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I prefer the standard one, but then, as I said, I'm all about Victorian London sewers.
By the way, Wee Dug, your sig is one of those occasional Pratchett-isms that made me nearly sick with laughter. Other than Wodehouse, I've yet to find another author who can really make me laugh myself breathless with a line, even the late, great Douglas Adams. Another one as referenced by my username, was: "Don't arsk us about..."
By the way, Wee Dug, your sig is one of those occasional Pratchett-isms that made me nearly sick with laughter. Other than Wodehouse, I've yet to find another author who can really make me laugh myself breathless with a line, even the late, great Douglas Adams. Another one as referenced by my username, was: "Don't arsk us about..."
I started a thread, in fact, on "Stuff that made you howl and laugh."
Personally I'm Welsh. I don't think we get a representative race in the Discworld (oh, maybe the Druids, but they got abandoned), but I'd like to join the Nac Mac Feegle with the proviso that I might be maudlin and sing rather than being angry and shout. Maybe I can be a Gonnagle?
Personally I'm Welsh. I don't think we get a representative race in the Discworld (oh, maybe the Druids, but they got abandoned), but I'd like to join the Nac Mac Feegle with the proviso that I might be maudlin and sing rather than being angry and shout. Maybe I can be a Gonnagle?
Ah, you're all correct. Some of the dwarves are definitely Welsh, at least in terms of naming conventions. And, I suppose, getting uproariously drunk and running screaming at people, but I think that's all Celts 
Come to think of it, Bodonny whipping out a tuning fork in The Truth so the dwarves can sing in awkward but melodious four-part harmony has more than a touch of the Welsh about it as well. Not to mention the whole mining connection. Evidently I'm a doofus :doh: I've always thought of the Dwarves as Vikings, probably again because of some of the naming conventions.
Mind you, my late maternal grandad always claimed that side of the family was of Viking stock, and since his name was Eric Thistlethwaite I have little reason to doubt him!
Come to think of it, Bodonny whipping out a tuning fork in The Truth so the dwarves can sing in awkward but melodious four-part harmony has more than a touch of the Welsh about it as well. Not to mention the whole mining connection. Evidently I'm a doofus :doh: I've always thought of the Dwarves as Vikings, probably again because of some of the naming conventions.
Mind you, my late maternal grandad always claimed that side of the family was of Viking stock, and since his name was Eric Thistlethwaite I have little reason to doubt him!
