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==The Long Earth==
I've finally gotten around to listening/reading [[Book:The Long Earth|The Long Earth]] series. Loving the concept! --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 17:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
: This series was amazing! --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 04:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
I enjoyed looking for Terry Pratchett's footprints throughout the text.

==Taking leave ==
I'll be off buying cigars and incommunicado next week. Somebody might pull an extra shift on watch. Hasta luego! --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
:will do what I can.... how long are you visiting [[Sumtri]] for? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 19:10, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hola! I'm back. Stuff seems to have been done. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

==Namespaces==
The new page [[Book:The Rince Cycle]] points out a need for one or more namespaces for works that aren't Books or Short Stories, unless I'm missing something: this one's a playscript but there are other things. Discuss. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<BR>
(''copied from Talk:Book:The Rince Cycle''):<BR>
:Well, we've done LP records, CD's, TV adaptations, computer games..... and the playscripts are listed in the biography and all appear to be redlinked, as if the option is there to create articles.... I'd say why not? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 18:55, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Why indeed, but the question is how to define a namespace (or what to call it). It could be Peripherals: as the category, but shorter would be better. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 22:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

: '''Misc''' --[[User:Thnidu|Thnidu]] ([[User talk:Thnidu|talk]]) 17:57, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

==Mirabile Dictu==
Chaffinch's [[Ancient and Classical Mythology]] is now the fourth most popular page here. Huh? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:29, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

:I'm wondering if people looking for ''Bulfinch's Ancient and Classical'' are getting their ornithology wrong on a Google search; they can vaguely remember the guy they're looking for is ''some'' sort of finch but not which exact kind. I hang around on Yahoo Answers now and again just for fun and to do some corrective trolling. it's amazing how many disinterested schoolchildren put up please for people to do their homework for them when they can't be bothered to do their own research, and to be honest, a lot of them are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. I have a lovely picture in my head of a fairly dense American schoolchild being told to look up Greek mythology, steered to look for Mr Bulfinch, who gets it wrong and ends up on our wiki instead. Thus ending up writing about Blind Io, Petunia, Offler, Epidity, Bissonomy and the rest of the Dunmanifestin gang. Then confidently handing it in.... [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 11:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The [[Special:Popularpages|statistics]] continue to boggle my mind. The main page approaches 3.5 million views, up a million since the New Year. The popularity ranking of views for individual pages may be obvious or wildly unlikely. At the end of 2014 I put up a short history of the wiki to fill in the "About" page. Who looks at the "About" page? They may reach 10,000 by the end of February! [[Lies-To-Children]] is more popular than [[Ankh-Morpork]]! [[Ptraci]] and [[Pseudopolis]] don't make the top 500. [[Ankh]] languishes at 2630th...Wot's it all abaht, then? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:46, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

I also cannot help but notice that new pages I started, to fill in gaps about obscure or very minor characters and situations/ places, went from 0 views to well over 600 within hours of posting. In my experience a brand-new page tends to get 8-20 hits in the first few days, I guess from regulars looking at it out of curiosity. But 644? Something odd is happening. [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 22:57, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

:Think bots! Remember just because spammers now find it difficult to post here it doesn't mean we don't still get scanned. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 13:08, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

==Possible Outage==
I've asked the cabal to make a DNS change. This should be transparent to you guys but there was a small unplanned outage last time we made a change. This change will let me cut my hosting costs by about a third so that's a good thing. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 04:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
: Never noticed. Glad to hear the financial burden is reduced. I'm still hoping to get together with my son-in-law the interweb marketing wallah to discuss revenue possibilities. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:32, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::They apparently haven't made the change yet. But once they do this won't be a big deal to afford. I'd over engineered to begin with but now it's only costing about $25/month. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 13:10, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

=='''Thursday, March 12, 2015'''==
What are we supposed to write today? A good journalist (like Terry Pratchett) would suck it up and write a thousand words of inspiring prose and biographical notes. I'm not that good; I'm too depressed. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 20:22, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
:It was just so sudden...--[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 20:40, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
::I have, on occasion, thought about how terrible it would be to wake up one day to the news that Sir Pterry had died, but actually waking up to the news was shocking and a very different thing. I don't know what there is to say or write here beyond what has already been said by countless others... [[User:TC01|TC01]] ([[User talk:TC01|talk]])

[https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/cpcvz46 A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.] [[User:TC01|TC01]] ([[User talk:TC01|talk]]) 02:18, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:That is brilliant. Thanks for help making me smile on such a sad day.--[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 03:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Copied from my FB page.
On the death of Sir Terry Pratchett, first thoughts. Having spent a lot of time trying to turn other people on to Terry and his writings and having gifted some of the most intelligent people I know copies of the books with notes attached saying "read this, you'll like it.".

Still feeling very sad as if a lot of colour has drained out of the world. Like many others, thinking he would "diminish" over a period of quite a few years. Sadly, the "diminishing" process appeared evident in his last few published books, as if he was, perhaps, creating a broad outline, filling in such detail as he could, but others (Rob Williams? Rhianna?) were completing the books. The Discworld story in "Science of Discworld 4" read as if other people had written it - the authentic Pratchett voice was missing, there were continuity problems with other books, and it read like second-division fanfic. That is, it told a good story, but the Pratchett voice and tone either weren't there or only intruded in ocassional flashes of the old brilliance.

"Unseen Academicals" was... well, Terry was in there. But it read as if at least one other writer was in there too. As well as all the continuity glitches concerning well-established characters and callbacks to previous books. Not that it wasn't good, but it could have been better.

I guess the next stage is going to be like it was with Tolkein - they'll milk unpublished writing and fragments for all they're worth (although Terry did once say he wanted all the files and hard drives wiped when he died, so nobody could come along and use him as a PhD thesis in literature). right down to, what did "Private Eye" once "publish", "The JRR Tolkein Laundry Lists" , or equivalent of.... a terribly sad morning.

And Jeremy Clarkson and Jeffrey Archer are both still alive... (unsigned comment by [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 13 Mar 2015)

'''''“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away”''''' ({{RM}}) …(unsigned comment by [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 14 Mar 2015)
:So, some thinkers and writers born more than two thousand years ago are not reslly "dead", let alone Chaucer, Shakespeare or Swift. This compels us to continue the wiki for a few hundred years, at least, in whatever form advancing technology dictates. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:11, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::Absolutely! We're just lucky enough to have been around during his lifetime, to have enjoyed the books as they came out and be the ones to help keep the ball rolling, rather than having to look back in time to enjoy his works. I remember thinking, when first hearing that phrase, of the Ancient Egyptian philosophy which follows much the same lines (that memory grants immortality) - and still, ''well'' over 2000 years on we know so much of them, and they lacked the modern printing press, globalisation and internet we have now.
:: Besides, theres no reason why there might not be many further additions to make in future, especially if his daughter continues the series or if Narrativia manage to make more films or the rumored TV series [Mind drifts to Douglas Adams whose film of Hitchhikers Guide only managed to be progressed upon after his unfortunate passing].--[[User:GallifreyanWitch|Verity]] ([[User talk:GallifreyanWitch|talk]]) 17:24, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

just re-read [[Book:A Slip of the Keyboard]]. There's a bit where Terry relates a near-Death-experience he had on the operating table during what might have been a routine op to insert arterial stents. Apparently the surgeons had "fun and games" when a major artery started to spurt. This wasn't helped by Terry sitting up on the operating table and addressing an invisible presence, who apparently was {{death|offering him sandwiches}}. Did this make its way into the ham sandwich scene in {{W}}. and were sandwiches offered on a recent occasion? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 23:03, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

A book I haven't gotten to myself and not well described in the wiki. I had no tendency to hallucinations when I got my stents (even the big one) and {{Death|death didn't seem interested}}.--[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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I do miss the User Merge and Delete. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:25, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

==Aaand, we're back!==
These short naps are great. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 23:05, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

==Milestone==
Somewhere in the next couple of months will be this wiki's tenth anniversary. The history being lost and uncertain anyway, in those days, it may be hard to pin down a date. I must ask [[User:Death|Death]] if he can recall or look up a day. Any other recollections? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 00:18, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

==clacks-overhead:GNU Terry Pratchett==
:I don't log on here very often, but ... Today I was starting to create a page about the website [http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ GNU Terry Pratchett], when I realized it should probably go in a non-canon namespace, such as "Meta" if there were one. This is as far as I got on it.
:'''Please advise:''' Where should I post it? I'd prefer to be answered by email, to the same user-ID at gmail.com.

Such articles on Roundworld subjects have always been in the main namespace: [[Alt.fan.pratchett]], various [[:Category:People|People]], etc. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 20:00, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
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After the death of his son [[John Dearheart|John]] while repairing a [[clacks]] tower, [[Robert Dearheart]], the inventor of the clacks system, arranged to [[John Dearheart#After his death|keep his name running continuously on the clacks]]: ''So as the name "John Dearheart" keeps going up and down the line, this tradition applies a kind of immortality as "a man is not dead while his name is still spoken".''

After [[Biography#Other_personal_facts|Sir Terry's death]] a number of fans decided (probably independently in several cases) to perpetuate his name in this way. [http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ GNU Terry Pratchett] gives information about doing so on many servers, platforms, services, etc. And here is a way to do it ''ad hoc'' (take out the hyphens from h-r-e-f):

<nowiki><a h-r-e-f="clacks-overhead:GNU Terry Pratchett">.</a></nowiki>

Insert this string into any HTML text and it will display as a single period ("full stop" to Terry's compatriots) with a hyperlink. The hyperlink is present but does not go anywhere, because
:The address wasn't understood
:[Your browser] doesn't know how to open this address, because one of the following protocols (clacks-overhead) isn't associated with any program or is not allowed in this context.

That code doesn't work on Mediawiki pages such as this wiki, apparently because the software sensibly but unfortunately checks for valid HTML protocols, such as ''http'', and rejects invalid ones like ''clacks-overhead''. But you can use this:

<nowiki>[http://clacks-overhead-GNU_Terry_Pratchett .]</nowiki>

This displays as
: [http://clacks-overhead-GNU_Terry_Pratchett .]

which is a formally valid hyperlink to a nonexistent server.
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==No Help==
[[Help:Editing]] has disappeared from the bottom of the edit page at some point. I don't see anything I can do about it. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:08, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

==Has our Favicon vanished?==
I don't know if anyone else is having this problem but on my computer the site's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon Favicon] seems to have disappeared into the Dungeon Dimensions. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 22:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
:Nope, still there in my Firefox, but I notice most of them are missing in Opera. What are you using? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:15, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
::I am using Chrome though I would seriously consider switching if it didn't mean I had to redo my folders of bookmarks. I'll try deleting the cache and see if that helps, if not oh well I can live without it. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 06:34, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
:::I just checked, when I took the place over I didn't receive a favicon.ico file. If any of you have it and can send it to me, I'll add it back. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 05:35, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
:Right...it's the same as ever in Firefox but doesn't show in my wife's Chrome on Win10. [http://lspace.org L-Space] ''does'', though, so you could probably get it from Leo. (A Google search for "favicons don't display..." brings up reams of stuff but I no spikka da langwich.) [[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 18:26, 1 December 2015 (UTC)...but wait! The Firefox on Ubuntu I just installed on a laptop has the problem too: Leo's favicon shows, not ours. You wouldn't think it would be very difficult for everybody to get together on that very small graphic. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:35, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

==Maintenance==
I just moved a bunch of stuff around on the backend. Everything seems to be working but let me know if you find any issues. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 05:36, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

==No Help II==
...again, is it not possible to restore the "Help:Editing" link to the editing page? I find this pretty useful myself (for the title acronyms) and there must still be some who have no idea of wiki markup. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 18:21, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
:It would be really nice to have it back. I constantly forget the book acronyms. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 01:50, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
:::Just add whatever you wish to [[MediaWiki:Editnotice-0]] --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 05:03, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
::::I can't edit [[MediaWiki:Editnotice-0]] though it appears I could create a discussion page for it. I hope Old Dickens and the other administrators have the power to change it. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 08:19, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
::Oh good. Of course I forgot that "Help" was on the toolbar with even more markup examples. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 19:16, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Discworld & Pratchett Wiki:Mended Drum

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Woolsthorpe Ramkin

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Woolsthorpe [[Ramkin]] (Mad Jack's younger brother. Would have become a Wizard if his brother, Mad Jack, hadn't made it known that 'any male sibling of his who took up a profession that involved wearing a dress would be disinherited with a cleaver'. Woolsthorpe later became a natural philosopher, discovering a peculiar phenomenon involving apples)

'''Roundworld Equivalent'''

Isaac Newton was born according to the Julian calendar (in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643[1]), at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. He later lived there, and it was there in his garden that he claimed to have seen an apple fall, leading to his discovery of gravity.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Ramkin, Woolsthorpe]]
[[Category:Human characters|Ramkin, Woolsthorpe]]

Professor of Illiberal Studies

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Kicked the new [[football]] aside in the [[Unseen University|University's]] first practice kick-about, quite possibly by accident.

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
[[Category:Wizards]]

1512 UC

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*Sir Gyles de Munforte founds the de Munforte School for [[Assassins' Guild|Gentleman Assassins]]

[[Category:Discworld Timeline]]

1576 UC

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*Assassins' School becomes a [[Guilds of Ankh-Morpork|Royal Guild]].

[[Category:Discworld Timeline]]

Talk:Short Story:Medical Notes

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Zdm:

I can see that [[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] isn't happy about this being under short stories, as well as this there are several other works that don't fit this category but are included anyway, such as [[We Can Rule You Wholesale|songs]], poems and a speech, as this is the most suitable category for them to fall under. A possible solution would be to rename Short Stories to Short Fiction. This category would be more inclusive towards various types of shorter fiction already included allowing for something like {{TB}} to still be classified as a Short Story and [[An Ode to Multiple Universes]] to be classed as a Poem but for both to appear in the same category. [[User:Jagra|Jagra]] ([[User talk:Jagra|talk]]) 18:40, 22 September, UTC.
:We discussed this problem [[Discworld & Pratchett Wiki:Mended Drum#Namespaces|before]], but what's the value of a "miscellaneous" or such category if it means "uncategorised"? Likewise, categories of one don't make much sense: might as well leave the oddballs uncategorised or stick them somewhere close, like this. (There might be a category like "Background" for things like this, Diaries,''Thud-A Historical Perspective'' and such.) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 19:35, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
::Maybe we could call them supplements? --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 03:54, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

User talk:Moishe Rosenbaum

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Zdm:

Hi. Weren't you here before? Certainly I remember a similar handle doing a bit of good work, probably before the restart nearly three years ago.

You'll find quite a lot of material in 3760 articles here, particularly the [[Bibliography|Book]] and [[:Category:Annotations|Annotations]] pages, as well as in [http://www.lspace.org The L-Space Web] and other sites listed in [[Fandom]]. Whenever our [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] shows up again he'll likely have ideas - a few off the top of my head:

*Comparison to Jonathan Swift, Miguel de Cervantes, discussion of parody in general; parody vs satire.

*Comparison to modern observational comics: I've always thought that George Carlin did much the same kind of work in a short, punchy stand-up format without the plotting and character development.

