http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Broomstick&feed=atom&action=historyBroomstick - Revision history2024-03-29T10:18:04ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.0http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Broomstick&diff=33483&oldid=prevOld Dickens: long flights2022-02-19T02:08:23Z<p>long flights</p>
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</table>Old Dickenshttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Broomstick&diff=31393&oldid=prevLias Bluestone: spello2021-01-03T21:49:26Z<p>spello</p>
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</table>Lias Bluestonehttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Broomstick&diff=31387&oldid=prevHolly Mercer at 15:28, 30 December 20202020-12-30T15:28:43Z<p></p>
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</table>Holly Mercerhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Broomstick&diff=21321&oldid=prevOld Dickens: dusting2015-02-16T00:50:57Z<p>dusting</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Elsewhere on the Disc other flying aids are employed: [[Elves]] use yarrow stalks and in [[Klatch]] the [[Magic Carpet|magic carpet]] is flying aid of preference. A lightly-loaded broomstick can achieve seventy miles per hour, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>about as much wind as the rider can withstand. (However, in keeping with the Wizardly ethos of "let's see what this baby can ''really'' do!", a wizard's staff used in the broomstick role can and will go much, much, much, faster. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>As an illustration, consider the [[Dean]], who is undergoing a prolonged second childhood and who would leap at the chance to be considered a boy racer...) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>The carpet appears to be slower, if more comfortable.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Elsewhere on the Disc other flying aids are employed: [[Elves]] use yarrow stalks and in [[Klatch]] the [[Magic Carpet|magic carpet]] is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>flying aid of preference. A lightly-loaded broomstick can achieve seventy miles per hour, about as much wind as the rider can withstand. (However, in keeping with the Wizardly ethos of "let's see what this baby can ''really'' do!", a wizard's staff used in the broomstick role can and will go much, much, much, faster. As an illustration, consider the [[Dean]], who is undergoing a prolonged second childhood and who would leap at the chance to be considered a boy racer...) The carpet appears to be slower, if more comfortable.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While associated with witches, [[Wizard's magic|wizards]] have been known to use them in extremis: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there </del>is apparently a museum at [[Unseen University]] where several fine examples are kept as curios. [[Ridcully]] uses one to launch an aerial assault on the Ginger-monster in {{MP}}<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, another </del>is used to fetch [[Dr. Lawn]] to a medical emergency in {{NW}} <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and a </del>previous Archchancellor daringly took [[Granny Weatherwax]] on a joy-ride. Well, she was driving and he was pillion, but there's the look of the thing to consider...Granny had just acquired her broom at that time; a low-performance but oddly durable device that has been likened to "a split-window Morris Minor." (It has been noted that in the Dutch translations of Pratchett's early books, the concept of a ''split-window Morris Minor'' has been replaced with a Dutch term used to describe the sort of clunking elderly one-gear bicycle ridden by elderly women in a very unsteady fashion (omafiets).)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While associated with witches, [[Wizard's magic|wizards]] have been known to use them in extremis:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A device for magically enhanced travel favoured by [[Witches magic|witches]]. It takes the form of the standard [[wikipedia:Besom|besom]], ie a stout stick with a bundle of broom twigs tied securely to one end. (From the broom plant, ie ''broomstick''.) An early, more sophisticated, version encountered and used by [[Rincewind]] and [[Twoflower]] had handlebars, although most witches dispense with this accessory. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A device for magically enhanced travel favoured by [[Witches magic|witches]]. It takes the form of the standard [[wikipedia:Besom|besom]], ie a stout stick with a bundle of broom twigs tied securely to one end. (From the broom plant, ie ''broomstick''.) An early, more sophisticated, version encountered and used by [[Rincewind]] and [[Twoflower]] had handlebars, although most witches dispense with this accessory. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While associated with witches, [[Wizard's magic|wizards]] have been known to use them in extremis: there is apparently a museum at [[Unseen University]] where several fine examples are kept as curios. [[Ridcully]] uses one to launch an aerial assault on the Ginger-monster in {{MP}}, another is used to fetch [[Dr. Lawn]] to a medical emergency in {{NW}} and a previous Archchancellor daringly took [[Granny Weatherwax]] on a joy-ride. Well, she was driving and he was pillion, but there's the look of the thing to consider...Granny had just acquired her broom at that time; a low-performance but oddly durable device that has been likened to "a split-window Morris Minor." (It has been noted that in the Dutch translations of Pratchett's early books, the concept of a ''split-window Morris Minor'' has been replaced with a Dutch term used to describe the sort of clunking elderly one-gear bicycle ridden by elderly women in a very unsteady fashion.)