Favourite Discworld Names?

[cabbagehead]

"got it"? got what? it sounds a little like an animal doctor, is that it or am i missing a deeper joke?

Vetinari is to veterinarian as Medici is to a practitioner of medicine.

 

[MongoGutman]

hmm... and the Medici were rulers/politicians in err... foreng parts during the renaissance. OK, I see that. Clever. Not funny, but clever.

 

[Tonyblack]

Medici = medical
Vetinari = veterinary

 

[cabbagehead]

and the Medici were rulers/politicians in err... foreng parts during the renaissance.

Among other things, one of them was the patron of Leonardo da Vinci, just like Vetinari and the other Leonard.

 

[MongoGutman]

and the Medici were rulers/politicians in err... foreng parts during the renaissance.

Among other things, one of them was the patron of Leonardo da Vinci, just like Vetinari and the other Leonard.

Now that's interesting. My recollection is that Vetinari was introduced long before Leonard

 

[gribeaux]

Ye Gods, I hadn't got that one! Thankyou.

 

[fids]

Not a character's name but The Eludicated Brethren of the Ebon Night always made me giggle.

 

[Char]

I quite like Herr Trubelmacher.

 

[Hvitveis]

B. S. Johnson is a good one. (I'd love to hear a version Bubbla's Catastophe Suite..)

 

[Char]

I just got up to a certain part in Carpe Jugulum:

Moocow Poorchick (or James What The Hell's That Cow Doing In Here Poorchick)
My God He's Heavy The First
Yodel Lightley
Total Biscuit
Chlamydia Weaver (ended up being Sally Weaver after her mother decided it was easier to spell)

 

[hazel8252]

Hodgesaarrgh! I just love the way it's so natrual, everyone in Lancre knows him by that name and they call him it without thinking. Genius! Binky is good, and Note Spelling always cracks me up

 

[Tonyblack]

It's a real experience meeting the real Hodgesarrrgh!

 

[Sister Jennifer]

It's a real experience meeting the real Hodgesarrrgh!

You what? Lucky!

 

[Sister Jennifer]

I just got up to a certain part in Carpe Jugulum:

Moocow Poorchick (or James What The Hell's That Cow Doing In Here Poorchick)
My God He's Heavy The First
Yodel Lightley
Total Biscuit
Chlamydia Weaver (ended up being Sally Weaver after her mother decided it was easier to spell)

I wouldn't normally write these words but I am PMSL at these. Brilliant! Man alive, Terry Pratchett is the business.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I have not seen him around for a while Tony, at Hogwatch or the DWCons and I have never been to a Wadfest it being a camping one.

 

[TimBou]

I think Imp Y Celyn in Soul Music because Pratchett uses the opportunity to inflict one of the worst puns in human history on the reader (it's sort of Welsh for Buddy Holly)
Cut Me Own Hand Off Dibbler in Omnia (Small Gods)
Adora Belle Dearheart because she is obviously spending her life trying to be the opposite of her name.
Moist von Lipwig because it sounds like the perfect name for someone like him.

 

[Sister Jennifer]

I have not seen him around for a while Tony, at Hogwatch or the DWCons and I have never been to a Wadfest it being a camping one.

Not a lover of the great outdoors? I used to enjoy camping but not anymore. Camping to me now is anything with 3 stars.

 

[Tonyblack]

Dave Hodges used to turn up at all the events trying to sell his book on falconry or his industrial sized tent pegs. He's a real character.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Only trouble with Daves tent pegs once they were hammered in you almost had to dig them as demonstrated at one Wincanton spring event, he also sold a remover with them if you wanted one.

 

[Tris]

I don't know what everyone's talking about, but to go with the title, does anyone else like the name Perspicacia Tick?