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- From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
- Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:18:38 GMT
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- ST102315@brownvm.brown.edu () writes:
-
- >p.32-35...refers to such stories as Karate Kid, where a young student
- > is given many menial tasks to perform, which are revealed to be
- > integral to his/her (OK, mostly his) education.
- This was more amusing tho :)
-
- >p.62..."Igneous Cutwell, DM(Unseen)..." DM may be a reference to
- > Dungeons and Dragons, where the DM (or Dungeon Master) knows
- > everything that is going on and controls what happens in the game.
- Since when did T$R bring this into the game - its news
- to me :)
-
- >p.86..."They could pee through a dozen mattresses..." Albert here mangles
- > a fairy tale. Unfortunately, I can't remember how it goes. Anyone?
- > Anyone?
- I've forgotten the nae of the fairy story, but a princess was supposed
- to be able to feel a pea through a dozen matresses, due to being
- 'delicate'.
-
- >p.140...Is it Cleopatra who bathed in milk and killed herself by
- > sitting on a poisonous snake? (On the DW, Queen Ezeriel did.)
- um. I think so.
-
- >p.168..."When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-
- > deep slurry." Something or someplace has a motto, "When you're
- > tired of ____, you're tired of life" or some such.
- Not something - _everything_ has had this attached to it.
- NOrmally some local 'hotspot'.
-
- >p.195..."I don't even _remember_ walking under a mirror." I haven't been
- > able to figure out what this means. Has anyone else?
-
- Bad luck. Cross b/w mirror beaking and walking under a ladder.
-
- Eccles
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