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Vetinari's act of "taxing the rat farms" was apparently because of a plague of rats in a context that suggests that the rat plague started just before he became patrician so it must have been in Snapcase's time. | |||
:It was Vetinari's act, right, not Snapcase's? This article indicates that Vetinari gave *advice* to Snapcase to tax the rat farms. That's not what I read... I'll change the article unless I'm missing something. [[User:Moishe Rosenbaum|Moishe Rosenbaum]] ([[User talk:Moishe Rosenbaum|talk]]) 20:08, 11 August 2019 (UTC) | |||
::It's a little vague in the original footnote, but it sounds as if the plague of rats and the bounty appeared near the end of Snapcase's tyranny and one of Vetinari's first proclamations was "tax the rat farms". It doesn't mention Snapcase. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 21:42, 11 August 2019 (UTC) | |||
== Leguminous link? == | |||
Recall reading somewhere about "snap peas" or "snap beans" which are a distinct variety of legume. Given the Snapcase family association with Sproutington, centre of the bean-growing industry, could the "snapcase" be another word for a peapod? [[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 20:16, 22 July 2016 (UTC) | |||
Latest revision as of 21:42, 11 August 2019
Inconsistency issue now resolved. --AgProv 11:04, 30 October 2007 (CET)
Re: Annotation. What it says in the book is: "a vase of flowers, a heap of sand and three people who had been beheaded." --Old Dickens 22:17, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Is there a case for suggesting Snapcase might have been the Patrician, in The Colour of Magic, who gives Rincewind the choice of looking after Twoflower or being tortured to keep him alive until the Agateans can claim him and torture him some more? An immensely fat man with a taste for candied seafood, as I remember...--AgProv 22:25, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, there is. Now, Pterry has gone on the record as saying the Patrician of COM was Vetinari- or at least that Patrician grew to become Lord V as we know him. But the timeline discussions have demonstrated that Snapcase has to be the Patrician who celebrated his 10th anniversary in Mort, and Mort necessarily came after COM. Solicitr 01:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Rat farms
Vetinari's act of "taxing the rat farms" was apparently because of a plague of rats in a context that suggests that the rat plague started just before he became patrician so it must have been in Snapcase's time.
- It was Vetinari's act, right, not Snapcase's? This article indicates that Vetinari gave *advice* to Snapcase to tax the rat farms. That's not what I read... I'll change the article unless I'm missing something. Moishe Rosenbaum (talk) 20:08, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
- It's a little vague in the original footnote, but it sounds as if the plague of rats and the bounty appeared near the end of Snapcase's tyranny and one of Vetinari's first proclamations was "tax the rat farms". It doesn't mention Snapcase. --Old Dickens (talk) 21:42, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
Leguminous link?
Recall reading somewhere about "snap peas" or "snap beans" which are a distinct variety of legume. Given the Snapcase family association with Sproutington, centre of the bean-growing industry, could the "snapcase" be another word for a peapod? AgProv (talk) 20:16, 22 July 2016 (UTC)