From: Andrew Nevill Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett Subject: [I] Attempting a filk Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:25:49 +0100 If you can't guess the tune, then please don't boast about your IQ Pterry the Magic Author Pterry, the magic author, lives by his PC And writes Discworld novels full of puns and comedy All the AFPers love that Old Fart in a Hat And buy figurines and fake degrees and other commercial tat, oh CHORUS Pterry, the magic author, lives by his PC And writes Discworld novels full of puns and comedy Pterry, the magic author, lives by his PC And writes Discworld novels full of puns and comedy Over the world he travels, though he shuns celebrity He'd rather have a lager or murder a curry At signings frozen peas are there to take the strain From the millions of times, that Pterry signs his name, oh CHORUS Literature lives forever, but not so mortal men A skeleton speaking in capitals will say "PUT DOWN YOUR PEN" One grey night it'll happen, Pterry will write no more They'll find the last Discworld book, lying by him on the floor Our heads will bend in sorrow, but our grief it will soon fade As we remember him at CCDE and hold a Maskerade And as long as there is Usenet, and folks like you and me So, Pterry will be celebrated, here on AFP, oh CHORUS Sorry it ends on a downer but so does the original /dons Nike trainers -- Andrew Nevill DW BF (Invisius) Fratello di Vetinari: "Mimi sentii nonvisti" AFPfianced to Sarah (Nanny Ogg) & Charissa/Perdita New? Read the FAQs at http://www.lspace.org/faqs/ Internet Fan Sites Under Threat - Support Operation Blackout: May 13 2000