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AgProv: /* Blatant bleeding "in-your-face" obvious observation */

2016-07-02T14:57:55Z

Blatant bleeding "in-your-face" obvious observation

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	King Louis of the apes in ''The Jungle Book''. Who actively '''''wants''''' to be human. Is an orang-utan. Why did I not notice? [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 08:23, 1 July 2016 (UTC)		King Louis of the apes in ''The Jungle Book''. Who actively '''''wants''''' to be human. Is an orang-utan. Why did I not notice? [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 08:23, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
	:What's he doing in India, I wonder? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 15:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)		:What's he doing in India, I wonder? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 15:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
			The Walt Disney Corportations's usual sterling grasp of fine detail and research, I presume. A "South African" zoologist I happen to know might shake her head in disbelief. [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 14:57, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Old Dickens at 15:41, 1 July 2016

2016-07-01T15:41:42Z

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	''I'm the king of the swingers, the jungle VIP; I've reached the top and I gotta stop and that's what's bothering me!''		''I'm the king of the swingers, the jungle VIP; I've reached the top and I gotta stop and that's what's bothering me!''
	King Louis of the apes in ''The Jungle Book''. Who actively '''''wants''''' to be human. Is an orang-utan. Why did I not notice? [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 08:23, 1 July 2016 (UTC)		King Louis of the apes in ''The Jungle Book''. Who actively '''''wants''''' to be human. Is an orang-utan. Why did I not notice? [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 08:23, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
			:What's he doing in India, I wonder? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 15:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

AgProv: This one went over the radar...

2016-07-01T08:23:58Z

This one went over the radar...

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	Too tenuous for an Annotation, but in the 1980's, a story-arc in the '''''2000AD''''' comic's ''Judge Dredd'' strip concerned the election of an orang-utan as Mega-City One's Mayor. Dave the orang-utan came from the city's ethnic and species ghetto populated by intelligent simians - known unkindly as ''Apetown'' - and confounded expectations by governing the City more intelligently, wisely and corruption-free than any human politician could manage. Mega-City One is pretty much a futuristic Ankh-Morpork with lots of suspicious similarites - large, sprawling, smelly, polluted and largely inhabited by the lowest common denominator. And Sam Vimes at one point in his policing career was heard to yell out "I Am The Law, you sons of bitches!" So... Terry is familiar with Judge Dredd and Mega-City One? (Hmmm... crossover fanfic... Dredd falls through space-time and ends up in Ankh-Morpork? Carrot visits Mega City One?) [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 19:07, 19 March 2013 (GMT)		Too tenuous for an Annotation, but in the 1980's, a story-arc in the '''''2000AD''''' comic's ''Judge Dredd'' strip concerned the election of an orang-utan as Mega-City One's Mayor. Dave the orang-utan came from the city's ethnic and species ghetto populated by intelligent simians - known unkindly as ''Apetown'' - and confounded expectations by governing the City more intelligently, wisely and corruption-free than any human politician could manage. Mega-City One is pretty much a futuristic Ankh-Morpork with lots of suspicious similarites - large, sprawling, smelly, polluted and largely inhabited by the lowest common denominator. And Sam Vimes at one point in his policing career was heard to yell out "I Am The Law, you sons of bitches!" So... Terry is familiar with Judge Dredd and Mega-City One? (Hmmm... crossover fanfic... Dredd falls through space-time and ends up in Ankh-Morpork? Carrot visits Mega City One?) [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 19:07, 19 March 2013 (GMT)

			==Blatant bleeding "in-your-face" obvious observation==
			''I'm the king of the swingers, the jungle VIP; I've reached the top and I gotta stop and that's what's bothering me!''
			King Louis of the apes in ''The Jungle Book''. Who actively '''''wants''''' to be human. Is an orang-utan. Why did I not notice? [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 08:23, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

