http://wiki.lspace.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Rene&feedformat=atomDiscworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T10:30:39ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.40.0http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Crundells&diff=1600Crundells2012-02-07T14:49:51Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Otherwise known as Ramkin Hall, this is the seldom-visited country estate of the Ramkin family, located in [[Quirm]] on the banks of the River [[Quire]]. [[Sam Vimes]] speculated that the reason why such establishments are known as "stately homes" is that they are about the size of the average small country. Crundells boasts a mile of trout stream and a pub, neither of which hold much interest to Sam save in his contemplating the metaphysics of how the hell anyone can own a mile of river and how do you know if the fish in it are yours, or whether they really belong to the bloated plutocrat with rights to the next mile upstream and have just swum down to willfully make work for lawyers. <br />
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The Ramkin family own a large rambling stately home profusely ornamented with statuary of naked women, long lengths of gauze and urns optional. [[Young Sam Vimes]], now six, and heir to all he surveys, has unerringly noted the lack of clothing and is by a multiversally binding law of childhood, asking his parents some ''difficult'' questions. <br />
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The Ramkins also own a private bridge over the Quire and by custom, passing boats must salute the house. Crundells also comes with a "big herd of people" who on closer examination turn out to be the resident servants. There is a gatekeeper called Mr [[Coffin]], a gardener who in accordance with the sort of naming you find in [[Lancre]] is called [[William Butler]], and a husband-and-wife butler and head housekeeper of slightly sinister mien. Mrs [[Silver (Crundells)|Silver]], the head housekeeper, is immediately recognisable as the sort of housekeeper Daphne du Maurier wrote about in ''Rebecca'', although Sybil is no Mrs deWinter and Sam Vimes, in his dreams, would ''never'' wish to go back to Crundells...<br />
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It also has a [[Hermit]] on the grounds, living in a grotto, and has had one for several generations.<br />
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[[Category:Streets and Landmarks of Quirm]]<br />
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[[de:Crundells]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Hugos&diff=3258Hugos2011-03-15T10:49:11Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>An up-market hairdressing salon a street or two away from the [[Post Office]]. When last referenced in {{MM}}, it was looking for a new sign, as Hugo confessed he had accepted a proposition from a man in a pub to do him one cheaply. This involved stealing five significant letters from the Post Office frontage - hence the iability of the signwriter to put a comma in "HUGO'S", as there wasn't one to begin with in the Post Office frontage. Due to the persuasive powers of [[Moist von Lipwig]], Mr [[Pump]] and a large crowbar, the large bronze letters are now back where they belong. Hugo even paid $AM100 to have them re-installed, which was nice of him.<br />
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[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses]]<br />
[[de:Hugo]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Elim&diff=2152Elim2011-03-04T08:20:19Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>The smallest unit of [[currency]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. It is worth one-sixteenth of a penny. An indication of just exactly why the [[Ankh-Morpork Mint|Royal Mint]] is in trouble can be gleaned from the fact that it costs one shilling to make an elim coin, because of all the fine fiddly detail that needs to be engraved onto it. (The manufacture of each coin costs one hundred and ninety-two times its face value)<br />
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On reputable report, it may be exchanged in certain places for a cigarette end (partially smoked), a half-consumed apple core, or a very small potato that hasn't gone all ''that'' green yet.<br />
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[[Category:Making Money]]<br />
[[de:Elim]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Le_Poil_du_Chien&diff=3826Le Poil du Chien2011-02-25T10:21:47Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Exclusive doggie beauty salon in [[Ankh-Morpork]] which had the misfortune during {{TT}} to disguise [[Gaspode]] into a poodle with [[Foul Ole Ron]] looking on, the manicurist was so startled that she locked herself in the lavatory.<br />
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses]]<br />
[[de:Le Poil du Chien]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Howondaland_Green&diff=3234Howondaland Green2011-02-14T10:12:00Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>This is a type of [[Parrot|parrot]], found, as the name implies, in [[Howandaland]]. This parrot is referenced briefly in {{MP}} as a possible solution to the vexing problem of adding a soundtrack to the clicks. Alas, it is very good at picking up swear words, and moving pictures on the disc has not yet progressed to include Roundworld referents to movie genres such as blaxploitation, modern urban crime, or Eddie Murphy. So the promising idea is shelved. <br />
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{{wp|Norwegian_Blue|Norwegian Blue}}, anyone?<br />
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[[Category: Discworld Flora & Fauna]]<br />
