People, new and old, please introduce yourselves

Hello!
I used to be on the old board but since it went full of trollz etc I stopped posting and I have just found this board and I think it is fantastic!!!

My nickname is Blue named after my goregeous dog whom I love dearly, I've typed it twice because... well I don't know the computer just seemed to think it was a good idea *sigh*.
I am female and taking my GCSEs in 1 week (ARGH) and lastly and most important I am obsessed with anything and everything about Discworld though I do have some very strong objections to 'Where's My Cow' (I just don't like it and never will).

I think that it is awful to even suggest having a Discworld book made into a film. They are just too precious and unique scripting them would border only being sacraligous (sp?).

Anyway I first became involved in TP about 5 years ago when I stumbled into a small bookshop in the back of beyond somewhere. Having failed to find any Tolkein the bookkeeper pointed me too some pratchett and well I've never looked back.

My quote of the day is 'Be happy' because it has served me well so far and I am not about to change it.

See ya!

 

Hello to BlueBlue

....and also to:

Mowgli. I was named for Rembrandts Wife
Katcal. Headache all gone, je vous remerci.
Maljonic. Thank you for your welcome
QuothTheRaven. Ditto and cool name :cooler:

So now what? The game threads look interesting but I have no idea what it's all about or if you need specific experience to play. Any advice?

Also, can anyone tell me if there is real-time chat available with other Pratchett fans?

 

Hello everybody!
Umm, well, I'm a total newbie here and am still finding out how things work.
First of all: Can't see my screenname in the preview. It's peggster. Anyways.
I love this site! Really do. Don't know why it took me so long to have the idea to look up a site like this. I was looking for an audio book of T. P. for a friend of mine (he's got dyslexia), to introduce him to the discworld. Didn't find what I was looking for but I ended up here, so I guess that's okay.

I'll just answer the questions at the top of this thread now.

1) My screenname is motivated by an old friend of mine. Him and I used to be somewhat like Al and Peggy Bundy (believe me, he's totally Al's doppelgaenger!) at our working place. I don't really look like Peg, but we just seemed so... funny together to everybody else, I guess, I don't know. And the -ster is due to a game we used to play, or actually, to the guys we used to play it with.

2) I guess that's answered by now. Female, what else...
Oh, and lovin' it!

3) I'm 33 at the moment and I hail from a very small place in Germany, called Nehmten.

4) Nope. Don't even dare to think of that. CAN'T even imagine a "real" discworld movie. I prefer the people the way I have them pictured in my head. That's the reason I refuse to watch any of the "LOTR"-stuff.

5) Oh boy. Years ago I walked into a bookshop, looking for anything interesting. Something stopped me in front of Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods", and that was it. Been addicted ever since. (It was the British cover design, by the way. And those are the ones I kept/keep buying. - If possible.)

6) Don't think I have that. If at all it would be changing every day anyway, and I don't feel like trying to keep up. ;-)

Well, I haven't read too deep into the thread, so I don't know if there're any more questions.
But wouldn't it be more comfortable if the newest answers/post were on page one?

Just me asking a question, having no clue how to do a page like this. Love the games, though!

Greetings to everyone,
bye, Stefanie

P.S.: Wow, just noticed that unintentionally I've used HTML, didn't even know I knew how to do that. But luckily the computers are smarter than me (I? - Sorry, am German after all.)

P.P.S.: Next post won't be this long. Promise!

 

Wilkommen, peggster !

Don't worry about long posts, it's always good to get to know people when they arrive...
To get direct access to the last post in a thread, you can click on the little square page-thing next to the name of the last person to post, in the forum view...

 

Thanks for the welcome, Katcal, and also for the tip. I think I'll like it here!

 

Wow, well, I haven't used this board in quite a while now!
I suppose since I don't know whats gone on since, and probably forgotton by all, may as well pretend I'm a newbit..
Hello!

1) I just randomly thought of it, no real reason.. I also do not look/smell/talk like a moose, either.

2) Definatly male..

3) Old teenager/young adult, in the Midlands, England.

4) Ah-hah, didn't know the answer to this ages ago and still don't... But probably, it could be done

5) A friend, years ago now, but I have now read more than him! (I think all of them)

6) How many days 'til Christmas?

