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Insanity! Rincewind may suffer from obsessive sanity!

Unhealthy sexual attraction to potatoes? Reference? ...--Old Dickens 03:31, 29 January 2007 (CET)

Interesting Times right before the wizards teleport him to the university. Fhh98 05:10, 30 January 2007 (CET)

Well, I've finally re-read Interesting Times. I see where he seems to prefer potatoes to sex at one point, but no suggestion that he plans to do anything with the spuds except eat them. There are some ready explanations for this choice : Rincewind is a wizard (ok, barely.) What do wizards do? Eat. What do wizards notoriously not do? Right. Also, he's been marooned for months/years and while he could probably manage sex by himself, he's not a good enough wizard to make a potato. Further, he may well be better at potatoes. All in all, the attraction to potatoes may be peculiar, but it doesn't seem sexual or particularly unhealthy.--Old Dickens 19:31, 27 February 2007 (CET)

For a long time, when faced by beautiful girls offering him sexual delights, Rincewind asks for some kind of potato dish. As it says, "Much later, Rincewind had to have therapy for this. It involved a pretty woman, a huge plate of potatoes and a big stick with a nail in it". Presumably it was not his libido that was at fault - unusually for Wizards, Rincewind is known to understand "what orgasms were, of course, he’d had few in his time. Sometimes even in company." His natural craving for potatoes being stronger than that for sex is far-fetched, but if you've travelled in the far east for ages (I did 22 months there) the humble spud does have a huge lure... (though now as much as real bread and beer does: ah! coming back to Blighty! Ale and sandwiches! Whoooooaaaarr!) --Knmatt 16:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Wizzard

The article states that Rincewind is a Wizzard purely down to bad spelling, but i assumed he was a wizzard because unlike wizards he dosn't stay still,and has a habit to Wizz about. What are other peoples thoughts.

No. --Old Dickens 21:29, 15 February 2008 (CET)

Wow, just No.

To be fair, a) that would be whizz, not wizz, and b) TP explicitly rebukes Rincwind for his poor spelling. --Knmatt 16:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)