*FoC in OZ*
Terry Pratchett
Just a reminder to my Oz mates...
August 2 is the day by which, according to the publishers,
any bookshop in Oz *that has ordered* Feet of Clay should have it.
Now...don't you go proving them wrong...:-)
Terry Pratchett
John Wilkins
We'll let you know... :)
--
John Wilkins, Head of Communication Services, Walter and Eliza
Hall Institute of Medical Research
<http://www.wehi.edu.au/~wilkins/www.html><mailto:wil...@wehi.edu.au>
If a chicken could talk, we would not be able to understand why it
crossed the road... [apologies to Wittgenstein]
Lee Ann Rucker
Wow! A mere 2 months after Oz!
(Last year when I came over for Worldcon, the only things I bought were
Discworld books, that being the only important thing Britain had the US
didn't.)
On www.amazon.com (*the* place for TP books in the US - I got the
Gollancz _Maskerade_ there):
Hardcover
List: $20.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $18.00 -- You Save: $2.00(10%)
Published by Harper Prism
Publication date: October 1, 1996
ISBN: 0061052507
Not Yet Available: You may still order this book. We will ship it to you
when it is released by the publisher.
Paul Duncanson
Terry Pratchett <Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk> writes:
>Just a reminder to my Oz mates...
>August 2 is the day by which, according to the publishers,
>any bookshop in Oz *that has ordered* Feet of Clay should have it.
>Now...don't you go proving them wrong...:-)
Alas, that seems to be my job.
The following was meant to be a followup to an earlier note on the same
theme which, due to server problems, bounced back at me with one of those
annoying "follow failed" messages. It's still relevant so:
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Where or where is Feet of Clay?
References: <S.Scougall-24...@150.203.64.13> <838327...@unseen.demon.co.uk>
Terry Pratchett <Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk> writes:
>It appears that the curse of Gollancz/Reed Books has struck again.
>The theory was that the bulk of the copies (I think a very small number
>were airfreighted to some specialist shops) should have arrived by mid-June.
>But for some reason -- don't ask me, maybe when the postman knocked at
>Australia you were all in the shower, or there weren't enough stamps
>or something -- they didn't arrive until this month. I'm told that no
>shop in Australia that wants stock should be without it by August 2.
>Something like this happens practically every time. I prod buttock,
>a flaw is indentified which 'will not happen again'. But some other
>one does.
It's worse than that - Reed have been out of Eric since March. Some of
the hardcovers I ordered for the January 25th signing at Minotaur never
turned up despite promises that they were in transit from UK when I
ordered them 7 weeks before the event. IMHO the flaw is Reed themselves.
They have *never* been good at filling orders, releasing titles on time,
or keeping stock on hand. They are good at giving me pre-error-insertion
proofs of Discworld books I feel real guilty when each saddened fan
leaves without a copy of FoC and I've read it and also when I take their
gifts and then say things like:
When I heard Reed were getting the Aus rights to Gollancz I hid in my
corner and banged my head against the wall until it stopped hurting.
While they did do a great job getting Maskerade to us before Christmas I
think it might be time for someone to point out to both Gollancz and Reed
that *every* other major book distributor in the country would sell their
grannies into slavery or admit to watching Neighbours religiously if it
would get them the rights to just one Pratchett title (I really don't
think they wan't Gollancz, just Terry). And with maybe one exception I
can't think of any who would do a worse job.
Since writing that I've had a little chat with our Reed sales rep and he
claims also to be pissed off at the lack of Eric. He also told me that
FoC had been in their warehouse for some time and that management type
people[1] had decreed that it wouldn't be released before August 2...not
even to those horribly deserving booksellers who order hundreds of copies
and ask nicely. He mentioned a name. I won't post that name here
because (a) he asked me not to (b) the person named is probably not the
one ultimately responsible, merely one who is following orders and (c) I
doubt it would do any good.
So tomorrow we find out if they can be believed.
[1] People in the sense that tax auditors, door to door evangelists and
newspaper editors who believe SF conventions belong on the funny pages
are people. That is to say only technically.
--
______________________________________________________________________________
Paul "Sir Robin" Duncanson p...@otto.bf.rmit.edu.au
"The truth is out there...if you leave a message it'll get back to you."