*Probably my favorite device of Pterry's (your wife might have a name for it) was his knack of telling a story without action words, just describing the resulting scene so that you knew what happened without explanation.
Good luck spreading the word. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:11, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

:Hi, Old Dickens... You're right that I worked here a bit one summer, in the Time When Things Were Otherwise And The Moon Was Different, I suppose. Good to be back. I never thought of the Carlin comparison, but it seems apt. Thanks for the welcome, and the comments.[[User:Moishe Rosenbaum|Moishe Rosenbaum]] ([[User talk:Moishe Rosenbaum|talk]]) 19:53, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

A football legend called Moishe Rosenbaum.... I can see the humour here. Apparently one member of England's 1966 World Cup squad was ambiguously Jewish, and Liverpool's world dominating squad of the late 1980's boasted Israeli international Ronnie Rosenthal, whilst Tottenham Hotspur are based in the most Jewish part of North London and are nicknamed '''The Yids''' (by ''their own fans''... they take pride in a Jewish identity of club and area) .. but that's pretty much it.... welcome back to our fellowship. The only idea that occurs off the top of my head:

* Charting the evolution of the standard "monster" types through the history of the Discworld novels. From their roots in folklore, other peoples' fantasy fiction, and perhaps in tabletop gaming. How the vampire evolves in Discworld, for instance, from versions recognisable by Bram Stoker and F.W. Murnau through Hammer Horror films (Christopher Lee), to Anne Rice's navel-gazing angst-ridden creation, to Whitley Streiber's, and on to 1990's film interpretations such as Gary Oldman's 1992 film version. The way the legend is universal and vampires are in virtually everyone's folklore - but methods for despatching them vary wildly and ridiculously, as do the powers the individual vampire can call upon. (Count Notfaratou v the Count de Magpyr v Otto Chriek v Sally von Humpeding). The idea that the blood-lust is a craving and one addiction can replace another.... and how, if taken past absurdity, everything is fair game for humour.
* You could do similar exercises for trolls, elves, golems, werewolves, et c, as presented in the Discworld. How trolls finesse the sunlight thing in a civilization which has evolved deep-freezes and barrier cream. In our world, people of different ''races'' find it hard to get along. How would a world with a dozen different sentient ''species'' work - how do they all coexist? --(Unsigned comment by [[User:AgProv|AgProv]], who has been away a few days and forgotten the drill, 19 Jul 2015)

:Thanks, AgProv! I really like the idea of using the theme of species evolution, from trope to modern Ankh-Morporian. That would give me an excuse to dig into the folklore a bit. That's something I know a wee bit about, but not really a whole lot.

:I've used this wiki to look at annotations, especially of the recent books. The old APF seemed reasonably comprehensive for older books; there seems to be plenty of room in this wiki for expansion of annotations beyond APF and what's here already. That's probably what I'll work on when I have a chance. Of course, annotations are really, really tough -- every time I dig into what seems to be a straightforward reference, I get what could be an entire research paper. So there's an idea for a course right there. Sure, the Beverly Hills Cop scene in Men at Arms couldn't be more obvious, but what if anything is the historical basis for Moist von Lipwig? And who are all the roundworld characters amalgamated into William de Worde? Usually, the simplistic answer is too simplistic.

:I got myself a hard copy of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which Sir Terry said he used extensively. He wrote the introduction to the edition I have. Between that, The Folklore of Discworld, this wiki, and just the general internet, there seems to be all sorts of background information on the Discworld species, and how Pratchett uses and references them. Do youall know of any other specific sources I should be aware of?

:And Moishe owns a fantasy *american* football team, i.e. Robot Rugby. That said, I'm spending August in London with my family on sabbatical. I'm going to spend a good bit of time digging into (English) football culture, attending games, touring grounds, etc. When I broadcast baseball and american football, I'm drawing on three-plus decades of experience listening to and watching games. I've only been following association football carefully since 2011 -- haven't missed watching more than a couple Arsenal games in that time. So I think Moishe is going to have to deal this season with a new co-owner, one who doesn't understand why the referee is dressed like a Newcastle supporter, and why he doesn't hand out red cards for some of those bone-crunching tackles. Thanks for the comments and ideas![[User:Moishe Rosenbaum|Moishe Rosenbaum]] ([[User talk:Moishe Rosenbaum|talk]]) 16:57, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Moishe! In agreement on Annotations. I've been re-reading {{MR}} and found a couple of obvious ones that I'd missed the last time I picked the book up - every time I come back with a fresh eye, there's always more. Which is a tribute to the depth of Terry Pratchett's original vision. I realised with the thing about "the barefoot army" that there's a lot to be mined from historical accounts of armies pushed past the point of desperation, but still fighting - when a country is running on empty, but still refuses to give up. The thing about the Confederacy (no boots, but they were potentially in ample supply let down by inter-State bickering and bad supply) was just the beginning of it and I could have gone on for paragraphs more - an example of one little throwaway line opening up a thesis. Which is also part of the Pratchett genius - how he must have read thousands of words on a fringe topic but condenses it all down into six or seven words of telling detail. Some of my annotations make the association, then waffle on in proving it and adding detail.... the thesis is there, in IKEA self-assembly form.

Taking the "barefoot army" throwaway line - on the surface it concisely describes an Army at its last gasp which has run out of everything but is still adamant in refusing to surrender. But that's not all there is to it, when you read about one state in the Confederacy that easily made enough footwear for ''every'' Confederate soldier and then some over - but ''refused to issue them beyond their own State''. And about a chaotic supply system incapable of getting kit where it was needed - the Confederacy also had ample artillery that was just parked up doing nothing a long way from the front lines. Things have a surface level, then a level beneath that, then a third stratum of reference... There's a story about the British Army general who read {{MR}}, and demanded to know how somebody who has never been in the Army could write such an accurate book, full of all the little telling details only squaddies are supposed to know. Terry replied that to his best knowledge, Homer had never been a hoplite or gone to war with a Greek army - he just did his research, and asked people who ''had''. Then wrote the ''Iliad''.

On characters and monsters: take a look at British Isles folk music. Steeleye Span, for instance, one of Terry's great musical influences. You could discuss the philosophical and gender differences between witches and wizards - then play them the Span's take on the old ballad, ''The Two Magicians''. This one song runs right through {{ER}} and fuels one climactic scene. ''Seven Hundred Elves'' is about Elves as they really were and are seen in {{LL}}. (touches iron). ''Long Lankin'' is a ballad about a mediaeval psychopathic killer. When you listen to it, you ''know'' why one Elf gets called Lankin. The Span do Scottish stuff too as well as English. ''Parcel of Rogues'' is tinged with Feegle-speak. And, more crucially, with Feegle-''think''.

Remembering to sign off with my name - I'm too used to tvtropes formatting, it's spoiling me for here! [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 00:02, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
:Cool... I'm American, and I never made the Confederate connection. But it seems dead on. I just read this morning the annotation about Snuff and Samwise's scouring. Never occurred to me, clear once it's pointed out.

:The school where I teach performed the musical "Catch me if you can", which is based on a 2002 movie of the same name. The whole time I could think of nothing but that I was watching the prequel to Going Postal. Frank Abagnale *is* Moist von Lipwig, at least to me. I know that Moist is an amalgamation of an archetypical character, of course, not based on any one person; this wiki postulates several historical Moists, and I've no doubt Sir Terry was aware of all of them. As you say, one character / line / event leads to a long thesis.

:Keep the thoughts, annotations, and ideas coming, please, AgProv and others. I'm headed to London on sabbatical during the month of August. Among the many goals for the month is some in-country background on some of the books. (I'm also umpiring a bit for the London Mets; I'm trying to get in touch with soccer radio broadcasters to talk shop and learn about their craft. And we'll do all the typical touristy things, like walk across the Bridge of Size.)[[User:Moishe Rosenbaum|Moishe Rosenbaum]] ([[User talk:Moishe Rosenbaum|talk]]) 12:41, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

'''''[[Moist von Lipwig]]'''''. Now there isn't just a thesis, there's a full scholarly treatise. My very first search threw up all the people listed as Annotations, especially the guy who sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap. Twice. And that's just scratching the surface... My suggestion here is to become acquainted with Harry Harrison's sci-fi comedy series, ''The Stainless Steel Rat''. In which there is a con-man, one of the last criminals left in the galaxy, thirty thousand years in the future. He refuses to kill people, only applies corrective violence if there is no alternative, and prefers separating people and their money in some very inventive non-confrontational ways. Jim di Griz has a ball as he cons and buncos his way between planets, until the day he is picked up by a Macchiavellian schemer called Inskipp who offers him an Angel. Either join the Galactic Special Corps and use your skills for good, or get something like a frontal lobotomy (only nastier) to burn the criminal tendencies out of your brain. No pressure, your choice. In the series, he gets a girlfriend, later wife, with serious anger management issues. ("Slippery Jim" and the spiky Angelina go on to have twin sons, but Pratchett, alas, did not get this far with Moist and Adora Belle.) Narrating the novels, Jim diGriz describes the tricks he uses and how they work and an extremely moist-like voice emerges. I have a distinct feeling Terry Pratchett had read the Stainless Steel Rat books, as Moist von Lipwig is pretty much a Jim diGriz in a different setting. Harrison could be on the summer reading list alongside "Going Postal". [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 20:47, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

:This is more a discussion of Harry Harrison, of course, but it leads in to the Discworld idea that writers and readers come and go but stories and characters persist, wandering the multiverse like the Music and showing up everywhere like Dibblers. TP borrowed unabashedly from myth and folklore and pop culture and other writers, realising that there aren't any new stories, just new and occasionally better ways of telling them. Shakespeare did the same, with more limited resources.

:All of which reminds me of an idea I had a while ago for a section (category?) of literary discussion and criticism of the works focussing on the style and techniques rather than the bare elements of the books. I didn't know how to pitch it or organise it in a wiki format and still don't. Probably it would need [[User:Osiris|Osiris]] to create a new namespace, at least. This page threatens to become a version of the theme and we should probably come up with some alternative before poor Moishe needs an archive. I attach my original thoughts and invite suggestions on where this might be moved from his user page.

:(December 21, 2012) ''New Category?''

:''We have often dealt in literary criticism and meta-analysis of the stories in various discussion pages. An idea occurs to me for a category of articles in this vein describing and analysing The Author's style, devices, influences, strengths and foibles.''

:''I worry, though, about the danger of ill-thought-out, half-baked opinion (which I have decried for years in the general pages) but we have some competent critics (many more on the old roster) who can provide some insight. The old discussion pages have been installed in the new wiki and these could be scavenged for ideas. I would suggest that these articles be required to provide paragraphs of reasoning and examples, one-or-two-sentence statements of opinion disqualified. Then there's the problem of enforcing that rule: annotation was once to be restricted to annotation pages as well.''

:''Should these be organised as conventional pages, where topics can be modified and expanded with discussion in Talk pages or as individual essays like critiques in other media? Should it be tried at all?'' --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:06, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

:...cricket sounds. No, I couldn't come up with a plan either. Anyway, although it may be late for the school year, we forgot [http://www.lspace.org/books/analysis/index.html this]. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 19:06, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
:I like the idea I just don't have a good idea on how it would be set up which would be rather important. I feel that it could get messy very quickly if not set up well. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 00:07, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Kvetch

2015-09-19T00:30:21Z

Zdm:

Kvetch are a species mentioned by [[Carrot Ironfoundersson|Captain Carrot]] in {{NW}} that is native to [[Mouldavia]].

Kvetch are described as hairy and living deep within the forest. [[Samuel Vimes|Captain Vimes]] states that they would learn more about them when asked by [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] (forced then) to employ one in the [[City Watch]].

[[Category:Discworld humanoid species]]

Book:Night Watch

2015-09-18T04:51:56Z

Zdm: Is this what you meant to do?

{{Book Data
|title= Night Watch
|cover=
[[File:Cover Night Watch.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date= November 2002
|publisher= Doubleday
|isbn=0385602642
|pages=368
|rrp=
|series=Watch Series
|characters=[[Sam Vimes]], [[Carcer]], [[Lu-Tze]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=
}}

==Blurb==
This morning, Commander Vimes of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|City Watch]] had it all. He was a Duke. He was rich. He was respected. He had a titanium cigar case. He was about to become a father.

This morning he thought longingly about the good old days.

Tonight, he's in them.

Flung back in time by a mysterious accident, Sam Vimes has to start all over again. He must get a new name and a job, and there's only one job he's good at: cop in the Watch. He must track down a brutal murderer. He must find his younger self and teach him everything he knows. He must whip the cowardly, despised Night Watch into a crack fighting force – fast. Because Sam Vimes knows what's going to happen. He remembers it. He was there. It's part of history. And you can't change history...

But Sam is going to. He has no choice. Otherwise, a bloody revolution will start, and good men will die. Sam saw their names on old headstones just this morning – but tonight they're young men who think they have a future. And rather than let them die, Sam will do anything – turn traitor, burn buildings, take over a revolt, anything – to snatch them from the jaws of history. He will do it even if victory will mean giving up the only future he knows.

For if he succeeds, he's got no wife, no child, no riches, no fame – all that will simply vanish. But if he doesn't try, he wouldn't be Sam Vimes.

And so the battle is on. He knows how it's going to end; after all, he was there. His name is on one of those headstones. But that's just a minor detail...

==Plot==
The story begins on the anniversary of the [[Glorious Revolution]]. Vimes arrives at Pseudopolis Yard in the morning to hear that another officer, Sergeant [[Abba Stronginthearm]], has been killed by Carcer, a psychopathic murderer on the loose in Ankh-Morpork. Later that day, he receives news that the Watch are staking out Carcer at the [[Unseen University]]. Vimes succeeds in cornering the villain at the dome above the [[Library]], when suddenly a magical thunderstorm strikes (the same storm appears in {{TOT}}). This triggers a magical accident which sends the pair of them back 30 years in time.

Vimes wakes up at night time in the care of Dr. [[John Lawn]] and [[Rosemary Palm]], having been attacked by muggers in [[The Shades]]. At first, he is surprised that they do not recognise him so he calls himself [[John Keel]], the name of his old sergeant. Later that night he is arrested by the (old) [[Night Watch]] for breaking curfew, and finds himself in the Treacle Mine Road Watch House in a cell next to a gleeful Carcer, who has just bribed his way out. Whilst he is being interviewed by the Captain in charge, time freezes and Vimes finds himself waking up in the temple of the [[History Monks]].

Vimes meets [[Lu-Tze]] (called Sweeper in the book), who explains that they cannot send him back home yet because he has work to do. The real John Keel was due to arrive in the city that night and join the Night Watch, but he was murdered by Carcer. Vimes must impersonate John Keel up until the time of his scheduled death and teach the young Sam Vimes the same lessons he learnt from the real John Keel. Sweeper explains that history naturally corrects itself, and the two separate timelines will eventually join together.

He is returned to the Captain's office, to find that no time has passed, and convinces Captain Tilden that he is the real John Keel. As a result, he joins the Night Watch and meets his younger self, who has just taken a share in Carcer's bribe. He begins to teach the same lessons that proved so important later in his life. During a patrol, the pair of them meet Carcer who has just joined the [[Cable Street Particulars|Unmentionables]], the secret police of Lord Winder, led by Captain [[Findthee Swing]].

Vimes is able to keep his part of the city relatively peaceful during the growing unrest in the city. He mutinies against the new Captain, [[Ronald Rust]] and takes charge of the watchmen and the revolutionaries. He breaks into the Headquarters of the Unmentionables and kills Captain Swing in a sword fight. The barricades grow until Vimes has one quarter of the city under his control. Originally, Keel and the watchmen were defeated when the barricades were torn down due to their failure to secure the gates. This time, Vimes-as-Keel guards both the gates and bridges and also successfully thwarts an attempt to demolish the huge barricades using a siege weapon. He begins to worry over what will happen if the revolution does succeed, and whether he can really return to the present where he belongs.

Meanwhile, Lord [[Winder]] is assassinated by a young guild student [[Havelock Vetinari]]. Lord [[Snapcase]] is sworn in and calls for a truce. However, believing that Keel is a threat, he sends Carcer and a group of guards to kill Vimes-as-Keel. In a resulting street fight, the same men who died in the original fight now die in a new battle. At the last minute, time freezes and Sweeper and [[Qu]] come to tell Vimes that his work is done, and he must grab Carcer to return home. They bring out the body of the real John Keel and tell him that they will dress the body in his armour (which will not come home with him) and leave it in his place. When time comes back, he grabs Carcer and they both vanish.

