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Fantasy » alt.fan.pratchett » New and Bored out of my skull
New and Bored out of my skull [message #230018] Di, 28 Februar 2006 14:17
Rozi  
Nothing of particular interest to say except I have just realised
recently I have been a Discworld fan since 1997 and it's now 2006...
that's... hang on ... nine years! Holy Sweet Crap Cakes! I'm twenty
one, it's a damned good portion of my entire life! Nearly half! Jesus H
Christ. Such a bizzarre thing. I know that a lot of you have probably
been fans longer (or are a lot older than me), but it's the longest
I've been in a proper fandom (I've been an anime fantatic since 1999).
Wowee.
Okay, move along, nothing to see here.
Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230024 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 17:28
Daibhid Ceannaideach  
Also Sprach Rozi:

> Nothing of particular interest to say except I have just
> realised recently I have been a Discworld fan since 1997
> and it's now 2006... that's... hang on ... nine years! Holy
> Sweet Crap Cakes! I'm twenty one, it's a damned good
> portion of my entire life! Nearly half! Jesus H Christ.
> Such a bizzarre thing. I know that a lot of you have
> probably been fans longer (or are a lot older than me), but
> it's the longest I've been in a proper fandom (I've been an
> anime fantatic since 1999). Wowee.
> Okay, move along, nothing to see here.

You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have
occured to me to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for
fifteen years, which is *half* my life.

If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
complaining about young people...

--
Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc
"Be reasonable, demand the impossible now" -Robb Johnson
"Run before you walk, fly before you crawl" -Moist von Lipwig
Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230026 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 17:37
Graycat  
On 28 Feb 2006 16:28:48 GMT, Daibhid Ceanaideach
<daibhidchenedelh [at] aol.com> jotted down:

>Also Sprach Rozi:
>
>> Nothing of particular interest to say except I have just
>> realised recently I have been a Discworld fan since 1997
>> and it's now 2006... that's... hang on ... nine years! Holy
>> Sweet Crap Cakes! I'm twenty one, it's a damned good
>> portion of my entire life! Nearly half! Jesus H Christ.
>> Such a bizzarre thing. I know that a lot of you have
>> probably been fans longer (or are a lot older than me), but
>> it's the longest I've been in a proper fandom (I've been an
>> anime fantatic since 1999). Wowee.
>> Okay, move along, nothing to see here.
>
>You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have
>occured to me to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for
>fifteen years, which is *half* my life.
>
>If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
>complaining about young people...

Heh. I realised the other day [1] that my days as a DW fan
are over...I'm a DW appreciator, but no longer a fan in the
way I was when I was a teenager.

[1] I was in SF bokhandeln (bookstore) in Stockholm having
tremendous trouble deciding which of all the books I wanted
I would actually buy. Then I realised that in the past this
wouldn't have been an issue, because the answer would have
been any of the Pratchett ones I didn't have yet (there are
still some, believe it or not). This time, those weren't
even really on the list because so many other books had
moved up ahead of them that there wasn't even remote room in
the budget.

--
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Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230032 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 18:26
Andrew Perry  
Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
>
> You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have
> occured to me to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for
> fifteen years, which is *half* my life.
>
> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
> complaining about young people...

I do that anyway, on principle.

Well, apart from the Werther's. DOn't like sweets.
[I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230035 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 18:56
The Apostate  
Torak wrote:
> Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
>>
>> You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have occured to me
>> to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for fifteen years, which is
>> *half* my life.
>>
>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and complaining
>> about young people...
>
> I do that anyway, on principle.
>
> Well, apart from the Werther's. DOn't like sweets.

Of course the big problem is you don't get the young people you used to
when I were a lad.

--
The Apostate
Old after his time
Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230037 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 19:32
Puck  
The Apostate wrote:
>>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
>>> complaining about young people...
>>
>> I do that anyway, on principle.
>>
>> Well, apart from the Werther's. DOn't like sweets.
>
> Of course the big problem is you don't get the young people you used
> to when I were a lad.

