HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger)
Subject: Re: `Guards! Guards!' on BBC Radio
Bcc: stritzi
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:58:34 GMT

<MATTWOOD@ESTEC.BITNET> writes:


> Not going to be on FM?  Hooray!!  That means that we can hear it in our
> neck of the woods.  I'm not sure how far into mainland Europe Radio 5
> travels, but those of us fortunate enough to live on/near the Dutch
> coast receive it quite well. Then again, in the late evening it does
> sound as if Baldrick is making cappuccino in the foreground :-}.

As I'm writing this I'm hearing BBC on 695kHz and I'm living in Munich!
But the cappucino is there :-(   better tah nothing.

--peer


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From: giovanne@ccrs.emr.ca (Mark Giovannetti)
Subject: Re: APF format & layout
Organization: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:37:20 GMT

To Leo Breebaart,

Hi, I've enjoyed the APF and would like to suggest that you
create an annotation file for each of the novels in the DW
series only. The Non-DW series could probably all live in the
same file.

I realize this may seem like a lot more work but you did say 
you enjoyed it ;-)

The current format is fine and quite readable. Thanks!


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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: APF format & layout
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:56:46 GMT

sander@cwi.nl (Sander Plomp) writes:

> >- I can just encode and split up a one-volume APF and leave it up to
> >you to connect stuff together again [...]
>
> I prefer to keep it directly readable - I would rather not have lots
> of newbies react with "How can I read it/What is it/Does it run on
> an IBM PC" each time you post it. 

Agree. This seems to be the general consensus as well, so whatever happens,
the APF will always remain 'immediately readable'.

> >- Not post at all anymore, and just post pointers to an ftp-site and
> >to the mailing list.
> 
> This is not a very good idea 

So I gather! I am perhaps a bit paranoid about this because I'd hate
to start getting mail or articles that go: "why the fuck does this
Breebaart guy keep clogging up the group with his repeated postings
of 75+ Kb text files?"

But it appears that (so far) everybody is still very much in favour
of continued periodic postings to this newsgroup.

> What I would like is a conversion script to translate it into LaTeX
> format so that I can have a nicely typeset version. 

Personally I was thinking about RTF, but that's because I'm more
of a Macintosh guy myself :-)

> I am willing to try making such a script myself, if you're willing to
> agree on a more or less formal definition of your format and stick to
> it.

Deal. But let's just wait until say, early next year. I think I need
about two more APF releases to really finalize the layout and the format.
After that I really don't plan to make changes in that area anymore, 
and we can truly start thinking about writing conversion scripts.

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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From: crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (CROSBY MATTHEW JAMES)
Subject: Re: Okay, let's get those flamethrowers out of the closet....
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:19:29 GMT

In article <Bxx9DH.F8G@cck.coventry.ac.uk> lsh129@cck.coventry.ac.uk (MIAOW) writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.022441.5742@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg) writes:
>>Am I the only person in the world who 1) reads and discusses fantasy, 2) knows
>>how to appreciate "real" literature, and 3) has a keenly-honed appreciation
>>for Western European mythology, but 4) absolutely can't stand anything written
>>by J.R.R. Tolkien?
>>
>>I mean, I appreciate the guy's scholarship and ability, but I *hate* the way
>>he wrote.  Alternately too chatty and too self-consciously epic.  And I wish
>>he hadn't thought he could write poetry....
>>
>Ye Gods!  I thought I was alone.  Truly...
>Lord of the Rings was a tour de force (sp?), an absolute epic.
>But... somehow it just left me cold, don't know why.
>Could've been the characterisation... it looked like he'd spent  so  long
>on  the historical background etc (and the bad poetry :-) that somehow he
>forgot to give his most of his characters traits/emotions that the reader
>could sympathise with.
>Or maybe it's just me...
>Or maybe we were'nt supposed to sympathise...:-)
>
I think LOTR is the sort of thing that you either love or hate.  Try reading
some essays on it some time, Ursula Le Guins for instance, to get other
perspectives on it.

Anyway,  how about an alt.fan.tolkien?  There is no real newsgroup (just one
mailing list) for the discussion of these subjects, which is imho a pitty.

(I agree about the poetry!)


-- 
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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: Kirby (was Re: Film(s) of the Book(s))
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:30:05 GMT

dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (D.K. Fellows) writes:

>Posting for someone who can't...

