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  • Looking back to earlier books such as {{M!!!}} and {{TT}}, one of ''those'' internal consistency problems appears to be emerging. ...Ankh-Morpork and its wider environs appears to lurch ambiguously between one based on ye olde '''''£sd''''' currency system (as per main article, and a ...
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  • .... Couldn't find it. If I find a solution, I'll implement it straight away. One plus: if it's not automatic but someone doing this by hand, at least it's c '''Fix'''? I've added a captcha to the account creation. Not just one, but [http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html reCaptcha]. According to their si ...
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  • Like the admirers of the Emperor's new clothes, no one seems to have remarked on the obvious deficiencies of ''The Discworld Mapp I can agree with this. It isn't easy to work out a scale, for one thing, save the more-or-less agreed starting point that the Disc is ten tho ...
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  • ** Reference to a suspicious yellow dip at parties that no-one ever eats ({{RM}}) ...ett’s books, as the protagonist Peter Grant has read them, and the wife of one of his superior officers is also a fan. ...
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  • ...th, because of her prowess with cheese, four dollars a month, her own bed, one day off per week and a week's holiday at Hogswatch. The text notes that th One would suspect that a City poll tax exists, but is very carefully gradated t ...
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  • ...tionally." Reference to the old David Carradine TV series, ''Kung Fu''. In one of the earliest episodes the Shaolin monk-in-training was required to walk ...y from a 19th Century Prime Minister, Lord Robert Stanley, who was a great one for nepotism. If you got a good Government job it was because "Bob's your u ...
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  • ...might have been legitimate, as he/she made a couple of insightful edits to one page. '''''(Deep sense of "whoops")''''' I may have deleted them in error. No worries about the accidental deletion. I only managed one bit of spam killing as my aldi account anyhow. [[User:Manwe|Manwe]] ([[User ...
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  • ...ve looked through the [[special:listadmins|list of admins]] and found that one has been inactive since 2008 and another since 2006. High privilege user ac ...iki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist SpamBlacklist]</span> might be a good one. {{User:Myrtone/sig|Myr|tonos}} 14:40, 22 December 2010 (CET) ...
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  • ...ple scum" worlds where no complex life exists. By the two hundred millions one finds Earths which have different levels of gravity, and it has been specul Datum Earth is one of many 'interglacial' worlds; that is, worlds that are covered in trees an ...
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  • * This is one of the few times someone gets away with calling the Librarian a "monkey". A ...e "pretty boy" phrase. However, parrots also feature in {{E}}, {{MP}}, and one particular parrot marooned on a jungle island takes a starring role in {{N} ...
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  • ...multi-lingual when you can pull off typos and spelling errors in more than one language). ...rained from looking, presented it to herself for wrapping. Apart from this one fleeting glimpse I won't see it again till Friday. But something to look fo ...
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  • ...One of them is even ''called'' Jane, and she's the strange self-sufficient one who closely observes the world around her and wants to become a writer. Hmm ...layer was earnestly explaining them to him... on the surface such an easy one -- but please also bear in mind {{wp|Croquet|croquet}} ... ...
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  • ...pp32-33 of Leonard in a chariot pulled by swamp dragons). Godwin's book is one of the earliest published stories about space travel, and was famous enough ...sse, instead of standing around waiting while members break off and attack one or two at a time."'' Contrastingly, Evil Harry seems to follow a Code which ...
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  • ...d way. Reading an uncountable number of books, passing hard tests, getting one (or several) of the many [[UU degrees|degrees]] available and practicing al ...into a dog, because this is simply turning one existing thing into another one. But to create things out of nothing is totally different thing and almost ...
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  • |title= One Big River |name= One Big River ...
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  • ...at he always carried a deflated ball in his pack, and the game matches the one the wizards 'invent'. We know it's earlier too, because the Dean is mention :Now why did no one else notice ''this''? I'd like to propose that the story precedes {{J}}, bu ...
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  • ...h has thus been suppressed by generations of Popes. It's worth noting that one of the authors has since acknowledged that the content of the book was a ho ...ous scene in Monty Python's ''The Life of Brian'', when Reg (the leader of one of the innumerable rebellious groups that infest Judea) asks "What have the ...
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  • ...342 of the paperback of {{CJ}}, when the vampires are defeated in Escrow, one of the defeated vampyres is called ''Maladicta''. Did she decide on a caree ** ’Tonker’ Halter - “tonker” is one of many slang terms for penis (see also {{LL}}). Tonker’s aggressive atti ...
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  • ...ly sees to it that a reality with him as Patrician is slightly better than one without him. ...th irony than most others can with steel. He can also accomplish more with one raised eyebrow than most people can with two of them and a lifetime of prac ...
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  • Surname of one of the older noble families in [[Ankh-Morpork]], the most powerful city-sta He was one of the noblemen invited by [[Edward d'Eath]] to plot the restoration of the ...
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