Re: [HoE] [HOE]Could Hucksters still exist?

["Eric Brennan" <aerainc@erols.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: David Pearson <regault@u.washington.edu>
To: 'hoe@gamerz.net' <hoe@gamerz.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [HoE] [HOE]Could Hucksters still exist?


>>All character types from DL still exist in HoE, albeit in smaller doses.
>>theres even a piccie of a huckster blasting a greebo in the rule book.
>                                                                   ^^^^^^^
>>the manitous are still out there for the huckster to battle -
>>I don't know where you got the impression they weren't.
>
>I think you mean Greedo, who was a Rodian by the way.
>Greebo is Nanny Ogg's pet cat in the Diskworld novels, that occasionally
>gets turned into a pirate.
+

    Actually, if he's British, he might mean a "greasy biker type."  This
was the explanation I heard for the British  slang term Grebo, which was
immortalized in many a Pop Will Eat Itself tune.
    Eric, who's grateful for the chance to remember his favorite now-defunct
band...