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From: pfe@meryl.csd.uu.se (Per Ekman)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Organisation: DVL, Uppsala University
Reply-To: pfe@meryl.csd.uu.se 
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:46:49 GMT

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

>- [p. 262] The three books in the Witchfinder Army library. The "Necrotele-
>  comnicom appears in the Discworld books as the "Book Of Talking To The
>  Dead". The "Malleus Maleficarum" is an existing guidebook for witch-
>  hunters. The "Liber Fulvarum Paginarum" is dog latin for "The Book of
>  Yellow Pages"...

I don't think it has been mentioned that Necrotelecomnincon is obviously
a pun on Necronomicon, a (fictional) occult book that is mentioned in
several books and stories by american fantasy/horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.
And the extra "telecom" is of course useful if you want to speak to someone
far away...

>-- 
>Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)

-pfe
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: HELP: Lee Tin Wheedle.
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 02:47:29 GMT

peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:


>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!

ARRGGHHH, If you have that entire song PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SEND IT TO ME.

*8)

Mike
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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: HELP: Lee Tin Wheedle.
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:05:58 GMT

peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>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!
SCREAM!!!
Eccles, once an alt.fan.monty-python guru.....
From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Elmo the Vampire Slayer)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:21:54 GMT
Organization: Buffy Franchises Corp.
X-Posted-From: fnalo.fnal.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <Bu0Kov.A6v@apollo.hp.com>, johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
> In article <leo.715514168@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>>johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
>>
>>> Rjinswand is fairly obviously Dutch, not Scandinavian.  The name appears
>>> to be a phonetic transliteration rather than an actual translation.
>>
>>"Fairly obviously Dutch" -- my left windmill :-)
>>
> Perhaps a better phrasing would have been "fairly obviously Dutch to all
> except those who know better, being Dutch themselves".
> To most of us, the sight of a "j" immediately following an "r" bring
> back vague memories that Rembrandt's full name contained something along
> those lines.

	Well, I'm also a provincial American, and Rjinswind looks dead-on
Scandinavian to *me*.  The `Rj' looks like `fjord' after all.
	Rembrandt's name, of course, was Rembrandt van Rijn; j doesn't follow
the R, you see.
	It'd be hard to make Rincewind `look' Dutch, since Dutch looks like
Anglicized German (Boy, am I pissing the Dutch readers off or what :-) and
Rincewind _already_ looks like Anglicized German.  Maybe `Rinswind', maybe even
`Rijnswind' :-)
	All IMHO, of course.
-- 
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elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)
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From: kcc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Ken Cox)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:24:20 GMT

In article <BtyMDA.CuK@apollo.hp.com> johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
>>  There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time ..."
>>  This paraphrases Sherlock Holmes, and refers to "The Hound Of
>>  The Baskervilles"

>Also, I don't believe the `curious behaviour of the dog in the night-time'
>occurs in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - I am pretty sure it is from
>a different story whose title currently escapes me []

This is getting SO far off topic, but ....  I'm pretty sure the dog
in the night-time is from "Silver Blaze", in which a race horse is
stolen.  Holmes says the "curious incident" bit, Watson says "But
there was no curious incident", and Holmes says "Precisely!" --
orpnhfr, bs pbhefr, gur qbt qvq ABG onex, nf vg jbhyq vs n fgenatre
unq fgbyra gur ubefr.  (That's rot13 encoding, to avoid spoilers.)

Now there's an interesting thought...  Surely, on the vast expanse
of the Discworld, there is room for a Sherlock Holmes parody?  It
would have to be a murder, SO YOU-KNOW-WHO CAN MAKE HIS MANDATORY
APPEARANCE, and it could go almost anywhere from there.  But how
to work in the Librarian?

Ken Cox
kcc@wucs1.wustl.edu
From: fmonro@neumann.une.edu.au (F J Monro)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Dog Latin qvote reqvest
Date: 29 Aug 92 13:45:26 GMT

che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

>In article <80720004@hpldsla.sid.hp.com>, ssouth@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Steve South) writes:
>> tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell) writes:

>> 
>> 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

Ok, I'll bite. What does it all mean? Vox Non Latin :-).

-Che Monro			aka fmonro@neumann.une.edu.au
	"reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.."
From: cla02@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R. Wallace)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Latin
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:07:51 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England

> 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.

Richard Wallace
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From: sgcclmj@citec.oz.au (Liz Jones)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Organization: CITEC
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 07:03:56 GMT

leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
: 
: > >- [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.

   don't know how *funny* it's meant to be, i gathered it was more a gentle
   nudge at a stereotype...
    "sandra" and "tracey", anyone..?
   they're generally used to refer to any old "dumb blonde"-type person...
   specially in britain.

