People, new and old, please introduce yourselves

I don't believe it... there must be other Polish fans, only in hiding :badgrin:
Polish fans, own up!

// edit: wanted to add answers:
I see there's an obligatory list of questions, there we go!
1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
It's cute and I thought the name would make up for the acute lack of cuteness in my life

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

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
I'm a 37 year old crone. Location: Poland (I'm not sure what rock variety I have grown on, I have a suspicion it was just silt)

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck?
NO. whatever they do, it will positively SUCK which would be a SHAME

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
Crivens, I don't remember, discworld just somehow stumbled into me years ago and we've been together ever since

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
My favourite professional quote (me being a teacher): He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. Miss Tick agrees with me upon this subject.

NOW once again, hi everybody!

 

Mr_Cake was chosen because I am married to someone who...makes cakes.
( For proof see http://homepages.tesco.net/~tony.fisk/wedding/cake.htm and before you ask, yes it is a cake)

Mr - yes

Almost as old as the author himself, and in the wilds of Hampshire, too

We have the technology to make Discworld work on screen. But look what happened to HHGG.........you need ALL the cast to be right, not half

I was intrigued by Josh Kirby's cover art, and drawn in

My quote of any day is "sometimes things that look like things are more like things than things"

or just "Buggrit"

 

Welcome Mr Cake ! Wow, that is some cake !!! :shock:

Are we allowed to ask about Mrs Cake, or do you stick to post office regulations ?

 

Mrs Cake is Jane.

She has made more cakes than I have had hot dinners (because if there is a cake to be made, dinner is on hold)

A'Tuin was made for our daughter's wedding, and eventually (when we have recovered from it) I will be adding a special gallery to Jane's website to show that cake alone. She will never make another like it...........unless a particular person asks, of course!

 

hello mr cake

 

Congratulations to ex-miss Cake and all my awe goes to the amazing person who made that cake !!! May that particular person one day find this wonderful thing and reward you all as is fitting

 

#is in shock#

That is one amazing cake.

Impressive.

Wow.

 

Actually, we've been waiting for years for someone to ask for a DW-related cake, and had to rely on our daughter in the end.

Mind you - she was rather emotional about cutting it!

I want to do a Luggage cake. At least there would be lots of cake in it....

 

An endless supply of cake !!!! That would be awesome !

 

Yeah!
The Luggage!
But don't do it hollow, do it with stuff inside, so a)there is more cake and b)it would look cooler.

How did she do all the details and stuff?
With the icing?

 

The turtle is a fruit cake with marzipan & icing, the front flippers and head are cake and marzipan, and the rear flippers marzipan only. The elephants are marzipan modelled on wire "skeletons" and the disc itself is marzipan and icing on a normal cake board.

My younger son did the base colouring of the turtle with food colours, and Jane finished it off with shimmer metallics. The disc landmass was done with food colours on icing, the mountains being marzipan. If you look carefully, there's even a Wyrmberg somewhere. Rimfall was achieved with liquid icing encouraged to dribble over the edge with a cocktail stick.

Once I get sorted out, I'll get some detail pix on Jane's website for anyone who's interested...

 

Yes please!
It looks absolutely amazing.

 

Welcome Mr Cake. That is an awesome cake. :shock: Cutting it up must have been heartbreaking.

 

When it's done, I'll post here. You'll be the first to know!

 

Thank you

I'll stop bugging you about it now!
lol

 

I promised you'd be the first to know. Ladies & Gentlemen......for more details of Jane's Discworld Cake, go to

http://www.janescakes.co.uk

........and click on the link to the Discworld page

Hope you like it!

 

Hi, I just registered in today. I'm Australian and I've been reading Discworld novels for about six years now. Just wanted to say Hi :roll:
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Megan_Foxy live

 

I knew I recognized that....

I've just gained 2 nerd points

 

Ha, I thought it was Magneto. -2 nerd points for me.

Edit: actually, I still think it's Magneto. Unless it was a Baldur's Gate avatar previously but was then changed. In which case, nerd points for all!

 

He has changed the avatar since Garner's comment CJ, and it definately looks more like Magneto than anything I can think of right now...

 

Hey everyone, yes, I did change my avater. Looks like I screwed up alot of people with that (sorry) It was Baldur's gate but I changed it to Magneto the arch-nemesis of the x-men. Any now for the questions...

1. I'm not sure why I chose "Silvermoth," I used to call myself "The black moth" on imdb.com but decided I preferred Silvermoth instead.
2. Lol, I am male.
3. I am 19 years old and I live in the merry country of Australia.
4. Lol again. I would be interested in a discworld movie, I mean, I was one of the naysayers that said Lord of the Rings could never be translated well into a movie and look how that turned out! With the right people, I think it could be an amazing series of movies.
5. One of my close friends turned me onto Discworld because I enjoy fantasy novels but am so sick of the deathly serious tones prevalent in all of them. He turned me onto Discworld and my first book was Small god which i didn't quite enjoy but when I read "Equal rites", I was hooked!
6. One of my favourite quotes is "If the Swan be nesting high, then floods are expected; if only the head of the Swan may be seen, they have arrived abruptly." From the Discworld Almanack (February, the year of the Prawn)
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Jozephina cam

 

Hi, Catriona is my real name, but everyone calls me Cat, which should lead everyone to realise I'm female (either that or really, really afflicted).