______________________________________________________________________________
Steve Leahy
In the oration <838763...@unseen.demon.co.uk>, the orator known only as
Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk orated thus to this newsgroup:
> August 2 is the day by which, according to the publishers,
> any bookshop in Oz *that has ordered* Feet of Clay should have it.
>
> Now...don't you go proving them wrong...:-)
Johnny and the Dead only arrived August 1...
--
Steve Leahy (Steve...@anu.edu.au http://modjadji.anu.edu.au/steve)
Dept. Geography, ANU 0200 Australia
Plot hole, n: A device which allows an author to avoid the
difficult task of writing coherently...
Paul Duncanson
p...@bf.rmit.edu.au (Paul Duncanson) writes:
>Terry Pratchett <Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>Just a reminder to my Oz mates...
>>August 2 is the day by which, according to the publishers,
>>any bookshop in Oz *that has ordered* Feet of Clay should have it.
>>Now...don't you go proving them wrong...:-)
>Alas, that seems to be my job.
<snip!>
>So tomorrow we find out if they can be believed.
Well, it's tomorrow. As of 6pm, August 2nd 1996 no copies of Feet of
Clay have appeared at Minotaur in Melbourne. A brief wander through two
other bookstores on my way home showed none there either. First thing
Monday morning I'll phone Reed and say some rude words to them. Would
anyone care to suggest some good ones to use?
Steven Scougall
In article <Steve.Leahy-02...@della.anu.edu.au>,
Steve...@anu.edu.au (Steve Leahy) wrote:
>In the oration <838763...@unseen.demon.co.uk>, the orator known only as
>Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk orated thus to this newsgroup:
>
>> August 2 is the day by which, according to the publishers,
>> any bookshop in Oz *that has ordered* Feet of Clay should have it.
>>
>> Now...don't you go proving them wrong...:-)
>
>Johnny and the Dead only arrived August 1...
Well I went and checked at Dymocks yesterday (August 2nd) and guess what,
FoC wasn't in. Upon asking them when it should be in they got all
confused and said it *should* have been in.
Things aren't all that rosy.
Till next our future pathways cross,
Steven Scougall
(s940...@student.anu.edu.au)
(http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/2262/)
Keith Willoughby
In article <320106...@eng.sun.com>, Lee Ann Rucker
<leeann...@eng.sun.com> writes
>(Last year when I came over for Worldcon, the only things I bought were
>Discworld books, that being the only important thing Britain had the US
>didn't.)
And cricket.
--
Keith Willoughby, Swansea, Wales
Free the Coxless Four.
Turnpike evaluation. For Turnpike information, mailto:in...@turnpike.com
Clemens Schmitz
Keith Willoughby wrote:
> In article <320106...@eng.sun.com>, Lee Ann Rucker
> <leeann...@eng.sun.com> writes
> >(Last year when I came over for Worldcon, the only things I bought were
> >Discworld books, that being the only important thing Britain had the US
> >didn't.)
>
> And cricket.
She said *important*
Clemens
who still thinks cricket has something to do with racial memory
--
'The first ten million years were the worst', said Marvin,
'and the second ten million years, they were the worst too.
The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all.
After that I went into a bit of a decline.'
-Douglas Adams-
Vorpal Bunny(TM)
Keith Willoughby (ke...@cowtown.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <320106...@eng.sun.com>, Lee Ann Rucker
: <leeann...@eng.sun.com> writes
: >(Last year when I came over for Worldcon, the only things I bought were
: >Discworld books, that being the only important thing Britain had the US
: >didn't.)
: And cricket.
I would have placed Orange Hooch and a Cadbury's Crunchie above Cricket.
Besides, I believe that in some deep, dark recesses of the American
psyche, you will find those people who not only like Cricket,
but.....*CAN ALSO UNDERSTAND ALL OF THE RULES!!!* We can't say the same
about Orange Hooch.
--
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\\-\\ |_\ idiots following behind him, moaning, 'He's gonna die, he's /_|
( X-X) |_/ gonna die'." - Anonymous *GERMAN* Critic in Oberammergau. \_|
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Random Companion
In article <nUoE+pAP...@cowtown.demon.co.uk>, Keith Willoughby
<ke...@cowtown.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <320106...@eng.sun.com>, Lee Ann Rucker
><leeann...@eng.sun.com> writes
>>(Last year when I came over for Worldcon, the only things I bought were
>>Discworld books, that being the only important thing Britain had the US
>>didn't.)
>
>And cricket.
