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From: ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Charades.
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:00:00 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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John Morris (jmorris@spider.co.uk) wrote:
> In article <1993Jan17.143126.26444@csd.uwe.ac.uk> ma_blase@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Fox) writes:
> >Actually that'd make quite an interesting scene in a Discworld book IMO.
> >
> You are completely right - it did!
> 
> See Guards, Guards, the Librarian trying to tell Carrot the name of the
> stolen book...
> 
> John.

Ye gads!  I totally forgot about that one.  I'll go and lock myself in a 
room with Tom Jones for a fortnight as penitence.

Cheers

Mike
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 1 of 3
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:49:58 GMT

leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
>+ [p. 73] "'Here's another fine mess you've got me into,' he moaned and
>  slumped backwards."
>  This is a well-known Laurel and Hardy catchphrase. [ But did Laurel
>  always say this to Hardy, or vice versa? ]

Hardy said it to Laurel (the skinny one).


>  a retirement home for gods not possessing much taste, might just be named
>  'Dunmanifestin'.

I didn't see it mentioned: manifesting?  As in a manifestation of the
gods?  If so, Dunmanifestin would mean that they'd pretty much given
up on interacting with the mortals.


>+ [p. 26] "I WAS AT A PARTY, he added, a shade reproachfully."

This is almost a classic "Tom Swiftie" if you consider Death a shade.
"Pass me the shellfish," demanded Tom crabily, etc.  My favorite two
are: "I'm into homosexual necrophelia," said Tom in dead earnest; and
"Croatia is free!" said Tomasz acerbically.



>MORT
>- [p. 125] "My name is Creosote, Seriph of Al Khali, [...]"  
>  Ok, lessee: Creosote puns on the proverbially rich Croesus (king of Lidya
>  (which lies in what now is Turkey) in the 6th century BC), 'Serif' is a
>  typographical term which also puns on 'caliph', and 'Al Khali' is
>  pronounced 'alkali' (just covering all the bases here, as my original
>  source put it).

The Rub' al Khali is a famous desert in the S/SE part of Arabia.  It
means "The empty quarter" and it's pretty much just a massive
wasteland.  It's been mentioned in many movies and books, such as
Lawrence of Arabia.


>- [p. 215] Significant Quest --> Trivial Persuit.

"Pursuit".  Not to spelling flame, but in such a distinguished work as
this... 

>+ [p. 5] "Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achive
>  Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; [...]"
>  [ Can anybody give me the exact text and the exact name for this type of
>  card? I only have the Dutch version of Monopoly to go on...]

The two card types are Chance and Community Chest.  The cards read "Go
to jail.  Go directly to jail.  Do not pass Go.  Do not collect two
hundred dollars."   I can't recall right now whether "two hundred
dollars" is spelled out or is just "$200" but the rest is right.

-- 
Friends:  People who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
From: casimira@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Paula Mickevich)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: (Robin Hood Robin Hood riding through the glen.. (was Re: Herne the Hunted (annotation request)
Date: 21 Jan 93 22:41:21 GMT
	<1993Jan19.224828@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>
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Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science


RE: subject line 

(Robin Hood Robin Hood riding through the glen..
Robin Hood Robin Hood with his band of men
feared by the bad, loved by the good
Robin Hood, Robin Hood

Now, I remember that as the theme song to a TV show in the 50's?!
with Richard Greene as Robin Hood! One of my favorite shows as a
little tyke - even better than Zorro with Guy Williams.
Was that shown in England too - was it from England??
Wish they had it on reruns.

Actually didn't even recognize sheriff as Rickman - had to read
ad in newspaper - just thought bring back Richard Greene or even
Errol Flynn even Sean Connery (who played Robin Hood to Audrey
Hepburn's Maid Marion) Godspeed you Audrey!
--
paula mickevich              MIT
casimira@hq.lcs.mit.edu      Laboratory for Computer Science
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From: rsholmes@mothra.syr.EDU (Rich 'mcmxciibo' Holmes)
Subject: Magrat's Huge Tracts of Land
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:09:16 EST

[Misquoting my own reply to some private mail:]

Yes, on the US _Witches Abroad_ cover, Magrat really does have a
chest. And a low-cut dress and a pretty face. Quite a stunner, in
fact, if you don't mind grass-green hair.

Only the ninja headband, magic wand, and proximity to two other
witches who resemble Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg to about the same
degree that the third resembles Magrat enable one to identify this
person as Magrat. (In fact, the only way to assign identities to the
other two witches is to note that one is looking at a broken mirror
and the other has a cat.)

[Hmm... regarding Magrat's chestal area... you don't suppose the
artist misinterpreted the title of the book, do you?]

