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From: ebu@snakemail.hut.fi (Erik Bunn)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Trolls gots rocks in the head!
Date: 31 Dec 92 11:49:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: jschmidt@oolong.Tymnet.COM's message of 23 Dec 92 02:10:52 GMT

jschmidt@oolong.Tymnet.COM (John Schmidt) writes:


>Yah, well, it's known.  But what do they have in their veins?  What do
>they have in their bowels?  And why is troll love best expressed with
>a club on the head (from Moving Pictures)?  


Umm... a pietzoelectric effect, perhaps? Compare to endorphines in
humans; the troll way would be very convenient, too.

But will the amorous troll bash himself on the head right before
going for the hit? What about troll couples - do they lie in bed at night,
whacking each other with clubs, thus ascertaining each other of their
lasting love?

What about electric chairs?


//Erik
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From: chris@xerox.com (Chris Heiny 73186 - SETA)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: American covers
Date: 21 Dec 92 12:57:05 GMT
Reply-To: chris@xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Corporation, Webster NY


The first few books issued in the US had the Kirby Covers.  The more recent
volumes have D. K. Sweet paintings on them.  Sweet, while talented, has a
tendency towards the garish - I liked the style of the Kirby covers a lot better.

If I can figure out how to use our scanner, I'll try to scan some in so folks 
can compare.

						Chris
From: Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: A'Tuin is Male...?
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:55:03 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

Michael.Norrish@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Norrish) writes:

>>>>>> On 21 Dec 92 16:06:59 GMT, ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy
>>>>>> 4th Year iE/CES) said:

>>  hmm, what about the four elephants?  If they get a bit (ahem)
>>  frisky, do they cause discquakes?
>>  

>Nah, the elephants were fixed at an early age by an anonymous vet with
>considerable foresight.

	...and two _very_ large bricks. ;-)

				Ade.
		\----------------------------------------/
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From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Annotation: inconsistencies
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:41:22 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <alien.020x@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>, alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
> In article <724488866snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:
>>Leo, please add to the list of known inconsistencies Nanny Ogg's annual bath:
>>
>>In "Witches Abroad", p.154 (Corgi pbk edition), Granny refers to Nanny
>>Ogg's proposal to take a bath with the words "My word, doesn't autumn
>>roll around quickly". But on page 128 of Lords and Ladies, as Nanny
>>takes a bath after manhandling the captured Elf, we read: "'But it ain't
>>April!', neighbours told themselves..."
> 
> That's typical ignorant northernhemisphereism, that is :-)
> 

Hmmm, I thought I read somewhere (probably in TCOM or TLF) that each season
occurs twice on the DiscWorld because of the hideously complicated orbit of the
sun around the disc and the rotation of the disc. (Of course I may be wrong,
it's at least 3 weeks since I last read either of them - I've been too busy
with my copy of L&L 8-) )

> 
> --
> ...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
-- 
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: TP research                             
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:08:00 +0000

This is a question for all you godless scientists out there:

Bearing in mind the following, which has been established before or will be
established in Men At Arms (first draft finished, hurray!): trolls are
silicon-based and their brains remsemble computers rather more than our
brains do -- THEN
What is the troll equivalent of a drug?
What is the troll equivalent of alcohol?

I think maybe we'd be looking for some kind of chemical impurity found in
silicon -- what causes a batch of silicon to be discarded?  We need something
that theoretically disorientates/mildly poisons in small quantities and kills
in larger amounts?  (And it needs to be a substance -- not just heat, which
I'm already using in the book)  It would be NICE if its something
commonplace, like the sour milk 'drug' in Alien Nation.

Since I know there's experts of everything out there, let discussion
commence!

Terry
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: Stealing TP books, playing muds
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:05:00 GMT

In <damiene.724986850@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:

>Mine disappear constantly.... they come back eventually, but a lot
>of the time I don't seem to have them..... currently the majority
>of my collection is 400kms away, eastwise (wow! thats almost NZ :))

Ahhh.....  Drouin

>Eccles
Quetzal
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From: jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner)
Subject: Map
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:48:26 GMT
Summary: Is there a map?
Keywords: map discworld

None of the editions I've seen in Oz (and we're up to "Small Gods")
has a map of the Discworld in it. Is there such a thing? It woukd be
good to figure out Klatch in relation to Ankh, Tsort  Ephebe. And
where is Quirm?

