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From: bjorn@darmok.uoregon.edu (Bjorn S. Fjeld Pettersen)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Good Omens footnote (was Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation)
Date: 22 Dec 1992 11:03:19 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
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In article <SSAMMY.92Dec22101122@fleming-03.cs.strath.ac.uk>  
ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES) writes:
> >Regarding Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation; sander@cwi.nl (Sander  
Plomp) adds:
> 
>  > - Also in GO, there is some talk about which cities are Aziraphale's doing
>  >   and which ones Crowly is to blame for. "Neither claimed Milton Keynes".
>  >   For me and other foreigners this is very obscure. But luckily,
> 
>  Doesn't the US editions have the footnotes?
>  I was under the impression that that was what they were there for!
>  In my paperback copy of GO there is a footnote that explains why
>  no-one claimed it.
> 
>  > Sander Plomp                                    Internet:  
Sander.Plomp@cwi.nl
>  
>  Paul
> --
> 
yes the us edition does indeed have the footnotes (after all they are the best  
parts ;) ) or at least my edition does anyway, it was  TERRIBLY hard to find in  
hardcover over here and the trade edition made only a small appearence.(It took  
it around two years to come out in trade if i remember correctly) but anyway i  
babble so have fun .

---azriphale
From: bs@qwerty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 23 Dec 1992 14:30:52 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
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In article <1992Dec23.123154.21204@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Holyer) writes:
|> There are two types of doping: P-type ans N-type (he says,

That's rather obvious - I mean, there must be males and females -
the latter having a special label(1) attached to them and they sort of look
olive-green if I remember correctly.

Oops - wrong author

Merry Xmyth

-Bernard
(1) Which doesn't translate in German. At least, you lose the pun. -bs-
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From: leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: Annotations.
Keywords: Annotations
Reply-To: leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:05:08 GMT

se2ah@dmu.ac.uk (Wibble) writes:

> Could someone please tell me where I can get the annotations file from.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Read the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett. The APF 'belongs' to this
  group, and I always post the latest version there once a month.

- The file is available via anonymous ftp from two locations:
  David Jones has a copy on theory.lcs.mit.edu (18.52.0.92) in the
  file pub/dmjones/annotated-pratchett.
  Trent Fisher maintains a copy on potemkin.cs.pdx.edu in the file
  pub/pratchett/annotated-pratchett.

- Send me mail at leo@cp.tn.tudelft.nl and ask for the latest copy. You can
  also ask me to add you to the mailing list of people who will
  automatically receive new versions of the APF as they are released (this
  will not get you the APF more often or earlier than reading
  alt.fan.pratchett does, by the way).

- Finally, David Jones has also made the file obtainable through an MIT
  mail-server: to retrieve a copy just send an email message to
  archive-server@theory.lcs.mit.edu with the line
     send dmjones annotated-pratchett
  in the body.
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Subject: Re:  Full list of TPs books..
From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
Date: 23 Dec 92 08:16:56 GMT+12
Distribution: world
Organization: Muppet Labs

In article <CC.92Dec18183001@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
>In article <BzArCr.2Hy@brunel.ac.uk> ee89psw@brunel.ac.uk (Paul S Wain) writes:
>
>   Eric (with Josh Kirby {who else?})
>
>Make that:
>
>FaustEric   :-)
>
>(only some editions have illustrations by Josh Kirby - mine doesn't have
>them, thank goodness)

What?! HERESY! Throw him to the scorpions!


--
...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......

This is not a disclaimer, but it plays one on TV.

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From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: TP research 
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:56:03 GMT

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) 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?
I must be asleep. I could have sworn that read dung.

>What is the troll equivalent of alcohol?

Basically silicon is a lot harder to make react than carbon (thats us
to you iggerants out there :) so to give a troll a buzz, you'd have to
make them drink something with a bit of a kick in it.
Say silanol , which is alcohol with the carbon replaced with a 
silicon (honest). Or silane, same principle, only methane.

