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From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: I'll be Back...
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:12:39 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

csa18@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R.J. Husmo) writes:
>Hence the old joke: 'How to sink a Swedish ship?' 'Launch it.'
>(I've been told that the same story applies to the Mary Celeste. Anyone
>care to comment?)

Mary Rose you mean!!! The Marie Celeste was found drifting abandoned
and no trace of the crew. The ship was bought by someone and later
deliberately wrecked near Haiti for the Insurance money.

For another cosmic nautical experience try the Viking ship museum just
outside Oslo. Simply indescribably wonderful. You can then pop down
the road and look at Nansen's Fram and Hierdahl's Kon Tiki. You can
also go to the museum at Bigdoy (phonetic spelling, sorry) which is
very surreal - lots of houses from all over Norway re-erected together
with no real realtionship between them.

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From: mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( )
Subject: Re: Bugger off
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:42:54 GMT

In article <ADRIAN.92Aug17160811@titania.robots.ox.ac.uk> adrian@robots.ox.ac.uk (Adrian Cox) writes:

>Where I come from, `bugger' is one of the minor swear words which can
>be used in front of granny. 

"Bugger granny?"

Well, I take it that your granny isn't a hedgehog...

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From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Swedish weather
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:16:37 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


What time is it?

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From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Culcha? Moi?
Date: 20 Aug 92 08:35:21 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

rm104449@ee.tut.fi (M{kinen Riku) writes:
>Q: What exactly is a geek? Is it someone that doesn't know what geek is?
>I mean exactly. I think I get the drift...

A geek was someone, usually a drunk or other addict, who worked in
touring carnivals. There job was to do amazingly horrible things like
biting the heads of live chickens for the entertainment of the public.
Geeks were "made" by getting them to pretend to do whatever it was you
wanted them to do whilst keeping up the supply of booze or whatever,
and then blackmailing them by withdrawal into doing the real thing. 

I suspect this may be written up in "Memoirs of a a Sword Swallower"
by Dan Mannix. This has been recently republished (I saw it in Athena
books in London) and is a "must read". I just logged into the Melvyl
system and had a look st what else Mannix wrote and he is (was?) very
prolific. I *think* he also did the book called "Freaks" that RE-Search
has reprinted which is also an interesting source of carny lore.

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From: ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: nasty little potshots
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:26:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Terry Pratchett writes:

>And life is short (15,000 words into
>Men At Arms already and accelerating...my publishers tried locking me in a
>hotel room for six weeks but I escaped and got on with my writing...)

Funny, granted, but rather unfair for a public jab at Adams.  We all write at
different speeds, TP old lad; Wodehouse, for example, set and kept a pace that
would put even you on the silver medal stand. And if it hadn't been for the
double-welded iron bands they wrapped around his coffin, he'd STILL be at it.

(Of course, it may be that you are simply referring to the great British 
tradition of locking writers into rooms, begun, I believe, with Sheridan; if
From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: explaining things
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:40:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Aug18.132551.18751@cs.ruu.nl> jjverkui@cs.ruu.nl (Hans Verkuil) writes:
>I have another joke that I don't get, this one from Good Omens. Every tape
>that Crowley (sp?) plays in his car turns into a tape with music from Queen.
>Every reviewer of the book found it funny, but I don't see the joke. Then
>again, I also know very little about Queen.

Hmm : you kind of have to be English to appreciate this. Queen
was a very very popular band for a long while, and nearly
everyone has some Queen albums somewhere. Everybody (well,
pretty much) has a copy of Queens greatest hits, and most people
tend to keep it in the car, since its good music and anybody
will like it. This leads to the peculiar observation that
whenever you get inside a car in England, the tape in the stereo
happens to be Queens Greatest Hits .... in fact sometimes you
can't find anything else .....


oh, by the way, I don't know if its the same in Scotland, Wales
and NI ......


Simon
From: Elizabeth.Mccoy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Elizabeth Mccoy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:47:42 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <crystal.714370812@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
>In <leo.714319738@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
>>tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
>
>>> Men at Arms (20,000 words now and I still haven't
>>> used all the Twin Peaks gags...)

