Jingo, #21 in the Discworld series, is our subject for today. The Patrician recruits Leonard of Quirm, Fred Colon and Nobby Nobbs to help him stop a war. In a submarine. What else could you want? (Oh, the Patrician demonstrates jaw-dropping juggling skills, even though he’s never juggled before. Ever.Email us at our new address: www.medievalgnome@gmail.com. You never know what might happen!!    Thanks for listening.   GNU Terry Pratchett    Mind how y'all go.

Jingo, #21 in the Discworld series, is our subject for today. The Patrician recruits Leonard of Quirm, Fred Colon and Nobby Nobbs to help him stop a war. In a submarine. What else could you want? (Oh, the Patrician demonstrates jaw-dropping juggling skills, even though he’s never juggled before. Ever. Email us at our new address: www.medievalgnome@gmail.com. You never know what might happen!! Thanks for listening. GNU Terry Pratchett Mind how y'all go.

Jingo, #21 in the Discworld series, is our subject for today.&nbsp;The Patrician recruits Leonard of Quirm, Fred Colon and Nobby Nobbs to help him stop a war. In a submarine. What else could you want? (Oh, the Patrician demonstrates jaw-dropping juggling skills, even though he’s never juggled before. Ever.Email us at our new address: www.medievalgnome@gmail.com. You never know what might happen!! &nbsp; &nbsp;Thanks for listening.&nbsp; &nbsp;GNU Terry Pratchett &nbsp; &nbsp;Mind how y'all go.&nbsp;

Pratchips 29- By Jingo!

On the first, second, and third Friday of every month, it’s Tales From the Drum—the Mended Drum, that is. We also bring you three-minute long mini-episodes, cleverly entitled Pratchips (like potato chips, see?) every Monday-Thursday. All of these are (usually) about the places, spaces, races, and other words that end in aces of the Discworld, that pizza-shaped place (but no anchovies) that rides through space on the backs of the massive elephants Tubul, Berilia, Jerakeen and Great T’Phon, which themselves stand atop the 10,000 mile-long world Turtle, A’Tuin. (According to the dwarfs, there was once a Fifth Elephant, which slipped of A’Tuin’s carapace and crashed into the Disc. But the dwarfs can be funny that way.) Obviously, a place such as this could exist only every normal curve must have its outliers, where the fabric of reality is thin, and magic is an everyday—well, reality. Of course, it was actually the late Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE, who created the Discworld. He chronicled those places, spaces, etc. in 41 Discworld novels. In 500 years, he will probably be the only 20th-century author who is still being read. Seriously. He was that good. He was also incredibly prolific. In a span of 32 years, he wrote 70 books. They’ve sold northward of 50 million copies, last I saw. He was knighted in 2008 by Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Terry passed away in 2015 from a rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. GNU Terry Pratchett. If you don’t understand that, you can find out about it in Going Postal. Also, il miglior fabbro. That’s from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” But you knew that. Thanks for listening—and mind how you go! GNU Terry Pratchett

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