AgProv: /* A further interesting note */

2014-06-03T13:31:00Z

A further interesting note

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	'''''Monty Python's Flying Circus''''' invoked this trope in a sketch where a gorilla who is really a man in a gorilla suit is brought to a job interview for the position of chief librarian. The library executives are oddly excited by the idea of having a wild beast for a librarian.		'''''Monty Python's Flying Circus''''' invoked this trope in a sketch where a gorilla who is really a man in a gorilla suit is brought to a job interview for the position of chief librarian. The library executives are oddly excited by the idea of having a wild beast for a librarian.
	Executive (Chapman): "I love seeing the customers come in to complain about some book being damaged and ask to see the chief librarian, and then, you should see their faces when the proud beast leaps from his tiny office, snatches the book from their hands and sinks his fangs into their soft...beat [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 22:40, 17 December 2013 (GMT)		Executive (Chapman): "I love seeing the customers come in to complain about some book being damaged and ask to see the chief librarian, and then, you should see their faces when the proud beast leaps from his tiny office, snatches the book from their hands and sinks his fangs into their soft...beat [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 22:40, 17 December 2013 (GMT)

			[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJmF6f0JdQ&list=PL8BB63871E015EAB3&feature=share&index=28 The Gorilla Librarian sketch]

	== Lords and Ladies ==		== Lords and Ladies ==

AgProv: /* A further interesting note */ Python sketch about a Librarian who expressly is not a monkey

2013-12-17T22:40:12Z

A further interesting note: Python sketch about a Librarian who expressly is not a monkey

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	== A further interesting note ==		== A further interesting note ==

	I don't remember the full sketch, but there is a Monty Python Sketch 'bout a gorilla librarian. Light allusion to that with THE Librarian...in a way...~~perhabs~~?--[[User:LilMaibe\|LilMaibe]] 17:34, 15 May 2011 (CEST)		I don't remember the full sketch, but there is a Monty Python Sketch 'bout a gorilla librarian. Light allusion to that with THE Librarian...in a way...perhaps?--[[User:LilMaibe\|LilMaibe]] 17:34, 15 May 2011 (CEST)

			Glad to oblige...

			'''''Monty Python's Flying Circus''''' invoked this trope in a sketch where a gorilla who is really a man in a gorilla suit is brought to a job interview for the position of chief librarian. The library executives are oddly excited by the idea of having a wild beast for a librarian.
			Executive (Chapman): "I love seeing the customers come in to complain about some book being damaged and ask to see the chief librarian, and then, you should see their faces when the proud beast leaps from his tiny office, snatches the book from their hands and sinks his fangs into their soft...beat [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 22:40, 17 December 2013 (GMT)

	== Lords and Ladies ==		== Lords and Ladies ==

AgProv: speling

2013-03-19T19:08:48Z

speling

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	The librarian manages to communicate with only two syllables. Strangely, one is Dutch for ''also'', and the other is Middle English (practically Dutch) for...''also'', also.--[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 22:57, 6 May 2007 (CEST)		The librarian manages to communicate with only two syllables. Strangely, one is Dutch for ''also'', and the other is Middle English (practically Dutch) for...''also'', also.--[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 22:57, 6 May 2007 (CEST)

	== A further ~~interessting~~ note ==		== A further interesting note ==

	I don't remember the full sketch, but there is a Monty Python Sketch 'bout a gorilla librarian. Light allusion to that with THE Librarian...in a way...perhabs?--[[User:LilMaibe\|LilMaibe]] 17:34, 15 May 2011 (CEST)		I don't remember the full sketch, but there is a Monty Python Sketch 'bout a gorilla librarian. Light allusion to that with THE Librarian...in a way...perhabs?--[[User:LilMaibe\|LilMaibe]] 17:34, 15 May 2011 (CEST)

AgProv: /* Yet another interesting observation */ new section

2013-03-19T19:07:32Z

Yet another interesting observation: new section

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	:Actually, it was {{TFE}}, and the line was "He will go totally Bursar. He will go totally librarian-poo."		:Actually, it was {{TFE}}, and the line was "He will go totally Bursar. He will go totally librarian-poo."
	:I think, anyway.--[[User:Stanley Howler\|Stanley Howler]] 18:56, 29 May 2012 (CEST)		:I think, anyway.--[[User:Stanley Howler\|Stanley Howler]] 18:56, 29 May 2012 (CEST)

