Talk:Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild

If i recall, Vimes, and possibly Vetrinari, were both removed from open commisions. i'm going to check the source, and then update. 68.37.187.220 16:59, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This article says that being dress black at night isn't the best camoflauge. Which color is better? /NoNo 23:59, 16 Jan 2005


 * Speaking from personal experience when e.g. driving through town at night, people dressed all in black actually stand out relatively well, given that the background is typically a discordant mixture of dark grey (the road surface), browns/greys/reds/yellows (brick buildings), other colours (painted shop fronts), bright lights in various colours (and their reflections off the road surface if it is wet), etc. I tend to find that people dressed in mixtures of drab colours tend to be the hardest to see.  The worst case being a woman I once saw crossing the road who was wearing a long beige coat with some sort of checked pattern (possibly Burberry, which in that particular lighting and backdrop, effectively functioned as Disruptive Pattern Material. 62.172.108.23 (talk) 13:03, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

In Night Watch, young Vetinari explores a whole range of colours much better for camoflauge, such as dark green and grey.

Rincewind has a price on his head???
Since when? From whom? I read all of the Discworld but Science of Discworld 3 and I don't remember that. I guess it is from the Assassin' Guild diary. Could someone please tell me if there's any explanation attached? Thanks


 * Yeah, it's from the diary. No explanation of who comissioned it (presumably someone whose path he crossed at high speed), but it says assassins are discouraged from carrying out the comission because, quite apart from the Luggage, "something" seems to be protecting him... --Daibhid C 1:06 17 December 2005.

Co-educational?
Can anyone provide a reference for this?

I'm pretty certain that it's a 'boys-only' institution, female lecturers notwithstanding chrisboote 13:29, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Also from the Diary, and confirmed in Night Watch, which featured a student assassin named Jocasta Wiggs. It was boys-only in Pyramids and the Diary describes this as a recent development. Daibhid C 16:38, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

School Rules
I've removed the "school rules" section from the article, which contained the following:


 * No boy is to keep any type of lizard in his room.
 * No boy is to build a deadfall in his room.

This is obviously not a complete list of rules, but rather a selection of a couple that are mentioned in the books. They don't really add anything worthwhile to the article, and in my opinion the section interrupts the article's flow. So I was bold and deleted it.

Chrismith 16:41, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 22:08, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

New England accent?
I'd like to see a reference for Mr. Teatime being played, in the film, with a New England accent.

As a New Englander, I can assure you that the esteemed Assassin sounds nothing like my neighbors... not even in caricature. :)

Seriously... a "New England accent," in the world of the theater, is usually an exaggerated version of either the rural Maine ("Ayuh") or the upper-class Massachusetts ("Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd") accent.

It seems to me that Teatime is using a humorous version of the "generic American" accent - i.e., the type newscasters learn in an attempt to be free (or mostly free) of regional-sounding speech patterns.

98.229.237.2 (talk) 05:36, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Just a small grammatical, maybe me being thick thing
I just wanted to quote this text (about Lord Downey)

'His special recipe for humbugs, submitted to Nanny Ogg, calls for "arsenic to taste", though, since arsenic is actually very traceable, this is likely a slight bit of misinformation on his part.'

This isn't really very clear to me but as I'm only into about the tenth book in Discworld I'm not qualified to say anything on the matter. I'm just saying it's not clear to someone who hasn't the right knowledge of the character and I was wondering if it had anything to do with the way it is written or whether it's just inside knowledge. Cheers and I don't mean to offend.

--Tubs uk (talk) 00:15, 8 April 2011 (UTC)


 * English isn't my first language, so maybe I'm totally wrong about what you're asking; Downey's recipe, which he apparently sent or showed to Nanny Ogg, includes arsenic. "To taste" generally means that you add something (salt, hot sauce, etc.) to a dish while tasting the dish to get the seasoning right. Arsenic is poisinous even in small amounts: Arsenic. Ho-ju-96 (talk) 18:18, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

The Library vs. The Unseen University
This article says that the Unseen University's library has every book that "has been written, will be written, or could have been written". I added a "citation needed" to indicate where the Wikipedia text contradicts this claim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ypnypn (talk • contribs) 21:11, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

New "assassins' guild" page?
"Assassins' guild" is also a term used for the members of similar societies at various universities, involving a real-time, twenty-four-hour "assassination" game in which the aim is to "kill" other assassins spread out across the university using water pistols and other fake weapons. But I can't find it anywhere on the site. Is it worth a page somewhere? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.27.55.215 (talk) 00:25, 13 May 2012 (UTC)