As an official young person (21) let me be the first to say: Your not the
boss of me!
--
Puck (onstage): I am that merry wanderer of the night!
Peaseblossom (in audience): "I am that merry wanderer of the night",
indeed! "I am that
giggling-dangerous-totally-bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life and limb,
more like." -Neil Gaiman
Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230040 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 21:06
Rgemini  
I claim to be both a TP fan for nearly 20 years ever since I first found
TCoM & TLF in about 1988 [1] *AND* a genuine GOM [2].

But I can't stand toffees and refuse to generalise about anybody, not
even people of youthful demeanour.

Except taggers, particularly the ones who think that woodland trees are
improved by their scrawl. Those I would cheerfully see painted purple
and made to run naked through nettles.

Rgemini

[1] it's all a bit vague now and the books are falling apart ... a bit
like me really ... but its a little bit over 1/3 of my life

[2] Grumpy Old Man ... in this case I'd prefer to be a
GPWYFTAAQNWYGTKT[3] though

[3] Grumpy Person Who's Young For Their Age And Quite Nice When You Get
To Know Them [4]

[4] Is this the first recorded instance of a SLA[5] on afp?

[5] Sixteen Letter Acronym

I think I'd better stop now ... us old people need our sleep ...
Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230041 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 21:09
Lister  
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:32:54 -0500, "Puck" <Kormos.4 [at] osu.edu> wrote:

>The Apostate wrote:
>>>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
>>>> complaining about young people...
>>>
>>> I do that anyway, on principle.
>>>
>>> Well, apart from the Werther's. DOn't like sweets.
>>
>> Of course the big problem is you don't get the young people you used
>> to when I were a lad.
>
>As an official young person (21) let me be the first to say: Your not the
>boss of me!


I've never understood that phrase. It's not even grammatically
correct, as far as I can see.
Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230042 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 21:26
The Apostate  
Puck wrote:
> The Apostate wrote:
>>>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
>>>> complaining about young people...
>>> I do that anyway, on principle.
>>>
>>> Well, apart from the Werther's. DOn't like sweets.
>> Of course the big problem is you don't get the young people you used
>> to when I were a lad.
>
> As an official young person (21) let me be the first to say: Your not the
> boss of me!
> --

That's what me br*** sorry children say each day
<g,d&r>
--
The Apostate
Re:[I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230043 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 21:19
Gid Holyoake  
In article <h72dnRrvdY39MJnZnZ2dnUVZ8qqdnZ2d [at] pipex.net>, Rgemini
generously decided to share with us..

Snippetry..

> Except taggers, particularly the ones who think that woodland trees are
> improved by their scrawl. Those I would cheerfully see painted purple
> and made to run naked through nettles.

Why painted purple?.. surely the paint would protect them (even if only
slightly) from the nettle stings.. far better to make them run naked
through the nettles and *then* paint them purple so that they can't
scratch at the nettle stings..

Anyone found painting any of my trees is likely to find themselves
strung up from one of them..

Gid
Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230049 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 21:48
raymond larsson  
In article <du24su$jck$1 [at] charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Puck says...

> The Apostate wrote:
> >>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
> >>> complaining about young people...
> >>
> >> I do that anyway, on principle.
> >>
> >> Well, apart from the Werther's. DOn't like sweets.
> >
> > Of course the big problem is you don't get the young people you used
> > to when I were a lad.
>
> As an official young person (21) let me be the first to say: Your not the
> boss of me! ^^^^

Learn to spell.
Fix your sig separator.
Clean up your room.
Do your homework.

(21?) young whippersnapper won't even come into whip snapping range
Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230059 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 22:09
sphira9343  
Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:

> You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have
> occured to me to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for
> fifteen years, which is *half* my life.