Vimes reappears before Captain Carrot, half an hour after the lightning struck. With the help of a slightly-older Doctor Lawn, Sybil gives birth to a son, who she names Sam. Vimes rewards the doctor with a large sum of cash and a freehold site in [[Goose Gate]] (for the founding of the [[Lady Sybil Free Hospital]]). He visits the grave of his old mentor in the cemetery, where he is attacked by Carcer. Vimes remembers what he taught his younger self and does not kill the murderer and instead succeeds in binding him. He promises Carcer a fair trial and a clean execution, at which point Vetinari appears. Vimes declines Vetinari's offer for a memorial to the Revolution, so the Patrician offers to rebuild the Treacle Mine Road Watch House (which was destroyed in {{G!G!}}). Carcer is dragged off to justice and presumably hanged the next day.

==Cover==
The cover was drawn by Paul Kidby, his first cover for Pratchett: It is a parody of Rembrandt's 1642 painting ''The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch'' (more commonly known as, funnily enough, ''Night Watch''). The original features on the back of the hardback edition.<br />

The exact identities of the characters on the cover are not exactly known, but are believed to be (roughly from left to right);

*[[Henry The Hamster]] (with arm in cast, signed "with love from John Keel".)
*Three Unknown Watchmen
*[[Carcer]] (holding twin knives)
*[[Dr. Lawn]] (holding turkey baster)
*[[Lu-Tze]]/[[Sweeper]] (in orange)
*[[Havelock Vetinari]] (in background with hands together)
*[[Nobby Nobbs]] (in black; holding spoon)
*[[Reg Shoe]] (in background; holding flag)
*[[Josh Kirby]] (original Discworld cover artist; behind Reg Shoe)
*[[Billy Wiglet]] (in foreground; face obscured by helmet)
*Two Unknown Watchmen (in background; one possibly [[Ned Coates]])
*[[John Keel]]/[[Sam Vimes]] (in foreground; with eyepatch)
*[[Fred Colon]] (in background, behind [[John Keel]] and an Unknown Watchman)
*Unknown Watchman (possibly [[Ned Coates]])
*[[Horace Nancyball]] (in background; eyes obscured by helmet)
*[[Sam Vimes]] (in foreground; holding [[crossbow]])
*[[Cecil Clapman]] (in foreground; keys hanging from belt)
*[[Dai Dickins]] (in foreground)
*Unknown [[Dragon]]
*Unknown Watchman
*[[Findthee Swing]] (in black; holding ruler)
*Unknown Figure
*Unknown Watchman

==Characters==
===The Past and Present (Major Characters)===
*[[Carcer]]
*Sergeant [[Fred Colon]]
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]
*[[John Lawn|Dr. Lawn]]
*[[Lu-Tze]] (Sweeper)
*Corporal [[Nobby Nobbs]]
*Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]]
*[[Reg Shoe]]
*Mr [[Slant]]
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]
*[[Samuel Vimes]]

===The Past and the Present (Minor Characters)===
*[[Sandra Battye]]
*[[Rosemary Palm]]
*[[Qu]]
*[[Willikins]]

===The Past (Major Characters)===
*Lance-Corporal [[Ned Coates]]
*Sergeant-At-Arms [[John Keel]] (Although only his corpse appears in the book, he plays an important part)
*Lady [[Roberta Meserole]]
*Captain [[Findthee Swing]]

===The Past (Minor Characters)===
* [[Abbot]] (mentioned)
*[[Agony Aunts]]
*Hon. [[John Bleedwell]], assassin
*Captain [[Burns]]
*Sergeant [[Dai Dickins]]
*[[Follett|Dr Follett]] - Master of Assassins
*[[Forsythe]], butler
*[[Franklin]]
*Sub-Lieutenant [[Harrap]]
*[[Herbert Gaskin]]
*Sergeant [[Winsborough Knock]]
*[[Gerald Leastways|Gerald "Ferret" Leastways]]
*[[Ludorum|Ludo]]
*[[Marilyn]], horse
*[[Maroon]]
*[[Horace Nancyball]]
*Corporal [[Quirke]]
*[[Ronald Rust]]
*Mr and Mrs [[Rutherford]]
*Lord [[Albert Selachii]]
*Lord [[Snapcase]]
*[[Cecil Clapman|Cecil "Snouty" Clapman]]
*[[Soon Shine Sun]]
*[[Marco Soto]]
*[[Spymould]]
*Major [[Clive Mountjoy-Standfast]]
*Captain [[Tilden]]
*[[Trebilcock]]
*[[Gussie Two-Grins]] (mentioned)
*Lord [[Charles Venturi]]
*Constable [[Waddy]]
*Constable [[Billy Wiglet]]
*Lord [[Winder]]
*Lord [[Greville-Pipe|Winstanleigh Greville-Pipe]]
*Captain [[Tom Wrangle]]

===The Present (Major Characters)===
*Sergeant [[Detritus]]
*Sergeant [[Cheery Littlebottom]]
*Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]
*[[Ponder Stibbons]]
*Corporal [[Buggy Swires]]

===The Present (Minor Characters)===
*[[Content|Mrs. Content]]
*[[Drumknott]]
*[[Legitimate First]]
*[[Igor]]
*[[Librarian]]
*Corporal [[Ping]]
*[[Buggy Swires]]
*[[Jocasta Wiggs]]

== Locations ==
* [[Ankh-Morpork]]
** [[Clay Lane]]
** [[Library]]
** [[Oblong Office]]
** [[Tower of Art]]
** [[Whalebone Lane]]

* [[Borogravia]] (Mentioned)
* [[Mouldavia]] (Mentioned)
* [[Ting Ling]]

== Things and Concepts ==
* [[All The Little Angels]]
* [[Mrs. Goodbody]]
* [[Hines Brothers]]
* [[Old Tom]]
* [[Procrastinators]]
* [[Twopenny Upright]]

==Annotation==
Night Watch has been turned into a BBC Radio 4 drama, and was broadcast 27th February 2008.

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/night-watch.html ''Night Watch'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

{{series|before=The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents|series=Discworld|after=The Wee Free Men}}
{{series|series=Watch|before=The Fifth Elephant|after=Thud!}}

:
[[Category:Discworld Series|Night Watch]]
[[Category:Watch Series|Night Watch]]
[[de:Buch:Die Nachtwächter]]

Book:Night Watch

2015-09-17T18:59:09Z

Zdm: /* Cover */

{{Book Data
|title= Night Watch
|cover=
[[File:Cover Night Watch.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Paul Kidby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date= November 2002
|publisher= Doubleday
|isbn=0385602642
|pages=368
|rrp=
|series=Watch Series
|characters=[[Sam Vimes]], [[Carcer]], [[Lu-Tze]]
|annotations=yes
|notes=
}}

==Blurb==
This morning, Commander Vimes of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|City Watch]] had it all. He was a Duke. He was rich. He was respected. He had a titanium cigar case. He was about to become a father.

This morning he thought longingly about the good old days.

Tonight, he's in them.

Flung back in time by a mysterious accident, Sam Vimes has to start all over again. He must get a new name and a job, and there's only one job he's good at: cop in the Watch. He must track down a brutal murderer. He must find his younger self and teach him everything he knows. He must whip the cowardly, despised Night Watch into a crack fighting force – fast. Because Sam Vimes knows what's going to happen. He remembers it. He was there. It's part of history. And you can't change history...

But Sam is going to. He has no choice. Otherwise, a bloody revolution will start, and good men will die. Sam saw their names on old headstones just this morning – but tonight they're young men who think they have a future. And rather than let them die, Sam will do anything – turn traitor, burn buildings, take over a revolt, anything – to snatch them from the jaws of history. He will do it even if victory will mean giving up the only future he knows.

For if he succeeds, he's got no wife, no child, no riches, no fame – all that will simply vanish. But if he doesn't try, he wouldn't be Sam Vimes.

And so the battle is on. He knows how it's going to end; after all, he was there. His name is on one of those headstones. But that's just a minor detail...

==Plot==
The story begins on the anniversary of the [[Glorious Revolution]]. Vimes arrives at Pseudopolis Yard in the morning to hear that another officer, Sergeant [[Abba Stronginthearm]], has been killed by Carcer, a psychopathic murderer on the loose in Ankh-Morpork. Later that day, he receives news that the Watch are staking out Carcer at the [[Unseen University]]. Vimes succeeds in cornering the villain at the dome above the [[Library]], when suddenly a magical thunderstorm strikes (the same storm appears in {{TOT}}). This triggers a magical accident which sends the pair of them back 30 years in time.

Vimes wakes up at night time in the care of Dr. [[John Lawn]] and [[Rosemary Palm]], having been attacked by muggers in [[The Shades]]. At first, he is surprised that they do not recognise him so he calls himself [[John Keel]], the name of his old sergeant. Later that night he is arrested by the (old) [[Night Watch]] for breaking curfew, and finds himself in the Treacle Mine Road Watch House in a cell next to a gleeful Carcer, who has just bribed his way out. Whilst he is being interviewed by the Captain in charge, time freezes and Vimes finds himself waking up in the temple of the [[History Monks]].

Vimes meets [[Lu-Tze]] (called Sweeper in the book), who explains that they cannot send him back home yet because he has work to do. The real John Keel was due to arrive in the city that night and join the Night Watch, but he was murdered by Carcer. Vimes must impersonate John Keel up until the time of his scheduled death and teach the young Sam Vimes the same lessons he learnt from the real John Keel. Sweeper explains that history naturally corrects itself, and the two separate timelines will eventually join together.

He is returned to the Captain's office, to find that no time has passed, and convinces Captain Tilden that he is the real John Keel. As a result, he joins the Night Watch and meets his younger self, who has just taken a share in Carcer's bribe. He begins to teach the same lessons that proved so important later in his life. During a patrol, the pair of them meet Carcer who has just joined the [[Cable Street Particulars|Unmentionables]], the secret police of Lord Winder, led by Captain [[Findthee Swing]].

Vimes is able to keep his part of the city relatively peaceful during the growing unrest in the city. He mutinies against the new Captain, [[Ronald Rust]] and takes charge of the watchmen and the revolutionaries. He breaks into the Headquarters of the Unmentionables and kills Captain Swing in a sword fight. The barricades grow until Vimes has one quarter of the city under his control. Originally, Keel and the watchmen were defeated when the barricades were torn down due to their failure to secure the gates. This time, Vimes-as-Keel guards both the gates and bridges and also successfully thwarts an attempt to demolish the huge barricades using a siege weapon. He begins to worry over what will happen if the revolution does succeed, and whether he can really return to the present where he belongs.

Meanwhile, Lord [[Winder]] is assassinated by a young guild student [[Havelock Vetinari]]. Lord [[Snapcase]] is sworn in and calls for a truce. However, believing that Keel is a threat, he sends Carcer and a group of guards to kill Vimes-as-Keel. In a resulting street fight, the same men who died in the original fight now die in a new battle. At the last minute, time freezes and Sweeper and [[Qu]] come to tell Vimes that his work is done, and he must grab Carcer to return home. They bring out the body of the real John Keel and tell him that they will dress the body in his armour (which will not come home with him) and leave it in his place. When time comes back, he grabs Carcer and they both vanish.

Vimes reappears before Captain Carrot, half an hour after the lightning struck. With the help of a slightly-older Doctor Lawn, Sybil gives birth to a son, who she names Sam. Vimes rewards the doctor with a large sum of cash and a freehold site in [[Goose Gate]] (for the founding of the [[Lady Sybil Free Hospital]]). He visits the grave of his old mentor in the cemetery, where he is attacked by Carcer. Vimes remembers what he taught his younger self and does not kill the murderer and instead succeeds in binding him. He promises Carcer a fair trial and a clean execution, at which point Vetinari appears. Vimes declines Vetinari's offer for a memorial to the Revolution, so the Patrician offers to rebuild the Treacle Mine Road Watch House (which was destroyed in {{G!G!}}). Carcer is dragged off to justice and presumably hanged the next day.

==Cover==
The cover was drawn by Paul Kidby, his first cover for Pratchett: It is a parody of Rembrandt's 1642 painting ''The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch'' (more commonly known as, funnily enough, ''Night Watch''). The original features on the back of the hardback edition.<br />

The exact identities of the characters on the cover are not exactly known, but are believed to be (roughly from left to right);

*[[Henry The Hamster]] (with arm in cast, signed "with love from John Keel".)
*Three Unknown Watchmen
*[[Carcer]] (holding twin knives)
*[[Dr. Lawn]] (holding turkey baster)
*[[Lu-Tze]]/[[Sweeper]] (in orange)
*[[Havelock Vetinari]] (in background with hands together)
*[[Nobby Nobbs]] (in black; holding spoon)
*[[Reg Shoe]] (in background; holding flag)
*[[Josh Kirby]] (original Discworld cover artist; behind Reg Shoe)
*[[Billy Wiglet]] (in foreground; face obscured by helmet)
*Two Unknown Watchmen (in background; one possibly [[Ned Coates]])
*[[John Keel]]/[[Sam Vimes]] (in foreground; with eyepatch)
*[[Fred Colon]] (in background, behind [[John Keel]] and an Unknown Watchman)
*Unknown Watchman (possibly [[Ned Coates]])
*[[Horace Nancyball]] (in background; eyes obscured by helmet)
*[[Sam Vimes]] (in foreground; holding crossbow)
*[[Cecil Clapman]] (in foreground; keys hanging from belt)
*[[Dai Dickins]] (in foreground)
*Unknown [[Dragon]]
*Unknown Watchman
*[[Findthee Swing]] (in black; holding ruler)
*Unknown Figure
*Unknown Watchman

==Characters==
===The Past and Present (Major Characters)===
*[[Carcer]]
*Sergeant [[Fred Colon]]
*[[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]]
*[[John Lawn|Dr. Lawn]]
*[[Lu-Tze]] (Sweeper)
*Corporal [[Nobby Nobbs]]
*Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]]
*[[Reg Shoe]]
*Mr [[Slant]]
*[[Havelock Vetinari]]
*[[Samuel Vimes]]

===The Past and the Present (Minor Characters)===
*[[Sandra Battye]]
*[[Rosemary Palm]]
*[[Qu]]
*[[Willikins]]

===The Past (Major Characters)===
*Lance-Corporal [[Ned Coates]]
*Sergeant-At-Arms [[John Keel]] (Although only his corpse appears in the book, he plays an important part)
*Lady [[Roberta Meserole]]
*Captain [[Findthee Swing]]

===The Past (Minor Characters)===
* [[Abbot]] (mentioned)
*[[Agony Aunts]]
*Hon. [[John Bleedwell]], assassin
*Captain [[Burns]]
*Sergeant [[Dai Dickins]]
*[[Follett|Dr Follett]] - Master of Assassins
*[[Forsythe]], butler
*[[Franklin]]
*Sub-Lieutenant [[Harrap]]
*[[Herbert Gaskin]]
*[[Mrs. Goodbody]]
*[[Hines Brothers]]
*Sergeant [[Winsborough Knock]]
*[[Gerald Leastways|Gerald "Ferret" Leastways]]
*[[Ludorum|Ludo]]
*[[Marilyn]], horse
*[[Maroon]]
*[[Horace Nancyball]]
*Corporal [[Quirke]]
*[[Ronald Rust]]
*Mr and Mrs [[Rutherford]]
*Lord [[Albert Selachii]]
*Lord [[Snapcase]]
*[[Cecil Clapman|Cecil "Snouty" Clapman]]
*[[Soon Shine Sun]]
*[[Marco Soto]]
*[[Spymould]]
*Major [[Clive Mountjoy-Standfast]]
*Captain [[Tilden]]
*[[Trebilcock]]
*[[Gussie Two-Grins]] (mentioned)
*Lord [[Charles Venturi]]
*Constable [[Waddy]]
*Constable [[Billy Wiglet]]
*Lord [[Winder]]
*Lord [[Greville-Pipe|Winstanleigh Greville-Pipe]]
*Captain [[Tom Wrangle]]

===The Present (Major Characters)===
*Sergeant [[Detritus]]
*Sergeant [[Cheery Littlebottom]]
*Captain [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]
*[[Mustrum Ridcully]]
*[[Ponder Stibbons]]
*Corporal [[Buggy Swires]]

===The Present (Minor Characters)===
*[[Content|Mrs. Content]]
*[[Drumknott]]
*[[Legitimate First]]
*[[Igor]]
*[[Librarian]]
*Corporal [[Ping]]
*[[Buggy Swires]]
*[[Jocasta Wiggs]]

== Locations ==
* [[Ankh-Morpork]]
** [[Clay Lane]]
** [[Library]]
** [[Oblong Office]]
** [[Tower of Art]]
** [[Whalebone Lane]]

* [[Borogravia]] (Mentioned)
* [[Mouldavia]] (Mentioned)
* [[Ting Ling]]

== Things and Concepts ==
* [[All The Little Angels]]
* [[Procrastinators]]
* [[Old Tom]]
* [[Twopenny Upright]]

==Annotation==
Night Watch has been turned into a BBC Radio 4 drama, and was broadcast 27th February 2008.

