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I made the point in a fan-fiction (which is why I'm noting it here) that it would have been known for a long time that XXXX only allowed one-way travel - because of the freak weather, things could go in, but not out. Thus far, canonical. | I made the point in a fan-fiction (which is why I'm noting it here) that it would have been known for a long time that XXXX only allowed one-way travel - because of the freak weather, things could go in, but not out. Thus far, canonical. | ||
But the thought occuring to me - so far not canonical at all, , just intelligent guesswork - was that an earlier and wilier ruler of Ankh-Morpork could have used XXXX for transportation of dissidents, criminals and social undesirables, musch as we used Australia. Just load a sorry old prison-hulk with convicts, tow it to XXXX, set it adrift, stick around for long enough to confirm it's been caught up in the anticyclone and will be dragged to shore. Keep sending your convicts on a one-way run. Result: XXXX becomes an Ankh-Morporkian prison colony with, as it turns out, surprisingly little enmity for the mother country and no air of "prison" about it. This would explain the surprisingly Morporkian character of Fourecks. Although they all appear to want to come back again, if only to visit...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 16:02, 25 March 2010 (UTC) | |||
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Annotation to the annotation: desserts also include Pavlova, named after a ballerina. --Old Dickens 00:55, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
"Can you hear that thunder? ... We'd better take cover..." are lines from the song Down Under " To be quoted carefully - the song was recently judged to have plagiariased a far older Australian folk song. The author of Kookaburra was still alive enough to sue and receive massive back royalties. It's the flute bit in the middle, apparently. --AgProv 16:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
I made the point in a fan-fiction (which is why I'm noting it here) that it would have been known for a long time that XXXX only allowed one-way travel - because of the freak weather, things could go in, but not out. Thus far, canonical.
But the thought occuring to me - so far not canonical at all, , just intelligent guesswork - was that an earlier and wilier ruler of Ankh-Morpork could have used XXXX for transportation of dissidents, criminals and social undesirables, musch as we used Australia. Just load a sorry old prison-hulk with convicts, tow it to XXXX, set it adrift, stick around for long enough to confirm it's been caught up in the anticyclone and will be dragged to shore. Keep sending your convicts on a one-way run. Result: XXXX becomes an Ankh-Morporkian prison colony with, as it turns out, surprisingly little enmity for the mother country and no air of "prison" about it. This would explain the surprisingly Morporkian character of Fourecks. Although they all appear to want to come back again, if only to visit...--AgProv 16:02, 25 March 2010 (UTC)