Nearly thirteen years for me. Which is - eeeep! - just over a third.
Fourteen years if you count Good Omens.

> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
> complaining about young people...

You can do that without being old, y'know...
"When I am old I shall wear purple...", says the poem. [1] But I wear
purple now, so it won't make much difference really!
CCA
[1] 'Warning' by Jenny Joseph
Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230063 ] Di, 28 Februar 2006 22:49
Brian Wakeling  
In a speech called
1141160977.223266.99080 [at] p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com,
CCA uttered thus:
> Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
>
>> You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have
>> occured to me to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for
>> fifteen years, which is *half* my life.
>
> Nearly thirteen years for me. Which is - eeeep! - just over a
> third. Fourteen years if you count Good Omens.
>
>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
>> complaining about young people...
>
> You can do that without being old, y'know...
> "When I am old I shall wear purple...", says the poem. [1] But I
> wear purple now, so it won't make much difference really!
> CCA
> [1] 'Warning' by Jenny Joseph

Hmm... Thinks back... round about the time L&L came out in pb, and the
COM/TLF graphic novels came out. 92, 93? That's 13/14 years, and since
I'm 27½, that is just either side of half my life too! Aaargh!

What a great way to spend half your life though...


--
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Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230070 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 00:22
Martyn Clapham  
In message <MPG.1e6ec16ca5ac506998978f [at] news.btinternet.com>, Gid
Holyoake <abuse [at] brynamman.org.uk> writes
>In article <h72dnRrvdY39MJnZnZ2dnUVZ8qqdnZ2d [at] pipex.net>, Rgemini
>generously decided to share with us..
>
>Snippetry..
>
>> Except taggers, particularly the ones who think that woodland trees are
>> improved by their scrawl. Those I would cheerfully see painted purple
>> and made to run naked through nettles.
>
>Why painted purple?.. surely the paint would protect them (even if only
>slightly) from the nettle stings.. far better to make them run naked
>through the nettles and *then* paint them purple so that they can't
>scratch at the nettle stings..
>
>Anyone found painting any of my trees is likely to find themselves
>strung up from one of them..

B-b-b-but my mummy does _nice_ water-colours of trees and plants and
things!

Why would you want to string her up?

Waaaah! Nasty Gid!!

Mart.

ps Thrrrp! :-))
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Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230071 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 00:24
Martyn Clapham  
In message <1141160977.223266.99080 [at] p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>, CCA
<sphira9343 [at] aol.com> writes
>Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
>
>> You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have
>> occured to me to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for
>> fifteen years, which is *half* my life.
>
>Nearly thirteen years for me. Which is - eeeep! - just over a third.
>Fourteen years if you count Good Omens.

Bloomin' kids!

Just about a quarter for me. Oh. I forgot. I _am_ old! :-)

Mart.
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Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230074 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 00:32
David Chapman  
From the Collected Witterings of Daibhid Ceanaideach, volume 23:
> Also Sprach Rozi:
>
>> Nothing of particular interest to say except I have just
>> realised recently I have been a Discworld fan since 1997
>> and it's now 2006... that's... hang on ... nine years! Holy
>> Sweet Crap Cakes! I'm twenty one, it's a damned good
>> portion of my entire life! Nearly half! Jesus H Christ.

Sorry to cause you pain, but I've been a fan very nearly since before you
were born.

> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
> complaining about young people...

The sorrows of young Werther?

--
"My son is not a terrorist - he is a junior IT support officer."
Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230076 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 00:49
Ian and Mandy  
Rgemini said...
claim to be both a TP fan for nearly 20 years ever since I first found

TCoM & TLF in about 1988 [1] *AND* a genuine GOM [2].


hmph
I'll see you 1988 and raise a 1985, in fact I read TCoM and couldn't
find a copy of TLF, I'm pretty sure it wasn't published then.
You know how other people remember where they were when....<insert name
of famous celebrity> died, or when<insert major disaster> happened.

