he and the dog are best buds, he loves his vet, he’s an absolute marshmallow to anyone who comes to visit me, but has chased off prowlers in the night [no banshee ever screached better than that], beat up rottweilers, and stopped cars dead in their tracks.
]]>He reminds me of Torch, our cat at the farm in upstate New York. Our German Shepherd lived in fear of Torch. Torch had a playful trick – attempting to leap on your head from the landing of the stairwell when you went into the kitchen. The best plan was to catch Torch mid-leap and pitch her far enough away that you got into the kitchen and shut the door.
My Mother thought Torch was “an old softie” too, and she was world-class rodent control on a farm.
]]>It’s the official Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki. π This is their ‘Greebo’ wiki entry:
Discworld & Pratchett Wiki: Greebo
]]>Greebo is Nanny Ogg’s tomcat, he is feared in the forests of Lancre by all animals, and he is the father of most of the cat population in the area. Flea bitten, with scars all over his face and his partially present ears he is a huge swaggering bully of a cat – renowned for once chasing a bear up a tree. He has one green eye and one which is milky white, he is intelligent for a cat but uses three categories to define the things he sees: ‘rape,fight or eat’. This is the cat that Nanny Ogg refers to as ‘Mr. Puss-puss’ and sees in her head as a cute little bundle of fluff – yet everyone else calls ‘gerroffyerbugger!!’
Greebo is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. He is first introduced in Wyrd Sisters. He is a foul-tempered one-eyed grey tomcat whose human, Nanny Ogg, insists against all the evidence that he is a sweet, harmless kitten. In the course of the books, he has killed two vampires, eating at least one of them in the novel Witches Abroad:
The bat squirmed under his claw. It seemed to Greebo’s small cat brain that it was trying to change its shape, and he wasn’t having any of that from a mouse with wings on.
And in Maskerade, Magrat recalls when Greebo once killed an elk.
In Lords and Ladies, Greebo’s overall attitude is best described in an allusion to SchrΓΆdinger’s cat:
Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Shawn dived sideways as Greebo went off like a Claymore mine.
“Don’t worry about him,” said Magrat dreamily, as the elf flailed at the maddened cat. “He’s just a big softy.”
There’s a Wiki for everything! π LOL
]]>Hex, powered by “anthill”.
Nanny Ogg has the world’s best cat. Greebo is what every tom cat aspires to.
]]>LOL @ Rincewind (The rincer of winds)… Yeah, a wuss! But an amazingly lucky wuss! π But, I did like his Luggage! LOL π Hmmm… what was the name of that guy who was the Discworld’s only ‘Tourist’ that the Luggage belonged to originally?
I liked Hex, the ‘computer’ too! LOL
I have Nanny Ogg’s book of Recipe’s! Maybe I should post a few? π LOL Some of the ingredients might be a tad hard to find though. π
]]>It’s amazing how those “mistakes” stop after you raise hell and call the Inspector General. You get a little annoyed when you are trying to take out people who are shooting at you and they are the only ones who don’t get hit.
Actually Rincewind is the only major character I’ve never really liked. He’s such a wuss.
]]>LOL Yes… I’ve used that Pratchett quote a few times. π π And speaking of that fine author, I’ve been moving all my storage boxes to a new storage shed over the past week. And whilst checking the contents and making a list, I found a few Discworld novels I’d forgotten I had (I had to sell all my books years ago to cover medical expenses, but a few escaped). π I’m trying to decide if I’ll read ‘The Fifth Elephant (and strangely, I just watched one of my fave movies, ‘The Fifth Element’ last Sat.) or ‘Carpe Jugulum’. I like Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, π LOL Hmmm…. Think I’ll read Fifth Elephant first. π I like Capt. Vimes of the City Watch, errr… Sir Vimes now! And Carrot, the 6’6″ dwarf! π LOL
Anyone who hasn’t read Discworld…. REALLY should! If you understand the satire & irony, you may just learn something. π
Hipparchia: Be careful what you wish for my friend! π You may just get it! LOL I doubt the World could handle many more of *me*. There wouldn’t be many left after the flames die down! LMAO π
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