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- |title=The Ankh-Morpork Archives A Discworld Anthology: Volume One [[Category:Reference|Ankh-Morpork Archives A Discworld Anthology: Volume One, The]] ...2 KB (228 words) - 13:44, 7 March 2020
- |title= One Big River |name= One Big River ...2 KB (355 words) - 04:33, 8 May 2023
- #REDIRECT [[Million-to-one chance]] ...35 bytes (3 words) - 00:05, 24 September 2012
- ...f Discworld, and with [[the gods]] who like to play games, a '''million-to-one chance''' succeeds nine times out of ten. ...So while the list of things that people have accomplished with million to one chances is quite impressive, the list of things they have failed to accompl ...2 KB (381 words) - 04:10, 23 April 2016
- |title= One-Man-Bucket |name= One-Man-Pouring-A-Bucket-Of-Water-Over-Two-Dogs ...2 KB (374 words) - 07:35, 21 July 2016
- On Roundworld, there are the newspapers Sun and Mirror. One is right wing, the other left wing, and both are something rhyming on "cash ...558 bytes (87 words) - 00:08, 24 September 2012
- '''One Tzu Sung''' is one possible candidate for the author of the [[Art of War]]. Another contender ...tional beginning to certain songs that are '''Sung''' - '''''One Tzu''', a-one tzu three four...'' ...661 bytes (111 words) - 22:40, 25 September 2013
- *'''Rule 19''' - "Always remember Rule One and ask yourself, why was it created in the first place" ...pisode, challenged by Romana for his antics, he merely says "Remember Rule One!" ...1 KB (202 words) - 00:10, 24 September 2012
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- one having the English or French suits clubs, spades, hearts and diamonds, exactly to twenty-one (an onion) or come close to this total without ...28 KB (4,994 words) - 09:38, 22 January 2021
- We now have the best part of a thousand spammer accounts arranged in one long neat unbroken list. I'm wondering if there is any way of simultaneous :::So one verifies his email, WTF! --[[User:Osiris|Osiris]] ([[User talk:Osiris|talk] ...80 KB (13,194 words) - 15:40, 20 October 2021
- ...here's a Discworld reference or two in most of the novels - including that one of Grant's senior police colleagues is a noted fan. ...ght well run down a family dynasty, the female members of which each adopt one of the three faces of the classic Greek Fate. Death, in Anthony's world, i ...70 KB (11,485 words) - 04:31, 20 October 2022
- ...mongst other things the Senior Wrangler discloses his aunt was a victim of one, a woman who literally could not get past the pineapple. ...dently of any attached body, propelled by their very own sets of wings. In one mural, young women are trying to catch them as they buzz around in a flotil ...43 KB (7,428 words) - 01:07, 28 May 2023
- ...shoremen. In fact: one of Andy Shanks' associates shares out the bounty at one point - of loose goods purloined while working a casual shift at the docks, ...ble, even dangerous, places, and involves mental and emotional anguish, at one point a near-Death experience. ...47 KB (7,988 words) - 05:21, 6 March 2024
- ...rforming arts. On [[Roundworld]], [[wikipedia:Calliope|'''Calliope''']] is one of the nine [[wikipedia:Muses|Ancient Greek muses]], and a cantaloupe is a One of the songs that The Band With Rocks In plays is Pathway to Paradise. This ...36 KB (6,252 words) - 00:03, 3 March 2021
- ...ormation was incorrect (as chicken fat is not the only one and at least in one cuisine from two mentioned not the most popular). ...like greengrocers' apostrophes). We could make it an internal convention - one never knows, do they? ...39 KB (6,449 words) - 04:58, 17 November 2022
- This book could well be about one [[Vetinari|Tyrant]]'s desire to get the railways running not only on time b ...ialogue in the best Bolton accent I can do, I realised there could only be one person being portrayed here. The great Fred Dibnah. Right down to the flat ...30 KB (4,999 words) - 00:10, 4 August 2023
- ''"Unseen University, home of the greatest wizards on the Discworld. And one or two of the worst."'' **[[Juliet Stollop]], one of Ms Sugarbean's workers ...23 KB (3,723 words) - 04:25, 15 May 2023
