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Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

nicholas...@gmail.com (NicholasIII@gmail.com) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:35:26 UT

On Nov 7, 11:52 pm, "Otter t." <otter...@silverwinggraphics.c om>
wrote:
Posh is (or was) a member of the Spice Girls, using the stage name
Posh Spice. She married David Beckham, one of the most successful
soccer players in English history. He was the guy the Los Angeles
Galaxy signed for $250 Million a few years back

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

donti...@gmail.com (Chris Zakes) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:28:33 UT

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:52:44 -0800 (PST), an orbital mind-control
I think Posh is a singer, married to Becks, a footballer (soccer
player for folks on this side of The Water.)
But I could easily be mistaken--I don't pay much attention to either
subject; I think recognize the names from headlines on the sidebar in

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

otter...@silverwinggraphics.com (Otter t.) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:52:44 UT

I didn't, for roughly the same reason Granny Weatherwax could
keep from visualizing a pink rhinoceros. Who are Posh and
Becks?

Re: UA cover - now with removed spoilers

stac...@gmail.com (Stacie) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:19:32 UT

On Nov 5, 8:21 am, Daibhid Ceanaideach <daibhidchened...@aol.com>
wrote:
Could very well be colour/color (choose one as appropriate) blindness
makes them cheaper. The extremely tiny nano-imp mentioned in TFE, I
think it was, commanded a pretty high price tag, a few hundred
dollars. So "better" imp features seem to cost extra.

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

steves...@invalid.com (steveski) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:16:47 UT

[snip]
Bwahahaha! Tea on the monitor.

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

daibhidchened...@aol.com (Daibhid Ceanaideach) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:54:31 UT

I can't check the book just now, but I'm afraid my recollection coincides
with Klaus.
Oh, yes, although I think they're both noticably brighter.
ISTR hearing somewhere that one of Girls Aloud was married to a
footballer as well.

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

defaultuse...@yahoo.com (Default User) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:21:30 UT

In my hardback edition, page 26. That's where Glenda first appears,
bringing the food to wizards' meeting.
Brian

Re: UA cover - now with added spoilers

redtigeriis...@iinet.net.au (redtiger) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:37 UT

I spent an hour scanning the book last night and I can't find the page I
read this on. Maybe Daibh can perform his magic?
I do not mean that Juliet is meant to be built like an Amazon, she is
described as being only slightly taller than Glenda and can be used to model
dwarf fashion. More that the stereotypical footballer's wife tends to be a

Re: Review: Moving Pictures

daibhidchened...@aol.com (Daibhid Ceanaideach) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:29:53 UT

I quite liked the "banged grains", but Pterry seems to agree with you,
since it's "popcorn" in Unseen Academicals.

Re: UA cover - now with removed spoilers

daibhidchened...@aol.com (Daibhid Ceanaideach) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:27:52 UT

The former (well, both): "Most pictures were painted in colour these
days. Only really cheap imps painted in black and white, even though Otto
insisted that monochrome 'vas an artform in itself'. But *printing*
colour..."
Yep, for the printing - but since the imps are *painters*, not printers,
you also need white to mix up the greys. And, having just checked the

Re: UA cover - now with removed spoilers

donti...@gmail.com (Chris Zakes) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:18:03 UT

On 5 Nov 2009 13:21:13 GMT, an orbital mind-control laser caused
It's been a while since I've read "The Truth", but is the the
iconographs themselves, or the newspaper versions of them that are
done cheaply in black & white?
(Although the argument that B&W pictures are an artform in themselves
is at least as old as the development of color film--I can recall it

Re: UA cover - now with removed spoilers

markfowera...@hotmail.com (Reader in Invisible Writings) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:56:58 UT

I had forgotten that... I had also forgotten to take into account that
Two Flower had brought a bit of 'alien' technology to AM and although
(once someone saw how, or even heard about it) it was clear it was done,
that does not mean that they could immediately copy it.
This reminds me of a bit in DA's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective

Re: Unseen Academicals (no spoilers)

spamd...@phonecoop.coop (Baba Yaga) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:24:46 UT

"Patrician" <ghj...@gmail.com> wrote, in alt.books.pratchett:
Certainly that last. I'm intrigued that you mention it, however,
because it suggests that you find it lacking in some of the books,
whereas I would see a sense of the absurd as intrinsic to all of them
- to Pterry's world view. Perhaps, however, it's less explicit and

Re: pratchett interview in new scientist

steves...@invalid.com (steveski) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:36:59 UT

[snip]
Wow! I didn't know that - Nature is too expensive for me nowadays (as is NS
<sigh>) but I'll check it out - thanks.

be carful

savin...@live.com (savy) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:53:30 UT

I saw this site and I like it so much, I'd like to see it to learn a
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