[[de:Die grünen Biester aus dem Wiewunderland]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Mount_Gebra&diff=4441Mount Gebra2011-02-07T11:56:12Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Mentioned in {{S}}, this is a mountain where goats graze. The [[Seriph]] of [[Al Khali]] compares [[Conina]]'s hair to it.<br />
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Possibly a reflection of Mount Hebron in the Bible? <br />
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[[Category: Discworld geography|Gebra Mountain]]<br />
[[de:Gebra]]<br />
{{stub}}</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Tump_Tower&diff=7113Tump Tower2011-01-28T12:47:05Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>A large office building and [[clacks]] tower on [[The Tump]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. It serves as the corporate headquarters of the [[Grand Trunk Semaphore Company]]. The heights of the Tump Tower offer magnificent views of [[Ankh-Morpork]], in noted contrast to that of the [[Patrician]] whose own office view was being more obstructed by Grand Trunk's clacks towers.<br />
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An obvious play on America's "Trump Tower". It also refers to the common practice of placing communications antennae on skyscrapers and tall office buildings. <br />
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[[Category: Ankh-Morpork Businesses]]<br />
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[[de:Haufen]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Archchancellor_Bowell%27s_Remembrance&diff=462Archchancellor Bowell's Remembrance2011-01-27T11:04:03Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>This is described as a small circular hall, vestibule, with an outer door with a hatch and has a raftered ceiling. <br />
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It was presuably commissioned by the late Archancellor [[Bowell]] and may have been designed by [[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson]]. It appears to work as an advanced shower cubicle with many pipes and knobbs, includeing one marked "Old Faithfull"<br />
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[[de:Erzkanzler Ged&auml;rms Gedenken]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Cheesewright&diff=1296Cheesewright2011-01-24T15:24:53Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Cheesewright is an unsuccessful student assassin mentioned in {{P}}. He apparently fails to pass the Assassin's Exam... and you only really get one chance at that.<br />
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[[de:Garn K&auml;sewei&szlig;]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Snoxall&diff=6171Snoxall2011-01-24T15:05:14Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>A student [[Assassins' Guild|Assassin]], whose attitude to religion involved stripping off, painting himself green, and demanding a volunteer to have his intestines ceremonially wound around the bole of a tree. Not surprisingly, there were few people in the dorm who were willing to take him up. He came from a small tribe in the forest somewhere. <br />
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At much this point in the term, the masters intervened and explained to their new intake that religion, while a fine thing, could sometimes be taken too far.<br />
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[[Category:Discworld characters|Snoxall]]<br />
[[Category:Human characters|Snoxall]]<br />
[[de:Schnocksel]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Grunworth_Nivor&diff=2874Grunworth Nivor2011-01-24T14:44:05Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Described as a fat, jolly, master in the [[Assassins' Guild|Assassins' School]], who taught Traps and Deadfalls and had a keen interest in [[edificeering]], meaning he got on famously with [[Teppic]], who was a pupil after his own heart. Currently the housemaster of [[Viper House]].<br />
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[[Category:Discworld characters|Nivor, Grunworth]]<br />
[[Category:Human characters|Nivor, Grunworth]]<br />
[[de:Leckerschmeck Nivor]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Thomas_Stronginthearm&diff=6887Thomas Stronginthearm2011-01-19T17:17:03Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Thomas Stronginthearm was, in fact, a human who took on the common [[Dwarfs|dwarven]] name of [[Stronginthearm]] in order to boost business, as ''everyone'' knows that dwarven crafting is better and more reliable than that of humans. He owns a workshop in [[Five-and-Seven Yard]].<br />
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[[Category:Discworld characters|Stronginthearm, Thomas]]<br />
[[de:Thomas Schmitt]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Bestiary&diff=720Bestiary2011-01-19T17:07:38Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Mentioned in {{SG}}, this is a book written by [[Philo]].<br />
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[[de:Bestiarium]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Philo&diff=5113Philo2011-01-19T17:06:50Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>A probably [[Ephebe|Ephebian]] philosopher, who wrote and illustrated the scroll ''[[Bestiary]]'' which was memorised by the prophet [[Brutha]] for eventual re-copying at the [[Omnia]]n library, but which otherwise was thought lost in the burning of the [[Library of Ephebe]]. <br />
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"Philo-" is the Greek prefix meaning "love of" whatever follows, e.g. philosophy: ''philo'' (love of) ''sophia'' (wisdom, learning).<br />
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Possibly below the belt, but the technical terms for the practice of sexual contact with animals are ''zoophilia'' (psychiatric/medical) and ''bestiality'' (legal). Quite apart from establishing a connection with the unfortunately named [[Bestiality Carter]], this poses intriguing questions about Philo's underlying motivation for creating this scroll...<br />