- ...f Discworld, and with [[the gods]] who like to play games, a '''million-to-one chance''' succeeds nine times out of ten. ...So while the list of things that people have accomplished with million to one chances is quite impressive, the list of things they have failed to accompl ...2 KB (381 words) - 04:10, 23 April 2016
- ...(staves), swords (swords), cups (cups), and coins (coins), while in Tarot, one of the suits is pentancles (octograms), and some of the cards in the major ...any value upto and including 21. The higher the group value beats a lower one. ...10 KB (1,781 words) - 09:39, 22 January 2021
- ...aken for a demon, a god, lunch, a hero, a woman, and many other things. At one point he even very briefly visited [[Roundworld]], appearing on an aeroplan ...his amazing incompetence, he has always been (and probably always will be) one of the most popular Discworld figures. ...15 KB (2,427 words) - 04:55, 6 April 2021
- .... 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 ...30 KB (4,929 words) - 14:54, 7 July 2016
- ...shoulders against the improbably small door, one finds one's self turning one unseen corner after another, seemingly going on forever into further and mo ...ge other than books as it represents every library anywhere. Additionally, one can read any book ever written, any book that will be written at some point ...7 KB (1,170 words) - 04:24, 7 July 2022
- ...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 ...24 KB (4,068 words) - 09:44, 29 January 2018
- ...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 ...13 KB (2,231 words) - 06:26, 12 November 2015
- ...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) ...44 KB (7,292 words) - 14:54, 7 July 2016
- ** 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. ...28 KB (4,660 words) - 01:38, 20 December 2023
- ...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 ...7 KB (1,127 words) - 08:31, 4 November 2017
- * 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} ...14 KB (2,428 words) - 14:35, 8 October 2016
- ...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}} ... ...20 KB (3,408 words) - 02:40, 23 July 2023
- ...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 ...18 KB (3,059 words) - 01:49, 22 December 2023
- ''The 493rd Abbot... addressed Lu-Tze, one of his most senior monks.'' ...ere, the story is the Lu-Tze never graduated as a monk nor was selected as one at all. What he has learnt has come from years of sweeping up, unobtrusivel ...14 KB (2,345 words) - 19:26, 10 December 2022
- ...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 ...11 KB (1,798 words) - 17:56, 14 December 2022
- |title= One Big River |name= One Big River ...2 KB (355 words) - 04:33, 8 May 2023
- ...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 ...30 KB (4,890 words) - 08:10, 7 August 2023
- ...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 ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 00:57, 12 April 2024
- ...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 ...17 KB (2,851 words) - 19:57, 21 December 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,567 words) - 04:21, 8 October 2021
- ...e on. (A witch's spell, if powerful enough, is perhaps the equivalent of a one-shot chem?) The [[Red Army]] from {{IT}} may likewise have been powered onl Fragments of golem from that period were known to the Unseen University. One of them was in the [[Cabinet_of_Curiosity|Cabinet of Curiosities]]. It matc ...13 KB (2,154 words) - 17:42, 24 April 2017
- ...These latter were so appallingly badly designed that a year or two later, one such, the ''Herald of Free Enterprise'', sank in the Channel with considera ...t want another bloody damn war, not when we've only just paid for the last one, North Sea Oil's coming on stream, and the balance of payments is straighte ...13 KB (2,252 words) - 17:02, 26 March 2023
- ...eason to where the sequel plot begins, which would be the third season, if one is made. The second season is co-written by Gaiman and John Finnemore, best === Season One === ...12 KB (1,911 words) - 11:35, 28 September 2023
