HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: Re: The alt.fan.lemurs Reader Poll
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:03:11 GMT

jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:

>1) What is your full name?
michael gary moncur, occasionally known as arthur dent.
>2) Where do you live?
somewhere west of the mississippi, but east of new york.
>3) What do you do for a living?
I've been trying to figure that out for some time.
>4) How long have you been reading alt.fan.lemurs?
Since my therapist recommended it.
>5) What made you start reading alt.fan.lemurs?
the 'auto-subscribe-to-new-groups' feature in nn.
>5) Do lemurs bang on your bedroom windows at night?
only during certain dreams.  at the time, i welcome the interruption.
>6) Do you ever have trouble with lemurs swinging on your kitchen lights or
>staying up all night to watch movies on your VCR?
No, but they have been known to empty my last can of Cheeze Wiz from time
to time.
>7) Would you have any ethical or moral problems with spending 10% of your
>monthly income to keep your local lemurs happy and content?
Yes.
>8) Have you ever given a lemur access to your computer or to your Internet
>accounts?  If so, what happened?
Yes.  He logged on as me and answered the reader poll.
>9) Do you let lemurs use your credit cards?
No, but I do have one that was issued by a lemur.
>10) What lemur-related question would you like to pose for the rest of the
>readership of alt.fan.lemurs to answer?

How many words, other than "rule" and "mule", can you make from the word
"lemur"?  Please don't send answers to me.  Send them to your nearest
lemur support group, or to your therapist.  Remember, there *is* a cure.

By the way, I think you should know that I voted for alt.lemurs as the
"official newsgroup of alt.shenanigans" in the alt.shenanigans user poll. 
Now isn't that supportive.

DISCLAIMER:  I'm not a lemur, but I play one on TV.
-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: The alt.fan.lemurs Reader Poll
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:36:40 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <C0o5r7.CHA@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
>To boost alt.fan.lemurs traffic enough that we'll get listed in the
>1) What is your full name?
>
>
Jason D. Corley, though some men call me...Tim.
>
  I live in Phoenix, AZ and Tucson, AZ, but not simultaneously. That
would be painful.

>3) What do you do for a living?
>
I am a student studying lemurology...no I mean physics and mathematics
at the Lemurversity of Arizona...no I mean University.
>4) How long have you been reading alt.fan.lemurs?
>
Since its sordid creation in 1911.

>5) What made you start reading alt.fan.lemurs?
>
A fat sweaty woman with hairy legs.  No that was what made me register
for Selective Service.  Um....It just feels right?

>5) Do lemurs bang on your bedroom windows at night?
>
No, but sometimes they sing "Man of La Mancha", or so my Universal
Leem-O-Translator says.  Of course, it couldn't translate its way out
of a cardboard box, but that's not the point.

>6) Do you ever have trouble with lemurs swinging on your kitchen lights or
>staying up all night to watch movies on your VCR?
>
No, except when "King Dinosaur" is on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (see
the famous Joey The Lemur sketch on the ftp site.)

>7) Would you have any ethical or moral problems with spending 10% of your
>monthly income to keep your local lemurs happy and content?
>
Yes.  I don't have 10% of my monthly income.  My monthly income is 100%.

>8) Have you ever given a lemur access to your computer or to your Internet
>accounts?  If so, what happened?
>
Yes, but he spent all his time on the upper-level sci groups.  Sorry, no
interesting or funny stories at all.  Kind of a nerd for a lemur I guess.

>9) Do you let lemurs use your credit cards?
>
No.  I have no credit cards after the anteaters next door stole mine and
went on a Fruit Roll-up buying spree before they were caught.

