all questions are optional. frankly, i'd rather we NOT have the gender question in there, but hell.

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
--At the time of joining the old boards, I was in the middle of reading Hogfather, and Hex made me laugh. I like the idea of a machine being more intelligent than a bunch of wizards, and I hope I can match that intelligence!

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 category and geographic location do you fall into?
--17 (but not for much longer), and I live in Nebraska (as of three weeks ago), and before that London. Originally from the US. If you can figure that out, you deserve a cookie.

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 skeptical, since most movie adaptations suck, but I have been given hope after LOTR was a success. And hey, I would go to see it anyway, even if only just to say how crap it was.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
--I read The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents about three or so years ago for the Carnegie medal nominations, and after that I hunted down the rest of the books in libraries and stores, and have been hooked ever since!

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
--"If it weren't for Jesus, the 12 apostles probably would have killed each other!" -- The priest at the local church, just a small section of today's sermon.

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

It's my real name.

2) Male or Female?
Female

3) 40, formerly from the US, now living in northern England, sharing a flat with Maljonic (who is my husband)


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's possible if you remember that in general, no movie is as good as the book it is based on, and you judge it in relation to other movies, not in relation to the Discworld books.


5) how, or by who, were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?

I picked up Wyrd Sisters at a small bookshop in Brooklyn when I was looking for something to read.

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

Its a translation/mutilation (Japanese to Chinese) of my real middle name. My middle name is Hoshi-wa, and the same script sign would, if red in Chinese, be Hsing-wa. I've been using it for ages.

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?
28 years, living in NorthWest Germany.

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.)

Well... in my perfect Dreamland, where LOTR turned out to be quite right (except for the soppy last 30 minutes of part three), it might be possible.

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

A god friend of mine gave me the Watch books to read a few years ago. By now, I am more an expert than her, but we still discuss each new book.


6) what's your personal quote of the day?
...er - I'll keep this for another day, I just don't find anything this time.

Hm...

Thanks for the invitation. I'm shocked anyone remembered me, it's been so long since I visited the old board. Not because I was annoyed by trolls or anything; it seems you can get a pretty good idea how well my social life is going by how often I visit message boards.

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

It's one of my dog's name, and sort of a pun based on my actual name.

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

Female - my real name is Stephanie.

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?

I'm only as old as I feel (you have to keep telling yourself that once you reach a certain age). Anyway, if my avatar works you can see my picture and guess for yourself. I live in the Kansas City area; the picture was taken in Borneo (meet Annenberg).

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.)

Not at all.

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

I was in a bookstore and saw one of those little cards they sometimes put up: if you like Douglas Adams you may also like Terry Pratchett (inter alia). I started at "The Colour of Magic" but it was "The Light Fantastic" that hooked me; I'd rarely read anything so funny.

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

I reject your reality, and sustitute my own.

Hello again everybody,

1. Impetus for screen name?-- I'm lazy today and it's my real name

2. M or F?--My wife said I'm a male.

3. Age and location?-- 37 (ouch) and live in central WA, USA

4. Could a movie be good and faithful to the books?--Yes. Yes. I can't wait until they finally do it! (I was really hoping someone would slip up, and mention casting. I'll keep waiting)

5. How did I get turned on to TP? I was cruising an allnite bookstore at midnite and they announced a trivia question over the PA (Q:Who was Marion Morrison? --A: John Wayne) The prize box had a copy of 5th elephant. Hooked instantly.

6. Quote of the day?-- "I'm so excited. Tonite I think I'll brush ALL my teeth."

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname? Because I really am deathly unoriginal and I really liked Spike in GP

2) Are you male or female? Female, honestly, I look just like my avatar...

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into? Rapidly becoming late 20s and Canberra, Australia the home of the phallic symbol.

4) do you have good faith that a discworld movie COULD be done well enough not to suck? Only if hell froze over and pigs flew or barring that, that the whole thing was kept away from hollywood.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett? A school friend telling me furfies about rivers in South America called Ankh-Morpork that you could walk on cos it was so dirty...Damn him, I'm such a sucker...

6) what's your personal quote of the day? "Somethings get boned..." to a tutorial of students. I meant to say banned.