- ...ir crime was. One who disseminated slander (verbally) or libel (in print), one deemed to be a habitual liar and ''rumour-monger'', could have the letter " ...troubles in {{TFE}}. However, there are ''always'' going to be troubles of one sort or another in Uberwald, as {{T!}} and {{RS}} demonstrated. so speculat ...16 KB (2,627 words) - 11:07, 12 January 2024
- * "we're doing one about going to see a wizard. Something about following a yellow sick toad" ...reference to the line in the {{wp|Blues Brothers|Blues Brothers}} , "It's one hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack ...12 KB (1,984 words) - 19:58, 10 September 2013
- ...rks that aren't Books or Short Stories, unless I'm missing something: this one's a playscript but there are other things. Discuss. --[[User:Old Dickens|O ::I have, on occasion, thought about how terrible it would be to wake up one day to the news that Sir Pterry had died, but actually waking up to the new ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 02:07, 25 November 2021
- ...r the end of WW2. He spent a little under two years as a junior officer in one of Scotland's most famous (some might say notorious) Army regiments. What b ...er, because there are twice as many ladies, and twice as many men for each one to dance with - but in a sixteensome the ladies dance two at a time, and ea ...11 KB (1,827 words) - 12:16, 19 June 2023
- ...'), while she (Granny Weatherwax) would have been better at being the "Bad One". ...being the bad sister and having all the fun, while she had to be the good one. ...5 KB (842 words) - 14:02, 25 May 2018
- Mainly, the term "vampire" refers to an intelligent humanoid being with one or all of the following characteristics: ...e, it is one of the reasons why some people suspect [[Mavolio Bent]] to be one. ...7 KB (1,229 words) - 12:22, 15 December 2021
- ...unction. A [[Unseen University|school for wizards]]- that works. It was no-one’s idea ''per se'', but it captures the imagination, and is good to use in ...hools'. Some of them are pre-Unseen University, too. It doesn't matter. No one is stealing from anyone. It's a shared heritage." ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 03:47, 2 January 2024
- ...to find all the episodes about a book, or find all the podcasts indexed in one place, see our cousin wiki, [https://guild.pratchatpodcast.com the Guild of ...atchett, though most only do so occasionally and are focussed on the forty-one Discworld novels, and sometimes the film and television adaptations. ...16 KB (2,232 words) - 04:31, 10 February 2024
- ...out it; I don't like the idea of trying to put everything relevant on that one page. And if someone wants to know more about the character in the show, wh ...s in order to get the awesome ones, the same way panning for gold requires one's hands to get quite mucky before the good stuff filters out." I guess that ...28 KB (4,642 words) - 16:51, 18 March 2024
- ...or unwisely curious students to find, for example, the Lost Reading Room. One such expedition headed by 'Bogeyboy' Swallatt got lost in the maze of shelv ...n. A full array of possible futures are implied by the books collected in one place. The Unseen University's Library is obviously magical in the layman' ...7 KB (1,126 words) - 02:16, 13 October 2021
- Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE, two, three, four..." ...p>. After a while, he came to a [[Mister Safe Way|crossroads]]. Finding no one there, he took the road more travelled and came to [[Ankh-Morpork]]. ...6 KB (1,045 words) - 20:55, 3 September 2017
- * A washed pot never boils. (This one was related by way of a Yeti, so it may be garbled by a mild speech impedim ...unto you. (Koan 97) (Lu-Tze mentions uncertainty about having gotten this one right) ...6 KB (1,076 words) - 01:41, 10 June 2014
- ...arly in the book, Death seems to want to Mort and Ysabell to fall in love (one almost wonders if that's the ''real'' job Death wanted Mort for), but he se * "Twenty-one the hard way!" - probably 3 7's. In Roundworld craps, the "hard way" is whe ...6 KB (983 words) - 19:56, 10 September 2013