>10) What lemur-related question would you like to pose for the rest of the
>readership of alt.fan.lemurs to answer?
Oh!  Now I remember!
If you knew a lemur who thought Special Relativity was inconsistent with
Tiplerian space-time causality violation, what would you tell him?
Xref: sparky alt.fan.lemurs:296 alt.folklore.urban:33238 rec.food.restaurants:2473
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.restaurants
Subject: Re: Furr's Cafeterias (Was: Re: Who Kresge was (Was: Re: Architecture (Was: Architect Suicides))
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:36:05 GMT
Organization: st. alfonso's pancake breakfast

In article <C0o4qy.CCA@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
>In article <1993Jan10.160005.21109@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
>>This next fact will seem to be an AFU-oriented UL unless I quote it
>>directly from the source (Ency.Brittanica, 15th ed.):  "It [K mart]
>>also owns . . . the chain of Furr's Cafeterias in the Southwest."
>>
>>Bruce "I'd like the lemur stew, please" Tindall
>
>Sorry, we're fresh out.  Perhaps you'd like a Twinkie instead?
>>
>Has anyone out there eaten at a Furr's Cafeteria?  Is the food there any
>good?  Any cafeteria-based urban legends waiting to be shared with the net?

um, do i really want to admit to this? will lemurs all across the world forever
chide me? i ate there. it was bland and the lines were enormous, full of enor-
mous hicks and their big-haired wives and loud, polyester-clad children. the 
foods were horribly fatty and mostly cold, and the cafeteria atmosphere brought
me back to my hated days of high-school lunch. 

ObFurrsUL: the manager of the furr's in sunny t00son was found upside-down
in a vat of sausage gravy. they used the vat anyway after heating it up
past the boiling point. the manager was fired for swimming on the job.

bah.
i am the asciibo!
--
		    -just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      coed naked internet grep! always keep your link up!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
From: SENDIAA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Subject: Welcome to alt.non.sequitur
Organization: Yale University
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 17:39:55 EST

In article <16B518F44.SENDIAA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
SENDIAA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
 
>
>In lieu of Our Founder, who has temporarily yanked himself out of the
>perilous verbal quicksands of this milieu, I take this opportunity to
>welcome all of those who have just arrived, and to run with a cheer and
>outstretched arms to those who have just returned.
>
>In response to the 43 messages I received this morning, all asking more or
>less, "How do I GET IN to alt.non.sequitur?" My answer is grim. It is not
>easy. You must undergo an incoherent series of tribulations before a tribunal
>while tripe-waving tribes jeer you into a trifle.
>
>Myself not vested with the authority to make final admissions decisions, I
>declare a temporary Open Door Policy. That is, for the next 72 hours, Anyone
>Can Join. And we'll even give you ragged blankets. Don't be Left In The Cold.
>And you'll get a steamy furry wet warm cup of hot chocolate.
>
>And in the warmth and comfort of your new deceptively hospitable environs, you
>can peruse such masterpieces as Socks and Dregs and Rolling Ruckus.
>
>Welcome to the land of filamental fudge sliding through polyester while the
>Chihuahua of the Land of Tlacatan gleefully chows two spiders, playing with
>the concepts embedded in the cozy gumdrops above while Dryden untunes the sky,
>mischievously, because ah, Rock could tell you and so could Heidi, without
>mischief there ain't no life. me tired, me need more sleep
Xref: sparky alt.fan.lemurs:315 sci.physics:22650
From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Jason D. Corley's question -- for YOU to answer!
Keywords: tongue in cheek please
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:05:39 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <1993Jan12.230702.21699@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
>[let's try again with much more limited crossposting]
>
>     Of course, Twinkies being constitued predominantly of Hydrogen, 
>     Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Carbon, such a process is likely to be 
>     highly endothermic.  Lemurs typically ask *me* about cold Twinkie
>     fusion.  That's what happens when I find the Twinkies in the bag
>     underneath the milk.
>
>                               dale bass

But has the milk been irradiated?  This was the burning question on the
mind of the lemur I spoke to.  He was concerned about the effect of
the Madagascarian government to build a nuclear reactor by the year 2046
on the dairy products of the area.  He was a very health-conscious lemur,
and therefore somewhat of an outcast amongst the ordinary "Twinkie-
swilling" population.

This is also a test of my .sig.  So there.