>>Twin Peaks gags -- yes, yes, YES!

>What are Twin Peaks gags??

Like a standard gag, only with little owls on it? Or some sort of
reversible ball-gag? Or a gag used on the set?

Beats me.

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Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books? 
From: lesley@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Lesley Walker)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 00:00:03 GMT
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ

ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles) writes:
>heard@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au (George Heard (Laurie 8)) writes:
>
>>[...] are you thinking of coming to
>>Australia again (missed you last time), and will you pay our little island a
>>visit? There is now a Terry Pratchett fan club at Melbourne niversity, btw.
>
>No fan club (yet) but lots of fans at Monash..... _please_ come back - I 
>missed the last one due to work commitments, although I was told it was great.

You guys obviously missed Terry's posting that said he was going to a con in
Perth sometime in 1993. Sorry, I didn't note the date.


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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Chapters
Date: 12 Aug 1992 15:42:18 GMT
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In article <memo.550062@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
> Use a bookmark is my advice.

Excuse me - but what should I use the bookmark for ?
There's two ways I read a book (note that I've never read "war and peace" ;-) -
a) start at lunch-time and carry on till finished
b) start later in the day, go to sleep at about 2am, putting the book on my
   desk and continue (and finish) reading next day same time

Sorry
	Bernard

P.S. I'm unwilling to change my signature - it's been like that for quite
some time now. -bs-
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From: mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox)
Subject: Re: I'll be Back... 
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 03:21:33 GMT

ARRGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!  I see what you mean.  Go on holiday for
a week, get back and the monitor almost explodes due to the
weight of the pixels from 250 messages in a.f.p

This is getting silly.  I love it *8)

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From: prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Paul James)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: porcupine =?= hedgehog
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:36:30 GMT
Originator: prj91@spenser

In <12532@ecs.soton.ac.uk> ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ) writes:

>In <1992Aug12.175127.6510@rdg.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:


>>In article <19681@plains.NoDak.edu>,
>>hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
>>|>
>>|>This American TP fan knew that porcupines and hedgehogs were quilly creatures
>>|>before reading his first DW book, but usually forgets whether they are the
>>|>same or just similar species.

>>They're quite different.  The only similarity is that both are mammals
>>with spines.

>Er - I'm a mammal, and I have a spine. I'd rather not be buggered, but
>that still doesn't make me a hedgehog. :-)

>Porcupines have quills. I don't think that hedgehog prickles are quills
>- they're much softer, less sharp, and aren't shed. Their main use is to
>deterr attackers rather than to hurt them, and for cushioning falls (try
>dropping a hedgehog - they bounce.)
> 
>Andy

I may be wrong, but aren't hedgehogs much smaller than porcupines?
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From: sp120@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Parkinson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Article on TP in today's Independant
Date: 15 Aug 92 14:14:22 GMT
Reply-To: sp120@eng.cam.ac.uk (S. Parkinson)
Organization: University of Cambridge, Computer Lab

There is a short article on TP in today's (Saturday)
Independant newspaper. They have obviously sent someone
to talk to him 'cos there a a few quotes from him about
humour and literature. I meant to bring the paper with
me to type in some quotes but I forgot - sorry, hope
you read this in time to get a copy.

SP.
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From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: explaining things
In-reply-to: hs0sagg@gdt.bath.ac.uk's message of 19 Aug 92 11:59:12 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
	<Bt4qK0.4vK@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
	<1992Aug19.115912.15755@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 14:59:40 EDT

In article <1992Aug19.115912.15755@gdt.bath.ac.uk> hs0sagg@gdt.bath.ac.uk (Simon Granville) writes:

>gold), JApanese names are always portrayed in some form of monosyllablic
>version (unlike Si-mon, things like Cho, Hsu, Lao etc)

Uh, those all look to be Chinese names to me. Some Japanese names:
Hidekei Yukawa, Seiji Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Hidikazu Uehara. Not
exactly monosyllabic, eh?

(I may not have have spelled them quite right).