What about when I discovered Pratchett?

Mine was in a little book shop in Scarborough, a short break spent with
a friend who objected to the fact I spent that evening reading and
giggling!
I then went to see Ian at Uni and told him he must read it.

For those who wonder, over half my life ago. Now I have a daughter who
has never known life without Terry's words She has a Ladybird copy of
Truckers and a copy of Carpet People with "learn to read now!" as the
inscription (bought when she was 18months old)

Mandy
Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230083 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 01:15
Aggie  
"Puck" <Kormos.4 [at] osu.edu> wrote in message
news:du24su$jck$1 [at] charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu...
> The Apostate wrote:
>>>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
>>>> complaining about young people...
>>>
>>> I do that anyway, on principle.
>>>
>>> Well, apart from the Werther's. DOn't like sweets.
>>
>> Of course the big problem is you don't get the young people you used
>> to when I were a lad.
>
> As an official young person (21) let me be the first to say: Your not the
> boss of me!
> --
> Puck

I got a big ole Lousiville Slugger. I am the boss of all I survey. ;D

Aggie
Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230084 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 01:18
Lesley Weston  
in article 1141160977.223266.99080 [at] p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com, CCA at
sphira9343 [at] aol.com wrote on 28/02/2006 1:09 PM:

> Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
>
>> You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have
>> occured to me to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for
>> fifteen years, which is *half* my life.
>
> Nearly thirteen years for me. Which is - eeeep! - just over a third.
> Fourteen years if you count Good Omens.

I've been reading it since soon after TCOM came out in Canada and a
bookshop-owning friend pointed me at it. I was dubious at first because of
the cover, but luckily she persuaded me.
>
>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
>> complaining about young people...
>
> You can do that without being old, y'know...
> "When I am old I shall wear purple...", says the poem. [1] But I wear
> purple now, so it won't make much difference really!

Me too. About half my wardrobe comes from rummage sales, and it looks like
everybody round here decided to get rid of all their purple stuff while it
was still in near-fine condition, so I wear quite a lot of it. But then I
*am* old. I like Werther's too, but I get on fine with young people, so I
can't be stereotyped.

--
Lesley Weston.

Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
changing spelling and spacing as required.
Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230086 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 01:29
Gid Holyoake  
In article <y6wD$eDGtNBEFwWl [at] pendlesider.demon.co.uk>, Martyn Clapham
generously decided to share with us..

Snippetry..

> B-b-b-but my mummy does _nice_ water-colours of trees and plants and
> things!

Ahh.. painting pictures *of* my trees is an entirely different matter..
I have nice trees.. you must bring your mummy to see them some day..

> Why would you want to string her up?

Dunno.. is she a looker?.. ;-)

> Waaaah! Nasty Gid!!

You've known me *how* long and only just worked that out?..

:-)

Gid
Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230090 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 02:06
Stacie Hanes  
raymond larsson wrote:

>young whippersnapper won't even come into whip snapping range

It's a constant complaint of mine.
--
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AFPMinister of Flexible Weapons & Bondage-happy predator
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Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230097 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 02:44
Elliott Grasett  
The Apostate wrote:
<snip>

>
>
> That's what me br*** sorry children say each day
> <g,d&r>

Or, as George Orwell put it, in
_Coming Up For Air_,

" Unnatural little bastards!"

Which is a bit of a pun,
and a bit of a double negative.

--
Cheers,
Elliott
Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230099 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 02:50
Elliott Grasett  
Lesley Weston wrote:

<snip>

>
> Me too. About half my wardrobe comes from rummage sales, and it looks like
> everybody round here decided to get rid of all their purple stuff while it
> was still in near-fine condition, so I wear quite a lot of it. But then I
> *am* old. I like Werther's too, but I get on fine with young people, so I
> can't be stereotyped.
>

"When I am old, I shall wear purple,
With a red hat that does not match . . ."