Well, thats that side sorted out.. I'll hopefully stick around for longer this time!
Btw I did notice that my tripod guest comic was put up.. yay that! Is it still going? I really need to catch up

 

welcome all newbies and welcome back Moosman.

Make sure you change your socks regularly and you'll fit right in...

 

Hey all newbits, hope you all enjoy the site......

 

Thanks, everybody, for the welcome!

So far I'm enjoying this place a lot.

 

Okay... buncha new people. I can deal. I'll just have to give a universal hello instead of greeting you individually.

So welcome.

 

1. Just a silly word in Afrikaans that means "me" :roll:

2. Female

3. 30 and I live in Bethlehem, South Africa.

4. I don't think so, it will loose it's magic.

5. A friend gave me Witches Abroad and I've been hooked since.

You can only get as far as you push

7 Douglas Adams

 

Welcome to the board Ekke......

 

Ekke ekke ekke ekke t'pang... (or something like that...)

Welcome, hope you enjoy this place of mad (people) creatures.

 

Thanx for the warm welcome guys, and I am having a great time!
Still freezing and my heater heats nothing above my ancles. :cry:
I hate it when the mountains next to us gets the snow and we only gets the cold :evil:
Have a great weel all! :lol:

 

Hi, Ekke. Welcome to the forum. That's a really nice shade of blue you got there.

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?

She's an oft unappreciated character who rarely gets a mention, I thought I'd give the old duck a whirl.

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)

Female!

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?

29, moving to Leeds next week to be with my boyfriend (awwww, how sweet!)

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)

In my mind, if I directed them, of course!

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?

I was browsing in WH Smiths at the tender age of about 9 or 10 and the colourful cover caught my eye...

6) what's your personal quote of the day?

Must try harder.

 

Welcome to everyone who has joined since the last time I welcomed everyone.

 

Welcome Queen Molly ! From the looks of your sane face, I think you'll fit in perfectly here

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
urquhart castle is my favourite castle here in scotland, fay means "fairy."

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)
female.

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
almost 30!!! and living in beautiful edinburgh, scotland, where i am soon to marry my scottish prince!

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)
possibly. most probably as an animated feature, perhaps good computer animation.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
my big brother was reading the light fantastic (many many many moons ago) and i nicked it (as i tended to do with his books).

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
an anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up. - proverbs 12:25

p.s. i was/am carrot4angua at the old terry pratchett site. as i am writing my masters thesis, buying a house, and getting married, i've been a rather busy girl and will continue to be, but i thought i would drop in and wave hello! and you are all invited to visit my online journal and see why i am so busy:

wendy lynn's web journal... - Bravenet Blog

p.p.s. my signature is being ornary - any suggestions?

 

Hey urquhartfay (Had to copy that... not an easy name..)

Welcome back.

As for your signature:
1) The color doesn't change because you are using HTML brackets instead of square brackets.

It should be:

Code:

 
[color=green]text[/color] 

2) Pictures aren't allowed in signatures, you're going to have to make due with the Avatar.

 

i tried it with square brackets and it still doesn't work. any other suggestions?

 

suggestion : forget the colour in your sig

But welcome all the same

 

Hello, Your Majesty.

And warm greetings to Greenie.

 

hi to everyone old and new

there will be quite a few people i have not said hi to yet but please accept my apology.

I would like eto welcome all those who i have not greeted and say there is no escape for you now and also
" the exit is in the rear, but only in special cases"

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?

It's my nickname and I guessed that all the Discworldy ones would be taken...

It's not strictly true I suppose, not in the Colon sense...

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)

Male

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?

I'm 28 from London

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)

I don't know, I would have said no until recent adaptations of LotR and Narnia impressed me beyond expectations. I'd be more than willing to take any part offered however!

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?

I really can't remember, I guess it must have been TCOM, I used to read everything that had that sort of cover so I was bound to find it eventually...

6) what's your personal quote of the day?

"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”

 

Welcome, Fatman. And I always heard it was "The collective IQ of a crowd equals the IQ of the stupidest member divided by the number of people participating."

 

Welcome Fatman !

Hope you enjoy our little corner of Pterriness

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?

Hmmmm, Gabba is so old, it comes From Gabrial but were Gabrial comes from im not sure, drunk night out i think,

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)

Male

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?

29 (just turned) and im In Ireland but from Wales

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)

I would like to see it tryed, I love the books so if it failed it would tarnish nothing, i would love to see Good Omens as a movie.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?