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From: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (S.P.Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Witches Abroad queries
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:19:09 GMT
Reply-To: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (Stephen Thomas)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

In article <rizzoe.137.714138492@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU> rizzoe@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Emily Rizzo) writes:
>2) On page 79 there are various uses of a glyph ...:  diforders [disorders],
>   sicknefs [sickness] and cheft [chest]. ...  What is this strange character
>   and what is the point of it's appearance in this one section of the book?

I haven't read WA yet, but I can guess that, as Terry might put, "it's
written in Old, before they invented spelling." :-).  Seriously, in the
18th Century (maybe others), this glyph is how the lower-case S was
usually written.  Clearly, there were different S's in use depending
on where in a word they were used.  Or ufed.

Keep well,

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From: tim@sinix.UUCP (Tim Bissell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Dog Latin qvote reqvest
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:48:05 GMT
Organization: SNI AG Muenchen, STO XS

I can't be buggered to search through all the TP books to find the
latin version of "Buggered if I know"; could someone who knows it
post it?

Thanks,

Tim.
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From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: porcupine =?= hedgehog
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:40:28 GMT
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Paul S. Winalski (winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com) wrote:
: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
: |>This American TP fan knew that porcupines and hedgehogs were quilly creatures
: They're quite different.  The only similarity is that both are mammals
: with spines.
: 
: --PSW

Does this mean the porcupine _can_ be buggered despite the spines?!:-)
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:31:55 GMT

sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:

>In article <19729@plains.NoDak.edu> hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
>(Michael J. Hennebry) writes:

>>I Know one exclamation mark isn't enough to impress this crowd. Maybe I
>>should have capitalized it.

>How do you capitalize an exclamation mark?

How do you question a punch line?


May the Cool Be with You!

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From: mol@jyu.fi (Mika O. Latokartano)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Vasa
Date: 19 Aug 92 05:35:16 GMT
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

In article <1992Aug18.195205.18112@cc.tut.fi> rm104449@ee.tut.fi (M{kinen Riku) writes:
>
>...or is it Wasa (the ship)? I've heard thet when they got it up again they
>found something (can't remember what it was) that *defenetively* didn't belong
>in there. Something that wasn't four (?) hundred years old. 
>Later they found out that a group of enterprising students had dived and put
>this what-ever-it-was in there, just for fun.
>
>So Swedes, any truth in this? I'd like to hear.
>

  Well, I'm not a Swede (I'm from Finland), but I know this story, and
  I believe it is true, since I've read it from a couple of different
  sources and heard from a few others.  

  This really doesn't belong to this group, but the story is quite funny, so
  please indulge me this once... ;)

  Anyway, when the divers of the Swedish National Museum (??) dived into
  the wreck, they found a statue about 1.4 m tall, with an inscription
  in latin (or something) on its pedestal.  The funny part is, that
  the statue portrayed Paavo Nurmi, a famous Finnish athlete (runner)
  and a sort of a national hero.  The statue, it turned out to be, had
  been placed in the wreck in the middle of all the old treasures
  by a group of Finnish Students of Technology (from the Helsinki University
  of Technology).  I can just imagine the faces of the divers retrieving
  the valuable about 400-years old artifacts and finding this small
  statue - definately not 400 years old - portraying someone well known
  to Swedes and Finns at that time (and still).

  Actually, to fully appreciate this practical joke, one must be aware
  of the slight constantly on-going good-spirited rivalry and competition
  on every possible field between Finland and Sweden.....
  "Dear enemy" ;)))

  Well - so much of that!

	- Mika
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Witches Abroad queries
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:29:50 GMT

rizzoe@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Emily Rizzo) writes:

>2) On page 79 there are various uses of a glyph which looks like a lower case
>   "f" with the right half of the crossbar omitted:  diforders, sicknefs and
>   cheft (all the "f"s here represent this strange glyph).  I haven't found
>   this glyph elsewhere in the book.  What is this strange character (which
>   I guess is somehow related to German sharp S)?  and what is the point of
>   it's appearance in this one section of the book?