Except that (sniff) Dorothy won't let me.
She says it's for Grrrls.

--
Cheers,
(or, as I like to say in my more Eorish moments)
Survive,
Elliott
Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230103 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 01:20
Jeff C  
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:17:44 -0800, Rozi wrote:

> Nothing of particular interest to say except I have just realised
> recently I have been a Discworld fan since 1997 and it's now 2006...

Now I really feel old. I've known Discworld since at least 1981ish. More
than half my life has been spent appreciating the words of the Master.

--
Jess
Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230112 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 09:51
Brenda  
Jessie C said:

> I've known Discworld since at least 1981ish.

That's really, *really* impressive. For the record, COM is (c) 1983. :-)

--
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"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230115 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 11:35
Kimberley Verburg  
Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Jessie C said:
>
>> I've known Discworld since at least 1981ish.
>
> That's really, *really* impressive. For the record, COM is (c) 1983. :-)

_Strata_ was first published in 1981. Now everyone can argue whether
that's Discworld or not. :-)

--
Kimberley Verburg
kim [at] lspace.org
Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230121 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 13:16
Ssirienna  
"CCA" <sphira9343 [at] aol.com> wrote in message
news:1141160977.223266.99080 [at] p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
>
>> You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have
>> occured to me to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for
>> fifteen years, which is *half* my life.
>
> Nearly thirteen years for me. Which is - eeeep! - just over a third.
> Fourteen years if you count Good Omens.

First time I can feel positively youthful in this gathering ;-))
I was a late bloomer to Pratchett - people kept saying to read
them and that I'd enjoy them but I resisted mainly due to a half
hearted attempt to read Colour of Magic a few years before and
NOT enjoying it - I then agreed to read one (about a decade
maybe more ago) and have read everything since ;-))

>
>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
>> complaining about young people...
>
> You can do that without being old, y'know...
> "When I am old I shall wear purple...", says the poem. [1] But I wear
> purple now, so it won't make much difference really!
> CCA
> [1] 'Warning' by Jenny Joseph
>

*grin*
*inner thoughts being surpressed of "does that means she's old?"*

*considers options*
* starts running and ducking now while scattering green and black as a
distraction*

*from safe hiding place*

Not that I'm suggesting such a thing eh Boss?
Um Mentor .... um wonderful person to whom I owe much chocolate?

Ssirienna
(under cover)
Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230125 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 13:27
sphira9343  
Ssirienna wrote:
> "CCA" <sphira9343 [at] aol.com> wrote

> > "When I am old I shall wear purple...", says the poem. [1] But I wear
> > purple now, so it won't make much difference really!

> *grin*
> *inner thoughts being surpressed of "does that means she's old?"*

Oi!

> *considers options*
> * starts running and ducking now while scattering green and black as a
> distraction*

> Not that I'm suggesting such a thing eh Boss?

Not at all...
*Gets out rocket-launcher just in case*
*g*
CCA
--
CC-Mentor to Ssirienna
Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230129 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 11:31
Jeff C  
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:51:36 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:

> Jessie C said:
>
>> I've known Discworld since at least 1981ish.
>
> That's really, *really* impressive. For the record, COM is (c) 1983. :-)

That's why I said "ish" my poor old brain doesn't remember things from
that long ago very well : P
Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230158 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 20:47
steelcat  
In article <1141160977.223266.99080 [at] p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
"CCA" <sphira9343 [at] aol.com> wrote:

>Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
>
>> You know if you hadn't posted that, it would never have
>> occured to me to realise that I've been a Discworld fan for
>> fifteen years, which is *half* my life.
>
>Nearly thirteen years for me. Which is - eeeep! - just over a third.
>Fourteen years if you count Good Omens.

Seventeen for me. Just under half my life (OK, 46%)

>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and
>> complaining about young people...
>
>You can do that without being old, y'know...
>"When I am old I shall wear purple...", says the poem. [1] But I wear
>purple now, so it won't make much difference really!