-- 
Jim Garner B.Math (Newcastle NSW Australia) - jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au
From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: A'Tuin is Male...?
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:06:59 GMT
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In-reply-to: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu's message of 16 Dec 92 22:27:12 GMT

>Regarding Re: A'Tuin is Male...?; garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton) adds:
 > Nntp-Posting-Host: jeeves.ucsd.edu

>>Counter thought....
>>Didn't SHE go to watch her eggs hatch (or lay here eggs or something which
>>slips my mind just at the moment...) in The Light Fantastic????
>>Only female turtles lay eggs as far as I know...
>>Paul

 > So the point of this all is that I don't know anything about
 > astrochelonians ..... maybe they're asexual .... ?

 > Simon

 hmm, what about the four elephants? 
 If they get a bit (ahem) frisky, do they cause discquakes?
 

 Paul
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From: hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP is OZ 
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 05:59:47 GMT
Organization: Lethargy Inc.


In article <10762949.6.725086764@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> 
10762949@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au writes:

  > What~!!
  > People who like Lehrer!!
  > Amazing!!!

Alt.fan.lehrer anyone?

 ----------------------------------------------
 Phil Anderson  ***  hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz
 ----------------------------------------------
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Like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby -
Re-reading Lady Chatterly."
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: Mort and Reaper Man
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:37:52 +0000

In article <memo.821380@cix.compulink.co.uk> kjackson@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>The doggerel is spoken around here with the word 'wake' instead of thick 
>(strong i'th'yarm 'n wake i'th'yead) but there's the rub. Wake could be 
>(a)wake or weak, as both would end up with a similar pronunciation.

Or it could be a third word such as the one I mentioned, as recently
discussed in sci.lang. I regret that I've only saved the tail end of the
thread there, but someone far more learned than I quoted Digital Webster
as saying:

> 2 wight adj [ME, of Scand origin; akin to ON vigr skilled in fighting (neut.

and later said:
>Back to _wight_: I don't have my Pokorny at hand, but I think we may safely
>separate it from both of these roots on semantic grounds alone.  It is
>probably cognate with Latin _vi-n-co_ 'conquer' and Lithuanian _vigrus_,
>_viglas_ 'rapid, mobile, skilled' ...

It would seem to me that "wake", or "wick" as I heard it, might easily
be derived from "wight" ...

N.
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 23 Dec 92 09:44:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <SSAMMY.92Dec22222730@fleming-03.cs.strath.ac.uk>, ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES) writes:
>
> What about magnetic lodestones? Not strictly analogous to a real-world
> computer though...maybe the Trolls' memory is based on magnetic coils?

I like this. Magnetism seems common enough, and it would certainly
confuse a computer if magnets were swirled around the innards.

I'd say that naturally occuring lodestones would be a drug somewhat
like alcohol. Maybe trollish chemists could create more potent forms
in the laboratories . . .

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   ("He's having a magnetic field day!"  -the kid on the really bad
animated show 'Frankenstein Jr.')
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From: jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner)
Subject: Re: Map
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 13:05:33 GMT

berry@ccsua.ctstateu.edu writes:

|In article <1992Dec30.174826.14652@scorch.apana.org.au>, jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner) writes:
|> None of the editions I've seen in Oz (and we're up to "Small Gods")
|> has a map of the Discworld in it. Is there such a thing? It woukd be

|SORRY I MET TERRY PRATTCHET AT A CONVENTION,I ASKED HIM THE SAME QUESTION.
|THE ONLY MAP THAT EXSISTES IS ON HIS WALL IN ENGLAND 

(Thanks but there's no need to shout)

That's a bit mean of you, TP! A bit like Feanor hoarding the Silmarils
and not letting anyone see them. And look what happened to him.
Give us a clue, does it look like a pie chart. Or more like a
pepperoni pizza with countries like patches?

You probably don't want matters like this taken as seriously as middle
earth fans do. But I'm thinking of travelling there (as soon as I can
find some suitable luggage) and don't want to get lost.

-- 
Jim Garner B.Math (Newcastle NSW Australia) - jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au

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From: Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Onno Meyer)
Subject: Re: Annotation: inconsistencies
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:38:47 GMT

rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:

>Yes, well, that's where my thesis falls to the ground. Or I assume it
>does... I don't have G!G! at hand to verify.