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[[de:Philo]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Cauliflower_the_Clown&diff=1196Cauliflower the Clown2011-01-19T16:23:11Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Caulflower the Clown is host, guide and Best Pal to little children everywhere at the theme park of Brassica World in [[Big Cabbage]]. We are told in {{MM}} that some little children actually stop screaming for long enough to adopt a catatonic look of surfeited horror at the sight of his huge head. <br />
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Given that he identifies himself as a Clown, this must be a graduate of the [[Fools' Guild]], or he would not be able to claim the distinction. At least, not for very long, once the [[Jolly Good Pals]] get to hear of an unlicenced practitioner. <br />
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So we now have the awesome prospect that the Fools' Guild, in addition to Fools, Clowns, Joculators, [[Minstrel]]s and [[Mime Artist]]s, also trains and educates otherwise rational people to get into the silly costumes provided and act as hosts and guides at theme parks. (A similar process may explain Disney World's people in the Mickey and Donald costumes).<br />
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[[de:Blumenkohlclown]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=God_Street&diff=2672God Street2011-01-18T16:11:14Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>The [[hubwards|hubward]] end of the ring road that begins as [[Treacle Mine Road]] and continues as [[Cheap Street]]. At Phelan Well it becomes '''God Street''' and continues to Widdershins [[Broadway]] at the [[Fools' Guild]]. Notable addresses include the [[Curry Gardens]], the [[YMPA|Young Men's Reformed Cultists of the Ichor God Bel-Shamharoth Association]] building, and the Spiteful Sisters of [[Seven-Handed Sek]] Charity Hospital.<br />
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The [[Bakers' Guild]] is based here, on the corner with Baker Street, and by inference the [[Fools' Guild]] has its front door here, at its Guildhouse and school on the corner with Widdershins Broad Way. (we are told that all that seperates the Assassins and the Fools is a thin party wall: God Street runs pretty much parellel to [[Filigree Street]], where the front gate of the [[Assassins' Guild]] is located.) <br />
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[[Category: Streets of Ankh-Morpork]]<br />
[[de:G&ouml;tterstra&szlig;e]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Glingleglingleglingle_Fairy&diff=2622Glingleglingleglingle Fairy2011-01-17T09:47:15Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Called into being by the disturbance caused when [[Teatime]] temporarily inhumed The [[Hogfather]], the Glingleglingleglingle Fairy existed to ring a set of fairy bells that went, well, "glingleglingleglingle" whenever other new entities were called into being by the disturbance. He was, almost paradoxically, called into existence with a "glingleglingleglingle." He claims he also can do some special effects that go ''ping''.<br />
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[[Archchancellor]] [[Ridcully]] gave him what for during the events of {{H}}.<br />
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[[de:Klingelingeling-Fee]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Spooner_Boggis&diff=6251Spooner Boggis2011-01-13T14:04:42Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>An unfortunate who came up for judgement for an unknown crime by the then [[Patrician]] Lord [[Snapcase]], and was forced to eat his own nose. The name [[Boggis]] suggests an association with the [[Thieves' Guild]], but unluckily for Spooner, it had not at this point been formally recognised as a legitimate City [[Guilds|guild]].<br />
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The rebellion that then arose against Lord Snapcase (and, as punishment, hung him up by his figgin) was, at least in the history books, blamed on this incident. But ''everybody'' knows that in fact, the real reason a rebellion arose was just because people were fed up with Snapcase's insanity and years of inventive nastiness had built up until their grievances were too much to bear...<br />
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[[de:Spooner Boggis]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Beginning_Pins&diff=678Beginning Pins2011-01-12T14:25:48Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>A [[Magazines|magazine]] available from [[Dave's Pin Exchange]]. <br />
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This is a part-work that promises a new pin every month. However, experience would suggest that anyone beginning to buy a part-work, in the post-festivities optimism of January and a new year full of potential, might<br />
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i) get bored with it by July and start skipping copies;<br />
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ii) discover that the promised model of the Titanic, that comes with four or five parts every month together with a magazine padded out with irrelevant trivia and ephemera, will only ever be half-built, as the publisher discontinues further copies round about Part Thirty because of lack of interest. The hapless buyer then realises they have spent the best part of £250 on a model that will ''never, ever'', be finished. They might just as well have bought an Airfix kit for a tenner, as at least all the parts will be in the box right at the start...<br />
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With the new craze for [[stamps]] having caught the imagination of obsessive collectors, what's the betting that ''Beginning Pins'' will collapse, leaving the hapless buyer with half a pincushion and only a handful of pins to stick in it...<br />