- ...anonymity undesirable and feels it is necessary to remind people of [[Rule One]]. While he claims the position of a sweeper, he is widely respected by man *No Kando ('You made that one up'). ...6 KB (952 words) - 00:14, 5 October 2022
- ...According to [[Lord Vetinari]], the goal of the game should be to discover one's own weaknesses. [[Mr Shine]] hopes that encouraging Dwarfs and Trolls to ...in any direction, including diagonals. The trolls, however, can only move one square in any direction. ...5 KB (831 words) - 00:49, 1 November 2022
- *[[TV and Film:Hogfather|''Hogfather'']], aired by Sky One, Christmas 2006 [http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article344232.ece as T *[[TV and Film:The Colour of Magic|''The Colour of Magic'']], aired by Sky One, Easter 2008 as TV film. ...9 KB (1,345 words) - 01:27, 3 June 2023
- ...Suicide on [[Roundworld]] refers to the willful and premeditated taking of one's own life. However, the famous Morporkian literalism steps in to expand th ...rom ''sui caedere'', "''to kill oneself'',") is the intentional killing of one's self. The most common cause is an underlying psychiatric disorder, such a ...6 KB (1,012 words) - 03:45, 10 August 2015
- On revolutionaries and footwear:- one of the great leaders of the Mexican revolution was called '''''Zapata'''''[ ''Renata Flitworth'' - such a patently bleedin' obvious one I never saw it till now... the Dickens character in ''Great Expectation'' w ...6 KB (1,023 words) - 21:29, 10 September 2013
- ...Can I suggest [[Book:Guards! Guards!|Guards! Guards!]] as a candidate? for one thing, it seems to be a rare "completed" book page with no red links leadin :Since no one ever pays any attention to it anyway, should we change the heading to sugge ...18 KB (2,939 words) - 00:07, 12 July 2021
- ...r relationship, it is entirely possible that "Dog-botherer", together with one or two other indignities inflicted at school, hangs unspoken in the air bet Downey is a highly skilled poisoner, and it is apparently very unwise to try one of his almond slices. He contributed his recipe for mint humbugs to {{NOC}} ...3 KB (552 words) - 09:58, 22 May 2016
- ...ry]], went missing while taking a tooth to a criminal [[Banjo Lilywhite]] (one of Teatime's assistants). In Death's library, her biography shows she is be ...ed [[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson]]. He re-seals it after two near accidents, one involving a tap marked {{wp|Old Faithful|Old Faithful}}, and a worse proble ...17 KB (2,460 words) - 05:34, 28 September 2022
- ...nd it broke under the strain, freeing Time and causing the inventor to age one thousand years, according to the legend in any case... ...of asking him in the guise of a beautiful woman, [[Myria LeJean]] who was one of them disguised as a human. ...3 KB (548 words) - 19:38, 30 August 2017
- ...mstick|broom]] could remain airborne if you pulled out the bristles one by one whilst in flight. According to the [[Quoth|raven]] she had trained to act a ...peeled with a two inch paring knife no wider than half an inch, the loved one's name will invariably be SCSSSC. ...2 KB (341 words) - 17:28, 7 April 2024
- ...f conduct and decorum that have operated in the Empire since the time of [[One Sun Mirror]]. ...h remains on his person at all times. In conditions of deepest secrecy and one item at a time, he has assembled a wardrobe of what he fondly considers to ...7 KB (1,146 words) - 00:28, 29 April 2018
- One of the more powerful [[gods]] on the [[Discworld (world)|Discworld]]. (On ...s|Small Gods]]'', despite having a huge empire of worshippers, he only has one true believer, [[Brutha]]. ...8 KB (1,292 words) - 04:20, 23 May 2022
- ...s also the location of the [[Quirm College for Young Ladies]], and as such one of the minor settings in ''[[Book:Soul Music|Soul Music]]''. The college ha ...} that [[Quirm]] has a full-fledged [[Quirm Zoo|City Zoo]], which makes it one step ahead of [[Ankh-Morpork]] in this respect. [[Sam Vimes]] takes [[Young ...10 KB (1,711 words) - 23:43, 29 February 2020
- ...e of improvement. The scion of some great Ankh family might come and carry one off to his mansion, but while the general peripheries of marriage might be ...strict" (formerly and rather more accurately known as 'The Whore Pits') is one of the city's great tourist attractions. ...4 KB (610 words) - 18:21, 18 December 2020
