Misbegot Bridge - Revision history

Guybrush: Added reference to Misbegot & Ampersands

2025-02-24T01:29:43Z

Added reference to Misbegot & Ampersands

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	The bridge between [[Treacle Mine Road]] on the [[Morpork]] side and [[Wharfinger Street]] on the [[Ankh (city)\|Ankh]] side. Like most other bridges over the [[Ankh (river)\|River Ankh]], houses are built on it. It is roof, if not home, to the group of beggars known as the [[Canting Crew]]. People traditionally built houses on bridges partly because of the pressure on building land elsewhere in the cities, and mainly because of the quirk in British local taxation law that holds that land tax (rates, business tax, etc.) may only be levied on houses built on... well, land. This has an old and honourable tradition in Britain, and one enterprising builder recently revised the tradition in Scotland by building a combined bridge-cum-house, so as to evade local property taxation legitimately. Misbegot is not an exceptionally wide bridge (or perhaps the unauthorised building over the years has narrowed it) and it may easily be blocked by a haywain shedding its load. In accordance with the law of narrative causality - when the hero is trying to get to somewhere important quickly by a critically important time with only five minutes to spare, his progress will be delayed by obstructions of all kinds - this happens to [[Sam Vimes]] at five to six one night.		The bridge between [[Treacle Mine Road]] on the [[Morpork]] side and [[Wharfinger Street]] on the [[Ankh (city)\|Ankh]] side. Like most other bridges over the [[Ankh (river)\|River Ankh]], houses are built on it. It is roof, if not home, to the group of beggars known as the [[Canting Crew]]. People traditionally built houses on bridges partly because of the pressure on building land elsewhere in the cities, and mainly because of the quirk in British local taxation law that holds that land tax (rates, business tax, etc.) may only be levied on houses built on... well, land. This has an old and honourable tradition in Britain, and one enterprising builder recently revised the tradition in Scotland by building a combined bridge-cum-house, so as to evade local property taxation legitimately. Misbegot is not an exceptionally wide bridge (or perhaps the unauthorised building over the years has narrowed it) and it may easily be blocked by a haywain shedding its load. In accordance with the law of narrative causality - when the hero is trying to get to somewhere important quickly by a critically important time with only five minutes to spare, his progress will be delayed by obstructions of all kinds - this happens to [[Sam Vimes]] at five to six one night.

	Father [[Tubelcek]] lived on Misbegot Bridge until his unfortunate end in {{FOC}}.		Father [[Tubelcek]] lived on Misbegot Bridge until his unfortunate end in {{FOC}}. The bridge is also the home of Constable Misbegot & Ampersands, a gargoyle player character featured in {{AIAQS}}.

	All bridges over the Ankh (Rimwards to Hubwards)		All bridges over the Ankh (Rimwards to Hubwards)

Old Dickens at 01:27, 13 April 2014

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The bridge between [[Treacle Mine Road]] on the [[Morpork]] side and [[Wharfinger Street]] on the [[Ankh (city)|Ankh]] side. Like most other bridges over the [[Ankh (river)|River Ankh]], houses are built on it. It is roof, if not home, to the group of beggars known as the [[Canting Crew]]. People traditionally built houses on bridges partly because of the pressure on building land elsewhere in the cities, and mainly because of the quirk in British local taxation law that holds that land tax (rates, business tax, etc.) may only be levied on houses built on... well, land. This has an old and honourable tradition in Britain, and one enterprising builder recently revised the tradition in Scotland by building a combined bridge-cum-house, so as to evade local property taxation legitimately. Misbegot is not an exceptionally wide bridge (or perhaps the unauthorised building over the years has narrowed it) and it may easily be blocked by a haywain shedding its load. In accordance with the law of narrative causality - when the hero is trying to get to somewhere important quickly by a critically important time with only five minutes to spare, his progress will be delayed by obstructions of all kinds - this happens to [[Sam Vimes]] at five to six one night.

Father [[Tubelcek]] lived on Misbegot Bridge until his unfortunate end in {{FOC}}.

All bridges over the Ankh (Rimwards to Hubwards)
* [[Ankh Bridge]]
* [[Misbegot Bridge]]
* [[Pon's Bridge]]
* [[Contract Bridge (landmark)|Contract Bridge]]
* [[Brass Bridge]]
* [[New Bridge]]
* [[Maudlin Bridge]]
* [[Bridge of Size]]
* [[Water Bridge]]
* [[Wood Bridge]]

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