Confession time: I'm not real wild about Kirby's covers. The interior
illustrations in _Eric_ were generally good, but for my taste the
covers are too busy and too grotesque. I would somewhat prefer the US
_WA_ cover to Kirby's... if there were any resemblance whatsoever to
the characters as Pratchett described them. (And even in Kirby's
cover, about the only way to distinguish Nanny Ogg from Granny
Weatherwax is by the cat and the red boots. These two are supposed to
look quite *different*, folks! The "maiden, mother, and crone" Neil
Gaiman keeps coming back to in _Sandman_. His illustrators get the
point, why don't Terry'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: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Why Eric is unavailable in America
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 16:58:32 EST

Well, a certain a.f.p reader in England recently did me the favor of
getting me a copy of _Faust^H^H^H^H^HEric_, and I read it yesterday. A
word of advice: Don't read this book while eating. When I got to the
description of the llama chariots, I nearly ended up with a mouthful
of dinner coming out my nose.

Anyway, it has become obvious why _Eric_ hasn't been published in the
US: stuff this good is wasted on a nation whose idea of quality
entertainment is the Super Bowl.

--
- 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: etxmarr@eos.ericsson.se (Marek Repinski)
Subject: Re: Terry Pratchett Bibliography
Reply-To: Marek.Repinski@eos.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:40:37 GMT

In article <30540@castle.ed.ac.uk>, benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge) writes:
|> SORRY IF THIS HAS GONE TWICE - I DON"T THINK THE FIRST ONE WORKED
|> 
|> In article >, d90-two@hemul.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer) writes:
|> |> In article  dharding@pollux.lssec.bt.co.uk (Derek Harding) writes:
|> |> >In article , d90-two@tintin.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer) writes:
|> |> >
|> |> >|> i.e., ae, aa and oe instead of {}|. What do people prefer, Swedish ASCII or
|> |> >|> those abominable ae etc?
|> |> >
|> |> >I really dont care either way, since I dont understand Swedish :)
|> |> >
|> |> Well, the question was aimed at potential readers of the blurbs, ie Swedish
|> |> speaking people. (You couldn't guess, could you? :-)
|> |> But no one has answered so I guess they don't care either.
|> |> 
|> 
|> Well, I'm not a Swede, but as I speak some Swedish, I'll give my 2p - agreed, 
|> ae etc. are vulgar, but I prefer them just because I never remember which ones 
|> are which out of {}|.  So ae, aa, oe  has my vote. 
|> 
|> And if mine's the only vote, then I guess I win :-)

Not !!!
I vote for {}|, so I guess it's a tie :-)

-- 


/Marek


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From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: SURVEY
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:34:06 GMT
Organization: Information Engineering
In-reply-to: e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk's message of 25 Jan 93 16:34:24 GMT

>Regarding SURVEY; e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk (Edward Julian Craft) adds:
 > Nntp-Posting-Host: 134.151.96.50

 > Entries are coming in thick ( and I Mean THICK ) and fast for the TP
 > survey/prize draw.

 > If you haven't entered yet, the categories for nominations are :

   Is it ok only to participate in certain categories?
   Because...
 
   this:

 > 1) Fave 5 TP books ( DW/Nome/Omens/Cat/whatever ) - in order.

   and this:

 > 2) Least fave 5 books - also in order.

   are impossible to list (indeed, number 2 is close on Treason).

 > 5) Favourite Footnote ( already a surprise leader for this !)
 > 6) Favourite incident.

    Oh, Come ON!

 > 7) Favourite Ice Cream flavour.

    ??

 > 8) Favourite 3 Authors OTHER THAN TP. ( guess who's winning THIS one !)
 > 9) Favourite inconsistancy.
 > 10) Favourite title for the Next But One TP book.

 > Also let me know which books you CAN'T get so the results can be weighted
 > ( for satas buffs - ( (total number of points / number of entries ) *
 > number of entries who can get that book )
 > As an incentive to get everyone thinking about this, also pick a book (
 > paperback or hardback ) which you would like and I'll pick ONE entry and
 > grant his/her wish. Requests for the original Carpet People will be
 > ignored.

 > If you (i) happen to have ALL the TP books or (ii) ARE TP himself, you

						      ^^^^^^

					FIX! FIX!

 > can pick a book by another author ( but make it one that's in print
 > please ).

 > Entries to e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk.

 Whens the closing date?

 > 																																						Edward.
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Moving Pictures inconsistency?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:27:16 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

vamplew@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Peter Vamplew) writes:

>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?

Why, what's unusual about it?  When I make jokes I help my environment
in loosening up, a contibution everyone certainly accepts with a grate-
ful mood.  If other's try to be funny it is clearly visible all they in-
tend is to curry favor, those bootlickers!

