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| |title= The Last Continent
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| |cover=
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| [[File:Cover The Last Continent.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Josh Kirby]]
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| |coauthors=
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| |illustrator=
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| |date= May 1998
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| |publisher= Doubleday
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| |isbn=0552146145
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| |pages=416
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| |rrp=
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| |series=Rincewind Series
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| |characters=[[Rincewind]], Mrs. [[Whitlow]]
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| |annotations=yes
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| |notes=
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| }}
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| ==Blurb==
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| This is the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]'s [[XXXX|last continent]], a completely separate creation.
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| It's hot. It's dry... very dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right?
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| And it'll die in a few days. Except...
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| Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober? A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him on little legs, who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong?
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| Yes... all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left.
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| Still... no worries, eh?
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| ==Characters==
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| ===Main characters===
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| *[[Rincewind]]
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| *[[Mustrum Ridcully]]
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| *The [[Librarian]]
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| *The [[Senior Wrangler]]
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| *The [[Dean]]
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| *The [[Bursar]]
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| *The [[Chair of Indefinite Studies]]
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| *The [[Lecturer in Recent Runes]]
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| *[[Ponder Stibbons]]
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| *Mrs. [[Whitlow]]
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| * [[Creator_(of_the_Continent_XXXX)|Creator of XXXX]]
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| * [[God of Evolution]]
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| * [[Trickster]], also known as [[Scrappy]] and [[Snowy]]
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| === Minor characters ===
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| * [[Strewth]], a miner whose name is the Australian expression for "God's truth"
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| * [[Hex]]
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| * [[Death]]
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| * [[Mad]], a dwarf
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| * [[Crocodile Crocodile]], a barman aka [[Dongo]]
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| * [[The Luggage]]
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| * [[Petunia the Desert Princess]], transvestite group, consisting of:
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| ** [[Letitia]]
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| ** [[Darleen]], who sings ''Prancing Queen'', a parody of ABBA's {{wp|Dancing_Queen|Dancing Queen}}
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| ** [[Neilette]], an actual woman
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| ** [[Noelene]], Neilette's brother, who dropped out after trying to surf in a ball gown
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| * [[Bill Rincewind]], Archchancellor of Bugarup University
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| * [[B. Smoth]], Dean of Bugarup University
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| === Cameos and People Mentioned ===
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| * [[McAbre]], the head [[bledlow]]
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| * [[Doughnut Jimmy]] (mentioned)
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| * [[Swallett]], wizard who led expedition to find Lost Reading Room
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| * [[Professor of Recondite Architecture and Origami Map Folding]]
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| * [[Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography]] (mentioned), a title later held by Rincewind
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| * [[Wally Sluvver]], a wizard who gave lectures post-mortem (no one noticed)
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| * [[Lecturer in Creative Uncertainty]], the Discworld equivalent of {{wp|Introduction_to_quantum_mechanics|quantum mechanics}}
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| * Sir [[Roderick Purdeigh]], explorer who searched for XXXX and claimed it didn't exist (but also once got lost in his own bedroom...)