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[[de:Beginn mit Nadeln]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Year_of_the_Pensive_Hare&diff=7689Year of the Pensive Hare2011-01-11T09:57:07Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>{{UA}} opens up with the New Year celebrations, including the Hunting of the [[Megapode]] that usher this Year in. It sees the rebirth of [[football]] as a new spectator sport, as well as the catastrophes that see [[Pseudopolis]] go bankrupt and [[Brazeneck College]] making itself somewhat unpopular as regards fifty-foot chickens running loose in the streets.<br />
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[[de:Jahr des Nachdenklichen Hasen]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Medley,_the_Medical_Kleptomaniac&diff=4259Medley, the Medical Kleptomaniac2011-01-07T09:23:04Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>A compulsive thief with a difference, who, when arrested by the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]], was discovered to have access to more eyeballs than [[Blind Io]]. <br />
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[[Category:Discworld characters|Medley]]<br />
[[de:Michel der medizinische Kleptomane]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Noddy&diff=4769Noddy2011-01-07T09:20:52Z<p>Rene: /* Annotation */</p>
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<div>'''Noddy''' was the bass "player" of the [[Music With Rocks In]] band variously known as:<br />
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* Insanity (e.g. Madness)<br />
* Suck (e.g. Kiss)<br />
* The Whom (a rather more grammatically correct version of The Who)<br />
* The Blots (e.g. The Ink Spots)<br />
* Lead Balloon (e.g. Led Zeppelin)<br />
* The Surreptitious Fabric (e.g. the Velvet Underground)<br />
* Ande Supporting Bandes <br />
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He and his "band"mates come to a prominence of sorts during the events of {{SM}}, where they are responsible for two riots - one at the [[Cavern Club]] and one at the free festival organised specifically to promote [[The Band With Rocks In]].<br />
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The reference is presumably to {{wp|Noddy_Holder|Noddy Holder}}. Neville John "Noddy" Holder MBE (born 15 June 1946) is an English musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and occasional bass guitarist with the rock band Slade. Holder co-wrote most of Slade's material with bassist, occasional keyboard player, violinist and guitarist Jim Lea. Holder has been praised for his distinctive vocal style. By whom the Gods only know...<br />
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[[de:Noddy]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Jimbo&diff=3468Jimbo2011-01-07T09:19:20Z<p>Rene: /* Annotation */</p>
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<div>'''Jimbo''' was the lead "guitarist" of the [[Music With Rocks In]] band variously known as:<br />
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* Insanity (e.g. Madness)<br />
* Suck (e.g. Kiss)<br />
* The Whom (a rather more grammatically correct version of The Who)<br />
* The Blots (e.g. The Ink Spots)<br />
* Lead Balloon (e.g. Led Zeppelin)<br />
* The Surreptitious Fabric (e.g. the Velvet Underground)<br />
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At one point he remarked that he'd broken a string, but this meant only that he was one-sixth less incompetent, as he could play five strings equally as ineptly as six.<br />
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He and his "band"mates come to a prominence of sorts during the events of {{SM}}, where they are responsible for two riots - one at the [[Cavern Club]] and one at the free festival organised specifically to promote [[The Band With Rocks In]].<br />
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Presumably a reference to {{wp|Jimi_Hendrix|Jimi Hendrix}}, the American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of music, and one of the most influential musicians of his era across a range of genres.<br />
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[[de:Jimbo]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Koom_Valley_Codex&diff=3676Koom Valley Codex2011-01-07T09:16:00Z<p>Rene: /* Annotation */</p>
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<div>This book plays quite a role during the events of {{T!}}. It was written about [[Methodia Rascal]]'s masterpiece, the [[Battle of Koom Valley]], detailing a secret. People had read it for years without understanding until [[Helmclever]] took a copy home, where it was read by [[Grag]] [[Hamcrusher]], who then turned up in [[Ankh-Morpork]] and went about finding the [[Technomantic Devices|Device]] it referred to.<br />
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Refers to the {{wp|Da_Vinci_Code|Da Vinci Code}}, a publishing sensation from 2003, detailing a spurious chase through many legends of antiquity involving a treasure that the average public could not comprehend even if they had hold of it.<br />
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[[de:Der Koomtalkodex]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Greasy_Arif&diff=2798Greasy Arif2011-01-03T10:10:21Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|name= Greasy Arif<br />
|race= Human<br />
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|occupation= [[Curious squid]] fisherman<br />
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|residence= [[Klatch (country)|Klatch]], [[Leshp]] <br />
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A [[Curious squid]] fisherman who fishes the [[Circle Sea]] about half way between [[Ankh-Morpork]] and [[Al Khali]]. Together with his son, he is the first person from [[Klatch (country)|Klatch]] to set foot upon the fabled island of [[Leshp]] when it rose again.<br />
