Book:Witches Abroad/Annotations - Revision history

Myk Streja: Grammar fix - cap

2024-07-31T22:02:20Z

Grammar fix - cap

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	See [https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/witches-abroad.html The Annotated Pratchett File] for a complete set of annotations.		See [https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/witches-abroad.html The Annotated Pratchett File] for a complete set of annotations.

	'''~~the~~ Frog-Like Humanoid Thing with a Birthday''': It swims up to the boat containing [[Magrat Garlick]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Granny Weatherwax]] and some [[Dwarf Bread]], and announces, apropos of nothing, that today is its birthday. For its pains, it gets clobbered on the fingers with an oar by Granny Weatherwax, who watches it recede into the distance and listens to its swearing complaints dwindle to nothing.		'''The Frog-Like Humanoid Thing with a Birthday''': It swims up to the boat containing [[Magrat Garlick]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Granny Weatherwax]] and some [[Dwarf Bread]], and announces, apropos of nothing, that today is its birthday. For its pains, it gets clobbered on the fingers with an oar by Granny Weatherwax, who watches it recede into the distance and listens to its swearing complaints dwindle to nothing.

	Were it not for the threat of invoking the attention of one of the most potent and dread forces operating anywhere in any fantasy fiction universe (touches iron, and nervously whispers ''The Lawyers of the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien''. Notes sword is not glowing blue: it is safe to continue) the casual reader might wonder if this is {{wp\|Gollum\|Gollum}}, from ''{{wp\|The_Lord_of_the_Rings\|The Lord of the Rings}}'', paying a passing visit to the Discworld. However, this is NOT a visit or a cameo role from a character licenced exclusively to New Line Cinema and the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien, and anyone mistaking this random character for '''Gollum(TM)''' is in fact seriously mistaken. Honestly. Just think of this character as ''the Frog-Like Humanoid Thing with a Birthday''. It will be safer, cheaper and less litigious this way.		Were it not for the threat of invoking the attention of one of the most potent and dread forces operating anywhere in any fantasy fiction universe (touches iron, and nervously whispers ''The Lawyers of the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien''. Notes sword is not glowing blue: it is safe to continue) the casual reader might wonder if this is {{wp\|Gollum\|Gollum}}, from ''{{wp\|The_Lord_of_the_Rings\|The Lord of the Rings}}'', paying a passing visit to the Discworld. However, this is NOT a visit or a cameo role from a character licenced exclusively to New Line Cinema and the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien, and anyone mistaking this random character for '''Gollum(TM)''' is in fact seriously mistaken. Honestly. Just think of this character as ''the Frog-Like Humanoid Thing with a Birthday''. It will be safer, cheaper and less litigious this way.

Moishe Rosenbaum: Story from A Life With Footnotes

2023-04-30T00:23:23Z

Story from A Life With Footnotes

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	the whole ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNjJghgfuc Happy Valley]]'' fairy-tale parody in ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''....		the whole ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNjJghgfuc Happy Valley]]'' fairy-tale parody in ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''....

			'''Lily's hall of mirrors:''' In the biography ''A Life With Footnotes,'' Rob Wilkins describes Pratchett's job as press officer for the nuclear plant and electrical generating company. The offices in which Pratchett worked were quite modern, and won many architectural awards. The bathrooms in the office building were quite well appointed, including two walls covered with mirrors. Pratchett observed that the reflections in the mirror curved to the side rather than going straight back to infinity, emphasizing that despite the architectural awards, the walls weren't necessarily quite parallel. Wilkins more than hints that these mirrored walls may have been on Pratchett's mind when writing ''Witches Abroad.''


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Moishe Rosenbaum: cleanup

2022-02-26T22:16:23Z

cleanup

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	See [https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/witches-abroad.html The Annotated Pratchett File] for a complete set of annotations.		See [https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/witches-abroad.html The Annotated Pratchett File] for a complete set of annotations.

	~~This entity appears very briefly in {{WA}}.~~		'''the Frog-Like Humanoid Thing with a Birthday''': It swims up to the boat containing [[Magrat Garlick]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Granny Weatherwax]] and some [[Dwarf Bread]], and announces, apropos of nothing, that today is its birthday. For its pains, it gets clobbered on the fingers with an oar by Granny Weatherwax, who watches it recede into the distance and listens to its swearing complaints dwindle to nothing.

	It swims up to the boat containing [[Magrat Garlick]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Granny Weatherwax]] and some [[Dwarf Bread]], and announces, apropos of nothing, that today is its birthday. For its pains, it gets clobbered on the fingers with an oar by Granny Weatherwax, who watches it recede into the distance and listens to its swearing complaints dwindle to nothing.

	~~The witches agree this was clearly a "troublemaker", and Granny ponders on what it wanted~~.

