days of twice-yearly DW books have probably
> gone. I'm still planning to write them regularly, in fact publishing
> schedules might end up bringing out two in a year, but I want to do other
> stuff as well. The fact is that each DW book sells more than the one before,
> and the backlist sales keep on rising.  I don't write DW _because_ of this,
> but it suggests that there's a readership out there.  I can't imagine how
> anyone can be _forced_ to write a book.
> 
> Terry

Well,I guess you never read this Book by Steven King titled "Misery"
or seen the film by Rob Rainer.
It's about an author who thinks "Well,I've written enough books about that
theme,I gona let the hero die." and that insane Fan (sounds familiar?)
who finds him on her doorstep after a car-crash and keeps him in her
cottage until he writes a sequel,breaking his legs so he can't flee
and such things.
But such things happening are a chance of one to a million(..GRINN..)
After all, I'm sure your fans(thats us guys 'n girls) have got more
fantasy.

Ralf

PS:Did'ya know that your german publisher had a competition(thanks to MTV
that I remembered that word) running where you could win a first grade
from the Unseen University ?
Now I'm a full blown Discworld Wizard cause I knew the name of that
BIG turtle.
After all they didn't supply a hat.
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From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: (Robin Hood Robin Hood riding through the glen.. (was Re: Herne the Hunted (annotation request)
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:57:02 GMT
	<1993Jan19.224828@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>
Distribution: alt.fan.pratchett
Organization: Information Engineering
In-reply-to: stevensm@p4.cs.man.ac.uk's message of 19 Jan 93 22:48:28 GMT

>Regarding Re: Herne the Hunted (annotation request; stevensm@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Mik Stevens) adds:

 > In article <1jh1ooINNm53@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, cstadgs@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R J Tinsley) writes:
 > |> In article <memo.875596@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
 > |> >The bit which really creased up the (British) audience when
 > |> >I saw it was when Robin comes ashore at Dover and says something like
 > |> >"Gazooks, we will be at my father's castle ere nighfall!"  Um.  In a Porsche,
 > |> >maybe.
 > |> 
 > |> Naah! It was the politically-correct token black guy that really
 > |> had us going. :-)
 > |> 
 > |> -Bob

 > Artistic license going too far.
 > Alan Rickman was quite good though.

 Alan Rickman was the *only* good thing.
 Best line of the film: "And cancel Christmas!"!

 And before anyone else says so: is this the place to talk about films?

 > mik

 Paul
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From: car-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: jpimppxz
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:07:44 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal) writes:

>In <727462427.3634@minster.york.ac.uk> car-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:

>>And another thing, how come all those space aliens out there call
>>thier planet Zak or Quargotron or Jpimpzxx, not Earth or Home or
>>something a bit more logical like that?  And why do there names 
>>always contain rather too many Zs and Qs and Xs?  Probably so's
>>they can get very high Scrabble scores.

>Maybe "Jpimpzxx" *means* "Earth" in their language?

>>Hang on, you can't use proper names in Scrabble...

>Ahhh... but *lower* case "jpimpzxx" means "soil", doesn't it?  So that's
>allowed.

>Tim Pickett

BUT...  They always say -- in halting, monotonous English -- "Greetings
Earthlings, we are from planet Zapzoinggm".  Hmm...  I've forgotten the
point I was going to make.

I'll get back to you on that...

The Stabilizer

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From: Edward Julian Craft <e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk>
Subject: N. Rhymes
X-Xxdate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:54:28 GMT
Organization: Aston University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:47:42 GMT


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.

																																				Edward.
(why bother with a sig ?)
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From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Subject: Re: Yorklings unite
Reply-To: dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:02:55 GMT

In article <727643237.17697@minster.york.ac.uk> dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>In article <727463191.4042@minster.york.ac.uk> car-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>>PUBLIC APOLOGY:
>>
>>...sorry Zog
>>
>>|***car-a@minster.york.ac.uk*************************BEEP(1,5)***|
>
>	Hmm, there do seem to be a lot of us York peeple on this newsgroup,
>but then again, knowing our mailer, I doubt that anything we say reaches
>the outside world anyway (our mailer seems to have a censorship daemon running
>on it - anything produced by a york student is just not worth reading.
>

They seem to get as far as Cambridge, and I think that our newsfeed is
fairly uncensored. But you'd be surprised the amount of sheer cr*p
that occasionally arrives from Australia, or maybe you wouldn't. :)

I just want to know whether york has any local newsgroups where people
can post public apologies, rather than sending them out into the wide
world? IAMFI as we have such things here in Cambridge.