My mate Alister in School introduced me many moons ago...

6) what's your personal quote of the day?

FLat needs tidying but for now i can still make it to the sofa

 

Hi, Gab. Your avatar's a little stretched, but I think I can still make out the Death of Rats. Nice choice.

 

welcome all!!

 

...

 

1) My real name is Michael.
2) I am male, well, I was last time I checked... I think I still am...
3) 14 and Hull, England.
4) Nope, movies made of books are always worse than the book.
5) My dad bought me a copy of 'The Colour of Magic'.
6) 'enerything?' (A big typo by me, a combo of 'anything' and 'everything').

 

Welcome Fatman, Gabba, Puckbunny and Mikor.

Don't forget to change your socks regularly and you should fit in quite nicely*



*or don't change them at all - we can't really tell, this being the internet and all.

 

Lookit me! I'm new and this is my first post!

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
Someone suggested the username Nocturnal Emissions for another message board, since I stay up late and spout random things, as well as it being a reference to bodily functions. It's pretty cumbersome, though, so I tell people just to refer to me as Nox.

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)
Male

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
13, Melbourne.

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)
Not really, but I'm hoping.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
Big sister's bookshelf. When I was a young'un (still am) that was a goldmine of fantasy books.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." --Homer Simpson.

 

There was a Diablo-clone that I played a bit while waiting for Diablo II to be released. It was called Nox.

Welcome to the boards!

 

Welcome to everyone I missed since I lost my soul to Career.

 

Welcome to all the Newbits!! I certainly hope you enjoy your time here as I have.
Human, I too have lost my soul, but not to something as alturistic as a Career. I'm just a victim of soul sucking, regular, thankless, dead end work..sigh..but it pays the bills and keeps me in the lifestyle to which I have become accustomed. :lol:

 

Greetings, everyone

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
Well because I'm a dancer and that song represents pretty much the best dancing there is...and it's a snappy phrase

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.) female

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
18, eastern pennsylvania

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)
*eyes the rifle* Well it depends. I think that there are two ways of turning a book into a movie, that is, trying to capture a) the plot of the book (the Harry Potter movies) or b) the character of the book (hitchhiker's guide movies). I think a) would not be funny and b) would make people mad because they'd have to make the movie very different from the book.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
Random bookstore browsing. A favored hobby of mine.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
"I'm an atheist Irish Catholic."

Edit: I bolded (boldified?) the first question and failed to do so for any of the following questions. Silly me.

 

welcome i hope you enjoy it here!!!!


(run for it ill keep them distrasted while u make for the door, its too late for me but save yourself!!!)

*whistles innocently*

 

Hello AllThatJazz, welcome to the boards.

 

Welcome allthatjazz, don't take any notice of koshu, we are all nice people here... well... those of us who are people that is...

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?

If I told you wouldn't believe me! lets just say having as many cats as I do and also mothering everyone I meet to death kinda started the ball rolling!

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)

I have lumps on the front

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?

Old and small island girth by sea.

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)

No but I would really hope so!

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?

My Brother started reading them, I became interested after hearing him laughing himself stupid in the middle of the night!

6) what's your personal quote of the day?

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it, Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice

 

Hi everyone
I'm new here. I'm Terry Pratchett's fan from Poland. It was fun reading your discussions (especially some of them :lol: ) I hope it will be fun taking part in them too. I hope you won't eat me alive!

 

hey Candeleena, i hope you do have fun

p.s we don't eat people

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?

i happen to like hitch hiker's guide as well as discworld...

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)

female, and i quite understand with my history of gender neutral usernames.

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?

i'm currently 25 and from the glasgow area of scotland.

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? (note, this in no way shape or form asks about casting choices you'd like to see. i have a loaded rifle and i'm not afraid to use it.)

probably not... i'd still watch it anyway... and buy the dvd... and force everyone i know to watch it... etc.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?

found discworld2 on the psx for £5 second hand, that made me buy the rincewind trilogy.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?

umm... certainly not 'they're gonna taste great.'

 

Hi Candeleena, nice to meet the Terry fan from poland (poor Poland, only one fan, tough times ) And no, we don't eat people... Except Ba, and he prefers them in pies.

Hi hitchhiker, welcome. 42 is indeed an awesome number