			== Yet another interesting observation ==

			Too tenuous for an Annotation, but in the 1980's, a story-arc in the '''''2000AD''''' comic's ''Judge Dredd'' strip concerned the election of an orang-utan as Mega-City One's Mayor. Dave the orang-utan came from the city's ethnic and species ghetto populated by intelligent simians - known unkindly as ''Apetown'' - and confounded expectations by governing the City more intelligently, wisely and corruption-free than any human politician could manage. Mega-City One is pretty much a futuristic Ankh-Morpork with lots of suspicious similarites - large, sprawling, smelly, polluted and largely inhabited by the lowest common denominator. And Sam Vimes at one point in his policing career was heard to yell out "I Am The Law, you sons of bitches!" So... Terry is familiar with Judge Dredd and Mega-City One? (Hmmm... crossover fanfic... Dredd falls through space-time and ends up in Ankh-Morpork? Carrot visits Mega City One?) [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 19:07, 19 March 2013 (GMT)

Osiris: 1 revision: Talk Namespace

2012-12-26T03:16:28Z

1 revision: Talk Namespace

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Stanley Howler at 16:56, 29 May 2012

2012-05-29T16:56:09Z

New page

OK, I was just thinking of adding the Librarian's species when I came across two oppossing facts. In the "Discworld conpanion", (IIRC) it is stated as ''pongo pygmaus'' (or thereabouts). However, in "Thud!", his species is stated by A.E Pessimal as ''pongo pongo'', which is declared as correct by both Vimes and the Librarian himself. So which is true? -- [[User:CommanderJake, AMCW|CommanderJake, AMCW]]

:On Roundworld, it's Pongo Pygmaeus (see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orang_utan.) On Discworld, I'd take the Librarian's word for it. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 21:12, 5 October 2006 (CEST)

In {{SOD3}} Darwin says Pongo Pongo on page 256 Edbury Press version. --Confusion 20:34, 30 October 2011 (CET)

== ==

''Very soon, people forgot how the Librarian looked as a human, or what his given name was''
:I think this was less a case of forgetting and more a case of the rapid turnover of university staff (especially during {{S}}) to the point that Rincewind is the only one left who knew the Librarian as a human.{{TLC}}--[[User:Teletran|Teletran]] 11:27, 2 March 2007 (CET)

== ==

The librarian manages to communicate with only two syllables. Strangely, one is Dutch for ''also'', and the other is Middle English (practically Dutch) for...''also'', also.--[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 22:57, 6 May 2007 (CEST)

== A further interessting note ==

I don't remember the full sketch, but there is a Monty Python Sketch 'bout a gorilla librarian. Light allusion to that with THE Librarian...in a way...perhabs?--[[User:LilMaibe|LilMaibe]] 17:34, 15 May 2011 (CEST)

== Lords and Ladies ==

Why is his appearance in {{LL}} only a cameo? I think that he had a more major role. --Confusion 19:25, 20 November 2011 (CET)

== Ankh–Morpork slang ==

In context of Sam Vimes finding something out, a members of Ankh–Morpork city watch (most likely Fred Colon)says: "He'll go totally Librarian...". It probably is a variation on expression "To go ape..." meaning mad or crazy. Probably in "Making Money"
:Actually, it was {{TFE}}, and the line was "He will go totally Bursar. He will go totally librarian-poo."
:I think, anyway.--[[User:Stanley Howler|Stanley Howler]] 18:56, 29 May 2012 (CEST)

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	King Louis of the apes in ''The Jungle Book''. Who actively '''''wants''''' to be human. Is an orang-utan. Why did I not notice? [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 08:23, 1 July 2016 (UTC)		King Louis of the apes in ''The Jungle Book''. Who actively '''''wants''''' to be human. Is an orang-utan. Why did I not notice? [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 08:23, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
	:What's he doing in India, I wonder? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 15:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)		:What's he doing in India, I wonder? --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 15:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
			The Walt Disney Corportations's usual sterling grasp of fine detail and research, I presume. A "South African" zoologist I happen to know might shake her head in disbelief. [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 14:57, 2 July 2016 (UTC)