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/night-watch.html ''Night Watch'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

{{series|before=The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents|series=Discworld|after=The Wee Free Men}}
{{series|series=Watch|before=The Fifth Elephant|after=Thud!}}

:
[[Category:Discworld Series|Night Watch]]
[[Category:Watch Series|Night Watch]]
[[de:Buch:Die Nachtwächter]]

Talk:Book:The Last Continent/Annotations

2015-09-15T19:08:22Z

Zdm: /* Jam with wooden pips */

Annotation to the annotation: desserts also include {{wp|Pavlova (food)|Pavlova}}, named after a ballerina. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 00:55, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

"Can you hear that thunder? ... We'd better take cover..." are lines from the song ''Down Under'' " To be quoted carefully - the song was recently judged to have plagiariased a far older Australian folk song. The author of ''Kookaburra'' was still alive enough to sue and receive massive back royalties. It's the flute bit in the middle, apparently. --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 16:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I made the point in a fan-fiction (which is why I'm noting it here) that it would have been known for a long time that XXXX only allowed one-way travel - because of the freak weather, things could go in, but not out. Thus far, canonical.

But the thought occurring to me - so far not canonical at all, , just intelligent guesswork - was that an earlier and wilier ruler of Ankh-Morpork could have used XXXX for transportation of dissidents, criminals and social undesirables, much as we used Australia. Just load a sorry old prison-hulk with convicts, tow it to XXXX, set it adrift, stick around for long enough to confirm it's been caught up in the anticyclone and will be dragged to shore. Keep sending your convicts on a one-way run. Result: XXXX becomes an Ankh-Morporkian prison colony with, as it turns out, surprisingly little enmity for the mother country and no air of "prison" about it. This would explain the surprisingly Morporkian character of Fourecks. Although they all appear to want to come back again, if only to visit...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 16:02, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

==XXXXian acadème==
Now we'll get letters from the University of Wallamaloo for spelling its name wrong. The rest may be fair comment. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:11, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

==Jam with wooden pips==
In his encounter with Scrappy down in the cave, Rincewind eats a gooseberry jam sandwich and detects hints of other jams in there "You know, I think there could be plum in it, too? [...] And maybe some rhubarb. You'd be amazed how often they do that sort of thing. You know, stuff cheaper fruit in. I met this man in an inn once, he worked for a jam-maker in Ankh-Morpork, and he said they put in any old rubbish and some red dye, and I said what about the raspberry pips, and he said they make them out of wood. Wood! He said they'd got a machine for stamping 'em out." (Corgi PB, p. 95). According to an episode of BBC's QI, that's exactly what they did. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI_%28F_series%29#Episode_6_.22Fakes.2C_Frauds_.26_Fakirs.22 Wikipedia-entry for the respective XL-epsiode](which you can find on Youtube) says "Raspberry jam was popular in between the 19th and early 20th centuries, but as it was expensive fake jams were made. Rhubarb and sweetened turnips made the best fake jams and fake wooden pips were made in order to make the jam look more realistic. The trade was so successful, that making the pips were a profitable trade and factories were opened to make them."
Unfortunately, I can't give any original source. Is that still good enough to be added? --[[User:Robuer|Robuer]] ([[User talk:Robuer|talk]]) 18:00, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
:I would say that is definitely more the enough to put it in. Many annotations have far less evidence then that and some are pure speculation. That is a fascinating find by the way, I have never heard of anything about faking jam before! --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 19:08, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

An unidentified inn

2015-09-11T00:30:10Z

Zdm:

A convenient plot device occurring at several places in the [[Discworld]] opus as an excuse for things to happen.

{{stub}}
[[Category:Locations]]

Talk:An unidentified inn

2015-09-11T00:29:11Z

Zdm: Is this page really needed?

Can we get some examples in here? Unfortunately most of my books are packed away right now so I can't really look for any. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 00:29, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Short Story:We Can Rule You Wholesale

2015-09-11T00:26:26Z

Zdm: Confusion

Why was this page moved? It isn't a short story. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 00:26, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

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2015-09-10T06:34:42Z

Zdm: /* Has our Favicon vanished? */

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==The Long Earth==
I've finally gotten around to listening/reading [[Book:The Long Earth|The Long Earth]] series. Loving the concept! --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 17:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
: This series was amazing! --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 04:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

==Taking leave ==
I'll be off buying cigars and incommunicado next week. Somebody might pull an extra shift on watch. Hasta luego! --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
:will do what I can.... how long are you visiting [[Sumtri]] for? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 19:10, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hola! I'm back. Stuff seems to have been done. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

==Namespaces==
The new page [[Book:The Rince Cycle]] points out a need for one or more namespaces for works that aren't Books or Short Stories, unless I'm missing something: this one's a playscript but there are other things. Discuss. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<BR>
(''copied from Talk:Book:The Rince Cycle''):<BR>
:Well, we've done LP records, CD's, TV adaptations, computer games..... and the playscripts are listed in the biography and all appear to be redlinked, as if the option is there to create articles.... I'd say why not? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 18:55, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Why indeed, but the question is how to define a namespace (or what to call it). It could be Peripherals: as the category, but shorter would be better. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 22:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

: '''Misc''' --[[User:Thnidu|Thnidu]] ([[User talk:Thnidu|talk]]) 17:57, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

==Mirabile Dictu==
Chaffinch's [[Ancient and Classical Mythology]] is now the fourth most popular page here. Huh? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:29, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

:I'm wondering if people looking for ''Bulfinch's Ancient and Classical'' are getting their ornithology wrong on a Google search; they can vaguely remember the guy they're looking for is ''some'' sort of finch but not which exact kind. I hang around on Yahoo Answers now and again just for fun and to do some corrective trolling. it's amazing how many disinterested schoolchildren put up please for people to do their homework for them when they can't be bothered to do their own research, and to be honest, a lot of them are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. I have a lovely picture in my head of a fairly dense American schoolchild being told to look up Greek mythology, steered to look for Mr Bulfinch, who gets it wrong and ends up on our wiki instead. Thus ending up writing about Blind Io, Petunia, Offler, Epidity, Bissonomy and the rest of the Dunmanifestin gang. Then confidently handing it in.... [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 11:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The [[Special:Popularpages|statistics]] continue to boggle my mind. The main page approaches 3.5 million views, up a million since the New Year. The popularity ranking of views for individual pages may be obvious or wildly unlikely. At the end of 2014 I put up a short history of the wiki to fill in the "About" page. Who looks at the "About" page? They may reach 10,000 by the end of February! [[Lies-To-Children]] is more popular than [[Ankh-Morpork]]! [[Ptraci]] and [[Pseudopolis]] don't make the top 500. [[Ankh]] languishes at 2630th...Wot's it all abaht, then? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:46, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

I also cannot help but notice that new pages I started, to fill in gaps about obscure or very minor characters and situations/ places, went from 0 views to well over 600 within hours of posting. In my experience a brand-new page tends to get 8-20 hits in the first few days, I guess from regulars looking at it out of curiosity. But 644? Something odd is happening. [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 22:57, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

:Think bots! Remember just because spammers now find it difficult to post here it doesn't mean we don't still get scanned. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 13:08, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

==Possible Outage==
I've asked the cabal to make a DNS change. This should be transparent to you guys but there was a small unplanned outage last time we made a change. This change will let me cut my hosting costs by about a third so that's a good thing. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 04:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
: Never noticed. Glad to hear the financial burden is reduced. I'm still hoping to get together with my son-in-law the interweb marketing wallah to discuss revenue possibilities. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:32, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::They apparently haven't made the change yet. But once they do this won't be a big deal to afford. I'd over engineered to begin with but now it's only costing about $25/month. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 13:10, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

=='''Thursday, March 12, 2015'''==
What are we supposed to write today? A good journalist (like Terry Pratchett) would suck it up and write a thousand words of inspiring prose and biographical notes. I'm not that good; I'm too depressed. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 20:22, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
:It was just so sudden...--[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 20:40, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
::I have, on occasion, thought about how terrible it would be to wake up one day to the news that Sir Pterry had died, but actually waking up to the news was shocking and a very different thing. I don't know what there is to say or write here beyond what has already been said by countless others... [[User:TC01|TC01]] ([[User talk:TC01|talk]])

[https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/cpcvz46 A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.] [[User:TC01|TC01]] ([[User talk:TC01|talk]]) 02:18, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:That is brilliant. Thanks for help making me smile on such a sad day.--[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 03:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Copied from my FB page.
On the death of Sir Terry Pratchett, first thoughts. Having spent a lot of time trying to turn other people on to Terry and his writings and having gifted some of the most intelligent people I know copies of the books with notes attached saying "read this, you'll like it.".

Still feeling very sad as if a lot of colour has drained out of the world. Like many others, thinking he would "diminish" over a period of quite a few years. Sadly, the "diminishing" process appeared evident in his last few published books, as if he was, perhaps, creating a broad outline, filling in such detail as he could, but others (Rob Williams? Rhianna?) were completing the books. The Discworld story in "Science of Discworld 4" read as if other people had written it - the authentic Pratchett voice was missing, there were continuity problems with other books, and it read like second-division fanfic. That is, it told a good story, but the Pratchett voice and tone either weren't there or only intruded in ocassional flashes of the old brilliance.

"Unseen Academicals" was... well, Terry was in there. But it read as if at least one other writer was in there too. As well as all the continuity glitches concerning well-established characters and callbacks to previous books. Not that it wasn't good, but it could have been better.

I guess the next stage is going to be like it was with Tolkein - they'll milk unpublished writing and fragments for all they're worth (although Terry did once say he wanted all the files and hard drives wiped when he died, so nobody could come along and use him as a PhD thesis in literature). right down to, what did "Private Eye" once "publish", "The JRR Tolkein Laundry Lists" , or equivalent of.... a terribly sad morning.

And Jeremy Clarkson and Jeffrey Archer are both still alive... (unsigned comment by [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 13 Mar 2015)

'''''“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away”''''' ({{RM}}) …(unsigned comment by [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 14 Mar 2015)
:So, some thinkers and writers born more than two thousand years ago are not reslly "dead", let alone Chaucer, Shakespeare or Swift. This compels us to continue the wiki for a few hundred years, at least, in whatever form advancing technology dictates. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:11, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::Absolutely! We're just lucky enough to have been around during his lifetime, to have enjoyed the books as they came out and be the ones to help keep the ball rolling, rather than having to look back in time to enjoy his works. I remember thinking, when first hearing that phrase, of the Ancient Egyptian philosophy which follows much the same lines (that memory grants immortality) - and still, ''well'' over 2000 years on we know so much of them, and they lacked the modern printing press, globalisation and internet we have now.
:: Besides, theres no reason why there might not be many further additions to make in future, especially if his daughter continues the series or if Narrativia manage to make more films or the rumored TV series [Mind drifts to Douglas Adams whose film of Hitchhikers Guide only managed to be progressed upon after his unfortunate passing].--[[User:GallifreyanWitch|Verity]] ([[User talk:GallifreyanWitch|talk]]) 17:24, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

just re-read [[Book:A Slip of the Keyboard]]. There's a bit where Terry relates a near-Death-experience he had on the operating table during what might have been a routine op to insert arterial stents. Apparently the surgeons had "fun and games" when a major artery started to spurt. This wasn't helped by Terry sitting up on the operating table and addressing an invisible presence, who apparently was {{death|offering him sandwiches}}. Did this make its way into the ham sandwich scene in {{W}}. and were sandwiches offered on a recent occasion? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 23:03, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

A book I haven't gotten to myself and not well described in the wiki. I had no tendency to hallucinations when I got my stents (even the big one) and {{Death|death didn't seem interested}}.--[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

== ==
I do miss the User Merge and Delete. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:25, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

==Aaand, we're back!==
These short naps are great. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 23:05, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

==Milestone==
Somewhere in the next couple of months will be this wiki's tenth anniversary. The history being lost and uncertain anyway, in those days, it may be hard to pin down a date. I must ask [[User:Death|Death]] if he can recall or look up a day. Any other recollections? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 00:18, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

==clacks-overhead:GNU Terry Pratchett==
:I don't log on here very often, but ... Today I was starting to create a page about the website [http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ GNU Terry Pratchett], when I realized it should probably go in a non-canon namespace, such as "Meta" if there were one. This is as far as I got on it.
:'''Please advise:''' Where should I post it? I'd prefer to be answered by email, to the same user-ID at gmail.com.

Such articles on Roundworld subjects have always been in the main namespace: [[Alt.fan.pratchett]], various [[:Category:People|People]], etc. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 20:00, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
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After the death of his son [[John Dearheart|John]] while repairing a [[clacks]] tower, [[Robert Dearheart]], the inventor of the clacks system, arranged to [[John Dearheart#After his death|keep his name running continuously on the clacks]]: ''So as the name "John Dearheart" keeps going up and down the line, this tradition applies a kind of immortality as "a man is not dead while his name is still spoken".''

After [[Biography#Other_personal_facts|Sir Terry's death]] a number of fans decided (probably independently in several cases) to perpetuate his name in this way. [http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ GNU Terry Pratchett] gives information about doing so on many servers, platforms, services, etc. And here is a way to do it ''ad hoc'' (take out the hyphens from h-r-e-f):

<nowiki><a h-r-e-f="clacks-overhead:GNU Terry Pratchett">.</a></nowiki>

Insert this string into any HTML text and it will display as a single period ("full stop" to Terry's compatriots) with a hyperlink. The hyperlink is present but does not go anywhere, because
:The address wasn't understood
:[Your browser] doesn't know how to open this address, because one of the following protocols (clacks-overhead) isn't associated with any program or is not allowed in this context.

