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John Henshaw was the archetypal Fred Colon for me.
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 18:17 |
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Jedit posted:John Henshaw was the archetypal Fred Colon for me. Oh yes, visually he’s spot on.
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 18:29 |
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The_Doctor posted:Oh yes, visually he’s spot on. More than just visually - his character in The Cops is essentially Fred Colon played straight.
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 19:18 |
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Jedit posted:More than just visually - his character in The Cops is essentially Fred Colon played straight. I'm drunk and read fried colon. That's all thank for reading. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 20:00 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm drunk and read fried colon. That's all thank for reading. My local Szechuan place does those in a sweet-bitter-spicy sauce with crushed red spicy peppers, and green Bell peppers. Absolutely delicious, like a whole plate of melt-in-your-mouth pork shoulder.
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 20:45 |
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Asgerd posted:My choice for Carrot would be Tom Hopper, since he combines a boyish face with the body of a cartoon strongman. Agreed. I was just thinking that while watching The Umbrella Academy.
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 20:52 |
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Just dust off his old costume from Merlin and dye his hair ginger and we're golden:
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# ? Aug 15, 2020 22:34 |
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mllaneza posted:My local Szechuan place does those in a sweet-bitter-spicy sauce with crushed red spicy peppers, and green Bell peppers. Absolutely delicious, like a whole plate of melt-in-your-mouth pork shoulder. OH YEAH? Well, sounds delicious.
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 01:24 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm drunk and read fried colon. That's all thank for reading. There's good eating on one of those.
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 01:33 |
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There are starving children in Muntab who'd be glad to have that!
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 03:56 |
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Mokinokaro posted:Overall, yeah. I still don't mind most of Vimes' look though. lol he's got the dis-organiser on his belt which they're absolutely going to make a thing in the lamest possible way, which is going to be terrible on top of all the other terrible things in this adaptation.
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 04:43 |
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Trin Tragula posted:It's always Reg Hollis and Tony Stamp off The Bill for people of a certain age from the UK, sorry This is the culturally correct casting with regards to the time of the book's publication, and kids like me who would read the books but also watch the first of the prestige TV dramas, The Bill.
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 07:11 |
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Entropic posted:lol he's got the dis-organiser on his belt which they're absolutely going to make a thing in the lamest possible way, which is going to be terrible on top of all the other terrible things in this adaptation. I think that might just be a cigar case.
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# ? Aug 16, 2020 12:01 |
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:To bad Brian blessed is too old, he would be a great archchancellor . Michael Sheen could be an acceptable substitute in my opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNvre0lsvvI (watch Staged, it's fun)
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 11:52 |
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I like Sheen but he's got this raging 'mental about to snap' to 'staggeringly fey' kind of energy. Would have made a good Coin from Sourcery, or Albert maybe. Greg Davies (sodding big n broad, comic actor) would be my bet for the Archchancellor. Or Clive Mantle, also generously proportioned. Patricia Routledge as Granny Weatherwax? Yay? Nay? Pam St Clements as Nanny Ogg, basically EastEnders anyway.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 20:31 |
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Sloth Life posted:Patricia Routledge as Granny Weatherwax? Yay? Nay? Not just Nay, but Hell Nay. Pat Routledge is much more of a Nanny Ogg - although of course she's best known for playing Hyacinth Bucket, on whom Lettice Earwig in TSALF was based. (Also she's past 90 and has been retired for 20 years.) The best Granny casting for me would be Kate Dickie. She's about ten years too young at 49, but that's actually an advantage because Granny has a notably unlined face.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 22:43 |
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Patricia Routledge for Archchancellor fite me.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 22:50 |
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Sloth Life posted:I like Sheen but he's got this raging 'mental about to snap' to 'staggeringly fey' kind of energy. Would have made a good Coin from Sourcery, or Albert maybe. I only know Greg Davies from the Taskmaster game show but that's enough to say that you are absolutely right.
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 23:04 |
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Rowan Atkinson was always Rincewind to me
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# ? Aug 17, 2020 23:11 |
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I think Tom Hiddleston could pull off a decent Rincewind, as he is in my head. He could sound depressed and put upon enough. Beachcomber fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Beachcomber posted:I think Tom Hiddleston could pull off a decent Rincewind, as he is in my head. He could sound depressed and put upon enough. I don’t know if the world can handle hot Rincewind
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 01:41 |
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The universe constantly screwing with hot rincewind would be a cool concept, like Death would be pissed that he doesnt die and hes also dreamy. But yeah, part of the charm of discworld is that its just odd people in a odd world, the setting and the profound humanism in the stories are the beautifull things.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 01:57 |
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Asgerd posted:There are starving children in Muntab who'd be glad to have that! hang on, where's Muntab? 3D Megadoodoo posted:Patricia Routledge for Archchancellor fite me. yes. YES
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 03:50 |
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SirSamVimes posted:I only know Greg Davies from the Taskmaster game show but that's enough to say that you are absolutely right. Alex Horne as the Bursar then.
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# ? Aug 18, 2020 04:57 |
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At what point did the Muntab Question switch to "Where's Muntab?" from their calendar counting down and no-one knew why?
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# ? Aug 19, 2020 22:06 |
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Bruceski posted:Alex Horne as the Bursar then.
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# ? Aug 19, 2020 22:15 |
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Mad Hamish posted:At what point did the Muntab Question switch to "Where's Muntab?" from their calendar counting down and no-one knew why? The Muntab Question was always "where's Muntab?" We just first heard about the Theocracy of Muntab because of their calendar.
