Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:44:40 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] [Fwd: [GT-PFRC]  Terry Pratchett awesomeness]
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Apparently Terry Pratchett smelted his own iron, threw in some
meteorite iron, and used it to forge the sword used to knight him.

Awesome.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/terry-pratchett-creates-a-sword-with-meteorites/story-e6frfro0-1225926584339

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--
A horned and tusked purple thing went racing along the
ridge to my right pursued by a hairless orange-skinned
creature with long claws and a forked tail.  Both were
wailing in different keys.

I nodded.  It was just one damned thing after another.

               - from _Trumps of Doom_ by Roger Zelazny