That code doesn't work on Mediawiki pages such as this wiki, apparently because the software sensibly but unfortunately checks for valid HTML protocols, such as ''http'', and rejects invalid ones like ''clacks-overhead''. But you can use this:

<nowiki>[http://clacks-overhead-GNU_Terry_Pratchett .]</nowiki>

This displays as
: [http://clacks-overhead-GNU_Terry_Pratchett .]

which is a formally valid hyperlink to a nonexistent server.
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:--[[User:Thnidu|Thnidu]] ([[User talk:Thnidu|talk]]) 19:13, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

==No Help==
[[Help:Editing]] has disappeared from the bottom of the edit page at some point. I don't see anything I can do about it. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:08, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

==Has our Favicon vanished?==
I don't know if anyone else is having this problem but on my computer the site's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon Favicon] seems to have disappeared into the Dungeon Dimensions. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 22:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
:Nope, still there in my Firefox, but I notice most of them are missing in Opera. What are you using? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:15, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
::I am using Chrome though I would seriously consider switching if it didn't mean I had to redo my folders of bookmarks. I'll try deleting the cache and see if that helps, if not oh well I can live without it. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 06:34, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Book:Der ganze Wahnsinn: Storys

2015-09-09T22:39:28Z

Zdm:

First we had a foreign-language article, now a foreign-language subject. (There already exists an article: [http://www.thediscworld.de/index.php/Buch:Der_ganze_Wahnsinn Buch:Der ganze Wahnsinn] in the German wiki.) Duplicate articles in many languages and on the many publications in other languages sound dangerously ambitious to me, but is it our duty to be a forum for the whole world? English Wikipedia may include pages on books published in Japanese, etc. but I doubt the German wiki takes articles in Polish or about Italian compilations. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 22:06, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
:I forgot that the German wiki still existed, [[User:Death|Death]] has not been active here for a long time though looking at his contributions page on the German wiki he is still very much alive and active. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 22:39, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Discworld & Pratchett Wiki:Mended Drum

2015-09-09T22:37:03Z

Zdm:

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==The Long Earth==
I've finally gotten around to listening/reading [[Book:The Long Earth|The Long Earth]] series. Loving the concept! --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 17:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
: This series was amazing! --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 04:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

==Taking leave ==
I'll be off buying cigars and incommunicado next week. Somebody might pull an extra shift on watch. Hasta luego! --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:19, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
:will do what I can.... how long are you visiting [[Sumtri]] for? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 19:10, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hola! I'm back. Stuff seems to have been done. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

==Namespaces==
The new page [[Book:The Rince Cycle]] points out a need for one or more namespaces for works that aren't Books or Short Stories, unless I'm missing something: this one's a playscript but there are other things. Discuss. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC)<BR>
(''copied from Talk:Book:The Rince Cycle''):<BR>
:Well, we've done LP records, CD's, TV adaptations, computer games..... and the playscripts are listed in the biography and all appear to be redlinked, as if the option is there to create articles.... I'd say why not? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 18:55, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Why indeed, but the question is how to define a namespace (or what to call it). It could be Peripherals: as the category, but shorter would be better. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 22:54, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

: '''Misc''' --[[User:Thnidu|Thnidu]] ([[User talk:Thnidu|talk]]) 17:57, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

==Mirabile Dictu==
Chaffinch's [[Ancient and Classical Mythology]] is now the fourth most popular page here. Huh? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:29, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

:I'm wondering if people looking for ''Bulfinch's Ancient and Classical'' are getting their ornithology wrong on a Google search; they can vaguely remember the guy they're looking for is ''some'' sort of finch but not which exact kind. I hang around on Yahoo Answers now and again just for fun and to do some corrective trolling. it's amazing how many disinterested schoolchildren put up please for people to do their homework for them when they can't be bothered to do their own research, and to be honest, a lot of them are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. I have a lovely picture in my head of a fairly dense American schoolchild being told to look up Greek mythology, steered to look for Mr Bulfinch, who gets it wrong and ends up on our wiki instead. Thus ending up writing about Blind Io, Petunia, Offler, Epidity, Bissonomy and the rest of the Dunmanifestin gang. Then confidently handing it in.... [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 11:21, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The [[Special:Popularpages|statistics]] continue to boggle my mind. The main page approaches 3.5 million views, up a million since the New Year. The popularity ranking of views for individual pages may be obvious or wildly unlikely. At the end of 2014 I put up a short history of the wiki to fill in the "About" page. Who looks at the "About" page? They may reach 10,000 by the end of February! [[Lies-To-Children]] is more popular than [[Ankh-Morpork]]! [[Ptraci]] and [[Pseudopolis]] don't make the top 500. [[Ankh]] languishes at 2630th...Wot's it all abaht, then? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:46, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

I also cannot help but notice that new pages I started, to fill in gaps about obscure or very minor characters and situations/ places, went from 0 views to well over 600 within hours of posting. In my experience a brand-new page tends to get 8-20 hits in the first few days, I guess from regulars looking at it out of curiosity. But 644? Something odd is happening. [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 22:57, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

:Think bots! Remember just because spammers now find it difficult to post here it doesn't mean we don't still get scanned. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 13:08, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

==Possible Outage==
I've asked the cabal to make a DNS change. This should be transparent to you guys but there was a small unplanned outage last time we made a change. This change will let me cut my hosting costs by about a third so that's a good thing. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 04:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
: Never noticed. Glad to hear the financial burden is reduced. I'm still hoping to get together with my son-in-law the interweb marketing wallah to discuss revenue possibilities. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:32, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
::They apparently haven't made the change yet. But once they do this won't be a big deal to afford. I'd over engineered to begin with but now it's only costing about $25/month. --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk]]) 13:10, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

=='''Thursday, March 12, 2015'''==
What are we supposed to write today? A good journalist (like Terry Pratchett) would suck it up and write a thousand words of inspiring prose and biographical notes. I'm not that good; I'm too depressed. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 20:22, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
:It was just so sudden...--[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 20:40, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
::I have, on occasion, thought about how terrible it would be to wake up one day to the news that Sir Pterry had died, but actually waking up to the news was shocking and a very different thing. I don't know what there is to say or write here beyond what has already been said by countless others... [[User:TC01|TC01]] ([[User talk:TC01|talk]])

[https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/cpcvz46 A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.] [[User:TC01|TC01]] ([[User talk:TC01|talk]]) 02:18, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:That is brilliant. Thanks for help making me smile on such a sad day.--[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 03:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Copied from my FB page.
On the death of Sir Terry Pratchett, first thoughts. Having spent a lot of time trying to turn other people on to Terry and his writings and having gifted some of the most intelligent people I know copies of the books with notes attached saying "read this, you'll like it.".

Still feeling very sad as if a lot of colour has drained out of the world. Like many others, thinking he would "diminish" over a period of quite a few years. Sadly, the "diminishing" process appeared evident in his last few published books, as if he was, perhaps, creating a broad outline, filling in such detail as he could, but others (Rob Williams? Rhianna?) were completing the books. The Discworld story in "Science of Discworld 4" read as if other people had written it - the authentic Pratchett voice was missing, there were continuity problems with other books, and it read like second-division fanfic. That is, it told a good story, but the Pratchett voice and tone either weren't there or only intruded in ocassional flashes of the old brilliance.

"Unseen Academicals" was... well, Terry was in there. But it read as if at least one other writer was in there too. As well as all the continuity glitches concerning well-established characters and callbacks to previous books. Not that it wasn't good, but it could have been better.

I guess the next stage is going to be like it was with Tolkein - they'll milk unpublished writing and fragments for all they're worth (although Terry did once say he wanted all the files and hard drives wiped when he died, so nobody could come along and use him as a PhD thesis in literature). right down to, what did "Private Eye" once "publish", "The JRR Tolkein Laundry Lists" , or equivalent of.... a terribly sad morning.

And Jeremy Clarkson and Jeffrey Archer are both still alive... (unsigned comment by [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 13 Mar 2015)

'''''“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away”''''' ({{RM}}) …(unsigned comment by [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 14 Mar 2015)
:So, some thinkers and writers born more than two thousand years ago are not reslly "dead", let alone Chaucer, Shakespeare or Swift. This compels us to continue the wiki for a few hundred years, at least, in whatever form advancing technology dictates. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:11, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::Absolutely! We're just lucky enough to have been around during his lifetime, to have enjoyed the books as they came out and be the ones to help keep the ball rolling, rather than having to look back in time to enjoy his works. I remember thinking, when first hearing that phrase, of the Ancient Egyptian philosophy which follows much the same lines (that memory grants immortality) - and still, ''well'' over 2000 years on we know so much of them, and they lacked the modern printing press, globalisation and internet we have now.
:: Besides, theres no reason why there might not be many further additions to make in future, especially if his daughter continues the series or if Narrativia manage to make more films or the rumored TV series [Mind drifts to Douglas Adams whose film of Hitchhikers Guide only managed to be progressed upon after his unfortunate passing].--[[User:GallifreyanWitch|Verity]] ([[User talk:GallifreyanWitch|talk]]) 17:24, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

just re-read [[Book:A Slip of the Keyboard]]. There's a bit where Terry relates a near-Death-experience he had on the operating table during what might have been a routine op to insert arterial stents. Apparently the surgeons had "fun and games" when a major artery started to spurt. This wasn't helped by Terry sitting up on the operating table and addressing an invisible presence, who apparently was {{death|offering him sandwiches}}. Did this make its way into the ham sandwich scene in {{W}}. and were sandwiches offered on a recent occasion? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 23:03, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

A book I haven't gotten to myself and not well described in the wiki. I had no tendency to hallucinations when I got my stents (even the big one) and {{Death|death didn't seem interested}}.--[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

== ==
I do miss the User Merge and Delete. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:25, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

==Aaand, we're back!==
These short naps are great. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 23:05, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

==Milestone==
Somewhere in the next couple of months will be this wiki's tenth anniversary. The history being lost and uncertain anyway, in those days, it may be hard to pin down a date. I must ask [[User:Death|Death]] if he can recall or look up a day. Any other recollections? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 00:18, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

==clacks-overhead:GNU Terry Pratchett==
:I don't log on here very often, but ... Today I was starting to create a page about the website [http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ GNU Terry Pratchett], when I realized it should probably go in a non-canon namespace, such as "Meta" if there were one. This is as far as I got on it.
:'''Please advise:''' Where should I post it? I'd prefer to be answered by email, to the same user-ID at gmail.com.

Such articles on Roundworld subjects have always been in the main namespace: [[Alt.fan.pratchett]], various [[:Category:People|People]], etc. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 20:00, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
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After the death of his son [[John Dearheart|John]] while repairing a [[clacks]] tower, [[Robert Dearheart]], the inventor of the clacks system, arranged to [[John Dearheart#After his death|keep his name running continuously on the clacks]]: ''So as the name "John Dearheart" keeps going up and down the line, this tradition applies a kind of immortality as "a man is not dead while his name is still spoken".''

After [[Biography#Other_personal_facts|Sir Terry's death]] a number of fans decided (probably independently in several cases) to perpetuate his name in this way. [http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ GNU Terry Pratchett] gives information about doing so on many servers, platforms, services, etc. And here is a way to do it ''ad hoc'' (take out the hyphens from h-r-e-f):

<nowiki><a h-r-e-f="clacks-overhead:GNU Terry Pratchett">.</a></nowiki>

Insert this string into any HTML text and it will display as a single period ("full stop" to Terry's compatriots) with a hyperlink. The hyperlink is present but does not go anywhere, because
:The address wasn't understood
:[Your browser] doesn't know how to open this address, because one of the following protocols (clacks-overhead) isn't associated with any program or is not allowed in this context.

That code doesn't work on Mediawiki pages such as this wiki, apparently because the software sensibly but unfortunately checks for valid HTML protocols, such as ''http'', and rejects invalid ones like ''clacks-overhead''. But you can use this:

<nowiki>[http://clacks-overhead-GNU_Terry_Pratchett .]</nowiki>

This displays as
: [http://clacks-overhead-GNU_Terry_Pratchett .]

which is a formally valid hyperlink to a nonexistent server.
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:--[[User:Thnidu|Thnidu]] ([[User talk:Thnidu|talk]]) 19:13, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

==No Help==
[[Help:Editing]] has disappeared from the bottom of the edit page at some point. I don't see anything I can do about it. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 15:08, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

==Has our Favicon vanished?==
I don't know if anyone else is having this problem but on my computer the site's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon Favicon] seems to have disappeared into the Dungeon Dimensions. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 22:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Laoth

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Little is known about '''Laoth''' which orbits an anemic red coloured sun called Tau-Ceti. The entire planet is sterile and all incoming goods and people are rigorously decontaminated as the entire economy is based on the manufacturing of complex electronics and one tiny virus in the wrong place could be fatal to a project. Only humans live on Laoth yet birds fly, horses run and the brooks are full of fish. Entire metal ecosystems have been built which include copper trees, electronic hummingbirds, zinc trout and many other metal plants and animals which has led it to be said that cultivation on Laoth is done with a screwdriver. Laoth also the only known producer of [[Class Five Robots]].
{{Stub}}
[[Category:The Dark Side of the Sun]]

Zephire Street

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A haven for [[chocolate]] lovers. But you had better be prepared to mortgage something dear to you, such as a surplus grandparent, just to be able to afford the merest taste. Note the extra drainage just outside the window of [[Wienrich and Boettcher]]. This is to accommodate the otherwise unsightly puddles of drool.

Could the name of the street be a time-corrupted variant of the name of [[Zephyrus]], the God of Slight Breezes? Perhaps a temple might once have stood here.

The street is also where the copy of the [[Scone of Stone]] that was - apparently - stolen from the [[Dwarf Bread Museum]] on [[Whirligig Alley]] was found. It's located in the [[Dolly Sisters]] area parallel to Upper [[Broadway]].

[[Category:Streets of Ankh-Morpork]]
[[de:Zephirstraße]]

Bibliography

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A Terry Pratchett bibliography (originally derived from [[Wikipedia:|Wikipedia]], the free encyclopedia on 3 July 2005 and ppint's bibliography, mucked about with since then). All dates are of first publication. Revised editions and collections are not listed. The recommended reading order of the books is given in the article [[Reading Order]]. Several books are adapted to the theatre, [[TV and film adaptations|TV or film]] or are planned to be.

==Books==

===Discworld===
====Novels====
* 01 {{COM}} (Colin Smythe, 1983)
* 02 {{TLF}} (Colin Smythe, 1986)
* 03 {{ER}} ([[Gollancz]], Colin Smythe, 1987)
* 04 {{M}} (Gollancz, Colin Smythe, 1987)
* 05 {{S}} (Gollancz, Colin Smythe, 1989)
* 06 {{WS}} (Gollancz, 1989)
* 07 {{P}} (Gollancz, 1989)
* 08 {{G!G!}} (Gollancz, 1989)
* 09 {{E}} (Gollancz, 1990)
* 10 {{MP}} (Gollancz, 1990)
* 11 {{RM}} (Gollancz, 1991)
* 12 {{WA}} (Gollancz, 1991)
* 13 {{SG}} (Gollancz, 1992)
* 14 {{LL}} (Gollancz, 1992)
* 15 {{MAA}} (Gollancz, 1993)
* 16 {{SM}} (Gollancz, 1994)
* 17 {{IT}} (Gollancz, 1994)
* 18 {{M!!!}} (Gollancz, 1994)
* 19 {{FOC}} (Gollancz, 1996)
* 20 {{H}} (Gollancz, 1996)
* 21 {{J}} (Gollancz, 1997)
* 22 {{TLC}} (Doubleday, 1998)
* 23 {{CJ}} (Doubleday, 1998)
* 24 {{TFE}} (Doubleday, 1999)
* 25 {{TT}} (Doubleday, 2000)
* 26 {{TOT}} (Doubleday, 2001)
* 27 {{TLH}} (Gollancz, 2001)
* 28 {{TAM}} (Doubleday, 2001)
* 29 {{NW}} (Doubleday, 2002)
* 30 {{WFM}} (Doubleday, 2003)
* 31 {{MR}} (Doubleday, 2003)
* 32 {{HFOS}} (Doubleday, 2004)
* 33 {{GP}} (Doubleday, 2004)
* 34 {{T!}} (Doubleday, 2005)
* 35 {{W}} (Doubleday, 2006)
* 36 {{MM}} (Doubleday, 2007)
* 37 {{UA}} (Doubleday, 2009)
* 38 {{ISWM}} (Doubleday, 2010)
* 39 {{SN}} (Doubleday, 2011)
* 40 {{RS}} (Doubleday, 2013)
* 41 {{TSC}} (Doubleday, 2015)

====Graphic Novels====
* {{COM}} The Graphic Novel (Corgi 1992)
* {{TLF}} The Graphic Novel (Corgi 1993)
* {{M}} The Big Comic (Gollancz 1994)
* {{G!G!}} A Discworld Graphic Novel (Gollancz 2000)
* {{E}} The illustrated Eric (Gollancz 2011)
* {{TLH}} (Gollancz, 2001)
* [[Book:The Illustrated Wee Free Men|''The Illustrated Wee Free Men'']] (Doubleday 2008)
* {{COM}} and {{TLF}} 25th Anniversary Edition (omnibus, with [[Stephen Player]]) (Gollancz 2008), illustrated version.
* The Discworld Graphic Novels The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic (omnibus) (Doubleday 2008)
* Soul Music: The Illustrated Screenplay (Corgi 1997)
* Wyrd Sisters: The Illustrated Screenplay (Corgi 1998)
* Terry Pratchett's Hogfather: The Illustrated Screenplay (Gollancz 2006)
* Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic: The Illustrated Screenplay (Gollancz 2008)