>From: Jon Roch-berry <dyhec@uk.ac.westminster>
>Organization: University of Westminster
> 
>In article <1992Nov13.000127.25202@infodev.cam.ac.uk> you write:
> 
>>>Does Josh Kirby have any books of artwork out?
>>> 
>>It was a while ago, so I can't remember what the book was called, but it looked
>>interesting.
> 
>He's done a lot of work for Craig Shaw Garder,
<spit> *grin*

> the new reprint of Harry
>Harrison's Technicolour Time machine & Star Smashers... both have Kirby
>artwork, and I think I've seen at least one other author using his work.
> 
Yeppers - there is in fact a book of Josh Kirby's art by itself....
I don't know the title, but email this thing to get it:
karlg@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au

Eccles
From: ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
Date: 20 Nov 92 11:27:27 GMT

In <1992Nov13.174233.17868@eng.cam.ac.uk> pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk (Philippa Hogben) writes:

>In article 721570582@galaxy, leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
>>ST102315@brownvm.brown.edu () writes:
>>
>>It's an older, Greek tragedy (that Shakespeare couldn't come up with an 
>>original plot idea if his life depended on it :-).
>>
>>The actual names of the protagonists escape me at the moment (Thisbe and
>>Pallisander, I think), 

>I _think_ that should be Lysander. 
Pyramus, actually. Lysander was one of the Midsummer Night's Dream
protaganists.

>I did the Midsummernight-mare for my Eng Lit 'O' level. The mechanicals'
>version of the Thisbe/Lysander legend is rather amusing.

Try reading the Neil Gaiman version, as seen in the Sandman. Superb.

Andy

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From: ajr@aber.ac.uk (Ade Rixon)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Witches Abroad (Probable SPOILERS!)
Summary: Dead funny
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:25:27 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: University Of Wales, Aberystwyth - Party town!



Just finished "Witches Abroad" in paperback and have to say it was the
funniest thing I've read in ages....since "Reaper Man", in fact! I
particularly liked the bit about the Seriph of Al-Ybi who was "cursed by a
badly-educated deity and for some time after everything he touched turned
to Glod, which was the name of a dwarf who lived in a mountain community
hundreds of miles away...". Also enjoyed the Tolkien and other parodies
("Itssss my birthday" - I geddit!). And Death was his usual bone-dry self.
Anyway, it cheered me up no end - and might even have replaced RM in my
affections. Cheers, Terry.

Ade_
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From: jane@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jane Hesketh)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett,alt.comedy.british,uk.misc
Subject: Re: `Guards! Guards!' on BBC Radio
Date: 18 Nov 92 09:55:34 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University


BBC Radio 5 is medium wave only. It was set up to be for kids,
and therefore on a frequency cheap tranny's could get. Only 1 frequency 
because the government is trying to stop the beeb from using multiple
frequencies for the same transmission. It has rapidly been taken over
as a sports frequency on the quiet, as far as I can see - most times
I look to see if there's anything interesting on, it's commentary
on some footie match/cricket match/rugby match/ blecch. I suppose
some kids will like that.

Jane
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: STUCS204@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090
Subject: Lady Ramkin.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:03:38 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

How about Patricia Routlidge(sp) cf Hiacynth Bucket
or Linda Barron (cf the nurse from OPEN ALL HOURS)

Any other actresses?
                    stucs204@uk.ac.bham.ibm3090 (janet)
                    stucs204@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk (internet)

      - aka Richard.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: prh@essence.demon.co.uk (Peter Humphrey)
ReplyTo: prh@essence.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Terry and Physics
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:31:17 +0000


In article <1992Nov15.211309.18943@ucc.su.OZ.AU> neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s)) writes:

>             I am curious just how much phyics does T.P know?
 
Why don't you ask him?  He's not far from here...
 
Rgds

Peter Humphrey  |  prh@essence.demon.co.uk         | Voice 0932-343158
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From: jeremy@garland.bt.co.uk (Jeremy Pavier)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Spell
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:46:28 GMT
Organization: Intelligent Networks, British Telecom

In article <1e57p8INNi55@lester.appstate.edu> GRS00021@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (APHiD) writes:
>In <1dgijiINNf0@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk writes:
>
>> 
>> Hi there!
>> 
>> I've only read TCOM and S so far, and I have two queries:
>> 
>> 1) Do we ever get to know what "The Spell" is?
>
>Yes. In the next book, The_Light_Fantastic.
>Go buy it right now!
>
>> 2) How does Rincewind get back into the UU B4 S? as in TCOM he's been
>> thrown out!
>
>What's a S? I figured out you meant the Univerity when you said UU but I
>can't figure out what you mean by S. Please don't use one letter acronyms
>for words you haven't made extremely obvious reference too. It's easy to
>figure out multiple letter acronyms like TLF and TCOM and CMOT but just S?
>What the heck is S?

I think it's _Sourcery_, but I agree, what use is a one letter acronym?

Pav

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Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 13:14:00 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:

> In article <0R3SBF2G@cc.swarthmore.edu> nparkhu1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Nao Parkh
> 
> > 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)

And not Jules Verne?