These silicon chains are only stable up to 4-silane. After that
they lose in in room temperatures..... brandy au flamb anyone?

>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
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^6
It didn't make a good sandcastle.

Eccles aka NO! I don't care if its Christmas! Don't shut the computer cen-
From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Good Omens footnote (was Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation)
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:11:22 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Information Engineering
In-reply-to: sander@cwi.nl's message of 17 Dec 92 10:24:10 GMT

>Regarding Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation; sander@cwi.nl (Sander Plomp) adds:

 > - Also in GO, there is some talk about which cities are Aziraphale's doing
 >   and which ones Crowly is to blame for. "Neither claimed Milton Keynes".
 >   For me and other foreigners this is very obscure. But luckily,

 Doesn't the US editions have the footnotes?
 I was under the impression that that was what they were there for!
 In my paperback copy of GO there is a footnote that explains why
 no-one claimed it.

 > Sander Plomp                                    Internet: Sander.Plomp@cwi.nl
 
 Paul
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From: ssammy@cs.strath.ac.uk (Paul Sammy 4th Year iE/CES)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Elephantine frivolities (was Re: A'Tuin is Male...?)
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:35:37 GMT
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Organization: Information Engineering
In-reply-to: Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk's message of 22 Dec 92 11:55:03 GMT

>Regarding Re: A'Tuin is Male...?; Adrian.Waterworth@newcastle.ac.uk (Adrian Waterworth) adds:
 > 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. ;-)

 Does the Disc have,er, any unusually sore looking moonlets? About 8 of
 them? (My eyes are watering!)

 > 				Ade.

 Paul
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From: 10762949@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (RICHARD KERSHAW)
Subject: Re: TP is OZ
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:59:24 GMT

In article <168BADCA6.K42@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> K42@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Monika Best) writes:
>From: K42@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Monika Best)
>Subject: Re: TP is OZ
>Date: 11 Dec 92 14:49:06 GMT
>In article <1992Dec10.215140.29390@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
>neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s)) writes:
> 
>>******************************************
>>You can't take three from two,
>>Two is less than three,
>>So you look at the four in the tens place.
>>Now that's really four tens,
>>So you make it three tens,
>>Regroup, and you change a ten to ten ones,
>>And you add them to the two and get twelve,
>>And you take away three, that's nine.
>>*******************************************
> 
>Aargh! STOP THAT!
> 
>Every time I'm reading one of your posts the crazy songs in your
>signature are going around and around and around in my head for the rest
>of the day! It's driving me nuts!
>Well, it could be worse, of course... at least you've picked songs I
>like a lot. :-)
> 
>-- Moni

What~!!
People who like Lehrer!!
Amazing!!!
(Hey he hasn't put the bit about losing two fingers 8-( )

-Veltyen
First we got the bomb and that was good cos we like peace and motherhood
Then Russia got the bomb but thats OK because the balance of powers 
maintained that way.
Who's Next
Then france got the bomb but don't you greive because they're on our side,
I beleive
South Africa wants two thats right, One for the Black and one for the 
White.
(From Memory, don't you hate it when you cant remember the words right.)
OBJnotTerryPratchet
Saw SRII softback today I'm happy!
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Subject: Re: TP research 
From: hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 08:04:26 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Lethargy Inc.


In article <1992Dec22.164222.14681@alf.uib.no> paulo@ii.uib.no writes:

[re: drugging trolls]

  > in computers. Radioactive rocks?

Of course! Kryptonite!

 ----------------------------------------------
 Phil Anderson  ***  hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz
 ----------------------------------------------
       "No-one is equal to anyone else!"
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Subject: Re: Map                                 
From: bigfoot@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Campbell March)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:54:39 GMT
Organization: I am by no means organized, at all.


>   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...

Is that the book which you open, goes 'Snap' and says on the inside front cover
'Citie of Nyne Hundred and Nynety Nyne Surprises'?