1. Splang is just a nice piece of onomatopaeia from a Garfield comic

2. I'm female

3. I'm 20 and live in Victoria in Australia

4. I think a good discworld movie could be made, but it would have to be done by the right people who wanted to do justice to the books, and that probably wouldn't happen.

5. I first saw the cartoon series of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music, then one day i was in the bookshop and discovered that those cartoons were based on actual books :oops:

6. I like this one, which i learned from my friend who is a fan of Firefly:
"We shall take over this land, and we shall call it... .. this land."

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
Err.... I like horses? This was before I became Darth Dobbin.

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?
Its kind of scary that I am the youngest here. 14. I live in Sydney, 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.)
Meh, I don't really like movies from books. But I would still watch it.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
I saw the cartoons ages ago but had no idea what they actually were until very recently. I was being bored and annoying so my Narnie lent me Masquerade and that was that.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
"Nobody loves me"

Shamelessly (mostly) copied from the old Board, because I'm far too lazy at this time of the morning.
1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?

It was a toss-up between "Agnes Nitt" (felt an affinity while re-reading Carpe Jugulum and wished I listened to my "Perdita" more) or "Freya". Since I adore Fridays, have a very imperious cat and am known for the occasional Valkyrie moment, "Freya" won out.

2) Male or Female?

Female

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?

Old enough to know better at 34 and living in the "Boonies", commonly known as the County of Norfolk, 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.)

LoTR made me think yes. HG2G makes me think "Hell No"

5) how, or by who, were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?

Many moons ago, a couple of friends let me borrow their copy of “Mort” and insisted that I read it. The rest is history and I thank them for it .....and for a couple of the Discworld books. I would return them but the late fees would bankrupt me!

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

“The fact that no one understands you does not mean that you’re an artist.”

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
It was so long ago(my first nick in the PTerry board)... refers both - Russian Tzar, which by bizarre occurrence is translated like 'terrible', and me.

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)
Male, I guess. But nowadays no ohne can tell for sure.

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
I'm 23 now, 'but it won't be for long', live in Kiev(for those who are not from Europe, it's near Moscow ), Ukraine.

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.)
No, no way.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
My friend told me about 'interesting fantasy', I think.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
Mondays suck.

Edited because answer "No, no way" looks very odd with the question "who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?".

I am a 33 year old male correctional officer from Iowa, USA. I don't think Discworld could be done correctly -- but I didn't feel Lord of the Rings could either. My chosen name comes from Terry Brooks' Shannara series. Galaphile was the first of the druids. I was turned on to Discworld by an old friend who thought I'd like it.

"Wizard's first rule: People are stupid."

Galaphile

1) I think I have the lamest reason ever... I was on a message board called the gasroom and I chose a different utility. The 'man' comes from me not being a room.

2) *checks* Male

3) I'm 22 and from the home of chairmaking in England. Which you all know the name of.

4) We might find out soon, I hope Terry has some input into the process (apart from having it based on his book)

5) A friend at school chose Pyramids for a group book report. That must've been over 5 years ago now.

6) Opening my eyes is too much like hard work

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
It's the name of an old roleplaying character who was one of my favourites. I used it the first time I had to register a username online, since I couldn't think of anything else, and I've used it ever since.

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 23 until this October, living in Hastings, UK (Hi, Donna!), with Garner, to whom I am married.

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.)
Films and books are totally different media, and a book translated into film is never going to be the same. I would go to see a Discworld film if it were made, and expect it to be a decent film (providing Pterry had significant input in making it), but it would never compare to the books for me. In all likelihood, the film would suck though.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
Read TCOM and LF graphic novels when I was 13, then read the first novels up to Sourcery, which was far as our school library went. When I was 17, I found G!G!, read all the Watch books and continued from there.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
I'm not tense, just very, very alert.

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
I couldn't get "tread", the name I wanted on the old board. Sampanna is my real name, and for the sake of continuity, carried on here.

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 category and geographic location do you fall into?
26, currently Duluth - Minnesota

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'll suck. I'll still watch it, but it will suck!

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
Friend loaned me "Wyrd Sisters"

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events, may in fact, be the first steps of a journey.