new to site so thought might be handy to introduce myself (?)
name:wilva is convergence of my names
gender:female
age & location: hurtling towards 38 live in aotearoa/ new zealand
discworld on screen:no to discworld on the big screen... too much discrepancy between what characters would look like & how i percieve them
who introduced you to pratchett:have been pratchetting for long time after drunken discussion in a pub about 15 years ago
quote:
fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind

is anyone there?

Welcome!
I am. Sorry I missed you! Welcome to the board, hun!
I've been here for a while, but I haven't posted much lately. I'm going to try to be better about that. This community is great and I miss the camaraderie of it all.
I'm excited I get to be one of the first to say welcome! I know your probably not on right now, but hopefully you'll pop back on soon. I'll be lurking around, if you want to chat. My boss is MIA today at the office, and as the saying goes: "When the cat is away...the mice will play."

Welcome, Wilva. I don't know if we currently have any New Zealanders, but we have at least one Aussie

Hello! I'm new, so I'll introduce myself: my names Marv (not my real one but my DT teacher once called me Marv for some reason and it sort of stuck) I'm actually a girl, I'm fifteen, live someplace near Brighton (England), have read all the Discworld books apart from Making Money (can't seem to make enough money to buy the thing), (puff pant), and I like talking very fast in long sentences.
Who are you people?

hi marv, i'm new too! there must be more antipodeans out there surely!!!
wilva

Welcome, Marv, and wilva, and everybody else

Hello ReginaudChaussure.

My first time on the web site and very nervous, so I am probably going to talk too much.

My choice of name? Came from Mistress Weatherwax's first name - happens to also be the name my mother wanted to christen me but was outvoted for something altogether more wyrd. For all my Granny Weatherwax characteristics, am actually a Nanny Ogg Wannabee.

My sex? If you think I'm male, you may require some heidologie. A la Macfeegle.
Age category - older than I think.

Geographical location: am 100% pedigree Scottish peasant. I happen to live in Cape Town for 5 months of the year, work in Chad for 6 and spend 1 month travelling between the two. The joys of travel.

I have no faith that a discworld movie could be done as well as wot goes on in my head when I read the books. That is not to say that I didn't enjoy "Hogfather" and gladly added to Mr Pratchett's coffers by buying the DVD.

When I was living in Congo (the undemocratic one), a friend gave me two books - Thief of Time and The Truth. I looked at the weirdo sci-fi fantastical Josh Kirby book covers and thought "Ye Gads": definitely not my cup of tea. However, the book stores of Pointe Noire, being somewhat bereft of English language books and I, having run out of anything to read, started to read Thief of Time. Desparate times. Well, Page 1, I am thinking "Oh Lordie, another Salman Rushdie, is the man on drugs?". Page 2 however, and I am thinking, maybe there is some humour here, which is more than can be said for the Satanic Verses (of the first two pages that I read of it, anyway - maybe he lightened up later on). I put "Thief of Time" down and picked up "The Truth". On the front cover, is the subheading "The 25th Discworld novel". Oh. I emailed back aforementioned friend: "Should I be reading these in order of publication?". Answer: "It helps if you read the first two". How handy. Six weeks later, I am back in Aberdeen, smiling sweetly at the man behind the Waterstones Books counter. I bought the first 23 and subsequent 4 books in print at the time. That was the time I flew back to Congo with 84 Kilos of luggage and somehow neither Air France nor Air Gabon charged me the excess luggage. I admit to believing in the God of No Excess Luggage Charges and she (naturally) answered my prayers that night. Since then, I have read the lot and buy every book as soon as it hits the shelf. The man simply makes me laugh out loud. If the world contains x amount of imagination, Mr Terry Pratchett got a whole country's worth (and is subsequently responsible for alot of people without any imagination whatsoever). I am constantly awed by his clever wit - volume, consistency and diversity. I didn't realise till last month what "Going Postal" means to an American.

Quote of the Day: Nasau: "WE HAVE FOUND A GIANT TURTLE FLYING THROUGH SPACE WITH 4 ELEPHANTS ON TOP OF IT WHICH IN TURN HAVE A WORLD SHAPED LIKE A DISK ON TOP OF THEM !!!". Response:"About bl**dy time too. When are you going to start shuttles cos I'd like to see what kind of gin they serve up in the Drum".

Hello Esme, it's nice to hear that Terry's books are even reaching such remote places as the Republic of Congo. It's lucky you're still alive too because my mother-in-law told me that they chop people's heads of all the time for no reason there... though she is the same person who wanted to know if we'd heard of elevators, air conditioning and hospitals in England when I first spoke to her.

Maljonic - pleasure to meet you. I can safely say that I have never seen an escalator in the congo; if I saw a lift (a rareity), I took the stairs anyway. I lived in Pointe Noire for 2 years with limited airconditioning (subsequently keeps the Spas in Cape Town happily employed) and a Congolese hospital is, sadly, the last place you would want to be if you were trying to treat something. As for chopping people's heads off - worthy of a thesis -the local solution to so many problems is wrapped up in something so strange it is difficult to comprehend.... better to wrap yourself up in Discworld!!

Welcome Esme !

Welcome all of you.Marv,to answer your question: I'm an icelandic nurse who has no life outside my apartment,Discworld,Middle Earth,DVD's and my iPod.

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

Not too exciting I'm afraid. Stands for Dan The Man. Which says something about me cos I will introduce myself in person as such :P

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

See Above

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

The wrong side of thirty and the right side of the M40....


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.)

If it was as good as Hogather.... maybe

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

A mate. Said 'read this' Colour of Magic. Not looked back.

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

To sum me up.. Its gotta be my response to anyone who complains to me at work:

'It could be worse you know'

Hows that?

'It could be me'