It's a variation of the lowercase "s", looking just like a lowercase "f"
but without the horizontal line across. It was used everywhere except
the end of the word*. (Hence "sicknefs" -- actually that should read
"ficknefs".) Its still used in gothic fonts in German, yet since nobody
uses those letters anymore hardly anybody knows about the rules. Having
got quite a lot of old German books I'm used to the writing, yet I still
get the impression of a lisping author anytime I mistake an "s" for an
"f".
About the relation to the sharp "s": Let's say the sharp "s" is related
to the "f"-"s" and not the other way around. It's derived from an "s"
and "z" written together, the "s" in the aforementioned way and the "z"
like a number "3" with a flat top. (You may have seen this already.) Af-
ter a while it became the typical lower-case-beta-like character.

*Nor ends with other words concatenated on without blanks in between,
 the German language is so famous for.


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From: kcc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Ken Cox)
Subject: MP scenes (Was Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:55:38 GMT

gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
>leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:

>> MOVING PICTURES:

>>  - This one has uncountable references to classic Hollywood movies and
>>    anecdotes. Again, I eagerly await your input.

>My favourite was the Blues Brothers reference (then again, it was pretty
>blatant).

The section immediately after the BB reference has been nagging
at me since I read the book.  It was something like, "Yellow team
belong Aunt M'Bui, FORWARD!  Green team belong Cousin F'red,
FORWARD!"  It almost MUST be a reference, but I can't quite place
it.  All I can come up with is "Star Wars", which had something
like "Red squadron, launch!  Gold squadron, launch!" (or was that
"Battlestar Galactica" :-), but it doesn't seem right.

>>  - One thing that might easily slip by the casual reader is the fact that 
>>    the two femme fatales of this novel are called Ginger and Ruby, both
>>    names signifying a red color.

Victor and Ginger are pretty clearly composites of many leading
men and women.  One semi-obscure one:  Ginger's real first name
was Theda, and Theda Bara was a silent-film actress -- I think
she starred with Rudolph Valentino in "Thief of the Desert",
just like Ginger starred with Victor Maraschino in "Sons of the
Desserte"/"Sword of Passione".

As for Ruby -- well, there's a scene where she's singing in Troll.
Read the footnoted translations carefully....


Ken Cox
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From: jimb@rcx1.csd.harris.com (Jim Burmeister)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v1.4
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:20:28 GMT
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

In article <memo.573795@cix.compulink.co.uk>, tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:
|> And you'd better add: say Djelibeybi OUT LOUD -- I must have had twenty
|> letters (and one or two emails) from people who didn't twig until the third
|> time round...oh god... do they have them in the US?

Well, we don't have Djelibeybi's in the US, but anyone who's ever watched
Doctor Who (the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker) knows what they are!

-Jim B.
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From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble)
Subject: Re: Any Recorded TP Books?
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:02:12 GMT

kcl@world.std.com (Katherine C Long) writes:

>Have any of TP's books shown up on tape as recorded books?
>I know that _Truckers_ is out on video in the UK, have not
>heard of any of the others out in anything but print.

>Terry, do you do readings from your works at cons?  Would
>you be interested in narrating your books?

Yes.. This would be fabulous!!

I have a blind friend who is absolutely hooked on Terry's books,
but being read to you in a monolog Synthesized voice, sorta
looses the action and excitment of the book..
Having a tape of the book, spoken by TP himself would be excellnt
in this situation!

And I think a lot of other people would love to hear it told by TP
himself too.. (I know I would!)



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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 19:45:26 EDT
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: wanted: info on bookstores in canada/u.s.

like the subject line says: i'd like info about bookstores in canada/u.s.
which have _eric_, _small gods_ or _witches abroad_. i managed to get the
nome trilogy from wordsworth's in cambridge MA, but they didn't have eric in
stock and there was no telling when it might come in. and while i'm on the
subject, how come _dark side of the sun_ and _carpet people_ aren't available
in the u.s. this really pisses me off, because everyday in a.f.p. i see people
discussing the above books and i don't seem to have any hope of laying my hands
upon those books. so, any help would be greatly appreciated.
---
later,
sunil
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