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# ? Aug 19, 2020 23:30 |
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An Occasional Series Of Posts From Usenet, Vol 3 Back when it were all fields round here, there were two thriving hubs of discussion on Usenet, of late beloved memory, for Terry Pratchett's output. As a noted early adopter, the man himself frequently dropped by to add his two penn'orth, until he voluntarily withdrew around the turn of the millennium for fear of spurious copyright claims along the lines of "you're writing about Discworld tax collectors, I wrote about Discworld tax collectors on Usenet in 1989, you've clearly stolen my idea". alt.books.pratchett came about in 1996 as a lower-traffic, less silly, more focused space for more in-depth discussion of the books than was possible on the existing alt.fan.pratchett group. It worked pretty well and there's still plenty of stuff that came out of there which is worth reading. When things slow down in here, sometimes I go find something from there that seems worth revisiting. Previously: What the hell is Vetinari playing at in Jingo? Feet of Clay and the Fog This time, let's try something which isn't analysis of one particular book. Is Pterry going downhill? was posted in late 1998, after The Lost Continent and Carpe Jugulum; and before The Fifth Elephant. quote:Date: 25 Nov 1998 quote:From: Anna quote:Date: 26 Nov 1998 quote:From: Dave Howe quote:From: Ophelia quote:Date: 27 Nov 1998 quote:Date: 30 Nov 1998 quote:Date: 01 Dec 1998 quote:Date: 01 Dec 1998 The discussion continues after this, and focuses in more on the details of Carpe Jugulum and Jingo. Of course, there never really was another throwback after The Lost Continent. The setting continued to evolve, Rincewind took a (mostly) quiet retirement, the plot that at the time "nearly was" quickly solidified into The Truth, over the next ten years we got some of the books most often cited as people's favourites, and whatever one wants to say about the final end, I'm pretty sure he never started marking time.
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# ? Aug 23, 2020 19:13 |
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I miss AFP.
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# ? Aug 23, 2020 19:48 |
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The_Doctor posted:I miss AFP. Amish Faxpot?
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# ? Aug 23, 2020 20:11 |
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Trin Tragula posted:until he voluntarily withdrew around the turn of the millennium for fear of spurious copyright claims along the lines of "you're writing about Discworld tax collectors, I wrote about Discworld tax collectors on Usenet in 1989, you've clearly stolen my idea". Yeah a lot of authors did that because Marion Zimmer Bradley is a horrible person and a liar. TL;DR, she offered to buy a fanfic from a fanfic writer for a couple hundred dollars, the fanfic writer said 'okay so long as I get a coauthor credit, since I wrote it'. In response, Bradley sued the fan, then spun a story to all her author friends that SHE had been the one who got sued, and it was because a fan had written a fanfic that was close to a published book and the fan got mad. Tunicate fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Aug 23, 2020 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Amish Faxpot? alt.fan.pratchett, the main Usenet group for discussion of Pterry's works. I'm still in touch occasionally with most of what remains of the core. I didn't think any other actual AFPers were here apart from me, though.
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# ? Aug 23, 2020 22:16 |
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I mostly lurked, but it was a lot of fun to read Pratchett's posts. He was on there way before most creators used the Internet for that kind of thing. And he would sometimes talk about video games, which was nice for a kid who felt like he was the only one that enjoyed them sometimes.
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# ? Aug 23, 2020 22:18 |
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Tunicate posted:Yeah a lot of authors did that because Marion Zimmer Bradley is a horrible person and a liar. TL;DR, she offered to buy a fanfic from a fanfic writer for a couple hundred dollars, the fanfic writer said 'okay so long as I get a coauthor credit, since I wrote it'. In response, Bradley sued the fan, then spun a story to all her author friends that SHE had been the one who got sued, and it was because a fan had written a fanfic that was close to a published book and the fan got mad. well that link took me on a journey
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idonotlikepeas posted:I mostly lurked, but it was a lot of fun to read Pratchett's posts. He was on there way before most creators used the Internet for that kind of thing. And he would sometimes talk about video games, which was nice for a kid who felt like he was the only one that enjoyed them sometimes. Usenet actually had a lot of then or now famous writers participating in sometimes surprising newsgroups. By "a lot" I mean I know of like six.
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# ? Aug 23, 2020 22:30 |
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Tunicate posted:Yeah a lot of authors did that because Marion Zimmer Bradley is a horrible person and a liar. TL;DR, she offered to buy a fanfic from a fanfic writer for a couple hundred dollars, the fanfic writer said 'okay so long as I get a coauthor credit, since I wrote it'. In response, Bradley sued the fan, then spun a story to all her author friends that SHE had been the one who got sued, and it was because a fan had written a fanfic that was close to a published book and the fan got mad.
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 01:21 |
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Jedit posted:alt.fan.pratchett, the main Usenet group for discussion of Pterry's works. I'm still in touch occasionally with most of what remains of the core. I didn't think any other actual AFPers were here apart from me, though. We had this discussion a while back, but I was on about 1996 to 2005ish. Still keep in touch with more than a few of them.
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# ? Aug 24, 2020 01:34 |
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Drakyn posted:Someone better tell poor ol' Vulpes over in BSS then. the rumor has spread pretty darn far, and I'm not gonna kramer into a thread I don't follow to explain about how the whole thing got started by a horrible person's lies
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Trin Tragula posted:
The Lost Continent was pretty bad. It's one of the few Discworld books I haven't read several times (on the second reread I just gave up).
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:Nobby is technically human so it would be against his brand. Blessed's in no way too old. Remember, Ridcully's about the same age as Granny Weatherwax.
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