Hehe like your qoute, Quamen. Welcome to the boards! :-D

Thanks for the warm welcome

Welcome to the boards, Quamen!

1) what formed the motivational impetus for your chosen screenname?
a bastardization of my name and a nickname I've had for years, Jinx and Ted.

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 catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
37 and a graphic geographic is unseemly, its indoors in Dorr, Michigan

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.)
Chances are getting better everyday. Current CGI makes it plausible, Hollywood dumbing it down makes it implausible.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
Picked up Reaper Man in a bookstore hmmmm.... too damn many years ago to recall now.

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
Today? Well it would have to be GO TIGERS.

DBA is the first letters of my name translated into Chinese ie Dai Boh Ahn

I'm male

very old and I live in China

I have great faith that a discworld book could be turned into an excellent movie.

Turned on from the first Colour of Magic, never been turned off since.

My quote of the day Wu Fen zhong "just five minutes more"

good luck to all

Hi DBA, and welcome.

Welcome both DBA and Quamen!

Welcome, DBA!

Hello and welcome to all those I have not welcomed as I should

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

Soul Music is among my favourite pratchett books so when I had to come up with a Pratchett related name... it almost instantly came to mind. But not before I spent an hour trying to figure out a way of making a witty reference to a Kirsty Macoll song and an elvish looking guy selling fried fish but unfortunately due to a somewhat limited intellect coupled with years of drink and substance abuse I failed and so instead chose to directly plagurise another character from Soul Music. That and I allways thought of myself as a bit of a rebel but more for style reasons than any anarchic feelings.

2) Are you male or female? (Asking because there has been quite of lot of confusion over this, on and off.)
Ive been warned not to answer questions like this on the internet! Ive heard all about people like you!

3) what age catagory and geographic location do you fall into?
Well according to the map thingy on your website Im from Liverpool.... this isnt strictly true but its close enough and I certainly prefer it to being called a Manc. Mental age or chronological? My mental age is probably about a quarter of my chronological age.

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. But Ill wattch it anyway. They got it right with Lord of the Rings but even the thought of the travesty they called Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy sends me into rabid convulsions. But then they also got it right with Harry Potter.
I guess it will boil down to who makes the film, wether its someone who loves Pratchetts work or someone who recognises its financial potential.

5) who or how were you turned on to discworld/pratchett?
A Couple of friends raved about the Colour of Magic but I couldnt be bothered reading it. I think it was about the time he wrote Eric that I finally gave in to my friends insistence and started reading Pratchett

6) what's your personal quote of the day?
This isnt from today but its the most relevant for these boards.

"This is not my book - Terry Pratchett"

the same friend who eventually badgered me into reading Pratchett used to work in Leeds and Live in Huddersfield and many years ago he jumped on his train home one evening and sat down opposite a guy in a big hat......
As it happned my friend had been reading Mort right up to the day before when he had finished it and so he was reading a Moorcok book instead, So Pratchett signed the Moorcock book for him with the above quote.

Hello, I'm new, so I thought I'd better introduce myself.
1) The motivational impetus for my choice of screenname was, um, it's my name. Sorry, I left my imagination at the maternity unit. They gave me a baby instead. And anyway, I'd never remember pretend names.

2) I'm female.

3) I'm in my (very) early thirties, and I live in Oxfordshire.

4) I'm really hoping that Hogfather is done well enough to translate to the screen. While reading it I kept laughing out loud on a train (I was travelling alone.) I have a certain amount of faith.

5) My mum introduced me to Terry Pratchett books.

6) "If it hadn't been for flash company, I'd never have been so poor."

Welcome, Anna and RebelwithoutaPause; RebelwithoutaPause, your quote and story are extremely cool!

Welcome, Rebel and Anna!

Rebel, that is indeed a cool quote and story.

Welcome to both of you... And I agree, that story is awesomely cool. The man in the big hat is just the greatest ever

Welcome Anna and Rebel! :-)

As new members, I plead you to read through and listen to this post.