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| * [[Death of Rats]]
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| * [[Albert]]
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| * [[Bewdley]], former Archchancellor with a magic hole in his boots
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| * [[Medley]], a medical kleptomaniac (mentioned)
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| * [[Hoki]], god (mentioned)
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| * [[Creator]] of the Disc (mentioned)
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| * [[Ossory]] (mentioned in an expression)
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| * [[Hollowlog Joe]], drinker in bar
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| * Queen [[Zazumba]] of Sumtri (mentioned)
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| * [[Daggy]], sheep shearer
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| * [[Remorse]], a man who owns a fast colt and purchases Snowy
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| * [[Clancy]], a stock man who works for Remorse and helps invent XXXX-ian slang
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| * [[Tinhead Ned]] (mentioned), famous escape artist, parodying {{wp|Ned_Kelly|Ned Kelly}}
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| * [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler|Fair Go Dibbler]]
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| * [[Duncan]], friend of Fair Go's, who explains "Duncan's me mate", from the {{wp|Slim_Dusty|Slim Dusty}} song [http://www.lyricsdownload.com/slim-dusty-duncan-lyrics.html Duncan]
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| * [[Greg]] and [[Vince]], troll-like gaolers
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| * [[Larrikin Larry]], criminal whose head flew off like a cork when he was hanged
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| * "Dicky" [[Bird]] (mentioned), wizard particularly sensitive to high magical fields
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| * Dibblers around the Disc (mentioned; most of these do not appear in any other book)
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| ** [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]] (several books)
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| ** [[Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] (from {{IT}})
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| ** [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler|Al-Jiblah]]
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| ** [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler|May-I-Never-Achieve-Enlightenment Dhiblang]]
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| ** [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler|Dib Diblossonson]]
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| ** [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler|May-I-Be-Kicked-In-My-Own-Ice-Hole Dibooki]]
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| ** [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler|Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart Dlang-Dlang]]
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| * [[Ly Tin Wheedle]] (mentioned)
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| * [[Charley]], a cook depressed at the concept of naming a dessert after famed opera singer Dame [[Nellie Butt]], especially since his father created the [[Janine Ormulu|Orange Ormulu]] in honor of Dame [[Janine Ormulu]]
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| * [[Nunco]], who invented the [[Wendy Sackville|Strawberry Sackville]] for Dame [[Wendy Sackville]]
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| * [[Imposo]], who created the [[Margyreen Glazier|Apple Glazier]] for Dame [[Margyreen Glazier]]
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| * [[Lisa Delight]], retired opera singer
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| * [[Ron]] and [[Sid]], opera house chefs
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| * [[Ronald Pants]] aka "Really" Pants (mentioned)
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| * [[Farter Carter]] (mentioned; probably not his real name)
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| * [[Trusset]], a wizard with good hair, contemporary of Ponder Stibbons
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| * [["Rubber" Houser]], wizard who invented the [[Graphical Device]]
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| * [[Cartwright]], an XXXX-ian wizard
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| * [[Salid]], an artist (possibly a wizard artist?)
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| * [[Clive]], [[Shirl]], and [[Gerleen]], XXXX-ers who wish to emigrate to Ankh-Morpork
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| * [[Germaine Trifle]], opera singer
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| * [[Bluey]], XXXX-ian watchman
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| ==Locations==
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| *[[Ankh-Morpork]]
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| **The [[Unseen University]]
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| ** [[Museum of Quite Unusual Things]] (mentioned)
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| ** [[High Energy Magic Building]] (mentioned)
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| ** [[Library]]
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| ** [[Lost Reading Room]] (mentioned)
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| ** [[Room 5b]] (mentioned)
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| ** [[Moon Pond Lane]] (mentioned), Librarian's birth street
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| ** [[Opera House]] (mentioned; when stranded on a deserted island, the Dean wishes to listen to the music there), not to be confused with the Bugarup Opera House mentioned below
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| *[[XXXX]]
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| **[[Dijabringabeeralong]]
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| ** [[Semaphore Hill]] (mentioned)
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| **[[Bugarup]]
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| ** [[Bugarup Gaol]]
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| ** [[Berk Street]] (mentioned)
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| ** [[Bludgeree]] (mentioned), area of town(?) where Fair Go Dibbler was born
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| ** [[Treacle Street]] (mentioned), Fair Go Dibbler's birth street
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| ** [[Opera_House_(Bugarup)|Opera House]]
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| ** [[Grurt Street]] (mentioned)
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| ** [[Bugarup University]]
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| ** [[Pastoral Hotel]] (mentioned)
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| ** [[Cangoolie]] (mentioned), parodies {{wp|Kalgoorlie|Kalgoorlie}}
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| ** [[Worralorrasurfa]], Neilette's home town
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| * [[Mono Island]], an island near XXXX similar to New Zealand
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| * [[Slakki]] and [[Purdee Island]], nudist islands
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| * [[Quirm]] (mentioned)
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| ** [[Kiddling Street]] (mentioned)
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| * [[Klatch]] (mentioned)
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| * [[Omnia]] (mentioned)
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| * [[NoThingfjord]] (mentioned), Mad's home town
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| * [[Sumtri]] (mentioned)
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| * [[Bhangbhangduc]] (mentioned), a place whose name parodies "bang! bang! duck" (ie, telling someone to duck '''after''' bullets have been shot)
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| * [[Quint]], city destroyed by God of Evolution
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| == Concepts, Items, Events ==
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| * [[slood]] (mentioned)
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| * [[Bledlows|Ceremony of the Keys]], parodying the [[Roundworld]] {{wp|Ceremony_of_the_Keys|events with the same name}}.