And Tower Bridge. (and a couple of thousand years of assorted history)
--
Random Companion
"Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice. Somewhere else
the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."
-Survival
Ridcully the Brown
Vorpal Bunny(TM) wrote:
>
> Keith Willoughby (ke...@cowtown.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> : In article <320106...@eng.sun.com>, Lee Ann Rucker
> : <leeann...@eng.sun.com> writes
> : >(Last year when I came over for Worldcon, the only things I bought were
> : >Discworld books, that being the only important thing Britain had the US
> : >didn't.)
>
> : And cricket.
>
> Besides, I believe that in some deep, dark recesses of the American
> psyche, you will find those people who not only like Cricket,
> but.....*CAN ALSO UNDERSTAND ALL OF THE RULES!!!* We can't say the same
> about Orange Hooch.
Don't you mean people who KNOW the rules? How many Merkins would
actually UNDERSTAND the rules?
Byeeeeeeeeeeeee
Ridcully the Brown
Andrew Raphael
In article <6duEN$ASqRB...@espace.demon.co.uk>
Random Companion <Random_C...@espace.demon.co.uk> writes:
>Tower Bridge. (and a couple of thousand years of assorted history)
What's Tower Bridge got to do with a couple of thousand years of assorted
history? It's only a hundred [1] years old. A triumph of sensitive
development, I'll grant you, but historic only for the sheer industrial
archaeology of it all.
[1] Engineered by John Wolfe-Barry in 1894, it's a regular Victorian
mild steel (or iron?) steam-powered bridge tricked up to look Tudor so
it blends into the neighbourhood.
--
Andrew Raphael <rap...@research.canon.com.au>
"Oh! I see, it's your birthday. It's your big day, and I forgot."
Johnathan Geoffrey HUGHES
Murky B (ma...@monark.ftech.co.uk) wrote:
: [3] Entirely accurately IMHO - I only agree with Keith insofar as "we
: have cricket, merkins don't" - as for the "worthwhile" bit, well . . .
[brandishing a harrow size cricket bat]
All right . . who was it who said cricket is not worthwhile?! I am not
amused . . .
--
Johnathan G. Hughes Esq mailto:jhu...@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au
http://hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au/~jhughes
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Do you think picking someone up by the ankles and bouncing their head on the
floor comes under the heading of Striking a Superior Officer?"
-Constable Carrot, "Guards! Guards!"
(c) Terry Pratchett, 1989
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Keith Willoughby
In article <4u3nmv$e...@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>, Johnathan Geoffrey HUGHES
<jhu...@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au> writes
>Murky B (ma...@monark.ftech.co.uk) wrote:
>
>: [3] Entirely accurately IMHO - I only agree with Keith insofar as "we
>: have cricket, merkins don't" - as for the "worthwhile" bit, well . . .
>
>[brandishing a harrow size cricket bat]
>All right . . who was it who said cricket is not worthwhile?! I am not
>amused . . .
[brandishing a rather small bail]
Yeah, and I'm right behind him. Granted, about 13000 miles behind. But
there's intent there.
--
Keith Willoughby, Swansea, Wales
Free the Coxless Four.
Turnpike evaluation. For information, see http://www.turnpike.com/
John Fouhy
In article <32046533...@news.ftech.net>,
Murky B <ma...@monark.ftech.co.uk> wrote:
> [1] Who was it who said that "Cricket is the lowest form of Animal
> Life"[2][3]
I dunno, but I do know someone who said that Cricket is a game played on a
higher level, unattainable by normal human minds.. [1]
-=)> John <(=-
[1] No, I won't tell you who. You should know.
Brian Grinter
Terry Pratchett <Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Just a reminder to my Oz mates...
>August 2 is the day by which, according to the publishers,
>any bookshop in Oz *that has ordered* Feet of Clay should have it.
WAHOO!!!!
{Brian does his best Homer Simpson impersonation)
Brian Grinter
Sydney, Australia
bgri...@wisenet.net.au
ph 61 2 6228970
Vorpal Bunny(TM)
Murky B (ma...@monark.ftech.co.uk) wrote:
: X-No-Archive: Yes
: At dawn of the third age of mankind Johnathan Geoffrey HUGHES posted.
: The date is 5 Aug 1996 02:53:19 GMT, the name of the place is
: alt.fan.pratchett:
: >[brandishing a harrow size cricket bat]
: >All right . . who was it who said cricket is not worthwhile?! I am not
: >amused . . .