I'm 21 and live in Cumbria at the moment but I've been at uni in Newcastle for the last three years.

I'd love to see a Wee Free Men film, it could be perfect but I'm not sure if I trust anyone to do the book justice. Probably nothing could match up to the images conjured in your mind.

My dad loves science fiction and fantasy and I was always looking for more books to read- one day he recommended The Colour of Magic and the obsession was born.

Quote of the day is "soy un gecko espanol"- I am a Spanish gecko (my dad's trying to teach me Spanish, and I pick up on random things).

 

Just realised I should probably say that I live in the north of England and not just name random cities.

 

Wow that smilie just made me smile in real life. Hello Maljonic

 

Hi! I'm going to have to use a smilie to express my smiling now (which you obviously can't see) there you go

 

Lesson 1: If you can't figure out how to put a tilda above your n, it is exceptable to substatue ny.

Lesson 2: espanol is male. You said in your intro that you are female

Therefore: instead of "espanol" you should have wrote "espanyola".
(Sorry, I just could not help myself).

 

I know that's male, I asked my dad how I could say "I am a Spanish gecko" because I'd seen a gecko in Spain, that we called Sanchez, and I was writing a postcard and including a greeting from him. Therefore it's more like a quote, than me saying I actually am a (male) Spanish gecko

PS. "acceptable" not "exceptable"

 

and "substitute" not "substatue"

 

unless this is some form of ebonics?

 

Hello Hsing

 

It is kind of Ironic that my spelling/grammer is better in spanish (my second language) than in english (my primary language).

 

haha that's okay; we can give each other lessons.

Lessons we have learned so far: I am not a male gecko, and I can't use tildas

 

Another lesson: Sharing is Caring

Also: Do not anger Ba. Or Garner. Or anyone, really

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
I was eating a tart fruit, and just about everything else was taken name wise...

2) Are you male or female? Female

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into? In my 30s and I live in CA, USA

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? I have faith!

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett? My cousin made me read Men At Arms when that first came out.. I was hooked!

6) what's your personal quote of the day? You can't make me.

 

Welcome

Northern California or Southern.

 

Welcome !

 

Welcome to all and I hope you enjoy the site

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
I married an orangutan running a library.

2) Are you male or female? Female

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into? 37, currently residing in South Korea

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? Like what others have said, I have faith! The Hogfather stills look promising.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett? My sister had me read Wyrd Sisters. It was a book that made her laugh. I had to get other books and with Sourcery, I was hopelessly addicted.

6) what's your personal quote of the day? You don't like it, you can kiss my furry little butt.

 

Hello to all the new people I haven't said hello to and any one else who needs one. Mrs. Librarian I liked your quote .

 

1) It's a reference to Thud!. Explaining it exactly would be a spoiler so I'll just say that it has to with Sam Vimes and a certain malevolent peice of wall art.

2) Extremely male. Um. In a very def'nite way. Unmistakeably.

3) 20, New york

4) It depends. I'm sure Terry could write a great movie in a discworld setting, but I think it would be very difficult to adapt an existing book to the screen.

5) My friend's mother's best friend gave me a copy of the Color of Magic and it's all history from there.



6)
Me: it hurts most when I do the opposing motion.
Brother: so when you stretch the muscle?
Me: I rolled out of bed this morning and almost blew an o-ring trying to open the bathroom door
Brother: yep, that sounds like soreness to me.

You had to be there.

 

welcome.

 

I feel so welcome. It's almost as though we all share some nameless hobby or interest. uncanny! :shock:

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
Well, its a half remembered name from a book I can't find, so I added bits til I was happy, and ended up with Az (easier to type...)
2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)
Physically female, but slap bang in the middle mentally... (work that one out, I can't!)
3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
18, til November the 15th, Exeter, south end of the M5
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.)
It would be possible, with the right people, but very tricky... some would love it, others loathe it, but thats life
5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
Hmmm, my mum recommended them from a friend who had read them... I started with the Colour of Magic, and look where it got me!
6) what's your personal quote of the day?
"And I'm supposed to help you out of the evilness of my heart?" Spike, from Buffy the vampire slayer.

How do you get quotes to appear in your siggy?

Cheers, Az

 

Thank you, for welcoming me, and your help!
Az

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
1) I represent the stereotypical 14-year-old boy* reader of Discworld...except I’m 24**.

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)
2) *See 1)

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
3) **See 1). Reside in America.

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.)
4) Yes. But it would be a good idea to have never read the book first, as so you wont be disappointed.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
5) To be honest, it was because the cover was shinny.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
6) “We ordered rectal thermometers, we receive spark plugs! Both highly useful items, but hardly interchangeable.” -Col. Potter M*A*S*H

 

Hi Kevin...M*A*S*H is amazing....and the quote is good.

Welcome Azrosandra as well and anyone I haven't greeted before

 

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
I'm also a Flatlander and Quamen is the make of my frame

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?
22 England

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.) Yes

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
I found a copy of The Colour of Magic in a old book store for £1 and I have been hooked ever since

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
If it looks good eat it