Sasquatch
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bigfoot@kauri.vuw.ac.nz           Lunatic for Hire: Enquire within
march_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz        Ask not for whom the bell tolls:
Campbell March@real.life           the butler will get it.
==B=E===Q=U=I=C=K=.=.=.===O=R===B=E===D=E=A=D=.=.=.============================
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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: TP research                         
In-reply-to: tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk's message of Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:32:00 +0000
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 23:08:40 EST

In article <memo.829760@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

> 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.

Eh? Remind me to let YOU pay my next electric bill, Terry! Though I
suppose enough current to stimulate a human or trollish brain would
cost less than, say, leaving the refrigerator door open.

You can also buy us a new ruthenium source in a few years. Granted,
cosmic rays are free ... but cosmics aren't a big enough dose to do
much. Serious rems cost money to come by -- more money than hemp!

--
- 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: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:15:31 GMT

sgcclmj@citec.oz.au (Liz Jones) writes:

>damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:
>: 
>:
>uh oh.  is there a definite connection between people who enjoy tp and people
>who enjoy the goon show?  some of the humour is definitely appealing to similar
>tastes...

Yep, very very strange :) 

How about:
(in a poker game)

Bottle: What sort of hand you got Eccles
Eccles: Four fingers and a thumb.
Bottle: I beat you Mad Dan. I got four fingers, two thumbs and a toe!
Eccles: A toe? There ain't no such hand.
Bottle: Do you think I'm a cheat?
Eccles: No, I think you're deformed.

>eccles is one of the best, specially along with bluebottle.
I know, thats why I chose the name :)

Eccles (;
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Subject: Re: sydney vs MELBOURNE vs tasmania 
From: hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 07:59:52 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Lethargy Inc.


In article <1101@dgaust.dg.oz> brown@dgaust.dg.oz writes:

  > Ahhhhhhh....but where would Terry go to in NZ ???
  > Auckland or Windy Wellington ??? Oh my god, I hope this doesnt start 
  > Another city vs. city flame war...>  

City vs city? Nah, _everywhere_ else would gang up to abuse Auckland.

 ----------------------------------------------
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 ----------------------------------------------
       "No-one is equal to anyone else!"
From: paulo@ii.uib.no (Paul Olav Tvete stipendiat)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:42:22 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen

In article <memo.825134@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

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

Well, I'm no expert, but I play one on Usenet.

How about alpha radiation? Alpha particles are known to cause memory loss/change
in computers. Radioactive rocks?

Static electricity is another "computer killer," but it isn't a substance.

In semiconductors, silicon is doped with boron or phosphorous (i seem to remember.)
Excessive amounts would undoubtedly cause malfunction.

-- 
Paul Olav Tvete;  paulo@ii.uib.no  ---- Ein # kan'kje vara evig, veit du. ----
From: arcturus@spuddy.uucp (Geoff Riley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: TP research
Date: 26 Dec 92 18:37:35 GMT
Organization: Spuddy's Public Usenet Domain

In article <memo.829760@cix.compulink.co.uk> tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>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..."

I was always disappointed that they never stuck their finger in a
package of mysterious power - put it into his mouth and say "Urgh!
Soap powder".... then wander away foaming at the mouth [grin]

Actually, I don't think it's possible to identify most drugs by
taste...  Could be wrong, I'm not really in a position to be a
conisseur (sp?) of such things [chuckle]...
-- 
Cheerio,
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From: quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
Subject: Re: STOP IT! NOW! (Pretty please?)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:03:01 GMT

In <damiene.724986459@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:

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

>>In <1992Dec9.184054.14457@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby) writes:
>[stuff about Canberra]
>It was put half way because _neither_ city _wanted_ it :)
In that case, I think we'd better not remind everyone that Melbourne was
Capital of Australia for a good number of years . . .

>>>(Of course, Sydney *IS* much nicer and less rainy then Melbourne :-)

>>Completely untrue.  Sydney's average annual rainfall is higher than
>>Melbourne's.
>Then why did I swim up to Uni this morning?
>And have you been to Kilmore recently?
Oi!  Just whose side are you on?
(I know it's not the American Way . . .)