: Ahh, there's nothing quite like the sound of plastic against plywood
: in the summertime . . . . .
I dunno. I've been doing it all summer, but it's not as exciting as I
thought it'd be.... Maybe I'll try hitting my roommates instead.
Random Companion
In article <4u4g2q$6...@mama.research.canon.com.au>, Andrew Raphael
<rap...@research.canon.com.au> writes
>In article <6duEN$ASqRB...@espace.demon.co.uk>
>Random Companion <Random_C...@espace.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>>Tower Bridge. (and a couple of thousand years of assorted history)
>
>What's Tower Bridge got to do with a couple of thousand years of assorted
>history? It's only a hundred [1] years old. A triumph of sensitive
>development, I'll grant you, but historic only for the sheer industrial
>archaeology of it all.
>
1) Tower bridge. Some merkin bloke bought London Bridge, and had it
shipped to Merkia thinking he'd bought Tower Bridge.
2) A couple of thousand years of assorted history. Well, we've got a lot
more of it than you. Unless you count Native American hostory, which is
probably a little harder to research. Go back a couple of hundred years,
and you get back to other people's history. Same with Oz. Then again, I
can talk, my family tree contains Scottish, Irish, and Ukranian via
Canada, and probaby quite a bit that no-one's bothered to mention.
--
Random Companion
"I can't hear, sorry. What's he saying?"
-CyberLeader David Banks, Making of Silver Nemesis
Andrew Raphael
In article <sPOhJvAe...@espace.demon.co.uk>
Random Companion <Random_C...@espace.demon.co.uk> writes:
>1) Tower bridge. Some merkin bloke bought London Bridge, and had it
>shipped to Merkia thinking he'd bought Tower Bridge.
I have a suspicion that they knew exactly what they were getting.
I've sneaked off behind your back to Alta Vista and it gave me this
http://www.lakehavasucity.com/bridge.htm
which describes the history of the London Bridges, how the 1825 bridge was
moved to Arizona, how much it cost, and how the tender was figured out.
Franko Franicevich
In article <4u75et$s...@mippet.ci.com.au>, bgri...@wisenet.net.au (Brian
Grinter) wrote:
> Terry Pratchett <Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> >Just a reminder to my Oz mates...
>
> >August 2 is the day by which, according to the publishers,
> >any bookshop in Oz *that has ordered* Feet of Clay should have it.
>
> WAHOO!!!!
> {Brian does his best Homer Simpson impersonation)
>
Hey! TP!!
It's all very well going on about oz, but What about the mainland here?
IE.. When do we see it in NZ???
--
Franko Franicevich, http://www.tripod.com/~SilverMage
Email: ffr...@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sean Yeomans
Keith Willoughby wrote:
>In article <4u3nmv$e...@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>, Johnathan Geoffrey HUGHES
><jhu...@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au> writes
>>Murky B (ma...@monark.ftech.co.uk) wrote:
>>
>>: [3] Entirely accurately IMHO - I only agree with Keith insofar as "we
>>: have cricket, merkins don't" - as for the "worthwhile" bit, well . . .
>>
>>[brandishing a harrow size cricket bat]
>>All right . . who was it who said cricket is not worthwhile?! I am not
>>amused . . .
>
>[brandishing a rather small bail]
>
>Yeah, and I'm right behind him. Granted, about 13000 miles behind. But
>there's intent there.
As well, I'm two steps behind and slightly to the right.
[brandishing a Krikitt ball and practicing how to say "whop"]
One question though. Which silly bugger in England came up with a sport
that requires five days (and used to require as long as it took) of *no
rain*?
TJ Wilkinson
In <ffra001-0708...@uglh6.cs.auckland.ac.nz>, ffr...@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Franko Franicevich) writes:
> It's all very well going on about oz, but What about the mainland here?
>IE.. When do we see it in NZ???
Never. We are doomed to skip over half the posts on AFP for the rest
of our lives. We will never discover the further adventures of FOC and
what significant character TP is going to introduce and kill off this
time. All is doom and destruction and misery.
Tracy (who is not coping well with this winter thing)
*********************************************
t.wil...@student.canterbury.ac.nz
"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you
very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite
as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained." - J. K. Jerome.