  Ptraci isn't exactly like that tho... perhaps it was just something that
   fitted the Pt bits  (from Ptolemy, i assume)

liz
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From: jamie@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Jamie Blustein)
Subject: Re: GO and Queen
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:43:55 GMT
Summary: Nothing to do with TP, differences in tracks on tape & CD
Keywords: Queen Greatest Hits Best Of Tape versus CD

In article <12642@ecs.soton.ac.uk> prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Paul James) 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 (I think, my
>[...]

    I have both a tape version (P & C by Elektra/Asylum 1981) and a CD
version (P & C by EMI 1981) of _Queen Greatest Hits_.  They have the
same photographs but they have different songs.  Neither contains
Radio Ga Ga, but I believe that _Classic Queen_ includes Radio Ga Ga.

    For those who are interested, a list of songs on both the tape and
CD follow.
--

    There is a note on the tape about duplicating the sequence of
songs on the LP.


    The tape has:                   The CD has:
   --------------------------------------------
   Another One Bites the Dust     | ditto
   Bohemian Rhapsody              | ditto
   Crazy Little Thing Called Love | ditto
   Killer Queen                   | ditto
   Fat Bottomed Girls             | ditto
   Bicycle Race                   | ditto
   Under Pressure                 | -----
   We Will Rock You               | ditto
   We Are The Champions           | ditto
   Flash                          | ditto
   Somebody To Love               | ditto
   You're My Best Friend          | ditto
   Keep Yourself Alive            | -----
   Play The Game                  | ditto
   -----                          | Don't Stop Me Now
   -----                          | Save Me
   -----                          | Now I'm Here
   -----                          | Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
   -----                          | Seven Seas Of Rye

    I'd like to know if anyone has a BOQ CD with all the same songs as
the tape.

-- 
James Blustein                                        `Did you say "knives"?'
<jamie@uwo.ca>                                        `*Rotating* knives, yes.'
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:41:33 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <annotated-pratchett_715386709@ph.tn.tudelft.nl> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>Archive-name: annotated-pratchett
>Last-modified: 1992/09/01 21:50:22
>Version: 2.0
>Maintained-by: Leo Breebaart (leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
>
>- [p.171] 'Zweiblumen' is the literal German translation of 'Twoflower'.
>  [I don't know if 'Rjinswand' is a similar Scandinavian translation. Anybody?]

Rjinswand is fairly obviously Dutch, not Scandinavian.  The name appears
to be a phonetic transliteration rather than an actual translation.

>- [p. 108] "Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however
>  improbable, must be the truth. [...] There was also the curious incident of 
>  the orangutan in the night-time ..."
>  This paraphrases Sherlock Holmes, and refers to "The Hound Of The 
>  Baskervilles" [and perhaps also to Edgar Allan Poe. Terry??].

??? Why do you think it refers to Poe?  Please explain.

Also, I don't believe the `curious behaviour of the dog in the night-time'
occurs in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - I am pretty sure it is from
a different story whose title currently escapes me - the one involving
injections of monkey (sorry, ape :-) serum as a fountain of youth.


-- 
John Francis                                johnf@apollo.hp.com
Seen passing on the net:  Spotted Owl - the *other* white meat!
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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: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:45:13 +0000

In article <1992Sep3.161155.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Elmo the Vampire Slayer)
answers me:

>> 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.
>> 
>	Flat out wrong.  The dodo was a big flightless bird that tasted like
>chicken.  Sailors ate them until there were none left.  Something similar
>almost happened to the galapagos tortoise.  Remember, sailors at sea for long
>periods were almost desperate for fresh meat.

No, in the cold light of morning I am positive that it was pigs
introduced by settlers which either ate the eggs, or disturbed them so
that the parents abandoned them. I have never before heard the theory
that the dodos themselves were actually all caught and eaten until
extinct.


Nick Leverton
-- 
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 railways has increased."   |  Transport press statements.
From: ngp@st-andrews.ac.uk (Neil Grant Piggot)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Chef Sham
Date: 26 Aug 92 10:39:11 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.

In article <flostran.714774723@sfu.ca> flostran@fraser.sfu.ca (Andrew Flostrand) writes:
>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

I don't think this pun was intended right from the start, as Sham Harga,
of Harga's House of Ribs fame, is also mentioned in Mort, where Death works,
although his first name isn't mentioned (i don't think), but Sham is 
definitely mentioned in Guards!Guards! when Vimes visits just after the new 
king's coronation.
	Neil Piggot,		ngp@uk.ac.st-and
University of St.Andrews.
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books? 
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:03:49 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.

If he's coming from the US, I guarantee he's stopping at one of Sydney,
Melbourne, or Auckland. Given that, why not make it Sydney?

I didn't know there were any Altos 586en still alive.
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Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: cjenkinsn@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: Australian dates
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:59:43 GMT

In a past article : 

froggy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Robyn McNamara) writes

>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.

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



NO IT'S NOT TRUE.



