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In my experience, hangovers make one feel like a corpse. But that said, I remember my first hangover, and I vaguely remember the post-drinking feeling before hangovers started. And my best advice is: quit now, while the going's good, because by Christ they get worse.

(You get drunken fun, which makes it worthwhile, but still.)

It the October Ale a drink in a book, then?

they have death-rays customized for preventing Time Lord regeneration

THIS.

Why the hell has everyone, RTD included, forgotten this is canon?

(Keep poking me on that one. I keep being lame and hungover, and I can't beta worth a damn when hungover. Prod me repeatedly?)

Dalek.

Unless it's Uncle-Rusty-verse. Time was, The Doctor couldn't regenerate if the Daleks got him, I'm pretty sure. Force the Sue into sixties canon, one extermination should do it.

My take on it, as an English reader, and bearing in mind just what he's playing off, is that Ankh-Morpork's got nothing to do with New York; rather, New York has its origins in the same city Ankh-Morpork does.

Ankh-Morpork is really nothing to do with New York. A-M is an evolved twist on London as was. But so, in fairness, is NY (or so Pterry says) - this is why so many Discworld cities have an A-M flavour while not being A-M; this is why so many Real World cities have a flavour of London. All cities, in a Platonic sense, are echoes of one city, Pterry tells us, and that city is Ankh-Morpork.

Or, if you'd rather, the man's not that familiar with America or New York, but he is familiar with London as is and as was, and also with the tropes surrounding fantasy cities. Mix the two, and you might get something resembling New York, but it's not actually based on New York. It's more a case of reality resembling the fictitious natural progression of that city.

(He also gets a lot down pat, because the man's an excellent satirist, and there's a lot of readily available source material.)

I agree. I think that Pratchett has simply hit upon something to do with the peculiarities of being human. People are really more alike than they think (or would like to believe, in some cases).
But that's merely my two cents =)

I did feel slightly weird for the rest of the evening, but since I don't drink much, I don't have anything to compare it to, so I don't know whether that would be normal for me if it happened more often or what.

As far as I know, it is. They actually have a little song about the recipe in one of the books, but I can't remember it off the top of my head.

I've been re-reading the Discworld books lately, and a rather curious sensation keeps popping up. See, to my American eyes, the book has a distinctly British feel, as you might expect from a book written by a British writer. But sometimes, when I'm reading his books, I find myself thinking, "Wow, this feels very American," or "Geez, he really got this bit of America down flat!"

I'm pretty sure that part of the reason is that I've been rereading books set in Ankh-Morpork, which is something like the horribly mutated spawn of New York and London bred together in a ghastly experiment that should never have taken place. But I can't help wonder if this feeling goes beyond that--that maybe Pterry hit upon something international that everyone around the world feels and identifies with as a member of their country.

...Not quite sure if that came out right, tell me if you need clarification.

Anyways, I was wondering if any of you guys have ever felt the same thing: "Wow, he's really got (Insert Country Here) down perfectly!" I know this board is international, which is one of the reasons why I'm posting this question here, because I'd like to hear from people outside America and Britain especially.

I have quite a few things saved in Word documents and such for easy reading, but I doubt that's what you're after.

Seeing how the Daleks had this whole big war with Gallifrey, I'm pretty certain they have death-rays customized for preventing Time Lord regeneration. I mean, what's the point of exterminating someone if they get back up two minutes later with a different face?

Of course, Daleks are not the most reliable of allies. Maybe if you got your hands on one of their armor-shell-things and brought it back to base, someone could reverse engineer their death ray for missions like yours.

And then there's the obvious solution: dumping them down a black hole, leaving them at ground zero seconds before an A-bomb drops--you know, anything that breaks them down to their atoms. I'm pretty sure they can't regenerate from that. Of course, you might need a TARDIS to do the job.

I will not give Ozymandias a Death Note
- Nor Darth Caedus

Killing them thirteen times just adds to the fun! If you insist on killing them only once, I recommend something brutal that they couldn't possibly regenerate from. Decapitation, ripping out both hearts, incineration, etc. It may be hard to set up, but I doubt they could regenerate in a vacuum either.

Evidence from both the Old and New Series indicate that a Time Lord can't regenerate if the death is too fast. Witness the Doctor's drowning in Turn Left, or the shooting of the Castellan in Five Doctors.

The Doctor has also been in danger of permanent death from having his brain burnt out (Forest of the Dead), and according to the Tardis Wiki, you can kill a Time Lord by stabbing both hearts simultaneously. Or you could just make them not want to regenerate (Last of the Time Lords).

To be honest, regeneration is one of the least useful aspects of Time Lord-ness. There's just so /many/ ways to stop or disrupt it; the Doctor worries about dying practically every story.

hS

While I wait to hear back on the Star Wars mission, I figure I'll get a head start on the Doctor Who mission. I would like a list of possible ways to kill the Sue without having to do it thirteen times.

…and that's not on the other Jay and Acacia file.

In fact, at this moment, the whole of Oddlots seems to be down.

Even if it manages to get itself back up and running, now might be a good time to set up a mirror in case of its eventual total collapse. I think various people have still got the files from it saved, right?

hS

No problem~!

Yeh. I know someone who did once. He got in major trouble with his parents.

Aye, Anity, if I beta your next, I'll happily stick the html in as I go along.

A ten minute hangover? I should be so lucky. :P

I'm guessing this October Ale is, well, an ale, rather than a lager. Yeah, not sure how good that'd be mixed with fruit cordial. Lager with blackcurrant is fairly popular amongst certain types of people, though. It is not, however, terribly classy. Or terribly nice.

Gah.

*rolling on the floor laughing*