When I am old I shall ... oh, too late.

Cat.
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Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230161 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 21:04
Sofia  
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:56:24 +0000, The Apostate wrote:

>>> If anyone needs me, I'll be eating Werther's Original and complaining
>>> about young people...
>>
>> I do that anyway, on principle.
>>
>> Well, apart from the Werther's. DOn't like sweets.
>
> Of course the big problem is you don't get the young people you used to
> when I were a lad.


I don't know whether any of you remember the very first, original
"Werthers" kid, but he was played by my nephew, Mark. He was only 3 years
old when my sister took him to the TV studio's, but every "Werthers" kid
I've seen in the commercials with grandad afterwards just looked like
grown up versions of him.

Anyway, he's 19 now, and engaged to be married this year, but he's also
been a PTerry fan for years, and last year, whilst taking his A'levels,
he was reading Going Postal in between revising, and kept begging me to
start reading my copy too, so that he could chat to somebody about how
great the plot was, and how it was his favourite PTerry novel.

I only started reading my copy a couple of months back, after getting
bored with reading so many Vimes novels in one go, and as I'm coming to
the end of GP now, I'll soon be able to have a really great in-depth chat
with him about it!

How's that for a great Werthers/Pratchett cross?


All the best


Sofie

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Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230176 ] Mi, 01 März 2006 23:02
Sofia  
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:37:15 +0100, Graycat wrote:

> [1] I was in SF bokhandeln (bookstore) in Stockholm having
> tremendous trouble deciding which of all the books I wanted
> I would actually buy. Then I realised that in the past this
> wouldn't have been an issue, because the answer would have
> been any of the Pratchett ones I didn't have yet (there are
> still some, believe it or not). This time, those weren't
> even really on the list because so many other books had
> moved up ahead of them that there wasn't even remote room in
> the budget.


It' a shit life being a student and not having much money isn't it!
Couldn't your local library do anything to help out if requested, or, dare
I say it myself, hubby's downloaded a few audio-books for me from the
computer, which might be worth trying if you haven't got enough money to
buy them?

Sorry if you strongly disagree with the latter, it was just a suggestion.


No offence intended


Sofie


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Re: [I] New and Bored out of my skull [message #230192 ] Do, 02 März 2006 00:41
Martyn Clapham  
In message <1141216067.495891.111100 [at] v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>, CCA
<sphira9343 [at] aol.com> writes
>Ssirienna wrote:
>> "CCA" <sphira9343 [at] aol.com> wrote
>
>> > "When I am old I shall wear purple...", says the poem. [1] But I wear
>> > purple now, so it won't make much difference really!
>
>> *grin*
>> *inner thoughts being surpressed of "does that means she's old?"*
>
>Oi!
>
>> *considers options*
>> * starts running and ducking now while scattering green and black as a
>> distraction*
>
>> Not that I'm suggesting such a thing eh Boss?
>
>Not at all...
>*Gets out rocket-launcher just in case*

The mind boggles when trying to work out just where you've been keeping
me all this time. :-))

Or don't you mean that sort of rocket-launcher? :-P

>*g*
>CCA
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Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230205 ] Do, 02 März 2006 04:45
redtiger  
"Stacie Hanes" <house_damodred [at] yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3s6Nf.733$Bj7.487 [at] newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> raymond larsson wrote:
>
>>young whippersnapper won't even come into whip snapping range
>
> It's a constant complaint of mine.

Here.
/passes Stacie a shiny new extendo-whip.(Teal coloured)

Cheers,
Anthony

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Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230210 ] Do, 02 März 2006 07:07
Andrew Perry  
Sofia wrote:
>
> It' a shit life being a student and not having much money isn't it!
> Couldn't your local library do anything to help out if requested, or, dare
> I say it myself, hubby's downloaded a few audio-books for me from the
> computer, which might be worth trying if you haven't got enough money to
> buy them?

