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See, now, I'm jealous. My mom doesn't read anything cool.

LOL, you need to hook up your mom with cool friends!

But seriously, my mom has always been one to attract interesting people with off the beaten track interests.

Pratchett also wrote a book about cats. And being owned by now 3 cats, plus my mom's 4, I was in stitches...
 

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and on that note, OKLA just scored a touchdown.

Neb 17 - Okla 16, waiting on the field goal.

BTW, a good Discworld book to check out is Unseen Academicals. It's about the staff and faculty of the Unseen University starting a football team. Thing is in Morpork, football is more about the pies at the game and the riot than the actual game itself.[/quote]


I'm not sure non Brits get the full meaning in Unseen Academicals, this is confirmed by your comments about football lol!
 

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so people start trading in stamps rather than Lord Vetinari's coin. How does capitalism affect a monarchy all of a sudden out of nowhere?

Vetinari is a Tyrannical Dictator... Ankh-Morpork has no Monarchy!
 

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I think Carrot is introduced in "Guards!Guards!" IIRC, I`d have to check. But I loved the scene where Nobby is showing him the ropes his first night on patrol. Especially where Carrot breaks up the fight in the dwarf bar. For me, the footnotes with the dierect translations from dwarvish to English are hillarious.

Were there ever more written with the characters from "Small Gods" or the pyramid one?
 

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Vetinari is a Tyrannical Dictator... Ankh-Morpork has no Monarchy!
Yeah, my mistake. This is why Lord V keeps such a close eye on carrot.

Tez - despite what you think of non English and their understanding of football, I must remind you that I'm the product of 2 football and cricket playing countries, besides TG wrote exactly what he emant to get across in the book. They went to the games for pies and rioting, most of the time the audience had no idea who was playing or in some cases that there was even a game going on ... Morpork is pretty wild.
 
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I think Carrot is introduced in "Guards!Guards!" IIRC, I`d have to check. But I loved the scene where Nobby is showing him the ropes his first night on patrol. Especially where Carrot breaks up the fight in the dwarf bar. For me, the footnotes with the dierect translations from dwarvish to English are hillarious.

Were there ever more written with the characters from "Small Gods" or the pyramid one?

The foot notes are e riot, period!
 

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Gran, Omar, have either of you read Peter Alan David's Sir Apropos of Nothing?
I think, based on what you've said here, you'd both like it.
 
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Gran, Omar, have either of you read Peter Alan David's Sir Apropos of Nothing?
I think, based on what you've said here, you'd both like it.

adding it to my list.
 

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Since this is Martial Arts forum:

Opinion of Discworld Martial Arts by Lu-Tze sweeper of Historical Monks:

Okidoki ('Just a bunch of bunny hops')
Shiitake ('If I wanted to thrust my hand into hot sand, I'd go to the seaside')
Upsidazi ('A waste of good bricks')
Tung-pi ('Bad-tempered flower arranging').
No Kando ('You made that one up')

Also, popular visiting spot is Broken (Mended?) Drum, where even no rule brawl has point fight.
 
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Since this is Martial Arts forum:

Opinion of Discworld Martial Arts by Lu-Tze sweeper of Historical Monks:

Okidoki ('Just a bunch of bunny hops')
Shiitake ('If I wanted to thrust my hand into hot sand, I'd go to the seaside')
Upsidazi ('A waste of good bricks')
Tung-pi ('Bad-tempered flower arranging').
No Kando ('You made that one up')

Also, popular visiting spot is Broken (Mended?) Drum, where even no rule brawl has point fight.

:lfao:

sounds about right!
 

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Let's face it, you just want to try scumble.... just once, mind you, otherwise you'd need a new cup.

Oh, and the Assassins Guild doesn't "kill" people in any form. They "inhume" them. You should know that....
 

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Yeah, my mistake. This is why Lord V keeps such a close eye on carrot.

Tez - despite what you think of non English and their understanding of football, I must remind you that I'm the product of 2 football and cricket playing countries, besides TG wrote exactly what he emant to get across in the book. They went to the games for pies and rioting, most of the time the audience had no idea who was playing or in some cases that there was even a game going on ... Morpork is pretty wild.


Yep that's why they go to football here too, for the pies and rioting lol!

This is the inspiration for the game in the book, I've seen it, great 'game'!
http://www.cornishculture.co.uk/hurling.htm

 
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Football's origins are often debated. What we do know is that much of what we know as football comes from The Wall Game and The Field Game from Eton.

Yeah, I'm kind of a nerd where football is concerned. I've played pretty much all flavors.
 

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Football's origins are often debated. What we do know is that much of what we know as football comes from The Wall Game and The Field Game from Eton.

Yeah, I'm kind of a nerd where football is concerned. I've played pretty much all flavors.
Excepting, of course, the human head thing, right?
 

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Not that it's a Discworld book, but what got me hooked on Pratchett was the book "Good Omens" that he did with Neil Gammon. Since then I've read a number of his Discworld books. I'm currently reading "Guards, Guards". I've enjoyed everything I've read so far about the Night Watch and of course Death is right up there as well.
 

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