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Big Mad Drongo
'Big Mad Drongo, as drawn by Matt Smith
Name	'Big Mad Drongo'
Age	young
Race	Human
Occupation	Student Wizard
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A student wizard. Part of Ponder Stibbons' research group working on Hex. Nicknamed 'Big Mad Drongo', a name achieved after drinking a whole pint of shandy. Mustrum Ridcully was rendered speechless on hearing this and no doubt wished he'd never asked the question.

Described as though, if he had no nose, no-one would know which way he was facing.

Quotes

'You . . . what's your name?'
The student wizard pinned by Ridcully's pointing finger squirmed anxiously.
'Er. Um. Big Mad Drongo,' he said, twisting the brim of his hat in his hands.
'Big. Mad. Drongo,' said Ridcully. 'That's your name, is it? That's what you've got sewn on your vest?'
'Um. No, Archchancellor.'
'It is...?'
'Adrian Turnipseed, Archchancellor.'
'So why're you called Big Mad Drongo, Mr Turnipseed?' said Ridcully.
'Um . . . um . . .'
'He once drank a whole pint of shandy,' said Stibbons, who had the decency to look embarrassed.

(From Soul Music)

"Only the other day Adrian Turnipseed had typed in 'Why?' to see what happened. Some of the students had forcast that Hex would go mad trying to work it out; I expected Hex to produce the message ?????, which it did with depressing frequency.
Instead, after some unusual activity among the ants, it had laboriously produced: 'because'.
With every one elsewatching from behind a hastily overturned desk, Tunipseed had volunteered: 'Why anything?'
The reply had finally turned up: 'Because Everything. ????? Eternal Domain Error. +++++ Redo From Start +++++.'

(From Interesting Times)

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