Discworld Convention 2010 Part 2 (with Intro from Terry Pratchett!)

EXPLANATIONS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE DISCWORLD BOOKS:
- Tiffany Aching, Magrat Garlick and Granny Weatherwax are all characters from the Discworld Series.
- 'The Luggage' is a sentient suitcase on legs, which follows its owner around and eats anyone who might try to mess with said owner.
- In the Discworld, dragons have very volatile bodies, and are liable to explode at the drop of a hat.
- 'Clacks' are the Discworld's way of sending messages over long distances.
- The reading at the beginning of the opening ceremony is from a Discworld book, and is about the Dwarven tradition of Knocker men, who clear the mines of poisonous gas by igniting said gas, often dying in the process.
- Stephen Briggs writes the Adaptions for Stage of the Discworld books, and is well known among the fandom.
- Bernard Pearson, also known as 'The Cunning Artificer', makes Discworld sculptures and is also known well among the fans of the Discworld books.
- The Alchemist's Guild and the Unseen University are both organisations in the Discworld books - the University is where all the wizards are.
- In Discworld, there are lots of equivalents to real-world gadgets, often run by small gnomes, hence the jokes about my laptop being controlled by a gnome.
- The Infinite Monkeys: Ok, this is gonna take a lot of explaining. Basically, you know the probability exercise with the monkey sat typing randomly at a keyboard for eternity, and how at some point the monkey will type Hamlet? In Discworld there's a concept called L-space, which is basically a library with everything that ever has, will and could be written. The man giving the lecture pointed out that a monkey typing randomly is a type of L-space, because it will eventually type everything that ever has, will be or could be written. It was a bit more complicated than that, but amazing to listen to.
- Uberwald and the Sto Plains are both places in the Discworld books.
- In the Discoworld books 'Igor' is the name given to every mad scientist/vampire/werewolf's helper, although often the Igors themselves are actually quite friendly. They are always cobbled together from several different body parts, hence the Igor Teddy Bears made from several different Teddies.
- 'The Wild Earths' is a project that Terry's writing with sci-fi writer Stephen Baxter, about people discovering parallel worlds and colonising them.
- Duck-man is a character in the books, who is completely normal, except for the fact that he has a duck on his head.
- The Election for Low King is the election for the King of the Dwarves. We had a pretend election at the convention, and my friend Feyd came third.

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