Terry Pratchett – Booksigning
Thursday, September 14th, 2006Yesterday I went to see Terry Pratchett in Vienna, where he presented his newest book “Thud!” (now sold in German as “Klonk!”). The whole thing took place in the Theater Rabenhof, unfortunately my seat was a bit farther back. Some guy presented the book and asked Terry a few questions…
Terry also told a “dirty joke” during his explanations:
“A man went into a bar, carrying a crocodile. He put the croc on a table and challenged everyone in the bar to do as he does: he openend the crocodiles snout, unzipped is trousers, inserted his … ahem … part and hit the crocodile over the head. The croc blinked a bit, but did nothing more. Then the man looked around for someone to do the same. No one came forward at first, but after a short ehile an elderly lady raised her hand and said: “Welll, I’m willing to give it a try, but only if you promise not to hit me!”
After the talk finished, all the people stood in line to get their books signed.
I gave him my copy of “Thud!” and got a nice signature in there, as well as some buttons.
The best part: Terry loughed out loud when he read my “Will work for bandwidth” t-shirt 
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Since some people asked for it, I also made a short video of a small part of the talk.
I drove to vienna by car, mostly because Elke joined me to visit some friends there. I filled my fuel tank in Linz and watched how much fuel I needed, simply because I wanted to compare the consumption to the money I would have to pay to go by train. There and back again I needed about half the tank, so i would guess about 25 Euros. That is the same amount of money I would have to pay to go by train – ONE WAY! I think the ÖBB is a bit crazy.