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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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  • ...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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  • ''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 ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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 === ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...'), 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. ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • * "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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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'). ...
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