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While associated with witches, [[Wizard's magic|wizards]] have been known to use them in extremis: there is apparently a museum at [[Unseen University]] where several fine examples are kept as curios. [[Ridcully]] uses one to launch an aerial assault on the Ginger-monster in {{MP}}, another is used to fetch [[Dr. Lawn]] to a medical emergency in {{NW}} and a previous Archchancellor daringly took [[Granny Weatherwax]] on a joy-ride. Well, she was driving and he was pillion, but there's the look of the thing to consider...Granny had just acquired her broom at that time; a low-performance but oddly durable device that has been likened to "a split-window Morris Minor." (It has been noted that in the Dutch translations of Pratchett's early books, the concept of a ''split-window Morris Minor'' has been replaced with a Dutch term used to describe the sort of clunking elderly one-gear bicycle ridden by elderly women in a very unsteady fashion <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(omafiets)</ins>.)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A wizard's [[staff]] has been disguised as one by the cunning expedient of tying broom twigs to it, and in the hands of a mere cleaner, this potent magical artefact was overlooked by passing wizards. On the other hand, [[Moist von Lipwig]] disguised an ordinary besom as a magical broomstick to wind up (or put the wind up) [[Reacher Gilt]] before the great race in {{GP}}.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A wizard's [[staff]] has been disguised as one by the cunning expedient of tying broom twigs to it, and in the hands of a mere cleaner, this potent magical artefact was overlooked by passing wizards. On the other hand, [[Moist von Lipwig]] disguised an ordinary besom as a magical broomstick to wind up (or put the wind up) [[Reacher Gilt]] before the great race in {{GP}}.</div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A device for magically enhanced travel favoured by [[Witches magic|witches]]. It takes the form of the standard [[wikipedia:Besom|besom]], ie a stout stick with a bundle of broom twigs tied securely to one end. (From the broom plant, ie ''broomstick''.) An early, more sophisticated, version encountered and used by [[Rincewind]] and [[Twoflower]] had handlebars, although most witches dispense with this accessory. <br />
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While associated with witches, [[Wizard's magic|wizards]] have been known to use them in extremis: there is apparently a museum at [[Unseen University]] where several fine examples are kept as curios. [[Ridcully]] uses one to launch an aerial assault on the Ginger-monster in {{MP}}, another is used to fetch [[Dr. Lawn]] to a medical emergency in {{NW}} and a previous Archchancellor daringly took [[Granny Weatherwax]] on a joy-ride. Well, she was driving and he was pillion, but there's the look of the thing to consider...Granny had just acquired her broom at that time; a low-performance but oddly durable device that has been likened to "a split-window Morris Minor." (It has been noted that in the Dutch translations of Pratchett's early books, the concept of a ''split-window Morris Minor'' has been replaced with a Dutch term used to describe the sort of clunking elderly one-gear bicycle ridden by elderly women in a very unsteady fashion.)<br />
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A wizard's [[staff]] has been disguised as one by the cunning expedient of tying broom twigs to it, and in the hands of a mere cleaner, this potent magical artefact was overlooked by passing wizards. On the other hand, [[Moist von Lipwig]] disguised an ordinary besom as a magical broomstick to wind up (or put the wind up) [[Reacher Gilt]] before the great race in {{GP}}.<br />
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There was the suggestion in {{WA}} to create a huge bezom with stewardess and meals served. So far nothing has come from this on the Disc.<br />
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Elsewhere on the Disc other flying aids are employed: [[Elves]] use yarrow stalks and in [[Klatch]] the [[Magic Carpet|magic carpet]] is flying aid of preference. A lightly-loaded broomstick can achieve seventy miles per hour, about as much wind as the rider can withstand. (However, in keeping with the Wizardly ethos of "let's see what this baby can ''really'' do!", a wizard's staff used in the broomstick role can and will go much, much, much, faster. As an illustration, consider the [[Dean]], who is undergoing a prolonged second childhood and who would leap at the chance to be considered a boy racer...) The carpet appears to be slower, if more comfortable.<br />
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in the north of England and elsewhere, a '''[[wikipedia:Besom|besom]]''' is a name for the classical broomstick made by firmly tying broom twigs to the end of a long stout staff of wood. <br />
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A besom is also a not-entirely-complimentary term for the sort of {{wp|Nora_Batty#Nora_Batty_.28Kathy_Staff.29|Nora Batty}} figure, a stout woman of firm ideas in late middle age (or elderly), who would wield a broomstick with almost as deadly an effect as she would wield her tongue. By natural extention, it was also a synonym for '''witch''' in both its descriptive and pejorative usages.<br />
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