--
****************************************************************************
"Generally, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when
 things have got about as bad as they can reasonably get."--Tom Stoppard
   Jason D. Corley  (aka corleyj@gas.uug.arizona.edu) Physics, Lunacy, etc.
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: The alt.fan.lemurs Reader Poll
Date: 12 Jan 93 03:01:21 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <C0o5r7.CHA@polaris.async.vt.edu>, jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu 
(J. Furr) writes:

> To boost alt.fan.lemurs traffic enough that we'll get listed in the
> news.lists monthly traffic summaries, I propose an alt.fan.lemurs User Poll.
Cool, I'm game.

> 1) What is your full name?
Gregory Lemur Bole
 
> 2) Where do you live?
4612 Lemur Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19139
 
> 3) What do you do for a living?
Research in Human and Lemur Genetics
 
> 4) How long have you been reading alt.fan.lemurs?
Just about a week.
 
> 5) What made you start reading alt.fan.lemurs?
The wonderful name.  Alt.fan.lemurs...it called to me.  There was also this
nagging feeling like the word "lemur" should mean something to me...but I 
could never put a finger on it.  *shrug*
 
> 5) Do lemurs bang on your bedroom windows at night?
Only when I'm sitting on my bed eating Malomars...they love Malomars.
 
> 6) Do you ever have trouble with lemurs swinging on your kitchen lights or
> staying up all night to watch movies on your VCR?
YES!  I thought I was the only one!  Actually, they swing on my bedroom light
AND watch movies on my VCR at the same time!  I can't tell you how many times
I've had to suffer through "The Ghost and Mrs. Lemur" and "The Adventures of
Lemur Hood".  They all can't wait for the new Japanese movie, "Raise the Red 
Lemur" to come out on VHS...
 
> 7) Would you have any ethical or moral problems with spending 10% of your
> monthly income to keep your local lemurs happy and content?
I already spend far more than that on Malomars and video rentals!
 
> 8) Have you ever given a lemur access to your computer or to your Internet
> accounts?  If so, what happened?
Hey, if I could get them on my computer, maybe the VCR could get a rest...
 
> 9) Do you let lemurs use your credit cards?
Don't even SUGGEST this to them!!!!  AHHHHHHH!!!!
 
> 10) What lemur-related question would you like to pose for the rest of the
> readership of alt.fan.lemurs to answer?
What movies do YOUR resident Lemurs like to watch?  I'd at least like to
suggest a few new ones to mine, so I can watch something different once in a 
while...  (And how can I get them to stop swinging on the light?)

Greg Bole                            "Maybe there'll be a new action flick
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu          by Jean Claude Van Lemur soon!"
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,sci.misc,sci.physics,sci.astro,rec.humor.d
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Jason D. Corley's question -- for YOU to answer!
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 05:15:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.233640.26012@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley ) writes:
>If you knew a lemur who thought Special Relativity was inconsistent with
>Tiplerian space-time causality violation, what would you tell him?

Answers?
From: franklir@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ryan J Franklin )
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: Diana Senechal's a.f.l question!  For *you* to answer!
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:24:44 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <C0oJz9.DHL@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:
>In article <16B531805.SENDIAA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> SENDIAA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
>> 
>>What in particular makes YOU grateful to alt.fan.lemurs?
>
>Answers?

The opportunity to further explore the complexities of these serene
Madagascarian gods.

--
                                             _        _
       Ryan Franklin          |             Ro shite ko nashi.
 is a registered trademark of |  ("Working hard and accomplishing nothing.")
 franklir@gas.uug.arizona.edu |                       -- Ancient Zen Koan
From: vkoser@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Vincent R Koser)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: What the hel is this newsgroup for?
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:24:41 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Greeting IAN
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
From: irogers@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mr. Ian Rogers)
Subject: Re: What the hel is this newsgroup for?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:24:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.002441.13046@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> vkoser@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Vincent R Koser) writes:
>Greeting IAN

What!?!  Using the net for messages?!?!?  What a waste of bandwidth.
Much more of a waste than all the other messages found in the alt.fan.q
file.  Hello Vincent.  Greeting and flatulence.

ian
-- 

Ian Rogers
irogers@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
From: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: Hailing frequencies...
Date: 9 Jan 1993 18:23:46 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk

Hello Q.
Whats your mame?
My name is Sam, I say, Sam.
What time is it up there by the way, I say, whats the time?