Might I suggest that this is probably not the right place to advocate
downloading pirated Pratchett audio books?

Just a thought.

And anyway, Tony Robinson's reading of them annoys me. ;-)
Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230223 ] Do, 02 März 2006 11:52
Graycat  
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:02:43 +0000, Sofia
<pinkmonster2000REMOVE [at] ALLCAPSyahoo.com> jotted down:

>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:37:15 +0100, Graycat wrote:
>
>> [1] I was in SF bokhandeln (bookstore) in Stockholm having
>> tremendous trouble deciding which of all the books I wanted
>> I would actually buy. Then I realised that in the past this
>> wouldn't have been an issue, because the answer would have
>> been any of the Pratchett ones I didn't have yet (there are
>> still some, believe it or not). This time, those weren't
>> even really on the list because so many other books had
>> moved up ahead of them that there wasn't even remote room in
>> the budget.
>
>
>It' a shit life being a student and not having much money isn't it!
>Couldn't your local library do anything to help out if requested, or, dare
>I say it myself, hubby's downloaded a few audio-books for me from the
>computer, which might be worth trying if you haven't got enough money to
>buy them?

Oh, I do use the library. But I'm one of them weird people
who want to own the books I like even if I've allready read
them :o)

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Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230226 ] Do, 02 März 2006 12:06
PeterH  
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:09:20 +0000, Lister wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:32:54 -0500, "Puck" <Kormos.4 [at] osu.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>As an official young person (21) let me be the first to say: Your not the
>>boss of me!
>
>
> I've never understood that phrase. It's not even grammatically correct,
> as far as I can see.

Do you *really* not understand it or are you just wilfully not
understanding an Americanization?


...PeterH
Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230227 ] Do, 02 März 2006 12:09
Orjan Westin  
Peter Davies wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:09:20 +0000, Lister wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:32:54 -0500, "Puck" <Kormos.4 [at] osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> As an official young person (21) let me be the first to say: Your
>>> not the boss of me!
>>
>>
>> I've never understood that phrase. It's not even grammatically
>> correct, as far as I can see.
>
> Do you *really* not understand it or are you just wilfully not
> understanding an Americanization?

It's an Americanization to write "your" instead of "you're"?

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Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230230 ] Do, 02 März 2006 12:43
PeterH  
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:09:10 +0000, Orjan Westin wrote:

> Peter Davies wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:09:20 +0000, Lister wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:32:54 -0500, "Puck" <Kormos.4 [at] osu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> As an official young person (21) let me be the first to say: Your not
>>>> the boss of me!
>>>
>>>
>>> I've never understood that phrase. It's not even grammatically
>>> correct, as far as I can see.
>>
>> Do you *really* not understand it or are you just wilfully not
>> understanding an Americanization?
>
> It's an Americanization to write "your" instead of "you're"?

It's definitely a non-Englishicisation to say "you're not the boss of me".
(I was hoping to avoid a reprise of the bad grammar = complete
incomprehensibility argument, for all values of bad = poorly written.)


...PeterH
Re: [I]Re: New and Bored out of my skull [message #230233 ] Do, 02 März 2006 13:28
Andrew Perry  
Peter Davies wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:09:20 +0000, Lister wrote:
>>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:32:54 -0500, "Puck" <Kormos.4 [at] osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>As an official young person (21) let me be the first to say: Your not the
>>>boss of me!
>>
>>I've never understood that phrase. It's not even grammatically correct,
>>as far as I can see.
>
> Do you *really* not understand it or are you just wilfully not
> understanding an Americanization?

I don't understand it either. That is, I understand the meaning, I just
don't understand how such a grammatically hideous phrase entered the
language. It's ghastly. It hurts my brain, while causing my eyes to
metaphorically bleed. It sums up a large proportion of all the things
that are foul about Malcolm In The Middle.
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