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His weapon is a curved sword.<br />
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His great rival is [[Solid Jackson]], another curious squid fisherman who fishes in the same waters but comes from the other great city on the Circle Sea, [[Ankh-Morpork]].<br />
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[[Category:Supporting characters|Arif, Greasy]]<br />
[[Category:Human characters|Arif, Greasy]]<br />
[[de:Schmieriger Arif]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Bruce_the_Hoon&diff=1054Bruce the Hoon2011-01-03T10:06:20Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>'''Bruce the Hoon''' was a near-legendary [[Barbarian heroes|Barbarian hero]], whose exploits were recounted over and over again by [[Truckle the Uncivil]] when he rode (or, at least, limped) with the [[Silver Horde]], to the exasperation of its leader, [[Cohen the Barbarian]]. Apparently Bruce had an army of Skeletal warriors at some point, but even they didn't stop him from dying...<br />
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Bruce is seen in the UK as an Aussie name - in fact, ''the'' Aussie male name, just as 'Sheila' is the name for an Aussie female. "Hoon" is a derogatory term used in Australia and New Zealand, to refer to a young person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour. In particular, it is used to refer to one who drives a car in a manner which is anti-social by the standards of contemporary society, that is, fast, noisily and/or dangerously.<br />
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However, whatever Australia's "loose" alignment is with the continent of [[XXXX]], the idea of a Fourecksian Barbarian is a bit far-fetched... Perhaps the word 'Hoon' and the name 'Bruce' will come to be associated with Fourecks in centuries to come, based on the laddish, loutish behaviour of this forthright fellow, much as the term 'Thug' has come to describe English football hooligans, a far cry from its original incarnation as a Thuggee cult member who worshipped Kali through the strangulation of unwary travellers along India's great highways.<br />
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[[de:F&uuml;rchterlicher Ferdinand]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Les_Jackson&diff=3866Les Jackson2011-01-03T09:50:52Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|name= Les Jackson<br />
|race= Human<br />
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|occupation= Reluctant [[Curious squid]] fisherman<br />
|residence= [[Ankh-Morpork]] , [[Leshp]]<br />
|parents= [[Solid Jackson]]<br />
|books= {{J}}<br />
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Les is the son of [[Solid Jackson]] and the heir to his father's business as a [[Curious squid|curious squid]] fisherman.<br />
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Les is to be a [[Curious squid|curious squid]] fisherman because his father before him and because that is what the family has always done and he is to good natured to argue.<br />
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He really wants to be a painter like no one else in his family.<br />
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On the island of [[Leshp]] Les discovered a way of storing fresh water, after studying the paintings on the island.<br />
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[[Category:Supporting characters|Jackson, Les]]<br />
[[Category:Human characters|Jackson, Les]]<br />
[[de:Les Fanggut]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Trevor_Likely&diff=7035Trevor Likely2010-12-21T17:17:24Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|title= Trevor Likely<br />
|photo= <br />
|name= Trevor Likely<br />
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|race= Human<br />
|occupation= [[The Vats|Candle Boy]] / [[Football|Football Player]]<br />
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|residence= [[The Vats|Candle vats]], [[Unseen University]]<br />
|death= <br />
|parents= [[Dave Likely]] (father)<br />
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|children= <br />
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|books= {{UA}}<br />
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'''Trevor Likely''' is a famous football player and is the son of [[Dave Likely]] (correction, [[Dave Likely]] is his father; context is important, as [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]] once said). He was the manager of [[Unseen University]]'s [[The Vats|candle vats]] before [[Havelock Vetinari|Vetinari]]'s plan for the future of [[football]]; the status of that job is now unknown. He always kicks around a tin can when he walks; his skill is well known and admired by his friends.<br />
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At first, Trevor is only a fan of football rather than an actual player because his ol' mum forbade him to play after she was widowed. Trev heeds this for most of the book; [[Nutt]] reveals that Trev was traumatized at an early age by the violent death of his father during a game, and wishes to have no part in the world of football. However, due to the new, slightly more civil, rules of the game, Trev eventually gives in and replaces [[Bengo Macarona|Professor Macarona D.Thau (Bug), D.Maus (Chubb), Magistaludorum (QIS), Octavium (Hons), PHGK (Blit), DMSK, Mack, D.Thau (Bra), Visiting Professor in Chickens (Jahn the Conqueror University (Floor 2, Shrimp Packers building, Genua)), Primo Octo (Deux), Visiting Professor of Blit/Slood Exchanges (Al Khali), KCbfj, Reciprocating Professor of Blit Theory (Unki), Didimus Supremius (Unki), Emeritus Professor in Blit Substrate Determinations (Chubb), Chair of Blit and Music Studies (Quirm College for Young Ladies)]] after he was injured by two Ankh-Morpork United players. He plays badly at first, but [[Glenda Sugarbean|Glenda]] replaces the official ball with a tin can, allowing Trevor to show his true talent. <br />