Though, if humor is your greatest enemy, isn't it natural you study its
habitat, (i.e. here) try to immitate its behavior, (like me)^H^H^H^H^H^H
and once you've found its weak spot-- POUNCE, it's history!


>Peter the Perpetually Perplexed

Ool, the er-- erm-- Oomphy er-- Ooze^H^H^H^H Oojah


May the Cool Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxciii
From: daves@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Dave Stow)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 2 of 3
Date: 27 Jan 93 11:38:50 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <1993Jan24.231247.22674@dutrun2.tudelft.nl> leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>  'Xxxx' refers to Australia, where I understand they have a brand of beer
>  called 'XXXX'. I don't quite know where the corks and the prawns come in,
>  though. Anybody?

Australians are stereotypically supposed to have hats with bits of
string coming down from the brim. On the end of the strings are corks.
I think it is supposed to keep the flies at bay.

As for the prawns... Who knows?

>- [p. 226] "'I'm just going out,' he said. 'I may be some time.'"
>
>  A quote that Terry uses again in another, similar situation. See the
>  annotation for p. 170 of "Small Gods".

Also a quote from <some-or-other> on one of the attempts to conquer
one of the poles. He knew there wasn't enough food for them all, and
left the tent to commit suicide to improve the others chances. Sadly
they all failed to make it. I think the original quote was something
like:

"I'm just going outside, I may be some little while"

but that could be entirely wrong!  :-}}

Dave

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From: alansh@microsoft.com (Alan Shield)
Subject: Re: Friar Tuck
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:25:16 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

>
>>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.
If you thik Zak or Quargotron are bad, look at the demon's name in Wyrd Sisters,
the one that Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg summon in the washroom.
>
>	Somehow it doesn't sound very impressive to for the
>Earth to be invaded by aliens from the planet 'Soil', 'Ground',
>'Mud' or 'Deep-Shag-Pile-Carpet'...I wonder why? Maybe if you
>spelt them as 'Soy-el','Gwraownd','Mhud' and 'D. Psha'Gerpyel Karpeht'
>it would help.
>
>>>Hang on, you can't use proper names in Scrabble...
>
>	Is it just me, or is it compulsory to use the word 'Zoo'
>	during a game?
No, it's not compulsory, in fact, i much prefer just using 'Zo' (a Tibettan Yak)
as it can be extended to 'Zoea' and 'Zoeal' (dont ask me what they mean, i
can't remember - i may have spelled them wrong too).

>
>>|***car-a@minster.york.ac.uk*************************BEEP(1,5)***|
>
>	Jonathan Morris who thinks Taunton is quite a nice town.
>
From: jo95004@black.ox.ac.uk (Daniel R Barlow)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 2 of 3
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:55:59 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, U
Originator: jo95004@black

In article <1993Jan27.113850.1008@comp.lancs.ac.uk> daves@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Dave Stow) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.231247.22674@dutrun2.tudelft.nl> leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>>- [p. 226] "'I'm just going out,' he said. 'I may be some time.'"
>>
>>  A quote that Terry uses again in another, similar situation. See the
>>  annotation for p. 170 of "Small Gods".
>
>Also a quote from <some-or-other> on one of the attempts to conquer
>one of the poles. He knew there wasn't enough food for them all, and
>left the tent to commit suicide to improve the others chances. Sadly
>they all failed to make it.

 It was on Radio 4 about 20 minutes ago.  The man was Captain Oates.  It was
going to be the first expedition to reach the South Pole.  I think.  I was 
only listening with one ear, on account of doing fourier transforms at the
same time.

 Anyway, how do you 'conquer a pole'?  Actually it reminds me of - dare I say
the name - Douglas Adams (the Golgafrinchans (sp?) declaring war on an
uninhabited continent on prehistoric Earth, end of Restaurant)

 Can't help thinking I'm straying ever so slightly from the point.

--
Daniel Barlow,  jo95004@oxford.ac.uk  
What wonderful mnemonic usernames we have here
From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Merchandise Etc
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:13:44 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

ajr@aber.ac.uk (Ade Rixon) writes:

>In article <1993Jan20.124018.2136@aston.ac.uk>,
> barretpj@cs.aston.ac.uk (Phil J Barrett) doodled:

>> >: a wizard saying 00001000. Logical?
>> >00000100 even.
>> >Phil
>> Aaargh! Help! I'm going crazy...
>> Please feel free to ignore me.
>> I have a degree in Computer Science: I'm allowed to be wrong.
>				       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>The worst sort. Think of this man next time you fly an A320 airbus, move
>next to a nuclear power station, have radiation therapy, etc etc. ;-)

No, that's application programming.  I can only speak for myself, but
from how my studies are going I think they expect us to program machines
that add 1000 to a number by adding 1 for a thousand times.