====Collections====
* The Witches Trilogy (1994)
* Death Trilogy (1998)
* The Colour of Magic / The Light Fantastic (1999)
* The City Watch (1999)
* Rincewind the Wizzard (1999)
* Tales of Discworld (2000)
* Gods Trilogy (2000)
* The Wee Free Men: The Beginning (2010)

====Rumored====
* [[Book:Raising Taxes|''Raising Taxes'']]
* [[Book:Scouting for Trolls|''Scouting for Trolls'']]
* [[Book:The Missing Chapter|''The Missing Chapter'']]
* [[Book:Running Water| ''Running Water'']]

Following Terry Pratchett's [[death]] on March 12, 2015 it was announced that {{TSC}} would be the last published Discworld novel

====Short Stories====
* {{TB}} (1992)
* {{TOC}} (1993)
* {{SALF}} (1998)
* [[Short Story:Death and What Comes Next|''Death and What Comes Next'']] (2002)
* [[Short Story:A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices|''A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices'']] (2005)
* [[Short Story:We Can Rule You Wholesale|''We Can Rule You Wholesale'']] (1999)
* [[Short Story:Thud - a historical perspective|''Thud - a historical perspective'']] (2002)
* ''[[Ankh-Morpork Scouting (and possibly Urban Survival) Federation|The Minutes of the Meeting To Form The Proposed Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts]]'', (2007)

====Maps====
* {{SAM}} (Corgi, 1993)
* {{DM}} (Corgi, 1995)
* {{TGL}} (Corgi, 1998)
* {{DD}} (Corgi, 1999)
* {{CAM}} (Doubleday, 2012)
* [[Book:Atlas|''The Discworld Atlas'']] (Doubleday 2015)

====Companions====
* {{DC}} (with [[Stephen Briggs]]) (Gollancz, 1994, 1997)
* {{DC}} ''Updated'' (with [[Stephen Briggs]]) (Gollancz, 2001)
* {{NDC}} (with [[Stephen Briggs]]) (Gollancz, 2003)
* {{TR}}: The Discworld Companion...So Far (with [[Stephen Briggs]]) (Gollancz, 2012)

====Science of Discworld====
* {{SOD1}} (with [[Ian Stewart]] and [[Jack Cohen]]) (Ebury Press, 1999)
* {{SOD2}} (with [[Ian Stewart]] and [[Jack Cohen]]) (Ebury Press 2002)
* {{SOD3}} (with [[Ian Stewart]] and [[Jack Cohen]]) (Ebury Press, 2005)
* {{SOD4}} (with [[Ian Stewart]] and [[Jack Cohen]]) (Ebury Press, 2013)

====Miscellany====
* {{NOC}} (with [[Stephen Briggs]] and Tina Hannan) (Doubleday, 1999) (Corgi, 2001)
* [[Josh Kirby|The Josh Kirby Poster Book]] (Corgi, 1989)
* [[Josh Kirby|The Josh Kirby Discworld Portfolio]] (Paper Tiger, 1993)
* {{TPP}}: ''A Compendium of Discworld Characters'' (with [[Paul Kidby]]) (Gollancz,1996)
* {{AOD}} (with [[Paul Kidby]]) (HarperCollins, 2004)
* [[Book:Where's My Cow?|''Where's My Cow?'']] (illustrated spin-off of {{T!}} ) (Doubleday, 2005)
* [[Book:The Unseen University Cut-out Book|''The Unseen University Cut-out Book'']] (with [[Bernard Pearson]] and Alan Batley) (Doubleday, 2006)
* [[Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld|''The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld'']] (with [[Stephen Briggs]]) (Doubleday, 2007)
* [[Book:The Folklore of Discworld|''The Folklore of Discworld'']] (with Dr. [[Jacqueline Simpson]]) (Doubleday, 2008, updated in 2009 and 2013)
* {{TWOP}} (illustrated spin-off of {{SN}}) (Doubleday, 2012)
* Discworld and Beyond-A Retrospective (with [[Paul Kidby]]) (St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, 2012)
* {{W}} - [[Maddy Prior|musical version]] - the story of {{W}} retold using English folk-music, provided by a house-band Nanny Ogg would have not only loved but would have wanted to sing with - Steeleye Span.
* [[Book:Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook|Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook]] (Doubleday, 2014)

====Theatre adaptations====
All adapted by [[Stephen Briggs]] except for Lords and Ladies which is adapted by [[Irana Brown]]
* {{M}} The Play (Corgi, 1996)
* {{WS}} The Play (Corgi, 1996)
* {{G!G!}} The Play (Corgi, 1997)
* {{MAA}} The Play (Corgi, 1997)
* {{M!!!}} The Play (Samuel French, 1998)
* {{CJ}} The Play (Samuel French, 1999)
* {{LL}} The Play (Samuel French, 2001)
* {{TFE}} The Play (Methuen, 2002)
* {{NW}} The Play (Methuen, 2004)
* {{MR}} The Play (Methuen, 2004)
* {{J}} The Play (Methuen, 2005)
* {{IT}} The Play (Methuen, 2005)
* {{GP}} The Play (Methuen, 2005)
* {{TAM}} The Play (Oxford University Press, 2006)
* {{TAM}} Musical Pack (Bloomsbury, 2011) by [[Matthew Holmes]]
* {{FOC}} The Play (Oberon Modern Plays, 2015)
* {{UA}} The Play (Oberon Modern Plays, 2015)
* [[Book:The Rince Cycle|''The Rince Cycle'']] (adapted by Stephen Briggs) (Oberon Modern Plays, 2015)
* All The Discworld's A Stage (omnibus, Feet of Clay/The Rince Cycle/Unseen Academicals) (Oberon Modern Plays, 2015)

====Gaming====
=====Board games=====
* Thud: Strategy game for two players available from 2008
* Watch Out: Discworld Board Game from The Cunning Artificer 2004, never released, only several prototypes were ever made.
* [[Ankh Morpork Discworld Board Game|Discworld Ankh-Morpork]], from Treefrog Games 2011.
* Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame from Z-Man Games 2011.
* The Witches, from Treefrog Games 2013
* Clacks, by Backspindle Games 2014 (Designers: Leonard Boyd & David Brashaw), published in conjunction with Z-Man Games.

=====Computer games=====
* The Colour of Magic, for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, 1986.
* [[Discworld (game)|Discworld]], PC/Mac/Sony Playstation/Sega Saturn game, developed by Perfect 10 Productions and Teeny Weeny Games, published by Psygnosis 1995.
* [[Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?]], PC/Sony Playstation/Sega Saturn game, developed by Perfect Entertainment, published by Psygnosis (PC/PSX versions) and Sega (Saturn version) 1996.
* [[Discworld Noir]], GSP Games 2000.
* Discworld: The Colour of Magic, developed for mobile phones, 2006.
* [[Book:The Compleat Ankh-Morpork|Discworld: The Ankh-Morpork Map]], developed for IOS systems by Random House, 2014.

=====Tabletop role-playing=====
* [[GURPS Discworld]], with Phil Masters (SJGames, 1998; maps by [[Stephen Briggs]] and [[Stephen Player]], art by [[Paul Kidby]])<br/>Discworld converted to the GURPS RPG system<br/>Later rebranded under the "Powered by GURPS" banner as the ''Discworld Roleplaying Game''
* [[GURPS Discworld Also]], with Phil Masters and John M. Ford (SJGames, 2001; art by Sean Murray)<br/>Additional material converted to the GURPS system
* [[GURPS Discworld|The Discworld Roleplaying Game]], (omnibus) combines The Discworld Roleplaying Game (GURPS Discworld) and GURPS Discworld Also, also updates to GURPS 4th edition and adds information on newer Discworld novels not included in earlier editions. (release date TBA)

====Quiz====
* [[Book:The Unseen University Challenge|''The Unseen University Challenge'']] (quiz book by {{wp|Dave Langford|Dave Langford}}) (Gollancz, 1996)
* [[Book:The Wyrdest Link|''The Wyrdest Link'']] (quiz book by {{wp|Dave Langford|Dave Langford}}) (Gollancz, 2002, 2006)

====Diaries====
* {{UUD}} (with [[Stephen Briggs]])
* {{CWD}} (with [[Stephen Briggs]])
* {{AGD}} (with [[Stephen Briggs]])
* {{FGD}} (with [[Stephen Briggs]])
* {{TGD}} (with [[Stephen Briggs]])
* {{RVD}} (with [[Stephen Briggs]] and [[Paul Kidby]])
* [[Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak|''The Celebrated Discworld Almanak'']] for the Year of the Prawn being the common year 2005 (with [[Bernard Pearson]])
* [[Book:The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook & Diary 2007|''The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook & Diary 2007'']] (with [[Stephen Briggs]] and [[Paul Kidby]])
* [[Book:Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008|''Lu Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008'']] (with [[Stephen Briggs]] and Paul Kidby) (Gollancz, 2007) Release Date 30 Aug 2007
* [[The Best of the Discworld Diaries|Narren, Diebe und Vampire: Das Beste aus zehn Jahren Schweibenwelt-Kalendern]] (The Best of the Discworld Diaries) (omnibus, with [[Stephen Briggs]], [[Paul Kidby]] and Andreas Brandhorst) German edition containing material from the diaries 1998-2008 (Goldmann, 2012)
* [[We-R-Igors First and Last Aid]] (2015 Diary)
* [[A Practical Manual for the Modern Witch]] (2016 Diary)

====Discworld Calendars====
* The Discworld: Day-to-Day Calendar
* Discworld - Mini Calendar 2000
* The Discworld Calendar: 2001
* The Discworld Calendar: 2002
* Discworld Calendar 2004
* Discworld Calendar 2005
* Terry Pratchett's Hogfather Discworld Calendar 2007
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2008
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2009
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2010
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition Calendar 2011
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2012
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2013
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2014
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2015
* Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collectors' Edition Calendar 2016

====Anthologies====
* The Flying Sorcerers, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press, 1998: multi-author anthology including the first release of the Pratchett short story '''''Turntables of the Night'''''.
* Legends, ed. Robert Silverberg, Souvenir Press, 1998: multi-author anthology including the first release of the Pratchett short story '''''The Sea and Little Fishes'''''.
* [[Book:the Ultimate Encyclopaedia of Fantasy (the definitive illustrated guide|''The Ultimate Encyclopaedia of Fantasy'' (the definitive illustrated guide)]] (Carlton Books 1998). Terry contributed a preface.

===Non-Discworld===

====Novels====
* [[Book:The Carpet People|''The Carpet People'']] ([[Colin Smythe]], 1971)
* [[Book:The Dark Side of the Sun|''The Dark Side of the Sun'']] (Colin Smythe, 1976)
* [[Book:Strata|''Strata'']] (Colin Smythe, 1981)
* {{T}} ([[Doubleday]], 1989)
* {{TUC}} (with [[Gray Jolliffe]]) (Gollancz, 1989)
* {{GO}} (with [[Neil Gaiman]]) (Gollancz, 1990)
* {{D}} (Doubleday, 1990)
* {{WI}} (Doubleday, 1990)
* {{OY}} (Doubleday, 1992)
* {{JATD}} (Doubleday, 1993)
* {{JATB}} (Doubleday, 1996)
* {{N}} (Doubleday, 2008)
* ''[[Book:Dodger|Dodger]]'' (Doubleday, 2012)

====Graphic Novels====
*[[Book:The Carpet People|''The Carpet People Illustrated Edition'']] (Doubleday, 2009)

====The ''Long Earth'' series====
''Co-written with {{wp|Stephen Baxter|Stephen Baxter}}''
* ''[[Book:The Long Earth|The Long Earth]]'' (Doubleday, 2012)
* ''[[Book:The Long War|The Long War]] (Doubleday, 2013)
* ''[[Book:The Long Mars|The Long Mars]] (Doubleday, April 2014)
* ''[[Book:The Long Utopia|The Long Utopia]] (Doubleday and Random House, June 2015)

====Plays====
* [[Book:Johnny and the Dead (playscript)|''Johnny and the Dead'']] (adapted by [[Stephen Briggs]]) (Oxford University Press, ?)
* [[Book:Nation (playscript)|''Nation'']] (adapted by Mark Ravenhill) (Oxford University Press, 2009)
* {{JATB}} A time-tickingly tremendous musical, Musical Pack (Bloomsbury, 2012) by [[Matthew Holmes]]
* ''[[Book:Dodger|Dodger]]'' The Play (Oxford Playscripts, 2014)

====Short Stories====
* [[Short story:The Hades Business|''The Hades Business'']] (1963) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:Night Dweller|''Night Dweller'']] (1965) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:Twenty Pence With Envelope and Seasonal Greetings|''Twenty Pence With Envelope and Seasonal Greetings'']] (1987) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:Final Reward|''Final Reward'']] (1988) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:Incubust|''Incubust'']] (1988) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:Turntables of the Night|''Turntables of the Night'']] (1989) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:History in the Faking|''History in the Faking'']] (1990) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:ifdefDEBUG "world/enough" "time"|''#ifdefDEBUG + "world/enough" + "time"'']] (1990) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:Hollywood Chickens|''Hollywood Chickens'']] (1990) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:Once And Future|''Once And Future'']] (1995) Republished in {{BS}}
* [[Short story:The Megabyte Drive to Believe in Santa Claus|''The Megabyte Drive to Believe in Santa Claus'']] (1996) Republished in {{BS}}
* {{OMWF}} ([[New England Science Fiction Association]], 2004) is a collection of several of the above Dw and Non-Dw short stories. Terry Pratchett also wrote several stories under the pseudonym [[Uncle Jim]] for the ''Bucks Free Press''.
* Der ganze Wahnsinn: Storys (The Whole Madness: Stories) (with Andreas Brandhorst) German variation of {{OMWF}} with some material different than the English release (Piper, 2010).

====Anthologies====
* Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People (National Portrait Gallery, 2011), Terry contributed a story. Republished in {{BS}}
* {{BS}} (2012)
* [[Book:Dragons At Crumbling Castle|''Dragons At Crumbling Castle'']] (Doubleday, 11 September 2014)
* [[Book:A Slip of the Keyboard|''A Slip of the Keyboard'': Collected Non-fiction Writings]] (Doubleday, 25 Sep 2014)

====Miscellany====
* The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2010: available here[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/terry-pratchett-alzheimer-assisted-suicide], abridged.
* ''[[Book:The Dodger's Guide to London|The Dodger's Guide to London]]'' (Doubleday, 2013)
* Terry writing on [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/15/a-butt-of-my-own-jokes-terry-pratchett-on-the-disease-that-finally-claimed-him on the Embuggerance]
* Shaking Hands With Death (Corgi, 2015) also published in [[Book:A Slip of the Keyboard|''A Slip of the Keyboard'']]

==Publishers==
* [[B. Wahlströms]]
* [[Colin Smythe]]
* [[Doubleday]]
* [[Gollancz]]
* [[HarperCollins]]
* [[Heyne]]
* [[Random House]]

==External links==
* [[wikipedia:Terry Pratchett|Terry Pratchett]] on Wikipedia
* [[wikipedia:Discworld|Discworld]] on Wikipedia
* [http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/ Terry Pratchett] - Verlagsgruppe Random House / Doubleday / etc.
* [http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/ Terry Pratchett Books] - (HarperCollins)
* [http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/ Colin Smythe Ltd]
* [http://www.i-m-t.demon.co.uk/afp/biblio1.txt ppint's extensive bibliography, part 1 (Discworld works)]
* [http://www.i-m-t.demon.co.uk/afp/biblio2.txt ppint's extensive bibliography, part 2 (non-Discworld works)]
* [http://www.i-m-t.demon.co.uk/afp/biblio3.txt ppint's extensive bibliography, part 3 (foreign language editions)]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/terry-pratchett/ Fantastic fiction]

[[Category:Books by Terry Pratchett| ]]
[[Category:Discworld Series| ]]
[[Category:Witches Series| ]]
[[Category:Rincewind Series| ]]
[[Category:Death Series| ]]
[[Category:Watch Series| ]]
[[Category:Tiffany Series| ]]
[[Category:Maps| ]]
[[Category:Bromeliad series| ]]
[[Category:Johnny Maxwell Series| ]] [[de:Bücher:Übersicht]]

Book title acronyms

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Special templates to make links to books consistent (and easier.) The table below contains the books and their template code.

