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gwenevyn
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09 Oct 2007, 9:37 pm

Here she is in 2006.

I daresay she can hold her own.

But Dawkins is pretty gentle and much more moderate than he is sometimes portrayed. The media likes to put a controversial spin on his words. It would be very frustrating to be a man who cares about precision and the subtle distinctions between various words, and yet contantly have one's ideas twisted by others into something more inflammatory. I suppose that happens to anybody in the spotlight, but it must be especially agonizing when the subject matter is something scholarly in nature.

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Yes! She's great.

Stealth operations moving along swimmingly, Patrician?

I'm considering a possible successor to the current Ankh-Morpork Tax Collector......

Current one in line for a good mugging?

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09 Oct 2007, 9:50 pm

gwenevyn wrote:

Here she is in 2006.

I daresay she can hold her own.

But Dawkins is pretty gentle and much more moderate than he is sometimes portrayed. The media likes to put a controversial spin on his words. It would be very frustrating to be a man who cares about precision and the subtle distinctions between various words, and yet contantly have one's ideas twisted by others into something more inflammatory. I suppose that happens to anybody in the spotlight, but it must be especially agonizing when the subject matter is something scholarly in nature.

Quatermass wrote:

gwenevyn wrote:

Yes! She's great.

Stealth operations moving along swimmingly, Patrician?

I'm considering a possible successor to the current Ankh-Morpork Tax Collector......

Current one in line for a good mugging?

(As myself)

Yes, I daresay Lalla Ward could hold her own. After all, she was married to Tom Baker for about 18 months.

(As Lord Vetinari)

No. I need someone who could make people want to pay their taxes. Like Moist von Lipwig made people want to use the Post Office again, or use banknotes.....

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09 Oct 2007, 10:12 pm

Tom Baker?

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09 Oct 2007, 10:12 pm

Puddleglum? He was a bad husband?

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09 Oct 2007, 10:15 pm

Well, supposedly they divorced because they were more passionate about their respective careers than about each other. But he was a very heavy drinker.

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09 Oct 2007, 10:32 pm

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Tom Baker?

The 4th Doctor.

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09 Oct 2007, 10:36 pm

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Well, supposedly they divorced because they were more passionate about their respective careers than about each other. But he was a very heavy drinker.

At the time. I think he's cleaned up his act a little, especially after marrying Sue Jerrard, who was an assistant editor on Who. They've been married for over 20 years now, so I guess third time's the charm (his first wife was not Lalla Ward, but Anna Wheatcroft, niece of a famous rose grower. That lasted 5 years and produced 2 sons).

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