From: sander@cwi.nl (Sander Plomp)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Another Witches Abroad Annotation
Date: 17 Dec 92 10:24:10 GMT
Distribution: alt

neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher) writes:
>On page 48 (Corgi Paperback Edition), the witches fly over

>"...a maze of twisty little canyons, all alike"

>which is, of course, a reference to one of the early computer
>adventure games.

Shit. I was just going to post that one! And you beat me to it!

Happens to me all the time. I knew that Wasabi was a japanese dish. But
will I was researching exactly what kind of dish, someone else posted it.
When read the first annotated Pratchett file, a read the part about
Conan vs. Cohen and don't bother to note it unless you know them doing
something very similar. "lamentation of their women" my mind echoed,
noting that this was both in the TCOM/TLF and the arnie movie. But
someone had borrowed my copy of those books and took a long, long, long,
long, long, long, long time to return them. So I could not look up
the quote and guess what, someone else did.

Can't the lot of you leave something for me to post?

Some quickies, before I get beaten again:

- One page earlier in WA, p 47, the mountains are described. Among other
  things:
      No-one ran up them wearing dirndls and singing.
  Does this refer to the opening scene of "The sound of music"
  Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary:
  dirndl n [short for G dirndlkleid, fr. G dial. dirndl girl + G
    kleid dress, fr MHG kleit; akin to OE clath cloth] (1937) 1: a dress
    style with tight bodice, short sleeves, low neck, and gathered skirt
    2: a full skirt with a tight waistband

- Also in WA, p 140, in the whole part based on the wizard of Oz:
  One of things Nanny sais:
     `You know, Greebo,' she said `I don't think we're in Lancre.'
  Seems to be taken rather directly from something Dorothy says to Toto
  (her dog) something along the lines of:
     Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
  (Someone know the real quote, haven't got the WoO around, if fact
   never read it, but the quote is very well known).

- Oh, the first occurance of 'Dunmanifestin' is in TCOM, page 75, in
  the prolog of "The Sender of Eight".

- TCOM, p 73, "another fine mess". Laurel and Hardy quote?

- TCOM, p 221, "To boldly go where no man ....". Startrek?

- In Good Omens, various misprinted bibles are mentioned. One of them
  is the bible where the word "not" was omitted from "thou shalt not
  commit adultery". I recently heard about this from another source;
  appearently this misprint really exists. Do any of the other bibles
  mentined?

- 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,
  someone who works here mentioned the city; he spend some time there
  once. It's a designed city, with a very regular street pattern,
  horrible public transport (designed for car owners), a big piramid in
  the center with a shopping mall etc.  Compared to the english country
  side this city has a completely dead feel about it (or so my coworker
  said). It was designed by an American.
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Sander Plomp                                    Internet: Sander.Plomp@cwi.nl