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- ...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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- |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
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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
- 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
- ''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
- ...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
- 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
- * "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
- ...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
- ...{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
- ...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