>OK, who's got all the DW novels on disk and can grep for all
>references to months? (I know *one* of you guys does... :-) )

>(Maybe Grune is the 32-day month left over when the rest of the year
>is partitioned into 64-day months?)

>(Maybe it's the dwarvish name for February?)

>(Maybe Carrot thinks "J" is pronounced "Gr"?)

In the german translation, they write "Gruni". That would support the
last suggestion.
>--
>- Rich 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: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Re: TP research                         
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:32:00 +0000

I like the idea of trolls haning around outside schools trying to hook young
trolls on boron ('Dis are yore brane.  Dis are your brane on boron
phosphide'...) The trouble with radiation and electricity, as Niven pointed
out re 'wireheads', is that they're free...economically, a good drug is
something hard to come by.

Which reminds me that I always used to grin at that regular bit on cop films
where the cop finds the mysterious packages of powder, dips a finger in, and
says, "Yep, that sure is..." whatever.  I'm waiting for the time when he dips
in the finger and says "Yep, that sure is...weedle aaargh oink..."

Terry
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: TP research                             
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:35:13 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <memo.825134@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>This is a question for all you godless scientists out there:
>
>Bearing in mind the following, which has been established before or will be
>established in Men At Arms (first draft finished, hurray!): trolls are
>silicon-based and their brains remsemble computers rather more than our
>brains do -- THEN
>What is the troll equivalent of a drug?
>What is the troll equivalent of alcohol?
>
>I think maybe we'd be looking for some kind of chemical impurity found in
>silicon -- what causes a batch of silicon to be discarded?  We need something
>that theoretically disorientates/mildly poisons in small quantities and kills
>in larger amounts?  (And it needs to be a substance -- not just heat, which
>I'm already using in the book)  It would be NICE if its something
>commonplace, like the sour milk 'drug' in Alien Nation.

The most obvious impurities found in silicon would be the ones that cause
silicon to function as a semiconductor in the first place. [Examples would
be Phosphorus and Alumin(i)um].  Presumable excesive quantities of these
additives would interfere with the functioning of semiconductor devices.
Bearing in mind the fact that addition of these elements to silicon is
refered to as 'doping', I think we have found the troll equivalent of a drug.

so we have the following rules for trolls:

    1)  Stay away from matches

    2)  Don't cook in Aluminium vessels.

        (Apparently a good idea for humans too, acoording to some doctors).
-- 
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:20:28 GMT

barretpj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett) writes:

>OK, found it now. One more WA annotation - not particularly Earth-shattering,
>but maybe worthy of inclusion.

>p30 (UK Paperback), "You can't get the wood" - this was Henry Crun's
>excuse for not actually building anything he'd invented, in the Goon Show.

Or you can't get the anything, really :)
My favorite was
Henry: He can't get the wood either.
Ned: What does he do?
Henry: He's an undertaker. He has to put them in cardboard boxes 

Or summin like that :)

Eccles
From: pooh@brokendrum.stack.urc.tue.nl
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Translations
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:48:01 GMT
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klaus@snarc.gold.sub.org (Klaus Weidner) writes:
>I think that the german translation doesn't do justice to Terry's
>style. I read the german version of `Pyramids' a year ago and wasn't 
>very impressed by the book, but I loved the english ones I read later
>on.

Recently I found the Dutch translation of a Discworld book in the shops,
the Dutch translation of 'Sourcery', called 'Betoverind'. This
translation is really very good, and although I have all books in English,
I _am_ reading the translated version now, and I'm enjoying it.

I usually do not like translated books (unless the original language is
Swahili or some other language I don't understand) but this Discworld
novel is translated by someone who knows the series very well.

pooh
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Re: Map                                 
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:46:00 +0000

There is NO map of the DW.  But there IS a map of Ankh-Morpork, which is
largely the work of Stephen Briggs, who has been working on it for months,
and sending me bits and pieces for comment and occasional adjustment.  He
just checking a draft of Men At Arms for geographical consistency...

Corgi intend the bring out the map in time for Christmas 93.  It _may_
include a DW short story, bound with it in a booklet.  Or possibly, some
excepts from Wellcome to Ankh-Morpork, Citie of One Thousand Surprises.  Or
something...

Terry
From: stoddard@milori.ccit.arizona.edu (MJ STODDARD)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:17:00 GMT
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Potatoes.  If I see another "how to make a battery from a potatoe"
(:-}) demonstration, I'll revolt, but such mild current would be
potentially exciting to a silicon brain.  Of course, drugging trolls
is a shocking idea, and I hope they realize it.