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*--------------IF NOT 1 AND NOT 2 AND NOT 3 THEN 4-----------------------*
From: Steve.Lake@brunel.ac.uk (Steve M Lake)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.q
Subject: Re: What the hel is this newsgroup for?
Date: 7 Jan 93 13:19:01 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


Surely this newsgroup is for fans of Q (!)




Naaaaah, too easy  !!

- Steve "I'm not a gravitaional anomoly, it just kinda bends !" Lake
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: vasco@bvl.pt (antonio vasconcelos)
Subject: TP books in portuguese
Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:19:44 GMT

Just for the record (and maybe for the FAQ).

So far, Terry got two books translated to Portuguese, Mort and Wyrd Sisters.
Here is the formal info:

	Title:	      MORT
	Orig. Title:  Mort
	Publisher:    Editorial Caminho, SA
	Collection:   CAMINHO - Ficcao Cientifica, number 145
	ISBN:         972-21-0735-6
	Bound:        Paperback

	Title:        As Tres Bruxas
	Orig. Title:  Wyrd Sisters
	Publisher:    Editorial Caminho, SA
	Collection:   CAMINHO - Ficcao Cientifica, number 135
	ISBN:         972-21-0591-4
	Bound:        Paperback

No Josh Kirby covers... snif...:-(
But the translation is really good...

Does someone know (Terry???) if it is to be expected more titles ???



regards to everyone and thanks to TP for the Disk World...

vasco.
From: gary@morlich.turing.ac.uk (Gary Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:06:47 GMT
Reply-To: gary@uk.ac.turing
Followup-To: alt.fan.pratchett
Organization: The Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland.

In article <1993Jan7.115257.10456@cs.nott.ac.uk>, nlc@nyquist.cs.nott.ac.uk (Neil L Cook) writes:
> >I nice pun in Swedish, that unfortunately does not translate, is that
> >"dopa" means both implanting chemical substances into semiconductors and
> >taking drugs...
> 
> Actually, that's not true:
> "Doping silicon" is a term used when implanting silicon.
> "Dope" is a common name for cannabis, and "getting doped" could mean a session of
> taking this. There is also cellulose dope, which is a kind of sticky glue used to
> turn tissue paper hard. (Used in balsa aeroplane making). The smell from this
> stuff gets me high!
> 
> Neil.

   So, would a "dope test" be done if they suspected you had been injecting
   silicon again?

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Colour of Magic
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:36:03 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.


Hmmm, this reminds me of something.

Do you know how hard it is to act out the title "The Colour of Magic"
when playing charades?

Well, it probably isn't that hard for the pros, but I didn't find it
easy!
-- 
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Datamark Intl Ltd | thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz     Home: 64 4 499 3832
 Technical Writer | Yes, I do have long ears, a black nose, and a tail.
From: s914708@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Stuart Reeh)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: "Hi!" and a small Q. about the Hedgehog ...
Date: 12 Jan 1993 03:47:45 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

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

>In <damiene.726546756@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:
>>s914431@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Malcolm Herbert) writes:

>>>You may have run into a friend of mine from RMIT by the name of Stuart Reeh ...
>>>Collective groan?  No no ... not a bit of it!  ;)
>>ugh, another rmit person

I feel it is unwise for someone from "the farm" to criticise RMIT.
Mind you, if you can find another uni. that offers Socio-Environmental
Assessment and Policy, I'll quite gladly shift!

>Like my brother?
>(The first time I typed that line, it said, "like my bother".
>Hmmmmmm.)

Brother=bother...what's new with that?

>>>I'd just like to say that one of our members has
>>>already put "Stairway to Heaven" into a four part harmony in Latin, so I thin
>>>we can handle it!

>Does Andrew Denton know about this?

If he doesn't now, he will soon... we're associated with John Grundy, the man
responsible for the choral version that already exists...

>>For those of you outside of Melbourne, who haven't encountered this lot, 
>>you may think I'm raving - but these are people who sing 'My grandfathers
>>c(l)ock' at full blast in a shopping centre!!!