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Trev had some kind of past relationship with [[Glenda Sugarbean]] the head cook in the [[Night Kitchen]] at UU; in the book, he flatters her in order to get some of her amazing cooking. Shortly thereafter, he falls deeply in love with another Night Kitchen worker [[Juliet Stollop]]/mysterious fashion model [[Jewels]], and it can be deduced that they intend to marry each other. <br />
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== Roundworld Footballing Trevors ==<br />
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*Trevor Anderson (Manchester United, Linfield and Northern Ireland) - ''Career was ended for good after a brutal grudge tackle shattered his leg. ''<br />
*Trevor Brooking (Birmingham City and England)<br />
*Trevof Carson (Sunderland and Northern Ireland)<br />
*Trevor Cherry (Leeds United and England)<br />
*Trevor Edwards (Charlton Athletic and Wales)<br />
*Trevor Ford (Sunderland and Wales) - ''Scored the fastest ever goal in English football - after a mere 15 seconds of play. ''<br />
*Trevor Francis (Manchester City and England)<br />
*Trever Hockey (Sheffield United and Wales)<br />
*Trevor Howard (Norwich City)<br />
*Trevor Lee (Millwall, Fulham and six others)<br />
*Trevor Morgan (Birmingham City)<br />
*Trevor Morris (Cardiff City, Swansea Town and Wales)<br />
*Trevor Savage (Bolton)<br />
*Trevor Sinclair (West Ham, Manchester City, and England) <br />
*Trevor Stevens<br />
*Trevor Thompson (1) (West Bromwich Albion and the Washington Diplomats)<br />
*Trevor Thompson (2) (Glentoran and Northern Ireland)<br />
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*Trevor Whymark (Manchester City and England)<br />
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'''Honourable mentions to:-''' <br />
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*Trevor Barker (Australian Rules Football - St Kilda)<br />
*Trevor Ford (American football - Hartford Colonials)<br />
*Trvor Giles (Irish football - County Meath)<br />
*Trevor Leo (Australian Rules Football - Hobart)<br />
*Trevor Matich (American football - BYU and Indianapolis Colts)<br />
*Trevor Obst (Australian Rules Football - Adelaide)<br />
*Trevor Spencer (Australian Rules Football - Essingdon, Geelong, Melbourne)<br />
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<div>Big Dave Likely was the father of [[Trevor Likely]]. Famous for scoring 4 goals in his whole life, a record by the old [[Ankh-Morpork]] football standards. Considered the best football player ever, at least before the time of {{UA}}.<br />
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Died face down in the gutter, presumably during the Shove...<br />
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<div>Mentioned in {{P}}, this book is similar to [[The Shuttered Palace]], except that, according to [[Ptraci]], it includes physically impossible positions.<br />
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The Roundworld referent is most probably the Marquis de Sade's '''''120 Days of Sodom''''', in which the positions are not completely physically impossible, but would involve a great deal of physical discomfort at the very least, and excruciating physical pain at the very worst. De Sade builds his unique personal philosophy in which he defines a basic human right to do anything he damn well likes to anyone he damn well chooses - allowing them only the right to become a sadist to others in their own turn (should they survive). As the book defines a sort of Fascist philosophy of human sexuality, this was filmed by Pasolini as a satire on the last days of Mussolini's Italy. <br />
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<div>''A most unusual dwarf, considering where he came from and what he does...ten drinks short of happy.''<br />
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'''Pepe''' is cool. Pepe is mysterious. Pepe is dangerous. Pepe is Fifth Business, the outsider, the <br />
watcher, the unseen force, the game-piece of Fate (or the Lady). Pepe is, in fact, the leopard who can change his shorts. He is, by his own description, a bastard, an old bugger and a sod and all of these are probably accurate.<br />
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Pepe is a most unusual Dwarf, even considering [[Giamo Casanunda]]. This is, first, because he's <br />
actually human, "a [[Lobbin Clout]] boy", adopted as a Dwarf much later in life than <br />
[[Carrot Ironfoundersson]] and much less Dwarvish in manner. As a Dwarf, he is unusually tall and slender; as a Human, he is quite short and slight but very wiry. His fondness for the Demon Rum, or Demon Champagne, or demon aftershave for that matter, is extreme even among Dwarves and his capacity is extreme even among Humans. Despite the quantity of alcohol he absorbs, he is not an alcoholic and drinks only after the job at hand.<br />
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When the job is done in public, at [[Shatta]] or some show or event, he affects the mannerisms expected of a gay fashion designer: wrists limp, hands fluttering, shrieks and giggles high and frequent. Otherwise, the wrists are very strong and the voice may range from calm and assured to low and threatening.<br />
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Very much as Mr [[Nutt]] is doing, he has escaped the "[[Crab Bucket|crab bucket]]" and found worth. He, too, was from a despised minority on the mean streets of Morpork, but became a respected (if hardly respectable) designer, artificer and even alchemist. He is the creative partner in Shatta, and the life partner of [[Madame Sharn]] as well. Their innovative [[Micromail]] and what he proposes to call [[Retribushium]]<sup>(1)</sup> will make him very rich. He does not forget his youth, though, and will help others out of the crab bucket or visit severe deterrents on up-and-coming bullies like those he remembers.<br />