>>Quetzal aka why doesn't anyone remember that?
>Eccles aka They're too busy bailing out.
Quetzal aka What's a thread?
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From: hevans@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl (Hugh D.R. Evans (ESA/ESTEC/WMA Netherlands))
Subject: Re: TP research                             
Reply-To: hevans@estcs1.dnet.estec.esa.nl
Organization: European Space Research and Technology Centre
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:46:41 GMT

In article <memo.825134@cix.compulink.co.uk>,
tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) 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.
|>
|>Since I know there's experts of everything out there, let discussion
|>commence!
|>
|>Terry
|>


As far as disorientates/mildly poisons, radiation is a good cause.  A
proton flying through a
chip can cause a single event upset (a state change in a transistor) as
its path 
ionises the surrounding circuit; a problem which is not permanent (much
like low doses of
alcohol).

Larger, more energetic doses can cause permanent effects, such as bulk
damage - 
where an atom is displaced from the crystalline lattice.  Probably the
equivalent of excessive
alcohol consumption.

As alpha radiation's penetration is rarely more than a millimeter, the
emmitter substance 
would have to be placed inside the chip's epoxy black box.  

In the space environment the charged particles are more than competent
at flitting through 
10cm of Aluminium.

So, one such drug/poison could be an alpha particle emmitter, as it
requires ingesting and
has a memory loss/temporary poisoning effect.  And if the dose is large
enough, requires
scrapping of the item.

Hope this helps,
Hugh.
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From: david@indetech.com (David Kuder)
Subject: Re: TP research
Organization: Independence Technologies, Inc. Fremont, CA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:48:08 GMT

In article <page-221292155421@whitedwarf.sas.upenn.edu> page@student.physics.upenn.edu (Chris Page) writes:
>pun latitude as well) Sulfuric or hydrochloric  acid would mess up the
>outside of a troll pretty bad, but I think there might be such a thing
>as phosphiric acid


Taking a look at the bottle of bubbly sugar water (the marketing of
which would make C.M . O. Throat jealous) that I have close at hand, I
see it has besides the usual carmel coloring, caffiene and potassium
benzoate, there is a fair dose of phosphoric acid.  So it seems a Coke
or Pepsi is the drug of choice for trolls.

-- 
David A. Kuder
david@indetech.com
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From: hevans@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl (Hugh D.R. Evans (ESA/ESTEC/WMA Netherlands))
Subject: Re: Stealing TP books, playing muds
Reply-To: hevans@estcs1.dnet.estec.esa.nl
Organization: European Space Research and Technology Centre
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:37:41 GMT

In article <BznAoA.4o0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
lrfox@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (linda ream fox) writes:
|>
|>BTW, has anyone out there got my copy of Reaper Man?  It's gone
|>missing.
|>
|>LRFOX
|>
|>

I thought I saw it being passed around here just the other day.  It was
hopping a flight to China, 
I believe.
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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: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:20:00 +0000

Well, in draft one I'm using molten sulphur as Detritus' tipple.  But I like
the idea of known chemical impurities and among the suggestions already
advance I can pick and use.  Uranium is known on the DW.  And given the
trolls' association with all things mineral, I wonder if I can get away with
'coke' jokes...

Heat affects trolls brains, as I have said.  That's why they slow down in
daylight.  In Men At Arms Detritus is accidentally frozen and becomes a
temporary genius as the conductivity of his brain increases.  Their brains
are also natural Eproms -- it takes a lot of repetition to get a troll to
understand something, but presumably they'd only forget if you unscrewed the
top of their skulls and exposed them to strong UV.

Terry
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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Annotation: inconsistencies
In-reply-to: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:30:43 +0000
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:25:21 EST

In article <724995043snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:

>A masterly analysis, Rich, and I have only one quibble:
>>given that the only month-names used appear to be the English ones.
>
>"Grune" seems to be the name of the month in which "Guards! Guards!"
>takes place: Carrot reads out all the charges in the form "On or about
>18th Grune you did ..."

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"?)

--
- 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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