Talk:Ibid

Ibid's name is a neat double-layered pun and I figured I'd just clarify it here on the talk page, because it is pretty awesome and deserves a bit of attention. To wit:

• "Ibid" is shorthand for "ibidem", used whenever one need refer to the same source time and again in the footnotes of one's scholarly works. As such, "ibid" is indeed usually applied in the context of the "biggest bloody authorities"!

• As Ibid wrote the Discworld equivalent of the Discourses, his Roundworld analogue is the philosopher Epictetus, whose true name is unknown - "Epictetus" is a sobriquet stemming from his time as a slave and simply means "acquired". So, of course, does "I bid" (in its past-tense form).

-Sator 15:06, 28 February 2012 (CET)