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|<nowiki>{{TDSOTS}}</nowiki> || {{TDSOTS}}

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|<nowiki>{{UUD}}</nowiki> || {{UUD}} - ''Unseen University Diary''

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|<nowiki>{{CWD}}</nowiki> || {{CWD}} - ''City Watch Diary''

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|<nowiki>{{AGD}}</nowiki> || {{AGD}} - ''Assassins' Guild Diary''

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|<nowiki>{{FGD}}</nowiki> || {{FGD}} - ''Fools' Guild Diary''

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|<nowiki>{{TGD}}</nowiki> || {{TGD}} - ''Thieves' Guild Diary''

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[[Category:Title shortcut templates]]

Book title acronyms

2015-09-07T05:35:07Z

Zdm: Added Long Earth series templates

Special templates to make links to books consistent (and easier.) The table below contains the books and their template code.

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|<nowiki>{{UUD}}</nowiki> || {{UUD}} - ''Unseen University Diary''

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|<nowiki>{{CWD}}</nowiki> || {{CWD}} - ''City Watch Diary''

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[[Category:Title shortcut templates]]

Template:TLU

2015-09-07T05:33:32Z

Zdm: The Long Utopia title template

<includeonly>''[[Book:The Long Utopia|The Long Utopia]]''</includeonly><noinclude>
[[Category:Title shortcut templates|BS]]
</noinclude>

Template:TLM

2015-09-07T05:32:52Z

Zdm: The Long Mars title template

<includeonly>''[[Book:The Long Mars|The Long Mars]]''</includeonly><noinclude>
[[Category:Title shortcut templates|BS]]
</noinclude>

Template:TLW

2015-09-07T05:32:04Z

Zdm: The Long War title template

<includeonly>''[[Book:The Long War|The Long War]]''</includeonly><noinclude>
[[Category:Title shortcut templates|BS]]
</noinclude>

West 1,617,524

2015-09-07T05:30:06Z

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In {{TLE}} Earth West 1,617,524 is the homeworld of the [[Beagles]].

{{stub}}

[[Category: The Long Earth]]

Template:TLE

2015-09-07T05:29:28Z

Zdm: Book link template for The Long Earth

<includeonly>''[[Book:The Long Earth|The Long Earth]]''</includeonly><noinclude>
[[Category:Title shortcut templates|TLF]]
</noinclude>

All Jolson

2015-09-07T05:17:14Z

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{{Character Data
|title= All Jolson
|photo= All jolson.jpg|All Jolson, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]
|name= All Jolson
|age= middle-aged
|race= Human from [[Howandaland]]

|occupation= chef / restaurateur
|appearance= immensely fat

|residence= [[Ankh-Morpork]]
|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children= [[Precious Jolson]]
|marital status=
|books= {{T5E}}
}}

All Jolson is [[Ankh-Morpork]]'s finest chef and its keenest eater - a combination made in mashed potato heaven. He got his nickname from the fact that no-one, seeing him for the first time, could believe it was ''All'' Jolson. He's the only man who shows up on an atlas and can affect the movements of small planets. He runs his restaurant on [[Broad Way]].

He appears to be a good friend of Fred Colon (probably due to his prolific skills in the kitchen) and his ice cream in particular helped him out of a spot of trouble with over-zealous cart-clamping.

In {{T!}}, [[Fred Colon]] mentions a [[Precious Jolson]] with 'muscles on her like a troll'. I am presuming, but is this the clearly redoubtable daughter of this Goliath of a man?

==Annotation==
Comedy echo of [[Roundworld]]'s ''Al'' Jolson, the US vaudeville performer who was voted the finest entertainer in the world in 1948, famous for his use of black make-up.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Jolson, All]]
[[Category:Human characters|Jolson, All]]
[[de:Enorm Jolson]]

Total Pins

2015-09-07T05:14:25Z

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A magazine for the committed acuphile, edited by Apprentice Postman [[Stanley]].

The print is small, smudged and dense, and dispenses with optional features such as paragraphs. The common comma has evidently taken a day off, and is presumably down the pub with Punctuation, enjoying a quiet pint and a skive from work.

==Annotation==
Very much in keeping with '''fanzines''' on Roundworld, self-produced pamphlets written by people who feel they have something to say on a topic of obsessive interest, but haven't yet grasped that style and presentation are important matters to consider when presenting one's thoughts to the world.

[[Category: Discworld culture]]
[[de:Nur Nadeln]]
[[Category: Discworld publications]]

Widdershins

2015-06-28T18:24:28Z

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1. On the Discworld '''Widdershins''' is one of the four basic directions , and the opposite of [[turnwise]]. By going {{wp|Widdershins|widdershins}}, you go against the turning direction of the Disc, in other words anti-clockwise.

2. The planet '''Widdershins''' is the home planet of choice for the fantastically rich [[Sabalos family]] in {{TDSOTS}} It has at least one moon and orbits the purple star of [[See-Why]].

==Annotations==

Widdershins (sometimes withershins, widershins or widderschynnes) is a word which (usually) means counterclockwise. However, in certain circumstances it can be used to refer to a direction which is against the light, i.e. where you are unable to see your shadow. It is cognate with the German language widersinnig, i.e., "against" + "sense". The term "widdershins" was especially common in Lowland Scots, and was known in Scottish Gaelic as tuathal, which uses the same root as tuath meaning "north", the opposite of widdershins is deiseil or sunwise. In the southern hemisphere, the sun goes anti-clockwise, but in the northern hemisphere, it goes clockwise, which is where the term "sunwise" originates from. Because the sun played a highly important role in primitive religion, to go against it was considered very bad luck for sun-venerating traditions.

It was considered unlucky in former times in Britain to travel in an anticlockwise (because anti sun wise) direction around a church and a number of folk myths make reference to this superstition, e.g. Childe Rowland, where the protagonist and his sister are transported to Elfland after his sister runs widdershins round a church. There is also a reference to this in Dorothy Sayers's novels The Nine Tailors and Clouds of Witness ("True, O King, and as this isn't a church, there's no harm in going round it widdershins").

[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[de:Himmelsrichtungen]]

Miguel Portijo

2015-06-10T02:37:49Z

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This is the apprentice [[Assassins' Guild|Assassin]] who accompanies Lord [[Robert Selachii]] on the mission to slay [[Imp y Celyn]] and the Bande With Rocks In.

Un-named in the book, he is identified in the closing credits of the [[Book:Soul_Music#Television|animated version of Soul Music]] and does indeed look remarkably like the Conservative politician of a similar name. On the Discworld, he is, in all probability, from [[That Thing With The Bulls|the sleepy sunny bull-running country]] somewhere out towards [[Genua]].

[[category:Discworld characters]]

Roundworld

2015-06-07T22:33:14Z

Zdm: /* Roundworld References */

==Roundworld References==

Throughout this wiki, there are countless references to Roundworld counterparts to [[Discworld]] characters, events, phrases, locations, norms, periods &c. The name "Roundworld" is one coined by the [[Wizards]] and is used in this wiki to show when Terry Pratchett has taken a real-life example from Earth (the world in question, which is indisputably round) and twist it into a Discworldian parody. Examples include the [[Diet of Bugs]] (read "{{wp|Diet_of_Worms|Diet of Worms}}"), the [[Piecemaker]] (read "{{wp|Colt_Single_Action_Army|Peacemaker}}"), [[Old Tom]] (read "{{wp|Great_Tom|Great Tom}}"), [[Leonard of Quirm]] (read "{{wp|Leonardo_da_Vinci|Leonardo da Vinci}}") and literally thousands of others. There are longer lists in the articles on the individual book as well as [[Annotations]] pages.

==Roundworld as a place==

'''Roundworld''' is a sphere-shaped world. Yes, it ''is'' silly, but people seem to be able to stand on it, so we shouldn't worry too much about it. It lies in a universe created by the [[Wizard's magic|wizards]] of [[Unseen University]], as a way to use up the excessive magical energy generated by the splitting of the [[thaum]]. (However it should be noted that travel to the Roundworld and references was possible before the wizard's creation so ''it may not have happened yet''.) [[Hex]] watches over the Roundworld, and can move small things in it and influence it slightly. Apart from that, it is (in theory) completely isolated from other universes, and there's no [[magic]] in it, not even essential elements like [[narrativium]]. There aren't even any gods. After several failed attempts, the wizards managed to create a nice planet (although it's not plane at all, which is quite depressing) where life started to develop.

For all intents and purposes, Roundworld is "our" planet Earth - it is home to a human civilisation which mirrors our own, though several other civilisations have risen and fallen in Roundworld's past, including the crabs and dinosaurs. Roundworld's human inhabitants have not led an untroubled existence; their history was severely threatened by an infestation of [[Elf|Elves]], who twisted the stories of Roundworld humans (notably William Shakespeare) to their own ends, and later by the [[Auditors of Reality]], who objected to the consequences of Charles Darwin's ''Origin of Species''. The Wizards acted in both cases to protect their preferred Roundworld history; they feel a certain level of responsibility for the entire universe they have created, and especially for the humans who dwell in it.

==Odd sidenotes==
* It is implied in {{SOD4}} that the crab civilisation may have been distantly remembered, possibly in genetic memory, by later civilisations on Roundworld. No doubt emboldened by his rescue of the Ephebian library's contents in {{SG}}, the Librarian nipped into Roundworld (probably via the medium of L-Space) and rescued the contents of the Library of Atlantis prior to its destruction, bringing them back for posterity at the University Library and later enlisting specialist help to decode the language. The only problem is, the wisdom of Atlantis was inscribed by skilled claws and mandibles in clay tablets by what is described as "a lobster-like civilisation". So. Atlantis existed. But not a human one....

[[Category:Locations]]
[[Category:Discworld concepts]]
[[de:Rundwelt]]

Sniggs Alley

2015-05-28T05:17:00Z

Zdm: cleaned up a bit

Mentioned in {{S}}, there's a [[Klatch (country)|Klatchian]] takeaway on this street that serves [[pizza]]. It was also given a passing mention in {{G!G!}}

==Annotation==

Oddly enough, there is a ''Snig Hill'' in Sheffield, Yorkshire.

[[Category: Streets of Ankh-Morpork]]
{{stub}}

Museum of Quite Unusual Things

2015-05-27T00:59:23Z

Zdm: cat

Apparently this museum exists in [[Ankh-Morpork]], but the wizards are pretty vague as to exactly where.

[[Category:Discworld culture]]
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses‏]]

Talk:Biography

2015-05-25T17:47:56Z

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Terry's doing pretty well around the palace for a raving anti-monarchist. Lord Pratchett of Ankh next? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 15:41, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Look what happened to Sam Vimes, who couldn't exactly be called a raving monarchist himself... life imitates art? In which case, the '''only''' possible next award Her Maj can possibly bestow on Terry is a dukedom...

Burning questions: will Terry now have to get to grips with one of those horses with curtains covering its legs? Is he now entitled, nay, obliged, to raise a body of armed men to defend Wiltshire in the event of Klatchian incursion on Salisbury? Will we, then, be Sir Terry's First of Foot - which, given his opinions on the conduct of warfare as expressed via Tacticus, Laveolous and Vimes, might not be a bad place to be in the event of hostilities?

--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 01:54, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

You may; I'm Colonial and overage, myself. I used to think Sam's elevation resulted from Terry's, but found that the order was reversed. I don't think Terry can hope for a Dukedom (are they even making those any more?) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 02:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

:Sure they're making them; you need to distinguish between hereditary peers (eldest children who get the title upon the death of the parent) and life peers (who get a newly-created title which is personal and abolished again when they die). Usually they are given to retired cabinet ministers, archbishops, and the like, and to unique individuals - but it's not completely unheard of for artists to recieve a life peerage; for instance Laurence Olivier and Andrew Lloyd Webber. In other words, Sir Terry might one day become The Baron Pratchett of Beaconsfield...or something similar... [[User:Michael riber jorgensen|Michael riber jorgensen]] 15:05, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Baron, sure, but while Royal Dukedoms pop in and out of existence according to available Royalty, it seems to be a long time since there was a new one in or outside the family. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 15:26, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

== Terry Pratchett - The Spirit of Fantasy ==
A new book about Terry Pratchett will be released on the 3rd October 2011 called [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1843585073/ref=snp_dp&tag=thblofke-21 Terry Pratchett - The Spirit of Fantasy].

It is written by Craig Cabell
~~[[User:Revinkeviin|Kev]] 15:49, 26 September 2011 (CEST)

==Adding lilac==
I formed a committee of one and we voted to install The Author as a Hero of the Revolution. It wouldn't have happened without him. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 00:11, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
:Well of course he should be a Hero of the Revolution, I mean without him it never could have happened. --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 17:47, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

The Goat and Spirit Level

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A pub in [[Ankh-Morpork]] where [[Moist von Lipwig]] left one of his boxes for those occasions when he may have needed to change his appearance ''very quickly''.

==Annotations==
Likely a reference to the British pub "The Goat and Compasses". (Itself an allusion to concepts and ideas within Freemasonry: suggesting the said secret society would be more than usually welcome in there, the landlord being a member and covertly advertising this in the name and the picture on the pub sign. The upstairs meeting room might double as a Masonic lodge. In Ankh-Morpork, quite possibly connected to one of those secret societies common among gentlemen of common interests, of which Moist von Lipwig joined "quite a few". It is possible the landlord considers looking after the property of a Lodge Brother and keeping it secret from the profane eyes of the Watch is a sacred duty.)

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[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses|Goat and Spirit Level, The]]
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Errata

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{{Character Data
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|photo=
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|race= [[The gods|God]]
|age=

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|residence= [[Dunmanifestin]]

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The goddess of misunderstandings. Described as a "trouble-maker". A relative of [[Hoki]], or his female archetype? Or just Hoki in drag, doing the moonlighting thing in order to garner more believers? {{RS}} relates the existence of a Goddess called [[Pippina]], whose badge of office is a golden apple of ominous aspect.

The computer game ''[[Discworld Noir]]'' tells a story that involves Errata, and she has a priest called [[Malaclypse]] in a corner of the [[Temple of Small Gods]].

==Annotation==

The Greek goddess '''Eris''' is the patroness of chaos and discord. (The Romans called her ''Discordia''). "Errata" sounds like a conflation of both names. Eris' greatest achievement was that business with the Golden Apple inscribed "Kallisti" - to the Fairest One - that got the gods of Olympus fighting among themselves, as of course all [[Gods]] have infinite egos and all consider themself to be fairest. Eventually the Olympian gods decided to pass this hot potato to a mortal, who was plucked from obscurity to decide which Goddess was fairest and who had title to the Golden Apple. The judgement of Paris led directly to the Trojan War and ten years of destruction, with Eris snggering in the background. It is clear that Eris is a [[Trickster|trickster-Goddess]]....

Errata is also the plural of '''erratum''', which is an error in writing or printing.

Malaclypse is also a priest of Eris in Robert Anton Wilson's '''Illuminatus!''' trilogy of novels, where the Goddess is a central character. Another crossover between Discworld and Wilson's manic fantasy?