- ...city. Vimes also began a romantic relationship with [[Lady Sybil Ramkin]], one of the wealthiest women in the city. ...but also his wife and his fourteen-months-old son, using flamethrowers. On one side, there is Vimes, however rough and pessimistic he may seem, defender o ...24 KB (4,167 words) - 19:55, 21 December 2022
- ...{wp|Anchorite|anchorite}}, best described as a hermit and one-way prophet: one-way in that whereas many prophets retreat to the desert, receive revelation St. Ungulant is not actually a saint, but someone pointed out the obvious one day, since his full name is Sevrian Thaddeus Ungulant. He resides in the de ...2 KB (413 words) - 09:50, 6 June 2018
- ...cover is a painting by Tim White of a robotic insect on a leaf - possibly one of the spy robots employed by [[Korodore]] and others throughout the book. **[[Class One Robots]] ...6 KB (859 words) - 09:44, 13 March 2019
- |children=One son ...inventive enough to find some excuse to get out of them. For instance, at one point in the book, the sergeant resigns his stripes so that an enemy soldi ...5 KB (829 words) - 12:00, 13 April 2024
- |title= One-Man-Bucket |name= One-Man-Pouring-A-Bucket-Of-Water-Over-Two-Dogs ...2 KB (374 words) - 07:35, 21 July 2016
- ...ppears when I submit an edit, even though the edit has gone through. Is no one else getting these? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 14:03, 24 June 2008 And as one of the closest parts of England to continental Europe, the local accents ar ...34 KB (5,706 words) - 04:03, 3 August 2016
- ...n the second of the two to be retrieved: he would have gone for the easier one at the [[Assassins' Guild]] first. As in the opening chapter of {{MM}} we s ...g notes to the chorus singers and ballet girls. Later, he seemed to be the one responsible for these strange ''accidents'', in some of which people have d ...6 KB (1,068 words) - 01:24, 25 September 2013
- ...the extreme of tunneling under [[Ankh-Morpork]] to locate one very special one... ...lost off the Turkish coast in 1917 was rediscovered eighty years later. ''One mile inland and 800 metres underground''. Unless it was moved by trolls, th ...4 KB (677 words) - 12:47, 9 November 2022
- ...s the [[Great Wizard]] caused the earth to rise and fight on the side of [[One Sun Mirror]], helping him to unite the country and become the first Emperor ...alled themselves the Red Army. As the Army needed a Great Wizard like the one in the legend, they sent for the Great Wizard who had guided Twoflower in h ...3 KB (539 words) - 03:31, 23 April 2015
- |channel=Sky One ...rld]] novels and the first of the series of adaptations by the channel Sky One. Hogfather was produced by The Mob Film Company. ...3 KB (491 words) - 02:00, 3 January 2023
- ...tion of a troll and has been ever used as one of the justifications (as if one were needed) to fight and kill trolls, as they are unwanted and unblessed b However, there is a second possible translation, one that is unpopular and many dwarves wanted it declared heresy. At the time o ...5 KB (976 words) - 01:05, 29 August 2017
- ...ies who, in theory at least, can contend to gain the [[Patrician]]ship for one of their members. The nearest thing they have to a plausible candidate, at ...imilarly, a goatee beard only looks stylishly sinister on people with only one chin: Moist thought of Cosmo's as being seriously misplaced and pitied the ...5 KB (841 words) - 05:46, 27 January 2023
- ...'Million-to-One' Chance--and all of the other chances as well''"<br>"''The One who will desert you when you need Her the most--and sometimes She might not ...The 'Million-to-One' Chance - and all of the other chances as well... The One who will desert you when you need Her the most - and sometimes She might no ...4 KB (623 words) - 02:39, 18 May 2022
- ...government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote." ... "Technically, the ci ...ssessori Postulanti Nummum Unum Solvem, An Apte Satisfaciam'' - "I promise one dollar to be released when the bearer asks" [[Paper Money]], {{MM}} ...11 KB (1,821 words) - 15:36, 1 May 2023
