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roddy-bg My name is Radostina Georgieva, "Roddy".
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"A magical material is discovered which imps can paint pictures on, and which can in turn be projected onto screens by careful use of salamander. Young Victor, studing to be a wizard at Unseen University, is drawn to the industry which is springing up in Holy Wood, as is Cut-My-Own-Throat Dibbler, who knows the opportunity to sell a sausage in a bun when he sees one. As Dibller transforms an educational tool into spectacle, the staff and student of Unseen University find themselves transfixed by these moving pictures. Can Gaspode the Wonder Dog save them all?"
"Terry Pratchet" by Andrew M Butler

Targets
Hollywood - Fred Astaire, Gone With the Wind, Lassie, The Wizard of Oz, King Kong, Casablanca, etc.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork, greatest of Discworld cities. At least, there's a saying that there's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

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If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal.

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By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.

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"No, I'm thinking about the bugger over Tsort way, or somewhere. He was in his bath and he had this idea for something, and he ran down the street yelling."
"Yelling what?"
"Dunno. P'raps 'Give me a towel!'"

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"Meat pies! Hot sausages! Inna bun! So fresh the pig h'an't noticed they're gone!"

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The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

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...it turned out that Ridcully the Brown did speak to the birds. In fact he shouted at birds, and what he normally shouted was, "Winged you, yer bastard!"

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You couldn't fish in the river Ankh; you had to jump up and down on the hooks even to make them sink.

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Ridcully: "I went into the Uncommon Room this morning, and it was full of chaps snoring!"
Bursar: "That would be the senior masters, Master. I would say they are supremely fit, myself."
Ridcully: "Fit? The Dean looks like a man who's swallered a bed!"
Bursar: "At, but Master, the word 'fit', as I understand it, means 'appropriate to a purpose,' and I would say the body of the Dean is supremely appropriate to the purpose of sitting around all day and eating big heavy meals."

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Ridcully: "A few twenty-mile runs and the Dean'd be a different man."
Bursar: "Well, yes. He'd be dead."
Ridcully: "He'd be healthy."
Bursar: "Yes, but still dead."

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"Students?" barked the Archchancellor.
"Yes, Master. You know? They're the thinner ones with the pale faces? Because we're a university? They come with the whole thing, like rats--"

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People who didn't apply themselves to the facts in hand might have thought that Victor Tugelbend would be fat and unhealthy. In fact, he was undoubtedly the most athletically-inclined student in the University. Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than trying to achieve things with bags of flab.

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Victor let his gaze slide downwards. There was nothing down there but the little dog, industriously scratching itself. It looked up slowly, and said "Woof?"

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One of the last things Victor remembered was a voice beside his knee saying, "Could have bin worse, mister. I could have said 'miaow'.

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There was no analogy for Dibbler's grin now. If it had managed to be any wider, the top of his head would have fallen off.

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Victor: "Why's [the sword] bent?"
Costume Lady: "I think it's meant to be, dear."
Victor: "I thought swords had to be straight."
Costume Lady: "Perhaps they start out straight and go bendy with use. A lot of things do."

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Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job. I bet even people like Cohen the Barbarian get up in the morning thinking, 'Oh, no, not another day of crushing the jewelled thrones of the world beneath my sandalled feet.'

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"I mean, look at the start I had in life. Frone inna river inna sack. An actual sack. Dear little puppy dog opens his eyes, looks out in wonder at the world, style of fing, he's in this sack. For two weeks I thought the brick was my mother."

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"In a word -- im-possible!"
"That's two words," said Dibbler.

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...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

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What was it they said about gods? They wouldn't exist if there weren't people to believe in them? And that applied to everything. Reality was what went on inside people's heads.

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Pedigree?. What's a pedigree? It's just breedin'. I had a father too, you know. And two grand-dads. And four great grandads. And many of 'em were the same dog, even.

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In retrospect, Victor was always a little unclear about those next few minutes. That's the way it goes. The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.

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