On the subject of competitions with the devil, ignoring Bill & Ted, the 
traditional ones are cards, (specifically poker), playing musical 
instruments and chess. One version I liked had a man sell his soul to 
the devil in return for a long life, wealth, beautiful wife, fabulous 
house, etc [actually everything is highly correlated with wealth, but 
that's a sociological point]. 

Well, having a long life gives you a chance to contemplate the 
downside of spending eternity in hell, and so our hero is frantically 
reading the Bible when the devil walk in at 10 to midnight on the last 
night. "I'm here for your soul" says the devil. "Hang on, I've still 
got 10 minutes left". "Well it won't do you any good", snicker sthe 
devil. "Make it easy for both of us. Come now. I have other souls to 
collect". "Ok, says our hero, just give me until the candle runs out". 
[He is reading by candlelight. The devil looks at candle, sees it has 
much less than 10 minutes, and agrees. Our hero quick as a wink, blows 
out the candle and shoves it in the Bible [where, as we all know, the 
devil can't touch it]. Now the candle will never run out, and the devil 
can never claim the soul [agreement to alter the terms of the 
contract]. So devil roars, house wife money, etc all disappear, and man 
left alone with his soul, and pops on down to the village to have a 
chat with a priest.


Well, *I* liked it.

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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: APF format & layout
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:12:51 GMT

It's funny: the response to APF is great when it comes to annotations
and discussions, but whenever I try to bring up a meta-issue all I
hear is silence.

Usually I take this to mean that I can simply do whatever I want (fine
by me!) but for this particular problem I would really like some
input.

So I hope you will forgive me for again asking the following questions:

  [Q1]  "How do you like the current lay-out of the APF?"
  [Q2]  "What format should I use for the next version?"

The second question is particularly urgent. V4.0 was already too large
to post in its entirety, and this will only get worse. But there are
so many ways to solve this problem.

- I can just encode and split up a one-volume APF and leave it up to
you to connect stuff together again (e.g. using shar-files? uuencoded
files? Something else?)

- I can also logically split up the APF into smaller parts, e.g.
Discworld/ Non-Discworld, or one file for each book, and simply post
those as normal text.

- Not post at all anymore, and just post pointers to an ftp-site and
to the mailing list.

So what would you people out there like best? Any possibilities I have
missed? And while you're at it think about the first question, too: is
the APF readable enough? Do you want more whitespace? Less whitespace?
Dividers between annotations? Is the introductory section too large?
Too short? Should I rearrange the sections?

As the dratted thing grows and grows I find that editing is starting
to take up *lots* of time. That's perfectly ok, I still enjoy doing
it, but as long as I'm spending that time, I might as well spend it on
something that I know you readers can live with (and ideally: approve
of).

Thanks for helping me with this,

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Re: Radio Play                          
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:33:00 +0000

Read my typing.  I've got the whole world at my fingertips, yes, but between
said world and said fingertips is a length of wet string. I'd known for some
time that Radio Five were going to do it 'at some time'. Last week I got a
tape of episode 1 and a letter telling me for the first time when it was
going out. That night I put messages on a.f.p. and the Pratchett conference
on CIX. But the flow between CIX and the net can be between a few hours and
48 hours, and as far as I can see my message took about that long to turn up
(in fact, you got the info via CIXen who have _direct_ net access ahead of my
message, I think).

Please understand this: I communicate with you via another service - mail
seems quite fast, but conference messages can lag.  This is not a
satisfactory state of affairs, I agree, but it will continue until I've got
the time and more importantly can find a helpful fellow creature who can
guide me through the intricacies of setting up something more direct.

One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.

Terry
From: tao@truffle.Princeton.EDU (Terry Tao)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Spell
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:34:26 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

In article <1e8bb4INN9sr@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders) writes:
>In article <1e57p8INNi55@lester.appstate.edu% GRS00021@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (APHiD) writes:
>%In <1dgijiINNf0@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk% maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk writes:
>%
>%% 2) How does Rincewind get back into the UU B4 S? as in TCOM he's been
>%% thrown out!
>%
>%What's a S? I figured out you meant the Univerity when you said UU but I
>%can't figure out what you mean by S. Please don't use one letter acronyms
>%for words you haven't made extremely obvious reference too. It's easy to
>%figure out multiple letter acronyms like TLF and TCOM and CMOT but just S?
>%What the heck is S?
>
>Is there any TP book other than Sourcery that has a one word title beginning
>with S? :-)
>
>Jason

Strata? Small_Gods? Sun, Dark side of?  