[[Category:Discworld characters]]
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Ossie Brunt

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Ossie Brunt was a would-be freelance [[Assassins' Guild|assassin]]. Friends, if he had any, might have described him as a quiet sort who kept himself to himself. But he kept himself to himself so well that he didn't have any friends. He is not a stupid man, rather one who thought a lot about things and how he could make an impact on things. He went to archery practice at the butts every Tuesday and once saved up to buy a round of drinks for his fellow archers. Even so, he was the sort of man to leave an Ossie Brunt shaped void in the memory. Very much, in fact, a Lone Bowman.

He worked as an odd-job man and spent his pay on magazines of the [[Bows and Ammo]] type (not to mention [[Warrior of Fortune]] and [[Practical Siege Weapons]]), as well as on the very best bow that money could buy. This apparently took precedence over fripperies like paying the rent, something his landlady Mrs. [[Spent]] deplored, frequently and loudly. In fact, the bow was a [[Burleigh and Stronginthearm]] ''Sureshotte Five'' which was a bit of a bad buy, as he could hardly draw back the bowstring, a fact noted by [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]] and [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]]

A quantity of Klatchian money was found in his room - he probably really had intended to pay Mrs. [[Spent]] her overdue rent by noon - but events, like being found at the bottom of the [[Barbican]] with a broken neck, intervened. It became clear that Ossie, a man with the upper-body strength of [[Nobby Nobbs]], was being set up as the fall-guy for a [[Daceyville Slopes|second bowman]], who in fact shot from the fifth-floor window of the Book Depository at [[Unseen University]].

==Annotations==

Ossie is usually a contraction of the name "Oswald". All it needs now is a [[Grassy Gnoll|grassy knoll]]....

:
[[Category:Discworld characters|Brunt, Ossie]]
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Quisition

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The Quisition of [[Omnia]] was an organisation before the time of the Prophet [[Brutha]] with the holy mission of purifying the ungodly and expurgating sin. They perform this civic service by means of lovingly designed implements of torture.

To those who objected to the use of torture, the Quisition replied that they were only doing the will of the Great God [[Om]] - for if He allowed them to do it, he must want them to do it, therefore it must be all right. So there. Those who pursued this line of argument were granted a free tour of the Quisition torture chambers and given an unrivalled opportunity to get really up close and personal with the implements in question.

Before its abolition by Brutha, the Quisition was headed by [[Vorbis]], who bore the title of Exquisitor.

==Annotations==
Based, no doubt, on the Spanish Inquisition (16th to 19th c.) of infamous - and somewhat exaggerated memory. It should also be observed that monotheism while well known for persecuting 'heretics' was not unique in its demands for religious conformity; ask Socrates.

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Ettercap Street

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Ettercap Street runs between [[Goose Gate]]/[[Kicklebury Street]] and [[Short Street]]. It runs parallel to a length of redundant overtaken-by-time city wall, which has been described as "the remnant of ancient city wall on which political and amorous intentions have been inscribed for many years."

[[Category: Streets of Ankh-Morpork]]

Talk:Margolotta

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I cannot edit the article on my phone but durring the footballer meeting where lord vetinari(gasp!) drinks beer, it is revealed as she is the founding member of the black ribboners(temperence league) I think it was revealed in a earlier book as well but don't hold me to it ~~Frogz~~

==Which Margolotta?==
I've just encountered another suggestion (outside the wiki) that Margolotta is the font of all evil in recent Discworld history. Because she appears in the same book with the Evil Empire, she is accused of leading it. AgProv has written some condemnation here as well, and there seems to be great ambivalence about her character and contributions. I don't see anything in the canon describing her as anything but the font and promoter of the new order of progress and peace among the species. Wasn't she the force behind peace among the ancient enemies of Überwald, Vetinari's first teacher in political science and the rescuer of the last Orcs? Vampires are not sympathetic characters to start, but I think the point is that she has overcome the Vampire trope and Wizards have given up destroying the landscape and Detritus is a smarter Troll, some Dwarves can consider more than gold and Werewolves can be vegetarians (most of the time).

Is she a victim of sexism as well as speciesism? Vetinari is not necessarily ''nice'', he does what's necessary for the greater good. If someone takes the wrong door out of the Oblong Office we don't call him an evil despot. They're alike as two peas; Margolotta's just been at it longer. Why would Havelock Vetinari maintain this lifelong friendship with this evil person bent on mischief toward the world he's working toward? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 02:26, 25 April 2011 (CEST)

I agree, there has been no indication that Margolotta is particularly evil. I think that it not necessarily sexism, just the fact that we know so little about her. She is the only known character to attribute the problems in Überwald to, simply because she was alive at the time and has no alibi. We cannot say for certain that she was not evil then, but it seems unlikely from her behavior recently, particularly in [[Book:The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]. By the way, though, it was Vetinary who taught her, not vice versa. I will try to find the quote soon, but it was along the lines of "I'm sorry, you think I taught him?". (unsigned comment by [[User:Confusion]] 02:49, 22 December 2013‎)
:Vetinari and Margolotta are both forces for the improvement of the Discworld, but that's because they're both skilled politicians: don't take them too literally. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:58, 22 December 2013 (GMT)

==Picture Credits==

Lady Margolotta, on her first meeting with Vimes, as envisaged by Woschaebedip on deviantArt. A link to Woschaebedip's pages with lots more Discworld art is here:-
http://woschaebedip.deviantart.com/
This artwork appears here with the express permission of its creator and should not be copied elsewhere on the Web without her permission. Thank you!
:That picture is driving me mad! She looks like a Zombie. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 02:12, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Or, I'm forced to conclude, a very unconvincing transvestite. Should we search for different? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 13:33, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
:That too. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 14:10, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
::Its kind of terrifying --[[User:Zdm|Zdm]] ([[User talk:Zdm|talk]]) 02:53, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Bunty Waynesbury

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{{Character Data
|title=Berenice Waynesbury
|name=Berenice Waynesbury
|race=Human
|parents=Mr. and Mrs. Mousefather
|children=Daughter and son
|marital status=Married
|books=[[Thud!]]
}}

Wife of the magistrate in [[Ham-on-Koom]] and an alumna of the [[Quirm College for Young Ladies]]. A contemporary of Lady [[Sybil Ramkin]], she is married to a quiet unassuming man who dispenses local justice without fear, favour, or corruption, in the mornings, and who goes fly-fishing in the afternoons. She has a daughter who is married and lives just outside [[Quirm]], and a son who had to depart for [[XXXX|Fourecks]] in something of a hurry over a ''complete'' misunderstanding, but who is now ''very'' big in sheep, she hears.

Known in Form 3b as Berenice Mousefather. Also known as Berenice Waynesbury.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Waynesbury, Bunty]]
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Book:Mort

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{{Book Data
|title= Mort
|cover=
[[File:Cover Mort.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
|coauthors=
|illustrator=
|date= May 1987
|publisher= Victor Gollancz
|isbn=
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|series=Death Series
|characters=[[Death]], [[Mort]], [[Ysabell]], [[Binky]], [[Albert]], [[Keli]]
|annotations=yes
|notes= Book #04
}}

==Blurb==
[[Death]] comes to us all. When he came to [[Mort]], he offered him a job.

After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice ....

== Characters ==

=== Main characters ===

* [[Death]]
* [[Mort]]
* [[Ysabell]]
* [[Binky]]
* [[Albert]]
* [[Keli]]

=== Minor characters ===

* [[Lezek]], Mort's father
* [[Duke of Sto Helit]]
* [[Igneous Cutwell]], a wizard
* [[Terpsic Mims]], an angler (fisherman) saved by Death ("for later") and his wife, [[Gwladys Mims|Gwladys]] (largely the reason that Terpsic is an angler)
* [[Lord Rodley]] of [[Quirm]]
* [[Cripple Wa]], who runs a floating [[crap (game)|crap game]]
* [[Liona Keeble]], Ankh-Morpork's first job broker
* [[Sun Emperor]], boy emperor who nominally runs the Agatean Empire, though the Grand Vizier, [[Nine Turning Mirrors]], is really in charge (until his attempt to assassinate the boy emperor backfires)
* [[Rincewind]]

=== Mentioned (incl very minor speaking parts) ===

* [[Hamesh]], Mort's uncle
* [[King Olerve the Bastard]], [[Keli]]'s father
* [[Pilgarlic]], leader of a group of thieves who unwisely try to rob Mort
* [[Ammeline Hamstring]], a witch who's scheduled to die, and [[Granny Beedle]] and [[Gammer Nutley]], her colleagues
* [[Abbot Lobsang]], a monk (member of the [[Listeners]]) who's scheduled to die.. again
* [[Offler]]
* [[Mrs. Nugent]]
* [[Artorollo]], past King of Ankh

* Lesser nobles of Sto Lat:
** [[Lord of the Privy Closet]]
** [[Lady of the Small Hexagonal Room in the North Turret]]

* Staff of Sto Lat castle:
** [[Chamberlain of Sto Lat]]
** [[Yeoman of the Pantry]]
** [[Moghedron]], the wine butler
** [[Royal Astrologer]]

* The [[Patrician]]

* [[Queen Ezeriel]], a Klatchian queen who bathed in asses' milk, had many lovers, and killed herself by sitting on a snake, parodying [[Roundworld]]'s {{wp|Cleopatra|Cleopatra}}

* [[Hummok M'guk]]
* [[Ug]] and [[Zog]], names for several proto-humans

* [[Catroaster]], a philosopher with a negative (albeit short-lived) opinion of Ankh-Morpork

* [[Blind Io]] and his somewhat more blind High Priest (in Sto Lat)

* [[Heavenly Guard]], who patrol the [[Great Wall]]

* [[Ly Tin Wheedle]] (mentioned)

* King [[Zetesphut]] of Tsort (mentioned)

* [[Fate]] (mentioned)

* [[Destiny]] (mentioned)

* [[Sek]] (mentioned)

* [[Hoki]] (mentioned)

* [[Steikhegel]], God of isolated cow byres (mentioned)

== Locations ==

* [[Death's Domain]]
** [[Death's Domain#Death's library|Death's Library]]
*** [[The Stack]] for biographies more than 500 years old

* [[Ramtops]]
** [[Octarine Grass Country]]
*** [[Sheepridge]]

* [[Ankh-Morpork]]
** [[Patrician's Palace]]
** [[Curry Gardens]]
** [[The Shades]]
*** [[Ham Alley]]
*** [[Pork Passage]]
*** [[Honey Lane]]
** [[River Ankh]] (mentioned)
** [[Mended Drum]] in [[Filigree Street]]
** [[Harga's House of Ribs]], owned by [[Harga]]

* [[Bay of Mante]] (mentioned)

* [[Klatch]] (mentioned)

* [[Klatchistan]] (mentioned), there's a promising war there

* [[Sto Lat]]
** [[Wall Street]], where Cutwell lives (until he's transferred to the castle)
** [[The Quene's Head/Duke's Head|Quene's Hed]] aka [[The Quene's Head/Duke's Head|Duke's Head]] (depending on which reality you're in; presumably the King's Head before King Olerve died)
** [[Sto Lat Castle]]

* [[Cori Celesti]] (mentioned)

* [[Great Nef]] (mentioned), Ysabell's parents died there
** The [[Light Dams]]

* [[Pseudopolis]] (mentioned)

* [[Krull]] (mentioned)
** The [[Edge]] (mentioned)
** [[Hakrull River]]

* [[Carrack Mountains]] (mentioned)

* [[El-Kinte]] (mentioned)

* [[Dungeon Dimensions]] (mentioned)

* [[Agatean Empire]] (mentioned)
** [[Bes Pelargic]] (mentioned)

* [[Tsort]] (mentioned)
** [[River Tsort]] (mentioned)
** [[Pyramid|Pyramids]] of [[Tsort]] (mentioned)

[[Leshp]] (mentioned)

==Sentient Species==

*[[Humans]]
*[[Trolls]] (mentioned)

==Supernatural Entities==

*[[Death]]
*[[The gods|The Gods]] (mentioned)
*[[Dungeon Dimensions|Old Dark Gods from the Dungeon Dimensions]] (mentioned)
*[[Tooth Fairy]] (mentioned)
*[[Sandman]] (mentioned)
*Water Sprite (mentioned)

== Things and Concepts ==

* [[Reannual plant]]s
* [[Hogswatch]], time frame at start of book
* [[Granny Weatherwax's Ramrub Invigoratore]] and Passion's Philtre, a potion accidentally consumed by Cutwell
* [[Aurora Coriolis]]
* [[Shield of Passion]] ointment, a form of birth control
* [[Maidens' Longstop]], a potion
* [[Pizza]]
* [[Caroc Cards]]
* [[Ching Aling]]
* [[Stardrip]], a kind of drink
* [[Scumble]]
* [[Brass Gongs]] of [[Leshp]]
* [[Book of the Magick of Alberto Malich the Mage]], a book by Albert that first alerts Mort that Death's butler is more than he appears to be
* [[Rag Week]], a time when Albert's statue is traditionally (albeit unceremoniously) defiled
* [[Rite of AshkEnte]] (when Albert says this backwards many years ago, he summons himself to Death, instead of keeping Death away from himself; he later uses it to summon Mort)
* Ankh-Morpork [[Chamber of Commerce]]/[[Guild of Merchants]] (mentioned)
* [[Serpent Dance]], Discworld equivalent of the {{wp|conga_line|conga}}.
* [[Peach Corniche]], a type of drink
* Drinks sampled by Death
** [[Melon Brandy]]
** [[Spring Cordial]] (contains wasps)
** [[Old Overcoat]]
** [[Amanita Liquor]]
* [[Klatchian migratory bog truffle]]: it's pale, brown, and warty, but it's food
* [[Monster Fun Grimoire]], which contains instructions (not very good ones) on how to make fireworks
* [[Deepwater puff eel]], whose bladder and spleen may only eaten by those beloved of the gods (though it suspiciously sounds like [[bloat]] could come from this animal as well)
* [[Smoking Mirror of Grism]]

==External links==
[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/mort.html ''Mort'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]

{{series|before=Equal Rites|series=Discworld|after=Sourcery}}
{{series|series=Death|after=Reaper Man}}

[[Category:Discworld Series|Mort]]
[[Category:Death Series|Mort]]
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Pine Dressers

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'''Pine Dressers''' is a tiny landlocked village mentioned in {{RM}} that is so frequently plagued by rains of fish that it has become a major center for the kipper-filleting, smoking, an canning industries.

[[category:Discworld geography]]

Pine Dressers

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Greaser

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Greaser (6'2") was one of the [[Four Other Riders Of The Apocalypse|Biker of the Repocalypse]] in {{GO}}. He rides out with [[Big Ted]], [[Scuzz]] and [[Pigbog]] (6'3"), until terminally stopped by a huge mound of acquatic lifeforms. He has the word FISH tattooed on one hand and CHIPS on the other.

His alias in the Great Ride is ''Cruelty To Animals''. This led Pigbog to wonder if he was for it or against it.

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Pigbog

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Pigbog (6'3") is first encountered in {{GO}}, along with his fellow Hell's Angels [[Greaser]] (6'2"), [[Scuzz]] (height not given) and [[Big Ted]](height similarly not given), in a dismal branch of the [[Happy Porker Café]], clustered around the Trivial Pursuit machine. they are collectively described as ''a knot of black-leathered bikers, hard, hairy, filthy and huge''. He has the word LOVE tattooed on one set of knuckles and HATE on the other.

Pigbog, the acknowledged leader of the chapter, is surprisingly Bible-literate. This is due to his enforced absence from the social scene following an unspecified incident in Brighton, after which the police were keen to speak to him, which was spent hiding in a hotel room where the only thing to read was this Bible which some bugger called Gideon had left behind him. After they meet the ''real'' Hell's Angels, though, Pigbog is left wishing he'd read the Book of Revelations a bit more carefully.

On their ill-fated run south down the M6 as the Four Other Riders of the Apocalypse, Pigbog first manifests as Ansaphones (he hates them), then as Really Cool People (he'd love to push their faces through a barbed-wire fence, very very slowly). It all resolves itself in an unlikely rain of fish....

[[Category:Good Omens characters]]

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