Thanks for that spidah.

And It's good that you broke the trend, how *you* can be the cool and orginal trend setter!

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

Well, it sounds like a very Morporkian nickname and its also the name I would use if I was a kick-ass comic book villain. Mwaahaha


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

The last time I checked I was a female.


3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
I am 23 years old and live in the Southern Hemisphere on the continent of Africa. South Africa to be exact. But in my head I live in Lancre or sometimes Middle Earth.

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.)

Um, I dont think it would live up to my expectations. I mean come on! Look what they did with Constantine!



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

When I was in High School, the substitute English teacher was reading Eric instead of teaching us so I thought Id see what the fuss was about.


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

Sorry, what did you say again, I stopped listening five minutes ago.


7) Who's your favorite author (F/M) besides Pratchett

OMG what a question! - Robert Rankin, Robin Hobb, JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling, Douglas Adams, Anne Rice. Fantasy is in my blood.

Guess wo started the chain again. And spidah did so well in breaking it too...

Hello everyone, found an old email about this in my inbox. I was active a couple of months in the old forums way back when.

With lack of inspiration right now I'll jump right on to the questions.

- What formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?

Firstly I'd like to say I'm not that familiar with the expression "motivational impetus", but if it means what I think it means here's how I got to use Kapten Karies as my handle (the board wouldn't let me register "Kapten Karies", so it's "KaptenKaries" here).

A long time ago when I was a young teenager my mother got one of those pet rabbits. I'm not sure what the breed is called, but it was one of those small brown ones with the ears hanging down. She was not sure what to call the pet rabbit and asked us others in the family for name suggestions.

One of those inspiration molecules must have hit my head for I instantly uttered "You must name him Kapten Karies". This might need some explanation. Kapten Karies is swedish for Captain Caries, Caries being the scientific name of cavities in your teeth. I figured a rabbit having big teeth, this guy must be a cavities magnet.

My mother instantly rejected the idea, and I later ended up using it when registering my ICQ. From then it stuck as my handle.

So what happened to the rabbit? My second name suggestion for the rabbit was accepted. He was named Radar, for his big ears. He was one of the sweetest rodents I've ever had the pleasure of knowing, and silently passed away three years ago or so. As is the swedish custom (at least in my hedonist family), he was buried under a small cairn we raised in a foresty slope at my parents' house.

- Are you male or female?

I'm male.

- What age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?

I was born in 1980 here in Stockholm, Sweden, where I've lived my entire life so far. Relatives on my mother's side have done some genealogy and it seems I have mostly vallon and viking blood in my veins.

- Do you have good faith that a discworld movie could be done well enough not to suck?

I had some doubts about the LOTR films before I went to see them. They ended up fairly good in my opinion. I don't think it's impossible to film an enjoyeable discworld movie, but I think it's pretty hard to get it right.

- Who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?

A friend in my gymnasium class (that's high school for you Americans out there) borrowed me Colour of Magic and I really enjoyed it. After that it took me about a year or so to buy and read all the other Pratchett books published at the time. I've made sure to buy all the other books as they've been published. Men at Arms, Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic are the only books I've read both in Swedish and English, all the other books I've read in English. The humour is still there when you read the books in Swedish, but something gets lost in the translation.

- What's your personal quote of the day?

Frank Zappa said "You ain't got no friends, and all the others they hate'cha!" in the song Stinkfoot from the album Apostrophe ('). I like that line.

Hello!

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
My name is Lucy. People (well, a person) calls me Luli. Lulilul Is Luli, plus Luli backwards. Or something. Clever, eh? No? Fair enough.

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?
I'm 17 and I live in Australia.

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'm sure it wouldn't suck, as such, but I tend to be disappointed with books made into movies because the characters never look like I want them to.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
I'm very very new to Discworld; I'd heard about the series and wanted to read it, so I went to the local bookshop a few weeks ago and, because they didn't seem to be in any order on the shelf, chose one at random (The Fifth Elephant.) Fell in love with it completely and have since read Night Watch (borrowed from library) and The Colour of Magic (bought from the fantastic new TWO STOREY bookshop that just opened here.)
And that's that.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
And then I poured the milk.

Welcome aboard KaptenKaries and Lulilul! Lulilul .. hmm .. it's a bit like spelling banana - you never know where to stop

I've heard this in Minnesota a lot .. for example, can you borrow me some money? It should be lend, since I borrow, but you lend. Is this some Swedish-English thing? I ask because a lot of Minnesotans are originally Scandinavian .. and I only observed this in Minnesota really.

I never realised that, but yes, most likely its a Swenglish expression. Probably because borrow and lend both translates into låna in Swedish.

Jag lånar dig en bok. I lend you a book.
Jag lånade dig en bok förra fredagen. I lended you a book last friday.
Du lånar en bok av mig. You borrow a book from me.
Du lånade en bok av mig förra fredagen. You borrowed a book from me last friday.
Sluta prata svenska, jag förstår inte vad du säger! Stop speaking Swedish, I can't understand what you're saying!

In other words, we make no distinction between being on the giving or recieving end of a temporary transaction of property.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll try to sharpen up my english in future posts.

Hey, it wasn't criticism, just curiosity. We can't all be Buzzfloyd when it comes to grammar

No worries. Talking about other people, the only one I remember from the old boards is Garner (hello!), but it was a couple of years ago so I'm sure there are others from that time here as well, I just don't remember the names.

Hi KaptenKaries, I vaguely remember seeing your name before... very vaguely. I like Frank Zappa as well, but he had dodgy taste when it came to naming his kids!

And Lulilul, the word you were after in the first point was palindrome. Hi.

There is a Zappa quote for everything. "People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly strange names, but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble."

I do agree with you though. A bit. But I think Moonunit is a beautiful name.

Anyways, thanks for remembering me. :-)

Hello KaptenKaries.

Zappa ruled man. I loved when he was questioned by the House about his kids.

Hello again Kapten, now we Swedes can almost build a colony here, we have Mynona here too. I also have problem with borrow and lend, I must think of the Borrowers to remember which is which.

A few people around areas of Yorkshire (where I live) often mix the two up, local dialects around these parts are heavily influenced by Nordic language due to Viking invasions and whatnot.