- *An older unit of currency is the Guinea, composed of only twenty-one shillings, (but this is falling from use) ...rthings, ninety-six Mites (the little ones with the holes in the middle)or one hundred and ninety-two Elims. ...6 KB (1,079 words) - 21:41, 1 March 2013
- ...getting not only one's ducks in a row before beginning any enterprise, but one's rocs and phoenixes as well.<sup>1</sup> ...Mr Hong, or most of him. As nearly as could be determined, he left behind one kidney and half an earhole. ...2 KB (245 words) - 02:07, 31 December 2017
- ...earch witch and former circus performer. Or actually, two witches. She had one mind but two bodies. This made the household chores a lot easier. She came ...Tiffany stayed with her and her in-house ghost [[Oswald (ghost)|Oswald]], one of her bodies was killed by the [[Hiver]]. This hasn't stopped her using th ...6 KB (1,132 words) - 17:32, 7 December 2023
- ...Arms|Men at Arms]]''). Although seen as the most fun guild, it's actually one of the worst to be a member of. The fun is always somehow forced. In public ...lap' it is common for them to borrow each other's slap but unthinkable for one fool to copy another's make-up. (Picture on right is by [[User:Knmatt|Matt ...8 KB (1,381 words) - 13:35, 23 April 2020
- ...hty river, Time does seem to have an arrow of flow in a general sense, but one subject to having its arms knotted behind its head quite a lot. ...rlooked by the [[Guild of Merchants]] “Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises”. ...10 KB (1,635 words) - 02:44, 29 December 2015
- ...of huge warrior clans. They have a social structure similar to bees, with one queen called a [[Kelda]] and hundreds of males (but without female "workers All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradi ...8 KB (1,319 words) - 00:51, 8 December 2023
- ...is at least one major city and port, [[Zambingo]] and it is known there is one black kingdom there, ruled by a King [[Samuel]]. It is also, by his own account, the ancestral home of the spirit guide [[One-Man-Bucket]], who bemoans not having been born in its wide-open plains, as ...7 KB (1,055 words) - 21:43, 3 April 2021
- ...imagine falling continually into the waistband, not knowing from which leg one may emerge. So does history occur: in myriad, often unconsidered, minor dec ...ey change the style to keep up with what the times should be; now and then one leg may be let out to extra-baggy or reduced to a stocking. Random chance i ...2 KB (269 words) - 04:36, 7 February 2020
- ...for various establishments in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. However, he came unstuck one night when instructed to splat six-foot Dwarf [[Carrot Ironfoundersson]], w One of the reasons behind Detritus's emerging cleverness is the special helmet ...5 KB (857 words) - 11:02, 18 December 2023
- |photo= Igor.jpg|One of the Igors, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]] ...e. In return, an Igor expects the healed patient to become an organ donor one day, when he or she passes away and has no more personal use for his/her or ...19 KB (3,240 words) - 02:02, 18 December 2021
- ...''second'' [[Opera Ghost]]. Not the evil one who kills for money, but the one who sings like an angel and composes a whole series of a new style of music He is one of the few characters in the [[Discworld]] novels to come away from an enco ...5 KB (777 words) - 16:53, 18 December 2020
- ...cluding characters, please also add them to a relevant category, or create one for the book if necessary (should only be needed for non-Discworld books). ...d [[Supernatural Entities]] for gods and other entities who appear in only one or two books. ...15 KB (1,833 words) - 21:52, 9 February 2024
- ...punch that [[Trolls|trolls]] would respect. Known to have killed at least one person, [[Glossy Ron]]. ...in a special appearance at the [[Tower of Teeth]] which explicitly drew on one's worst fears to terrorise intruders. For both Lilywhite boys this was most ...4 KB (715 words) - 16:04, 16 October 2013
