Bellyster

2010-07-30T09:03:11Z

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Bellyster was the vilest of all the screws at [[Ankh-Morpork]]'s infamous [[Tanty]]. He was the one who wouldn't only gob in your stirabout, but wouldn't even have the decency to do it where you couldn't see it. He was a sadistic misery-monger, hated by all the inmates and his fellow gaolers alike.

[[Moist von Lipwig]] did him a disservice during the events of {{MM}}, for which generations of jailbirds will be thankful. He is actually ''in'' the Tanty by the events of {{UA}}, where he surely has to look both ways before he does ''anything'' in case he is attacked, spat at, kicked, kneed in the groin or he accidentally commits [[Suicide]]...

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Roderick Purdeigh

2009-01-21T15:43:51Z

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Mentioned in {{TLC}}, a well-known, but not terribly bright, explorer, who spent many years looking for [[XXXX]], and never found it. According to the [[Dean]] of [[Unseen University]], he once got lost in his own bedroom (in the wardrobe), though this might be an exaggeration. (or he'd heard about Narnia and was exploring likely possibilities).

Despite his failure to find XXXX, let alone their fabled companion [[Foggy Islands]], he is listed in [[Wasport's Lives of the Very Dull People]].

He is understood to have spent several years going round and round in circles in the [[Circle Sea]], just out of sight of land, under the mistaken impression that he was circumferentially navigating the Disc. He returned to [[Ankh-Morpork]] claiming to have proven that the Disc had a circumference of several million miles...

A fuller biography of Sir Roderick is given in the pamphlet accompanying {{DM}}. The son of Major General Sir [[Ruthven Purdeigh]], he was educated at [[Thrasher's School]] in [[Pseudopolis]], and then at the prestigious Military Academy in [[Sto Lat]]. His first posting on passing out was to the [[Quirm Lancers]], followed by promotion to the [[35th Llamedosian Foot]], where his immediate commander was Lord [[Rust]]. Owing to an administrative error, he was promoted to Colonel and sent to command the [[Royal Sto Plains Riflers]], his father's old regiment. Purdeigh finished his [[Army]] service as Major General, being so promoted on the death of General the [[Duke of Eorle]].

He left the army and published an autobiographical account of his military service, ''[[On The Use of Pliers in Warfare, Boots and Teeth: A Soldier's Life]]''.

He then started his spectacularly unsuccessful exploring career as detailed above, meeting an untimely end in [[Bhangbhangduc]] at the hands of the natives. We know that Purdeigh was somewhat intolerant of untidy lazy slackers and foreigners, believing any little difficulties could be resolved by a few prods of the blunt end of his walking-stick to get them to shape up and show some backbone. As his last, sadly unfinished, book, ''The Man of the Woods'', relates, Purdeigh was so incensed at the comportment of a group of red-haired slovenly rascals that he resolved to teach them a jolly good lesson with the said walking-stick.

We know today he had not encountered men, so much as the great ape, ''Pongo Pongo''. Whoops. He may not have thought to use the [[Monkey|M - Word]], but in the circumstances this would have added insult to injury. The end result was the same, anyway.

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The Malay words ''orang-utan'' simply mean ''Man of the Woods''...

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