>I must agree; for once Eccles is quite correct.  

Aw, come on... once you've sung dozens of 2 hour-long Christmas Carol gigs and
it's still NOWHERE NEAR CHRISTMAS, what would _you_ be doing????

(don't answer that)

>Tim aka What? Me agree with Eccles?

Stuart aka You silly, twisted boy, you...

-- 

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: matoh@lysator.liu.se (Mats \hrman)
Subject: Re: TP research 
Reply-To: matoh@lysator.liu.se
Organization: Lysator ACC at Linkoping University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:15:51 GMT

matoh@lysator.liu.se (I) wrote:
>A nice pun in Swedish, that unfortunately does not translate, is that
>"dopa" means both implanting chemical substances into semiconductors and
>taking drugs...

As other's already have pointed out, it is indeed quite
translatable...  

That's what you get for posting late in the night and using a
non-technical dictionary. :-)

Well, I went home and had a look in my old semiconductor physic books, and
what semiconductors usually are doped with is boron, arsenic and phosphorous.
So how about trolls getting high on matches?

>Otherwise, the kinds of impurities in silicon and germanium that makes it
>impossible to make semiconducors out of them, are often metals.

The most common metals that destroys the "semiconductiveness" are
potassium and sodium.

>--
>     _
>Mats Ohrman     E-mail:   matoh@lysator.liu.se.se

--
     _
Mats Ohrman     E-mail:   matoh@lysator.liu.se.se
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett)
Subject: Chicago visit                           
Cc: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:44:00 +0000


I hope I posted this some time ago, but I can never remember...

Anyway, to US fans (that's you, you, and him just over there) I'll be a guest
at Capricon XIII at the Pheasant Run resort hotel, St Charles, Illlinois,
from February 18-21.

Terry
From: nlc@nyquist.cs.nott.ac.uk (Neil L Cook)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Conventions
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:49:41 GMT
Organization: Communications Research Group

What exactly are conventions when they're at home? 

Are there ever any in Britain? Doesn't seem like it. Maybe they not
the "done thing" in Britain? Are they fun? What goes on there?

Hmm, I went into a bookshop the other day, and asked about the Witches
Abroad display they had. Anyway, I felt really uncomfotable doing it,
like I was doing something wrong. My partner thought I was really sad
as well, but once I explained to her that it was just like having a
poster of a band, they took a less dim view. I didn't convince myself
though... 

I'm sure an Amercian (no offence here...) would have had no qualms.
What is it that makes me feel that I am doing something "sad". Would
this prevent me from going to Cons? I fear so. From what little I know
of them, it seems to be people running round in [Star Trek] [Star
Wars] gear. 

Any thoughts?

Neil.
 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
From: "steve degroof" <steve.degroof@canrem.com>
Subject: tp research
Reply-To: "steve degroof" <steve.degroof@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:40:52 EST

Things that bugger up sensitive electronics:

-Water, especially salt water (Trolls don't live near the
sea, do they?)
-Soft drinks, especially colas (Anyone remember 'The Pepsi
Syndrome?')
-Ionizing radiation (UV, gamma)
-Strong magnetic fields (Note: earthquakes can cause these)
-Static charge (lightning, polyester leisure suits)
-Low resistance short (copper, gold, mercury, any metal)
-Carbon dust (coke?)
-Acid ('nuf sed)

Feel free to add to the list.

SD
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From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Happiness is. . .
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:03:51 GMT
Organization: UB

Some days you go to your 'In' box, and find that it simply *overflowing* with
joy and wonderment!

So who sez we Amurrikins can't get the most recent Discworld stuff?  I gaze
in awe and wonder upon my (hardcover) copy of L&L,  Illustrated Eric and 
otherwise run-of-the-mill paperback Witches Abroad.  

Thank you, thank you, thank you dear nameless Friend! [No need for you to be
handling orders for all the US fans, dear!]

Now. . . where to begin. . .

Ahhhhhh. . . I see that the Author's notes in L&L strongly recommend WA before
L&L,  morris dancers or no!  So be it!

--Jo                                                                    {njl}