Jason Mulligan
In article <4u75et$s...@mippet.ci.com.au>, Brian Grinter writes:
> Terry Pratchett <Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >August 2 is the day by which, according to the publishers,
> >any bookshop in Oz *that has ordered* Feet of Clay should have it.
>
> WAHOO!!!!
> {Brian does his best Homer Simpson impersonation)
Well, it's August 8th and still none of the local stores have it. I hope it
turns up soon.
-
Jason Mulligan
E-Mail to: ma...@valinor.hna.com.au
ou...@net-unix.newcastle.edu.au
"If you want my advice, make for Rivendell. That journey should not prove
too perilous, though the Road is less easy than it was, and it will grow
worse as the year fails."
-- Gandalf, "Three is Company"
ppint.
- hi. in afparticle, <01bb8440$e81cde40$65a8...@sysop.global.co.za>,
sea...@global.co.za "Sean Yeomans" demanded enlightenment:
> Keith Willoughby wrote:
> > In article <4u3nmv$e...@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>,
> > Johnathan Geoffrey HUGHES <jhu...@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au> writes
> >> Murky B (ma...@monark.ftech.co.uk) wrote:
> >>: [3] Entirely accurately IMHO - I only agree with Keith insofar as "we
> >>: have cricket, merkins don't" - as for the "worthwhile" bit, well . . .
> >>[brandishing a harrow size cricket bat]
> >>All right . . who was it who said cricket is not worthwhile?! I am not
> >>amused . . .
> >[brandishing a rather small bail]
> >
> >Yeah, and I'm right behind him. Granted, about 13000 miles behind. But
> >there's intent there.
>
> As well, I'm two steps behind and slightly to the right.
>
> [brandishing a Krikitt ball and practicing how to say "whop"]
>
> One question though. Which silly bugger in England came up with a sport
> that requires five days (and used to require as long as it took) of *no
> rain*?
>
>
- ...which is why the english are so bad at it ?... -
- _no-one_; "it's traditional" <g>...
- i think i dimly remember being told that the game derives
ultimately from the pastime of anglo-saxon shepherds, who had
increasing amounts of leisure time as their norman overlords
progressively killed off all the wolves in england, and were
in no great hurry to advise their lords and masters of the same...
- _slight_ supporting evidence for this comes in (much later)
paintings of village cricket matches, where the bats being so
bucolicly ideally wielded have a pronounced curve at the bottom
end, not totally disimmilar to early hockey sticks, and slightly
reminiscent of a shepherd's crook (also the origin of the episco-
pelian crozier)...
- love, ppint.
--
"the life of a vegetable is of no interest to anyone whatsoever -
including to the vegetable in question. i speak from personal experience."
- ppint. at the sf, fantasy and horror book and role-playing game shop,
interstellar master traders, lancaster
John Fouhy
In article <839854...@i-m-t.demon.co.uk>,
ppint. <pp...@i-m-t.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[Cricket]
> - i think i dimly remember being told that the game derives
> ultimately from the pastime of anglo-saxon shepherds, who had
I read somewhere that, prior to being the Great and Noble Tradition of
the British Empire [1] that it is today, it was shorter, the rules were
somewhat different (no overarm bowling [2] was perhaps the only major
difference), and rich upper-class gentlemen would gamble on the outcomes.
-=)> John <(=-
[1] Lessee.. India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, England, Australia, New Zealand..
who else've we got? Were the Windies a British colony?
[2] I could make a nasty comment about Australians here, but I shall
refrain..
Random Companion
In article <4upi2b$e...@asgard.actrix.gen.nz>, John Fouhy <jfouhy@atlanti
s.actrix.gen.nz> writesLet's face it, the only thing we brits are actually any good at is
getting beaten at our own game.
--
Random Companion
"I'm a trained actor reduced to the status of a bum!"
-Withnail and I
Mike
In article <4$L4GOAVU...@espace.demon.co.uk>
Random_C...@espace.demon.co.uk "Random Companion" writes:
> Let's face it, the only thing we brits are actually any good at is
> getting beaten at our own game.
We aren't actually that bad, we just pick stupid opponents. Germany for
football and Australia for cricket. Swap them around and we would do much
better. Mind you, we'd have won that last test if they had have picked
Darren Gough. Not that I'm biased or anything.
Mike.