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"Pepe" is probably a nickname, but he has no other.<br />
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(1)''Morporkian spelling.''<br />
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<div>A [[spell]] used in self-defence by [[Garhartra]], the Guestmaster of [[Krull]].<br />
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This spell is little used and hard to master, but has the effect of swinging the victim's sense of "up" and "down" through ninety degrees. [[Rincewind]] was convinced that "down" lay at ninety degrees' variance to the conventionally accepted direction, which in practical terms meant he was confined to standing halfway up the wall until it wore off. Having been flung the length of the room and slammed into his new floor/wall with some force, he was in no position to argue about this.<br />
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Garhartra assured him there was nothing personal and he didn't enjoy doing that.<br />
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<div>The '''Furies''', or the '''Little Sisters of Perpetual Velocity''', are bird-like humanoids from [[Ephebe]]. They are employed by [[Lady Margolotta]] to pursue [[Nutt]] to prevent any [[Orcs|primeval instinct]] from escaping and causing Nutt to hurt anyone. They often say ''[[Awk!]]'' and have been described as "chicken"-like by a passenger on a bus to [[Sto Lat]] and back to [[Ankh-Morpork]]. Here, three of them are seen, though earlier in the book [[Nutt]] mentions the "Little Sisters", persumably these are the young and are described as chicks.<br />
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In Greek mythology the Erinýes (Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς, Erinýs; lit. "the angry ones") or Eumenídes (Εὐμενίδες, pl. of Εὐμενίς; lit. "the gracious ones" or sometimes "the kindly ones") or Furies in Roman mythology were female, chthonic deities of vengeance or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead. So not really what you want looking over you...<br />
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[[de:Schwestern der Ewigen Geschwindigkeit]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Vortin&diff=7367Vortin2010-12-10T14:56:05Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Vortin is a diamond merchant. This means that he owns a warehouse full of portable, hard-to-trace, valuable little things (in [[Ankh-Morpork]]!) This warehouse is a favourite target of thieves of all kinds.<br />
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Not to be confused with [[Vorbis]], this is another of those non-speaking characters who runs a very profitable diamond and gemstone trading business in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. First introduced in {{COM}}, the name and business of Vortin recur throughout the books, often in the context of the [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch|Watch]] either investigating, or thwarting, a break-in to a business that must need VERY good security. <br />
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<div>A very small slice of the city separates the [[Patrician's Palace]] from the center of magical power at the [[Unseen University|University]](1). There are three roads between the University and the river, and only the length of [[The Maul]] to the palace. Magic and political power, however, both leak, and [[The Backs]] and '''Peach Pie Street''' need to be prepared for things that go odd in the night. Peach Pie Street is the middle of these three streets, below The Backs and hubward of the more conventional [[Street of Alchemists]].<br />
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The name? It probably used to be something that sounded a little like "Peach Pie", once. In Ankh-Morpork, no one remembers twenty years ago, let alone two thousand.<br />
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(1) Usually the dining table in the [[Great Hall]].<br />
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<div>Located at the junction of [[Rime Street]] and [[Frost Alley]]. Used at one point by [[Ymor]] as his headquarters.<br />
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<div>Mentioned in {{COM}} as the location of the [[Leaning Tower]] and {{J}} as one of the locations used by [[Verity Pushpram]] for her Clam and Cockle Barrow.<br />
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[[de:Rauhreifstra&szlig;e]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Frost_Alley&diff=2468Frost Alley2010-12-10T09:28:49Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Mentioned in {{COM}} as the location of the [[Leaning Tower]] at the juction of [[Rime Street]].<br />
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<div>The brother of [[Cheery Littlebottom]] and a [[Knockermen|knockerman]] who was killed in the line of duty some miles underneath [[Borogravia]].<br />
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<div>Gorrin the Cat was a [[Thieves' Guild|Thief]] mentioned briefly in {{COM}}.<br />
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He was stationed on top of the gong tower of the [[Temple of Small Gods]], and given the identification code "B12". He sent a messenger raven to [[Ymor]] to tell him about the coming of [[Twoflower]] to the city, along with a [[Luggage|box on legs]] and quite a lot of gold. Unfortunately for him, Ymor had already heard of this from another source, and knew that Twoflower was staying in the [[Broken Drum]]. Which meant that Gorrin had deserted his post and gone down to the Drum for some beer. This did not make [[Ymor]] happy, and he ordered [[Stren Withel]] to discipline him...<br />