They leave Perth open to 9.30 on Thursdays :-)


Look stop bitching you lot. Terry obviously recognises class when
he sees it. IMHO its your own bloody fault for living on the
wrong side of the continent. 

Besides I believe the reason he's coming here is that he was
invited several years ago to attend a Swancon.

(Swancon for those non-Aussies in the crowd is the 
 West Australian science fiction convention. 
 The black swan being the emblem of WA).

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"came along would destroy civilization."

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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: I'll be Back... (don't bother) 
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:03:35 GMT

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


>In article <1992Aug25.095500.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> cjenkinsn@cc.curtin.edu.au 
>writes:

>  > >There is nothing awful about a large number of NZers.
>  > > Awe-inspiring perhaps...
>  > 
>  >    Hang on a minute ! Shouldn't that read "Ewe inspiring" ?

>The prospect of a thread of sheep puns is indeed a terrible one. But I fear I 
>have not the wool-power to resist...


I'm beginning to think I shouldn't have started this.....
Oh wool......
*grin*
Eccles
From: che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Dog latin
Date: 28 Aug 92 10:06:12 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

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:
>>Semper in ordure sumus, solem profundum variens
>>
>>Semper in fecalum, solus altam variat
> 
> We are always in shit, only the depth (height) varies.
> 
>>Nihil illegitemo carborundum
> 
> I never understood that one, either.
> 
>>Nothi te numquam opprimant
> 
> Don't know.
> 
>>Si tacuises philosophus mancisses
> 
> If you had been silent, you had remained a philosopher (This is, modulo some
> orthography, real Latin).

Loose translation: If you has remained silent, we moght have thought you were
  clever. See Yes, Prime Minister.

> 
> Matthias "veniunt spectentur ut ipsi" Neeracher

David tempora mutantor et not mutamor in illis
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From: oneill@cix.compulink.co.uk (James O'Neill)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Reply-To: oneill@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:56:00 +0000

 
 
Whilst Lovecraft can be said to have inspired some of the names, I
think you will find that Yob soddoth, Should be pronounced Yob sod
off!. Sod off being one of those charming English expressions (see
previous conversions about bugger off etc), and Yob being a term now
almost entirely replaced by the phrase "English football supporter"
(I think from something Mark Twain once said about 'They are not firt
to be called BOYs they should be called YOBs')
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming)
Subject: Re: Truckers in the US...
Reply-To: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:23:00 +0000

Mccoy)

In <1992Aug26.203148.12891@samba.oit.unc.edu> Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu
(Elizabeth Mccoy) writes (amongst other things):

> 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

[Stuff deleted]

>                   Now, everyone can call up Doubleday and tell them that
> their marketing policy for _Truckers_ & co. is screwy.
> 

Now if you could find an e-mail address we could email 'em to death.
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From: pm3_norr@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: HELP: Lee Tin Wheedle.
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:33:03 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

John Francis points out that Ly Tin Wheedle  (DW's most famous philosopher)
is only encountered in bars/ at parties

}peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
}>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!

Eccles screams:
}SCREAM!!!
}Eccles, once an alt.fan.monty-python guru.....


There's more (lots more!) on philosophers and alcohol in Small Gods...

Just to keep you interested....

Paul
-- 
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
                                            --  Charlie Brown
From: cmac@castle.ed.ac.uk (Colin MacDonald)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: HELP: Lee Tin Wheedle.
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:21:34 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <L3OI02K@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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!

This sounds remarkably similar to a song Monty Python performed at the
Hollywood Bowl once.  I know it isn't strictly Pratchett-related, but
since we've explored the Hedgehog theme (I claim this as my precedent!),
I've included the words to the Monty Python song below:

Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Schoppenhauer and Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nieizsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was
    particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whisky every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
    And Hobbes was fond of his dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
    "I drink, therefore I am."

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.


I hope you all like it.
Colin
-- 
Colin MacDonald
cmac @ castle.ed.ac.uk
From: ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Bargains Galore!
Date: 26 Aug 92 11:42:50 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: ICL, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 4SN, UK

I just read "truckers" the first of the Nomes serie and found it very
enjoyable.

However there are some expressions or private jokes that puzzle me.
For example : What is that "Bargains galore" that the nomes say like "good
god" or something like that ?

As a side note: Is there a french publication of TP books?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Robots in Strata 
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 14:19:14 GMT

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
>But the best
>one, can't remember where it appeared, was real nasty about all the
>'borrowed' Hitch-hikers stuff in The Dark Side of the Sun (to which the reply
>is a) there is very little similarity between the two and b) doesn't anyone
>look at publication dates any more?)

That didn't protect that cereal company from getting sued by the HHG-
publisher. Remember, the one with helpful information about space on its
backside.

Careful, careful!


May You Be a Cool Frood!

(C)OOL mcmxcii