Talk:Book:Feet of Clay/Annotations

My paperback version finally wore out with a busted spine. Without the Librarian or a literary-minded Igor, I was forced to go out and get the hardback to replace it. AgProv (talk) 12:35, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

I've had some success with duct tape in these cases, but generally, I have forty and fifty-year-old paperbacks holding up better than some six to eight-year old Pratchetts. --Old Dickens (talk) 03:57, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Hmm. Duct tape. The Igor-remedy for a broken spine? Worth pursuing! I got my "new" hardabck for £1.99 in a charity shop - practically new! AgProv (talk) 19:30, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Feet of Clay seems to have been published in June 1996, a few months before the debut of Everybody Loves Raymond. --Old Dickens (talk) 22:53, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Ah. so that one's out, then, unless somebody to do with ELR read FoC and got an idea concerning a police sergeant beset by a stampeding bull in a city...AgProv (talk) 20:12, 4 December 2014 (UTC)}

Just double-checked against an episode guide to ELR. The episode Robert's Rodeo was screened on February 7th 2000. In which Sergeant Barone comes up against escaped wildlife in the New York city streets and discovers Nestor the bull is inclined to resist arrest, and that he cannot run faster than a bull. As you say, it might work as a reverse annotation - where did the idea originally come from? - but there should be some sort of confirmation to link the two ideas together. (And the idea of a city cop finding he has to deal with unaccustomed rural animals... we are also told later in the series that Robert has getting on for nineteen years service and can legitimately retire and take pension after completing twenty, so here too is the motif of a long-service cop coming up for retirement - if he can make it undamaged. This is tantalising...) AgProv (talk) 20:28, 4 December 2014 (UTC)