Donal.
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If the opinions above are anyone else's, that's their problem.
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From: Edward Julian Craft <e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk>
Subject: N.Rhymes formatting
X-Xxdate: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:40:29 GMT
Organization: Aston University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:33:38 GMT


Many apologies to all those narked by the previous message ( about
Nursery Rhymes ) being more that 80 columns wide. 

The problem is that my terminal ( although 80 cols also ) does strange
things with tab spacing. I try to remember this and use spaces instead
but sometimes I forget.

Hope no-one was too put out.

I'm spending the afternoon walking around on my knees as a pennance :-).

                                                                   Edward.
(Wrote this message once, realised I'd used tabs again, trashed it and
started again. Isn't it sad when you don't even learn from your own
mistakes any more ?)
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From: geoffl@kells.demon.co.uk (Geoff Landergan)
Subject: Re: Witches Abroad now available in US 
Distribution: world
Organization: Kells Consultancy
Reply-To: geoffl@kells.demon.co.uk
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:06:09 +0000

In article <C1IwHu.Eo8@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com> twood@windward.it.uswc.uswest.com writes:

>  at the top of every lefthand page, it is spelt Terry Prachett. This
>  made me look through my other books and in Moving Pictures it is spelt
>  Terry Pratchet. Some proofreader they must have at Roc!

You're not kidding - they're both wrong!  Bring back Gollancz eh?

-- 
      Geoff Landergan                         geoffl@kells.demon.co.uk
      Mitcham, Surrey, UK
      +44 81 646 2605
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Just a long note *&)                    
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:25:00 +0000

All right, if you WANT to send personal emails in a.f.p. (hope you remember
the answers, because cutting and pasting the questions on this otherwise nice
OLR is a pain):
1) Yes.  My god, yes.
2) No.
3) None.
4) There's a rather nice shop in Walcot Street, Bath, that orders them
specially for me.
5) 1973

No, all those who DON'T know the questions -- just think of the fun you'll
have making them up.

More seriously: as it says in the faq, I'm giving up on the 'someone gave me
this email address, are you TP or what?' emails, because there are too many
and what exactly is the point?  But stuff that has some relationship to real
life gets an answer, usually.

Terry (who's had to buy another 500 meg hard drive).
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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich 'mcmxciibo' Holmes)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 2 of 3
Followup-To: alt.fan.pratchett
In-reply-to: leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:12:47 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:31:08 EST

In article <1993Jan24.231247.22674@dutrun2.tudelft.nl> leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:

[Witches Abroad]
>- [p. 252] "But they went the long way, and saw the elephant."
>
>  This bit is apparently borrowed from Fritz Leiber's Hugo award winning
>  novelette "Gonna Roll The Bones" (which title inspired the rock band Rush
>  to record an album called "Roll The Bones". Fascinating, huh?).
>
>  [ I'd like more precise info on this, by the way. We know that Terry
>  reads Leiber, so this is entirely possible, but I myself have never read
>  this particular Leiber story, so I don't know just where the similarity
>  lies. ]

The story (which is excellent, by the way) ends:

    Then he turned and headed straight for home, but he took the long
  way, around the world.

I dunno -- this could be fortuitous. It's just different enough to
make me wonder if the similarity was unintentional. Still, Pratchett's
ending certainly did remind me of Leiber's.

--
- Rich "mcmxciibo" Holmes
"Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of
accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave
like this." -- Douglas Adams
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From: twood@windward.it.uswc.uswest.com (Tim Woodward)
Subject: Pratchett SFBC number wanted
Organization: U S WEST Information Technologies
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:43:21 GMT

  I need the Science Fiction Book Club numbers for any of the Terry
  Pratchett books that they offer. If any one could supply this information
  I would be grateful. 

  Thanks

  Tim Woodward
From: d0chris@dtek.chalmers.se (Christer Borang)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Terry Pratchett Bibliography
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:53:36 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge) writes:
[zap]
>Three of my friends have just asked me to submit proxy votes on their behalf.
>And they all vote for ae, aa, oe. So it's 4-3 to the ae,aa,oe's.  :-)))

I vote for }{|, and I definately vote for lines that are 80 or below
characters long.

>Ben.

