The WELL: inkwell.vue.117: Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time

#282: Dan Guy (dfowlkes) Sat 23 Jun 07 08:10

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:10:00 PDT

Pterry will be at the Library of Congress Book Festival this year, for those of you on the East coast. [Read entire topic]

#281: raisin d'etre (peoples) Sat 23 Jun 07 07:39

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:39:00 PDT

Over in the <cooking.> conference, we were talking about cake decorating, and somebody pointed us to the site of a wedding cake that may have been made by (or for?) the world's biggest Discworld fan. This is simply amazing:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~janefisk/discworld/discworld.htm [Read entire topic]

#280: Rebecca Atchison (nefertiti) Wed 8 Aug 01 14:22

Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:22:00 PDT

One of my lit professors ordained me as a graduation present. --Rev. Rebecca [Read entire topic]

#279: Bob 'rab' Bickford (rab) Wed 8 Aug 01 12:54

Wed, 08 Aug 2001 12:54:00 PDT

Blessed be! [Read entire topic]

#278: JaNell (goldennokomis) Wed 8 Aug 01 11:18

Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:18:00 PDT

Rev. Rab - meet Rev. JaNell, same church. [Read entire topic]

#277: JaNell (goldennokomis) Wed 8 Aug 01 11:13

Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:13:00 PDT

You're such an optimist. But all the lego practice will give him good eye-hand coordination, and he'll know how things fit together, whenever he decides to drop that extra letter, which I hope will not be in the next four years... [Read entire topic]

#276: Bob 'rab' Bickford (rab) Wed 8 Aug 01 10:48

Wed, 08 Aug 2001 10:48:00 PDT

Legos, Legs, just one letter apart..... [Read entire topic]

#275: Will Entrekin (willentrekin) Wed 8 Aug 01 06:14

Wed, 08 Aug 2001 06:14:00 PDT

That's *AWESOME*! [Read entire topic]

#274: JaNell (goldennokomis) Wed 8 Aug 01 05:13

Wed, 08 Aug 2001 05:13:00 PDT

How funny. Like adolescent American boys... Luckily my 14 yr old is still more interested in Legos. [Read entire topic]

#273: Linda Castellani (castle) Tue 7 Aug 01 22:55

Tue, 07 Aug 2001 22:55:00 PDT

From the most recent issue of _Ansible_:

_Lucy Sussex_ reports from Down Under on `a small marsupial called the Dibbler, rare, but saved from extinction. It's about the size of a large mouse with a bushy tail. One wonders if Terry Pratchett should contribute to their survival fund, given CMOT Dibbler in Discworld. However, one point of difference -- Dibblers belong to the antechinus family, which means they are famously sexually rapacious. The fact that at the end of the breeding season no males are left alive caused zoologists no end of puzzlement, until it was discovered that they'd gone without sleep and food in their sexual frenzy. Leaving a population of pregnant females....' [Read entire topic]