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[...] Posted Sep 16, 2003
Cleary states 'sex unknown' and had eight baby turtles float around it after the events of 'The Light Fantastic'.
I guess 26 books outway one Prologue. Headology.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Sep 16, 2003
Yeah, are those turtles laid as eggs though, or are they magically created?
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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Sep 17, 2003
yeah, but if the big bang theory is to be belived then A'Tuin must be a he, as otherwise the disc and everything on it would have been squished. Also haven't there been expeditions to find out A'Tuin's gender, but where we weren't told what the answer is?
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Researcher 185550 Posted Sep 17, 2003
Well, the big bang didn't neccessarily happen in the Disc universe. And why would it make A'Tuin a he anyway?
Maybe we weren't told what the answer was because they never found out?
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Schrödinger's Cat-flap Posted Sep 17, 2003
The Discworld Big Bang Theory (Colour of Magic) refers to the fact that all the stars are carried by other turtles, and all are headed towards a place where they will mate (hence 'big bang'). But A'tuin hasn't reached the end of that journey yet, has she? (or he, if you must).
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Schrödinger's Cat-flap Posted Sep 17, 2003
Maybe it is one of those questions that no-one ever finds the answer to, like in our universe, 'is the universe's expansion accelerating and why?' except, of course, 'what sex is the turtle our world sits on?' is a much more appropraite question for discworld.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Sep 17, 2003
Got it. I'm a devout Pratchettite, but I'm not so familiar with TCOM.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Sep 17, 2003
I've read it, but I read it after having meandered through Light Fantastic, a few City Watch books, a few witches books, and a few Death books.
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[...] Posted Sep 17, 2003
Well the 'Light Fantastic' was the hatching ground, wasn't it? The red star.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Sep 17, 2003
Yeah but it's a while since I read it, or any of PTerry's books. I lent my favourites to a mate, you see (she's on hootoo, name of Clare, may be joining us in PA soon) so I can't read them.
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ex Brigadeer, now Tealady Werekitty aka Tobru De'ran; ex sith extraordinaire, well poked veggie fascist and Goo Goose Posted Sep 18, 2003
I just finished reading the backlog.
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ex Brigadeer, now Tealady Werekitty aka Tobru De'ran; ex sith extraordinaire, well poked veggie fascist and Goo Goose Posted Sep 20, 2003
thankyou. It was a hard job but someone had to do it. 
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Researcher 185550 Posted Sep 20, 2003
And you bent to the task with all the vim and vigour normally reserved for preachers setting about sinners.
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ex Brigadeer, now Tealady Werekitty aka Tobru De'ran; ex sith extraordinaire, well poked veggie fascist and Goo Goose Posted Sep 20, 2003
I did indeed.
Take that! I did say.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Sep 20, 2003
And the words cringed! They cringed under your power. All of a sudden, you were amongst them, weilding your biro (because the pen is mightier than the sword) and scattering them asunder! Truly, when you said "take it", they took it.
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ex Brigadeer, now Tealady Werekitty aka Tobru De'ran; ex sith extraordinaire, well poked veggie fascist and Goo Goose Posted Sep 20, 2003
Verily!
For I am mighty!
And the backlog doth fear my mouse!!!
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Researcher 185550 Posted Sep 20, 2003
Yea and Verily!
The backlog does not even mention the word mouse. They call it the m- word, or if they are feeling like harry potter, It-that-must-not-be-named. And the shadow of a mouse falling upon them will make them tremble till their skin falls off their bones.
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