So I guess we'll be harmless afterwards.

And I was so looking forward to building Terminators!


May the Cool Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxciii
From: a_weitz@pavo.concordia.ca (WEITZMAN, ANDREW)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Cripple Mr Onion?
Date: 24 Jan 93 00:15:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I learn something new every day.  You mean there really is such a game as
Cripple Mr Onion?  Heck, I just thought it was a joke game TP made up.
If there are rules, could someone email them to me?  'Preciate it!

--Andrew--
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From: d90-two@nilen.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer)
Subject: Re: Terry Pratchett Bibliography
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:45:09 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.074037.3846@ericsson.se> Marek.Repinski@eos.ericsson.se writes:
>In article <30540@castle.ed.ac.uk>, benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge) writes:
>|> In article >, d90-two@hemul.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer) writes:
>|> |> In article  dharding@pollux.lssec.bt.co.uk (Derek Harding) writes:
>|> |> >In article , d90-two@tintin.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer) writes:
>|> |> >
>|> |> >|> i.e., ae, aa and oe instead of {}|. What do people prefer, Swedish ASCII or
>|> |> >|> those abominable ae etc?
>|> |> >
>|> |> >I really dont care either way, since I dont understand Swedish :)
>|> |> >
>|> |> Well, the question was aimed at potential readers of the blurbs, ie Swedish
>|> |> speaking people. (You couldn't guess, could you? :-)
>|> |> But no one has answered so I guess they don't care either.
>|> |> 
>|> 
>|> Well, I'm not a Swede, but as I speak some Swedish, I'll give my 2p - agreed, 
>|> ae etc. are vulgar, but I prefer them just because I never remember which ones 
>|> are which out of {}|.  So ae, aa, oe  has my vote. 
>|> 
>|> And if mine's the only vote, then I guess I win :-)
>
>Not !!!
>I vote for {}|, so I guess it's a tie :-)
>
Not even close... I've recieved one {}|-vote in the mail, and I allow myself to
vote too, so it's 3-1 to the {}|s. :-)

Who typed in the Mort blurb with the aa, ae, oe BTW?

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From: whippy@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Whiplash)
Subject: Re: Fave books
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:44:59 GMT

Waaaah! Thats not true! I'm a very nice & trustworthy person! Don't believe
him folks, he's just jealous because I'm cuter than him *&)
		
		~Whippy Chick

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From: jondr@sco.COM (Karen Silkwood's car)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 3 of 3
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:14:26 GMT


ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:
>leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
>>+ [p. 21] "Some people are born to kingship. Some achieve kingship, or at
>>  least Arch-Generalissimo-Father-of-His-Countryship. But Verence had
>>  kingship thrust upon him."

>>  I just *know* this paraphrases a well-known quote about leadership, but I
>>  can't place it. anybody?

>I believe the original was "Some are born great, some achieve greatness
>and some have greatness thrust upon them." I can't identify the source
>tho'.

Oh my goodness, what passes for education these days!

The quote is from William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.  I'd give you chapter
and verse but I don't have my text handy.  The exact quote is, "Some are
born great; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them."

[heavy duty spoilers for Twelfth Night]

In the play, the line is uttered by Malvolio.  Mal is the head servant at
Olivia's house, and he is also a stuck up snotty prig.  In order to knock
him down a few places, some of the comic relief characters forge a love
letter from Olivia to Malvolio.  When he finds it, he thinks that a) he's
got the love of a beautiful rich powerful woman and b) he's going to become
by extension a beautiful rich powerful guy, so he says the line above.  The
letter tells him to dress up stupidly and act in all sorts of idiotic ways
whenever Olivia is around.  He does this all to perfection, which leads
Olivia to think that he's completely flipped.  So she locks him up!  And
then the local jester comes to really mess with his mind...

Absolutely hilarious, trust me.  I was in this play a while ago and despite
having been through it a zillion times, I still think it's side splitting.

But that's just me.
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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Alien Controversion
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:38:09 GMT

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

>S_MARTIN@IRAV21.ira.uka.de (|S| Ralf Martin) writes:

>> The really strange stuff is that every bug-eyed,slime-drooling monster
>> from planet #@$%^%$&%@#%51776 Dillington,Murmansk jumps out of his 
>> Spacecraft,grabs a shapely Blonde and zooms off to a erotic
>> extravaganza in outer space.

>Science fiction *has* progressed a little since the 1930's, you know...

Yeah, just look at Buckaroo Banzai
"Where are we going?
 Planet Ten!
 When are we going?
 Real Soon!"

Best line in the movie :)

Eccles

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