//Christer
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Det finns inget som g|r kvinnor s} vackra som alkohol och st{ngningsdags...
From: oscar@maths.tcd.ie (Owen Carter)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Luggage (Where is it!!)
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:44:03 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

nealk@maths.tcd.ie (Neal Kidson) writes:


>We can be found in
>         A padded Room InA
>           Large Steel Box
>             Somewhere in Europe


>ALL HAIL THE LUGGAGE!

>NK Enterprises Inc. (tm)

>P.S. Owen (ok owen stop twisting my arm, I'll put oscar@maths.tcd.ie in)
> who is sitting besideme as I spew this stuff, agrees with me.

>P.P.S Does anyone know who Owen is? 



>     Oi!! Who nicked my sig!!??!?

Yes! Owen is here! Call the papers! Tell the National Guard!
Someone phone the president!

P.S. wanna buy a sig, no questions asked? Cheap!
Only slightly shop-soiled...
 
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Small Gods & Lords and Ladies
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:32:17 GMT

neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s)) writes:

>On the subject of encyclopedia salseman, my 'armchair anarchist almanac'
>has this to say about them
>"invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell
>them your house is being burgled"
>The AAA is by mike harding and well worth a read. (It got me thrown
>out of a couple of lectures for causing the entire back of the
>lecture to burst out laughing.

*giggle* Well, I thought of thje salesman lark while reading Sourcery 
in a CS lecture, does that count?


>P.S Taking the piss out of physicists is done best by
>mad demented physicist honours students, mere amatures
>don't stand a chance.

No, its best done by two lunatics - one a science/Cs student, who will
read anything anytime, and understand enough to completely cock up
an explanation, and the other a Science Engineering Student who sits there
and adds the technical details L)(

>P.P.S try comparing the one day finial in sydney with the
>one in melbourne and you will see that melbourne doesn't
>have a pitch worthy of a b grade side in the middle of
>a desert.
Right, thats it. Its on again. Well you can tell Sydney's real
exciting, when people go there to play Bridge at each other.
Why not just go to Adelaide and play Trivial Pursuit on New
Years Eve, or go to Hobart.... and... um.... there must be something
to do there?

Eccles
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:47:00 EST
From: <CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: REPOST cripple_mr_onion
Distribution: world

That's all great. But what ARE the '13 winning hands'. HOW do you group the
cards. What exactly IS crippling.

--Craig D.

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From: neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s))
Subject: Re: My tuppence
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:18:32 GMT

>Knowledge transmitted b/w students in the form of books.
>Walked in there with a library once, came out with a novel.
>
>Eccles

Walking into lectures with about 6 book of Larson cartoons
generally means 
a) totally disrupting the lecture
b)walking out with only 1 or 2 if you are lucky

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From: vamplew@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Peter Vamplew)
Subject: Moving Pictures inconsistency?
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:17:45 GMT

The recent discussion on the relative merits of TP's novels prompted
me to start re-reading Moving Pictures last night, whereupon I stumbled
across the following passages which seem to me to be rather contradictory.
(Apologies if this has already been covered in the APF - I haven't got a
recent copy of that venerable file).

On page 20 the Bursar is discussing the shortcomings of the new Archancellor:

"And he ordered beer with his breakfast.
 And told *jokes*" (jokes is in italics, as if to emphasise the absolute
 horror inspired by such an unsavoury habit).

Then on page 32 we have the following conversation after the Bursar has
made a pun on the word "fit":

"The Archchancellor gave him a look so old-fashioned it might have 
 belonged to an ammonite.
 'That a joke?" he said, in the suspicious tones of someone who really 
 wouldn't understand the term 'sense of humour' even if you sat down for an
 hour and explained it to him with diagrams.
'I was just making an observation, Master' said the Bursar cautiously.
The Archchancellor shook his head. 'Can't stand jokes. Can't stand chaps 
goin' around tryin' to be funny the whole time' "

I'm confused (even more so than usual). Who is it that actually dislikes
jokes, and who is it that tells them? Or do the two just have a different
definition of what a joke actually is? Any explanations? Terry?

Peter the Perpetually Perplexed

Lords of Coincidence - Assasin's Guide - Rule 22:
"No matter how worthy or devoted to the cause he may have been, a man who
 is drowned in custard will never be considered a martyr."
--
Peter Vamplew     Dept of Computer Science, Uni of Tasmania
"The second hand moves very quickly, the minute hand moves
 a bit more slowly, and the hour hand moves not much at all"
- results of a time and motion study by Reg the Slayer
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