(Well someone had to tell him... )

Terry
From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Strata annotation
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:17:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

>May be, but fake latin is of course not something that Terry has
>invented himself. (I always thought the usual name for it was
>pig-latin, but perhaps I'm mistaken)
>
>In fact, it is not confined to the English language either. In Dutch
>for instance I know there are entire family names consisting of a
>'latinized' version of a normal Dutch word, e.g. a man named 'Vos' who
>starts calling himself 'Vossius', because it sounds fancier...
>
>Anyway, the reason that I use 'dog-latin' in the APF is because Terry
>calls it that in his own articles.


pig latin is a schoolboy code : you use normal english but mix 
around the beginnings and ends of words with extra bits thrown
in. It comes out sounding like gibberish but if you know the
code it's really easy to follow. I've forgotten it all now
(PLEASE ! POST IF YOU KNOW HOW) but pig latin becomes 'igpin
atinlay' ...

I'm not sure what dog latin refers to

Simon









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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies references and query
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
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In article <BxyFv9.AKF@newcastle.ac.uk> Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth) writes:
>>	The "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" bit is reminiscent
>>of a line from one of the poems in "Lord of the Rings".
>
>	[ The wrong bit wot I wrote, talking about Earendil. ]

>	You've probably seen Nick Leverton's post on this subject by
>now. Absolutely right. It is part of "The Road Goes Ever On and On".

Actually I think it may be a double reference ... I wish I had the books
handy to check, but I wouldn't be surprised if Bilbo (or whoever wrote
"The Road ...") was referring back to the Lay of Earendil. That sort of
thing seemed to amuse Tolkein :-)

Nick.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
From: sisemilio@boole
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:30:05 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: sisemilio

In article <1992Nov16.115328.21963@aston.ac.uk>, thompsmr@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Thompson) writes:
> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
> : 
> : > 	Where various characters say "Ole", and somebody replies "With milk?":
> : > 
> : > 	Ole is spanish for "Ta Da" (basically), and Au Lait if French for
> : > "With milk", as in Cafe au lait. They are pronounced the same way (o lay).
> : 
> : This has the same problem as the steam engine annotation. Translating
> : dog-Latin is one thing, because Terry can perfectly well say that he
> : intends that to be understood by people who don't know Latin, but this
> : is simply not always the case. But explaining the blindingly obvious
> : au lait pun is something that I just couldn't set myself down to do,
> : so far.
> : 
> 
> 	Whoa - There are a lot of people out there that don't know a single
> word of Spanish or French (Most Non-Europeans, and quite a few English people,
> for example), so why not include it? After all, I thought the Split-screen 
> morris minor annotation was dead obvious.
> 
> 	Sorry if the rest of the references were crap, but there we go.
> 
> -- 
	Well i actualy read the translation in Spanish of the Pratchet,s books, 
and i think that in Usa there are lots of peoples whom has the minimum of Int
to understand a word in spanish or in French!!!




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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies references and query
Reply-To: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk
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In article <1992Nov17.094528.13083@turing.ac.uk> robin@duich.turing.ac.uk (Robin Boswell) writes:
>
>  Half-way down p. 62 of the British edition of "Lords and Ladies",
>there's a list of five terms for lands beyond the mundane.
>The first, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" sounds
>familiar, but I can't identify the reference.  Can anyone 
>help?

It's another Tolkein one, from "The Road Goes Ever On and On". I haven't
got the book handy, but one couplet goes something like ...

        "Behind the hidden roads that run
        East of the Moon, West of the Sun"

Of course this may itself be a secondary reference, as much of Tolkein's
mythology quite deliberately referred obliquely to legends of Western
Europe (an Annotated Tolkein File, anyone ?)

Nick.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Who could play Lady Ramkin              
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:04:00 +0000

Geraldine James would be ideal as Lady Ramkin.

Terry
From: GRS00021@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (APHiD)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Douglas vs Terry
Date: 14 Nov 1992 11:35:28 GMT
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Okay, my two cents....

I prefer Pratchett for two reasons:

    (i) Pratchett comes out with more books per year.

   (ii) Pratchett seems to actually _like_ his characters. Even if Rincewind
        _did_ get sucked into the Dungeon Dimensions, he didn't have every
        possible instance of his existence ended! If you wonder what I'm
        talking about, go read Mostly_Harmless. M_H is a good book but I
        really really hated the ending. (Maybe he shouldna finished it on
        a plane like TP points out. Could be the nasty airplane food cramped
        him and put him in a nasty mood.) Anyway, I guess I just prefer
        Pratchett because he seems more likely to have a happy ending while
        Adams makes Vonnegut look like the happy-go-lucky type.

Now that I've gotten hold of the address of an import dealer, I can feasibly
get some overseas Pratchett books! Now if I can just get my hands on some
money.......

----APHiD
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