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He owed [[Cripple Wa]] three "copper pieces".<br />
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[[de:Gorrin die Katze]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=The_Unnamed_Boat&diff=6835The Unnamed Boat2010-12-07T12:55:41Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>A small powered boad designed by [[Urn]], powered by to steam within his phylosophical engine.<br />
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[[de:Namenloses Boot]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Murduck&diff=4595Murduck2010-12-07T12:53:53Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Brother Murdock was sent to [[Ephebe]] by [[Vorbis]] to convert the locals to [[Om]]. A task which he completely failed to achieve. He spoke in the public forum and was shouted down, pelted with vegitables and stones. Though injured he returned to [[Omnia]], where he died at the hands of the [[Quisition]].<br />
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Vorbis knowing he would fail in this task set up plans for retribution before Murdock he even been sent to Ephebe and claimed that they had murdered him to justify the attacks.<br />
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[[de:Murduck]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Swires&diff=6445Swires2010-12-06T08:45:48Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>An early attempt by TP to redefine fantasy staples, or a less cantankerous version of [[Buggy Swires|Buggy]], Swires was encountered by [[Rincewind]] and [[Twoflower]] during the events of {{TLF}}. Twoflower - obviously - thinks he can't be a [[Gnome|gnome]] as he's not wearing a red hat. He must be a pixie. And he's definitely ''not'' an [[Elf|elf]], whatever Twoflower's famously rose-tinted views of them.<br />
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He is encountered in a toadstool house - just the kind of common fantasy cliche TP had set out to ridicule. Swires then leads them to a fairytale gingerbread house, complete with toffee and caramel beds, candyfloss doormat etc. Just the sort of thing that he is at pains in later books to ensure cannot be as they're just too stupid.<br />
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[[de:Swires]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Scalbie&diff=5823Scalbie2010-12-03T17:32:10Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>The late, great George Gobel used to say "well, I'll be a dirty bird!" That was because he didn't know about '''scalbies'''. Scalbies are dirty birds as allyl isocyanide smells bad or Andromeda is far away. They are members of the crow family but crows don't admit it. They inhabit essentially uninhabitable desert areas around [[Omnia]] because competition can't survive. They eat anything. They eat things that thought they could eat anything and died from it. They are nearly flightless to conserve energy, since no predator will eat them or could survive in their habitat and their lunch tends to be dead already. They are described as looking like other birds after an oil slick. <br />
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<div>Mentioned in {{SG}}, this is a book written by [[Grido]].<br />
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[[de:Mechanik]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Tyrant&diff=7157Tyrant2010-12-02T15:29:18Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>The Tyrant is the head of State of [[Ephebe]]. When a new Tyrant is elected, he must persuade the local population that he is honest, trustworthy and sencible so they they will vote for him. Imediatley after everyone realises what a crimainal mastermind he is and how out of touch with the philosipher in the street he is so the elect a new tryant every five years. The proccess for election is for everyone (who is not barred by reason of being criminal, forign or female) places a black or wight ball into an urn. <br />
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[[de:Tyrann (Ephebe)]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Foorgol&diff=2416Foorgol2010-12-02T15:16:59Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>The god of avalanches and palindromic joke, Foorgol is "Log Roof" backwards. And as he can't send immense cataracts of snow through [[Ephebe|Ephebian]] tavernas at will, he is an object of mild derision for their [[philosophers]]. Although the laughter stopped when [[Brutha]] innocently observed it was getting a bit colder all of a sudden...<br />
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<div>Formerly the dominant [[God]] in the region which is now [[Omnia]]. He was successfully challenged and overthrown by [[Om]], who in his diminished state as a tortoise was not at all happy to meet him again in the desert. Not because Ur-Gilash harboured any thoughts of revenge, he was long past that state. But because encountering a disembodied whispering voice on the wind mumbling madly and deleriously about past glories reminded Om that diminished though his existence was, there was a long way to fall yet, and an even worse state he could be in. This was practical proof of "Charcoal" [[Abraxas]]' theory about the rise and fall, especially the fall, of gods. <br />
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[[de:Ur-Gilasch]]</div>Renehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Erebos&diff=2200Erebos2010-12-02T11:07:02Z<p>Rene: </p>
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<div>Mentioned in {{SG}}, Erebos is an island that Prophet [[Ossory]] sailed to on a millstone.<br />
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<div>He is a fellow conspiritor of General Iam [[Fri'it]] and secreatary of the Congress of Iams in the [[Om]]nian Church. This position gave him considorable power as many of the congress are elderly with limited hearing.<br />
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