	Were it not for the threat of invoking the attention of one of the most potent and dread forces operating anywhere in any fantasy fiction universe (touches iron, and nervously whispers ''The Lawyers of the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien''. Notes sword is not glowing blue: it is safe to continue) the casual reader might wonder if this is {{wp\|Gollum\|Gollum}}, from ''{{wp\|The_Lord_of_the_Rings\|The Lord of the Rings}}'', paying a passing visit to the Discworld. However, this is NOT a visit or a cameo role from a character licenced exclusively to New Line Cinema and the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien, and anyone mistaking this random character for '''Gollum(TM)''' is in fact seriously mistaken. Honestly. Just think of this character as ''the Frog-Like Humanoid Thing with a Birthday''. It will be safer, cheaper and less litigious this way.		Were it not for the threat of invoking the attention of one of the most potent and dread forces operating anywhere in any fantasy fiction universe (touches iron, and nervously whispers ''The Lawyers of the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien''. Notes sword is not glowing blue: it is safe to continue) the casual reader might wonder if this is {{wp\|Gollum\|Gollum}}, from ''{{wp\|The_Lord_of_the_Rings\|The Lord of the Rings}}'', paying a passing visit to the Discworld. However, this is NOT a visit or a cameo role from a character licenced exclusively to New Line Cinema and the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien, and anyone mistaking this random character for '''Gollum(TM)''' is in fact seriously mistaken. Honestly. Just think of this character as ''the Frog-Like Humanoid Thing with a Birthday''. It will be safer, cheaper and less litigious this way.

	The 1995 film ''Dracula: Dead and Loving it'' has a scene where Dracula (Leslie Neilson)is trying to fly into Lucy's bedroom, only to be concussed by the shutter as she ''closes'' the window..... hmmm. Can't be plagiarism, as in this book (1991) Magrat concusses her vampire by ''opening'' the shutters as he tries to fly in...		'''Reverse annotation: Magrat and the Bat:'''The 1995 film ''Dracula: Dead and Loving it'' has a scene where Dracula (Leslie Neilson)is trying to fly into Lucy's bedroom, only to be concussed by the shutter as she ''closes'' the window..... hmmm. Can't be plagiarism, as in this book (1991) Magrat concusses her vampire by ''opening'' the shutters as he tries to fly in...

	the whole ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNjJghgfuc Happy Valley]]'' fairy-tale parody in ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''....		the whole ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNjJghgfuc Happy Valley]]'' fairy-tale parody in ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''....

Moishe Rosenbaum: link to APF

2022-02-26T22:14:35Z

link to APF

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			See [https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/witches-abroad.html The Annotated Pratchett File] for a complete set of annotations.

	This entity appears very briefly in {{WA}}.		This entity appears very briefly in {{WA}}.

AgProv at 21:13, 30 March 2017

2017-03-30T21:13:07Z

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	The 1995 film ''Dracula: Dead and Loving it'' has a scene where Dracula (Leslie Neilson)is trying to fly into Lucy's bedroom, only to be concussed by the shutter as she ''closes'' the window..... hmmm. Can't be plagiarism, as in this book (1991) Magrat concusses her vampire by ''opening'' the shutters as he tries to fly in...		The 1995 film ''Dracula: Dead and Loving it'' has a scene where Dracula (Leslie Neilson)is trying to fly into Lucy's bedroom, only to be concussed by the shutter as she ''closes'' the window..... hmmm. Can't be plagiarism, as in this book (1991) Magrat concusses her vampire by ''opening'' the shutters as he tries to fly in...

			the whole ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNjJghgfuc Happy Valley]]'' fairy-tale parody in ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''....



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Old Dickens: alph

2013-09-12T23:31:07Z

alph

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Old Dickens: cat

2013-09-10T17:54:18Z

cat

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	The 1995 film ''Dracula: Dead and Loving it'' has a scene where Dracula (Leslie Neilson)is trying to fly into Lucy's bedroom, only to be concussed by the shutter as she ''closes'' the window..... hmmm. Can't be plagiarism, as in this book (1991) Magrat concusses her vampire by ''opening'' the shutters as he tries to fly in...		The 1995 film ''Dracula: Dead and Loving it'' has a scene where Dracula (Leslie Neilson)is trying to fly into Lucy's bedroom, only to be concussed by the shutter as she ''closes'' the window..... hmmm. Can't be plagiarism, as in this book (1991) Magrat concusses her vampire by ''opening'' the shutters as he tries to fly in...



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Osiris: 1 revision: Book Namespace

2012-09-29T17:57:18Z

1 revision: Book Namespace

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AgProv at 21:58, 26 June 2012

2012-06-26T21:58:41Z

New page

This entity appears very briefly in {{WA}}.

It swims up to the boat containing [[Magrat Garlick]], [[Nanny Ogg]], [[Granny Weatherwax]] and some [[Dwarf Bread]], and announces, apropos of nothing, that today is its birthday. For its pains, it gets clobbered on the fingers with an oar by Granny Weatherwax, who watches it recede into the distance and listens to its swearing complaints dwindle to nothing.

The witches agree this was clearly a "troublemaker", and Granny ponders on what it wanted.

Were it not for the threat of invoking the attention of one of the most potent and dread forces operating anywhere in any fantasy fiction universe (touches iron, and nervously whispers ''The Lawyers of the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien''. Notes sword is not glowing blue: it is safe to continue) the casual reader might wonder if this is {{wp|Gollum|Gollum}}, from ''{{wp|The_Lord_of_the_Rings|The Lord of the Rings}}'', paying a passing visit to the Discworld. However, this is NOT a visit or a cameo role from a character licenced exclusively to New Line Cinema and the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien, and anyone mistaking this random character for '''Gollum(TM)''' is in fact seriously mistaken. Honestly. Just think of this character as ''the Frog-Like Humanoid Thing with a Birthday''. It will be safer, cheaper and less litigious this way.

The 1995 film ''Dracula: Dead and Loving it'' has a scene where Dracula (Leslie Neilson)is trying to fly into Lucy's bedroom, only to be concussed by the shutter as she ''closes'' the window..... hmmm. Can't be plagiarism, as in this book (1991) Magrat concusses her vampire by ''opening'' the shutters as he tries to fly in...