MJ Stoddard / stoddard@ccit.arizona.edu
From: chad@quality.ta.ford.com (Chad Childers)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies annotations
Date: 23 Dec 1992 17:31:23 GMT
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>Wasn't Yossarian a bombardier, not a pilot?

Yes, but even Yossarian wasn't sure of it.  Remember the bit that goes:
"help the bombadier, help the bombadier!"  "wait, I'm the bombadier!"?
I'd say Yossarian would prefer to be remembered as a nudist than anything
as military as all that.

-- 
Chad Childers                            Work: chad@quality.ta.ford.com
FMEAplus Project Leader                  Home: chad@deep.mi.org
From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:27:30 GMT
Organization: Information Engineering
In-reply-to: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk's message of 22 Dec 92 13:08:00 GMT

>Regarding TP research; tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) adds:

 > This is a question for all you godless scientists out there:

 Wheres your Christmas cheer gone Terry? :-)

 > Bearing in mind the following, which has been established before or will be
 > established in Men At Arms (first draft finished, hurray!): trolls are
 > silicon-based and their brains remsemble computers rather more than our
 > brains do -- THEN
 >
 > What is the troll equivalent of a drug?
 > What is the troll equivalent of alcohol?

   Whats the troll equivalent of a virus? :-)

 > I think maybe we'd be looking for some kind of chemical impurity found in
 > silicon -- what causes a batch of silicon to be discarded?  

  hmm, from what I can remember from my 1st year Physics, doesn't contamination
  take place during the manufacturing process? ie when the silicon is exposed.
  So we'd need to get at the brain somehow..iffy.

 > We need something
 > that theoretically disorientates/mildly poisons in small quantities and kills
 > in larger amounts?  

 What about magnetic lodestones? Not strictly analogous to a real-world
 computer though...maybe the Trolls' memory is based on magnetic coils?
 Thus being around a high level of magnetism might cause a troll to become
 forgetful- or remember the wrong thing.

 > (And it needs to be a substance -- not just heat, which
 > I'm already using in the book)  It would be NICE if its something
 > commonplace, like the sour milk 'drug' in Alien Nation.

 hmm, don't suppose working in an EMP is likely then?

 > Since I know there's experts of everything out there, let discussion
 > commence!

 Does this mean that whatever we come up with might in a future book!?

 > Terry

 Paul
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From: chad@quality.ta.ford.com (Chad Childers)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 23 Dec 1992 17:47:12 GMT
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>trolls could easily synthesise. However, I can imagine trolls mainlining
>Uranium - and the consequences of getting a bad batch...
>
>"...so the guy who sold it swore blind it was pure U238, imported direct from
>the rim.  'Course, it was U235 wasn't it... he'd only been using it for a
>fortnight when he went critical and got the high of his life. Shame about the
>mountain though... I liked it where it was."

I like it!  It has definite possibilities.  U238 and Plutonium as "hard" drugs.
Of course, the electrical and magnetic effects are good too, but a human brain
gets just as screwed up by high-voltage, and CPU's aren't affected by magnets
that badly, it's DISKs.

How about citric acid as "alcohol"?  Given that the electrical effects you
can get from a potato or a lemon come from citric acid, it might do some
interesting things to a troll... or maybe mercury, since that's liquid, and
conducts... get a little of it flowing through the system and it'd start
causing shorts.  Zot!  Frazzle!  Whoopie!

-- 
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: Bits and pieces (Good Omens)
Keywords: aardvarks
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:01:12 GMT

In <damiene.724986312@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:

>Hurro.

Fine, fine, fine.
(oops sorry that's your line)

>a) Is it just me who thinks Aziraphale looks like Sting on the
>from cover?

No - it's me too, but I think we two are a good example of convergent
evolution.

>Eccles the terminally Christmassed.

And now I quote a famous Sandra Boynton card, sung to a famous Christmas
tune but with pictures to go with the words:

Wee fish  ewe  a mare  egret  moose
Wee fish  ewe  a mare  egret  moose
Wee fish  ewe  a mare  egret  moose
And a hippo  gnu  deer.

(Well, *I* thought it was funny. . .)

Quetzal aka you'd think it was Christmas, wouldn't you?