I.J. Bush
In article <4$L4GOAVU...@espace.demon.co.uk>, Random Companion <Random_C...@espace.demon.co.uk> writes:
|> In article <4upi2b$e...@asgard.actrix.gen.nz>, John Fouhy <jfouhy@atlanti
|> s.actrix.gen.nz> writes
|> >In article <839854...@i-m-t.demon.co.uk>,
|> >ppint. <pp...@i-m-t.demon.co.uk> wrote:
|> >[Cricket]
|> getting beaten at our own game.
And, judging by the last test, we're getting worse at that ;(
|>
|> --
|> Random Companion
|> "I'm a trained actor reduced to the status of a bum!"
|> -Withnail and I
Ian
Rob Cotterill
> : in the summertime . . . . .
>
> I dunno. I've been doing it all summer, but it's not as exciting as I
> thought it'd be.... Maybe I'll try hitting my roommates instead.
>
Brockian ultra cricket, anyone?
Rob (the ergonomist).
--
Finally, I discovered a way to create lines longer than 80 columns, even
on term
Kat
In article <3211C7...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>,
Rob Cotterill <r...@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>Vorpal Bunny(TM) wrote:
>>
>> Murky B (ma...@monark.ftech.co.uk) wrote:
>> : X-No-Archive: Yes
>>
>> : Ahh, there's nothing quite like the sound of plastic against plywood
>> : in the summertime . . . . .
>>
>> I dunno. I've been doing it all summer, but it's not as exciting as I
>> thought it'd be.... Maybe I'll try hitting my roommates instead.
>
>Brockian ultra cricket, anyone?
>
Wooop! Wooop! Wooop! Wrong newsgroup alert! Take that ergonomist
outside and have him shot for even mentioning *unmentionable author*s
stuff. (Yes I am in a funny mood - put it down to lack of supervisor,
results and time before the transfer report deadline.)
(The One True) Kat
--
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LONDON. SW7 U http://hotrod.mt.ic.ac.uk/lchristo/kate.html
Noel Foster
John Fouhy (jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
> [1] Lessee.. India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, England, Australia, New Zealand..
> who else've we got? Were the Windies a British colony?
Only the bits that keep beating us.
Noel
--
When a person puts his best foot forward and it gets stepped on - that's life.
Dr. Laurence Peter, 5000 Gems of Wit & Wisdom.
Ridcully the Brown
Kat wrote:
>
> In article <3211C7...@hplb.hpl.hp.com>,
> Rob Cotterill <r...@hplb.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
.
> >
> >Brockian ultra cricket, anyone?
> >
>
> Wooop! Wooop! Wooop! Wrong newsgroup alert! Take that ergonomist
I was under the impression that it was Wop and not Woop. Then again
its been a while since my last game of Brockian ultra cricket.
Byeeeeeeeeeeeee
Ridcully the Brown
Sean Yeomans
Kat <n...@ic.ac.uk> wrote in article <+2b*yZ...@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>...
> >>
> >> Murky B (ma...@monark.ftech.co.uk) wrote:
> >> : X-No-Archive: Yes
> >>
> >> : Ahh, there's nothing quite like the sound of plastic against plywood
> >> : in the summertime . . . . .
> >>
> >> I dunno. I've been doing it all summer, but it's not as exciting as I
> >> thought it'd be.... Maybe I'll try hitting my roommates instead.
> >
> >
>
> Wooop! Wooop! Wooop! Wrong newsgroup alert! Take that ergonomist
> stuff. (Yes I am in a funny mood - put it down to lack of supervisor,
> results and time before the transfer report deadline.)
>
> (The One True) Kat
Now you have to run twenty(?) feet away and apologise.
Besides, the only people who get to play games on the disc are the
Dunmanifesting crowd so you have to borrow sports from lesser, only mortal,
authors.
--
"A lesser man would surely have perished"
- Robert Rankin
Andrew Raphael
In article <4upi2b$e...@asgard.actrix.gen.nz>
jfo...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (John Fouhy) writes:
>[1] Lessee.. India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, England, Australia, New Zealand..
>who else've we got? Were the Windies a British colony?
The ones that play cricket were. I don't think they play cricket in
Haiti, for example. I guess the Canadians don't play cricket at first
class level. However, I understand the Montreal Expos are an excellent
baseball team. There's South Africa, & Zimbabwe too
>[2] I could make a nasty comment about Australians here, but I shall
>refrain..
That's gamesmanship for you ...