- ...ed with excessive amounts of garlic. [[Vlad de Magpyr]] quite happily eats one, then announces ''"Any more of those garlic things? They're rather piquant! ...ed the trend, and George MacDonald Fraser also describes the phenomenon in one of the Flashman books. ...14 KB (2,415 words) - 16:00, 17 May 2020
- ...ried in the cellar of [[Ramkin Residence|One Scoone Avenue]], however, and one of its special bolts turns up mysteriously in {{SN}}. The two guards exchanged glances. 'Who the hell are they?' said one.<br/> ...4 KB (692 words) - 05:24, 23 February 2024
- ...ain, he, Nobbs, should therefore be given a crack at Acting-Sergeant. This one-and-only attempt to get a further promotion having been ignored completely, ...ople's arguments, and he believes there is always a catch in a good offer. One day he hopes to have a young lady, but he's not easily pleased. Recently th ...9 KB (1,577 words) - 16:39, 20 May 2018
- ...nce. In fact, they used to be called ''Splatters''. After entering the pub one has to walk down some stairs into a dimly lit room filled with cheap furnit ...nded-Drum/143609672423334?fref=ts The Mended Drum], based on the Discworld one. Hopefully [[Discworld Ales|some of these beers]] are served there. ...8 KB (1,325 words) - 22:34, 24 January 2022
- ...having the crass and inconvenient bad taste to let herself die after only one stab! Vimes recollects this investigation in {{SN}}, while pondering the t ...c. The resultant closed-rank silence of the British nobility in protecting one of their own was not edifying and said a lot about their sense of ingrained ...4 KB (610 words) - 08:45, 6 June 2023
- |population= [[Mau|one]] to several hundred, at times ...the [[Trousers of Time]] a number of times, but not that many. Maybe it's one of those billions of [[The Long Earth|Long Earths]]. ...5 KB (801 words) - 23:39, 25 June 2022
- ...some reason, they have one ''horn''. They are magical creatures. The only one we've come across was a refugee from the Land of the Faeries, the [[Queen o ...hich Granny does so, leading it to [[Jason Ogg]]'s smithy tethered by just one of her silver ''hairs''. A unicorn hunter was among the heroes who visited ...1 KB (247 words) - 00:15, 24 September 2012
- ...ves, you see, starts with an ''n'', tip of my tongue, not ''nice''. No, no one ever said elves are nice. Elves are ''nasty''. ...exactly, where he is. The presence of iron disrupts this sense for an elf. One elf once described being locked up in iron chains and so on as being buried ...7 KB (1,276 words) - 03:40, 7 January 2016
- ...ery''; his first clue that they had strayed into a danger zone was that no one had tried to sell them anything for five minutes. Al-Khali has a University, albeit a more mundane one, with a School of Medicine where [[John Lawn]] learnt the goal of medicine ...3 KB (533 words) - 20:16, 29 August 2023
- ...ived disability) of the Patrician, a council of guild leaders elects a new one immediately, without any sort of campaign or overt search for candidates. T ...n't want to share their power. They believed in the principle of "one man, one vote" (as in, "I am the Man, I have the Vote"). Such a figure would have po ...8 KB (1,421 words) - 07:59, 1 April 2021
- The interview contains this interesting snippet concerning the next-but-one-or-two Discworld novel:- ...an old-fashioned football and a group of hands, one of which is skeletal, one pair of which is orangutan. ...5 KB (757 words) - 18:28, 20 January 2016
- ...l thousand year old set of principles for living one's life and organising one's home and artefacts in the most harmonious manner possible. ...d to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive ''qi''. The original designation for the ...3 KB (546 words) - 21:36, 7 December 2016
- This is one of the [[7a]] Virtues whose statues adorn the [[Library]] at [[Unseen Unive ...esn't matter that seven-and-one Virtues outnumber the Seven Deadly Sins by one. In Ankh-Morpork, which gang do ''you'' think is going to win? ...3 KB (554 words) - 04:55, 17 October 2023
- ...nt of net force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one meter per second squared.) ...1 KB (243 words) - 00:08, 24 September 2012