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| * [[L-Space]]
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| * [[Weezencake's Unreliable Algorithm]]
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| * [[How to Dynamically Manage People for Dynamic Results in a Caring Empowering Way in Quite a Short Time Dynamically]], a truly hideous book from another universe
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| * [[Droit de seigneur|droit de mortis]], killing senior wizards to speed promotion
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| * [[Old Tom]], university's tongueless clock
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| * [[Wasport's Lives of the Very Dull People]], a book
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| * [[Wrencher's Snakes of All Nations]], a book
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| * [[Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses, and Lichens of Terror Incognita]], an encyclopedia with at least 29 volumes (probably many more, as the volumes are further broken down by letter and number, eg, "29c, part 3")
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| * [[drop-bears]]
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| * [[Principles of Thaumic Propagation]], a studious book that turns into [[The Omega Conspiracy]], a frivolous book
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| * Theoretical frivolous books working along the same general lines:-
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| ** ''The Gamma Imperative''
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| ** ''The Delta Season''
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| ** ''The Alpha Project''
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| ** [[The Mu Kappa Pi Caper]]
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| * [[dwarf bread]]
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| * the [[Discworld calendar|Triangle]], a constellation
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| * [[The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars]], a constellation
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| * [[thunder lizard]], animal that killed Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography, but later turned into a chicken. A literal translation into Greek of the term "Thunder Lizard" is ''Brontosaurus''.
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| * [[Roo Beer]], a light sparkly (but still quite alcoholic) beer
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| * the [[Sapu Tree]], a carnivorous plant
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| * [[Sledgehammer Plant of Bhangbhangduc]], a carnivorous plant
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| * [[Pyramid Strangler Vine]], a normally vegetarian plant
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| * [[Two Up]], game, parodying the Roundworld {{wp|Two-up|game of the same name}}
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| * ''Tie My Kangaroo Up'', a song parodying {{wp|Tie_Me_Kangaroo_Down%2C_Sport|Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport}}
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| * [[squid]], unit of currency (probably parodies 'quid', slang term for British pound) The pound (£AUS) was the unit of currency in Australia until supplanted by the dollar ($AUS) in the 1950's.
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| * [[Mugroop's Syndrome]], symptom of high magical field
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| * [[meat pie floater]], XXXX specialty cuisine
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| * [[Peach Nellie]], a dessert
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| * [[The Galah]], celebration of alternative lifestyles, parodying the {{wp|Sydney_Gay_and_Lesbian_Mardi_Gras|Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras}}, Australia's largest gay/lesbian event. Probably the reason why the University doesn't enforce Rules One, Three, Five and Seven.
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| * [[Funnelweb]], a type of beer, parodying {{wp|Matilda_Bay_Brewing_Company|Redback Beer}} (both named after spiders)
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| * [[Maxwell's Impressive Separator]] and [[Bonza Charlie's Beaut Sieve]], two similar spells that can separate two things (eg, salt and water from saltwater)
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| * [[HW chromosome]], something wizards lack (HW = housework?)
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| == External Links ==
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| * [http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/the-last-continent.html ''The Last Continent'' Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File]
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| * {{wp|Discworld_geography|Discworld geography}} (WikiPedia)
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| {{series|before=Jingo|series=Discworld|after=Carpe Jugulum}}
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| {{series|series=Rincewind|before=Interesting Times|after=The Science of Discworld}}
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| [[Category:Discworld Series|Last Continent, The]]
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| [[Category:Rincewind Series|Last Continent, The]]
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| [[de:Buch:Heiße Hüpfer]]
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