On Friday, 16/11/07, there was a meeting of a literature club in a small town in the southern Sto Plains. The book that was to be subject of the discussion was “Interesting Times” by Terry Pratchett. The for the club unusual choice was made by the son of one of the members. All of the ladies seemed to have had problems with the book, as many did not finish it and none of them understood or liked it. The son who had proposed the book and who will be called X for reasons of simplicity and anonymity, was to come to the meeting and help them understand it by explaining some things. Discworld fans sapient pearwood and Ratdeath were invited to join them too and assist him.
The meeting was attended by 10 members of the club as well as X and Ratdeath as experts and sapient pearwood as guest. While sapient pearwood decided to stay in the background, X and Ratdeath were cross-examined. Examples for questions asked in the process of the interrogation where “Why is the world called Discworld?”, “What's this thing about the turtle and the elephants?”, “Isn't it dangerous if people flee into parallel worlds like this?”, “Wouldn't it be dangerous if someone who doesn't know much about science read these Science of Discworld books and took it all for true?” and even “Are there conventions for this like the Trekkie conventions where people put on Spock ears and stuff?”. This last question was met by a fairly convinced “I can't imagine.” from X' part and embarrassed silence from sapient pearwood and Ratdeath. The latter was asked why she wrote fantasy and not real world stories. Terry Pratchett, despite his absence, was accused of writing bad dialogues and that it was hardly possible to write good books in his speed.
The meeting took almost three hours and surprisingly, the pro-Terry Pratchett party convinced at least 3 ladies to give the books a second chance, either by finishing Interesting Times or by reading a second one.
However, the evening had its aftermath: the chair(wo)man of the literature club accused two other members, who were, just like herself, friends with sapient pearwood, of having been too harsh and hurting the three Discworld fans' feelings, so that the evening had been frustrating for them. The latter negated this, but the email that was written to all members as result of the argument caused two other members to riot. However, the events have awoken interest in the books that caused this among other members of the community.
Security forces are still trying to calm the hubbub. Ratdeath and sapient pearwood are looking forward to meet sane people at Hogswatch.
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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Sounds like a great deal of fun
See you in Wincanton, but even compared to these people I wouldn't risk describing a Discworld gathering as "sane"
MS
"LOOKS PERFECTLY LOGICAL TO ME"
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so you are coming? awesome.
they're closer to us, so from our point of view (fairly) sane. but then again, we do admit that we're not sane ourselves...
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
can you condense the original into afew sentences?
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
no
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! by saving me having to read, you save slave labourers having to make me glasses
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
instead of writing all those posts you could have read it in the same time
life is hard. after all it kills you.
katherine hepburn
.....Are we not all, in some way, looking for our cow?
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
one day, when you become a post master, you'll understand why not
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
one day, when you become a post master, you'll understand why not
What he's saying is he's too busy typing and posting stuff to have time to read other people's stuff
Lee Alley
"I could tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel"
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are we supposed to read his stuff, then or shall we ignore it like does with ours?
life is hard. after all it kills you.
katherine hepburn
.....Are we not all, in some way, looking for our cow?
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up to you. we had a problem with ook that on one of the threads we could never read one of the relevant psts because we just hit reply before reading anything and we were too lazy to go back. lasted quite a while. threads like last letter and more words you just reply to out of reflex.
I don;t ignore your stuff, just of it's long at it's 3am
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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so like did that all really occure... pr like ..what? did you fond some bad acid?
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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it wasn't war what was going on but some really fierce arguing between the ladies and one of them actually told some others off in a nasty way and even now there is quite some quarrelling going on. i am no member of that literature circle but i'm told everything by a friend of mine who is.
in the end no one will know what was worse the arguing about the book or the dispute about the character of the discussion.
and yes, it really happened and there were absolutely no drugs involved!
life is hard. after all it kills you.
katherine hepburn
.....Are we not all, in some way, looking for our cow?
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tsk, whodda thunk it? (it's spelled correctly) old ladies turning into viscous beats...sounds familiar
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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who said old ladies? middle aged is more like it.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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well they'll all be old I'm just...planning ahead
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
so will you, but would you like me to call you old already?
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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sigh, my body already is..24hrs awake and I'm totally wasted. I've only been up for 18hrs and I can feel the burn...ind yiou I am on borrowed time cos of yesterday but hey
besides, you're just upset cos now i call you old too
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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i wouldn't mind too much. because a) i know i'm not and b) i sometimes wouldn't mind being a bit older....
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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no you don;t. being old sux. and I'm only 18
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
being 17 can be really annoying to. especially in a country where you're not allowed to drive until 18.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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that sux...mind you, driving in europe...not the best place...OZ is layed back by comparison and I still get scared
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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no you don;t. being old sux. and I'm only 18
As i say to people who complain about their age on their birthdays i say its better than the alternative!
Where are we going and why am i in this handbasket?...
...Oh! always try to look on the bright side...
... Um anybody got any marshmellows.?
Where are we going and why am i in this handbasket?...
...Oh! always try to look on the bright side...
... Um anybody got any marshmellows.?
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
depends on your religion. 70 virgins sounds good about now...if they're female...doesn;t specify that
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
Re: Ankh-Morpork Times Headline: Terry Pratchett war raving in s
depends on your religion. 70 virgins sounds good about now...if they're female...doesn;t specify that
Where are we going and why am i in this handbasket?...
...Oh! always try to look on the bright side...
... Um anybody got any marshmellows.?
Where are we going and why am i in this handbasket?...
...Oh! always try to look on the bright side...
... Um anybody got any marshmellows.?
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actually Julius Caesar had agood friend whos name I can;t remember right now. He got rich by running an insurance/fire dept. they would go out to a fire but not put it out until the owner had signed a contract with them.
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!