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Topic: Nobby Nobbs


In the News (Mon 13 Oct 08)

  
  Nobby and Colon
Nobby is known to carry a certificate to his species signed by the Patrician himself along with a variety of interesting cigarette ends and various other items "found" over the years.
Nobby's normal method of locomotion is a species of sidle; in times of danger he has a way of propelling himself from place to place without apparently moving through the intervening space.
Nobby hed left her for Tawneee before the start of Thud but returned because she could cook despite the fact that you didn't know which way she was looking.
www.area51b.freeserve.co.uk /dworld/nobby.htm   (1519 words)

  
 Nobby, Nobbs, Guards, trust, about, Watch, various, prove, played, first, dollar, Pratchett, Knopf - Nobby Nobbs
Cecil Wormsborough St. John Nobbs ('Nobby') is a fictional character in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett.
Nobby proved less tractable than the conspirators had expected, turning down a cushy life as figurehead ruler of Ankh-Morpork largely, by his own account, for fear of what Vimes would have to say when he found out.
Nobby played a role in the resolution of the "war" between Ankh-Morpork and the empire of Klatch in Jingo, and in recognition the Patrician gave him a new job in traffic control.
www.alphasearch.org /Nobby-Nobbs.html   (873 words)

  
 Pratchett Characters: Corporal CW St J Nobby Nobbs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Corporal Nobby Nobbs is known to carry a certificate to his species signed by the Patrician himself along with a variety of interesting cigarette ends and various other items "found" over the years.
Nobby has been described as a fair guide to the mind of Ankh-Morpork's average citizen as well as a fine advertisement for genocide.
Whatever, Corporal CW St.J Nobbs remains a much-loved character and his exploits are looked forward to by many on AFP, which must suggest something about the newsgroup rather more than Nobby himself.
www.lspace.org /books/whos-who/nobby.html   (225 words)

  
 Nobby Nobbs Encyclopedia Article @ CompleteIdiotsGuide.com (Complete Idiots Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is said that there's a field-marshall's baton in every footman's knapsack, Nobby's Army kit generally consists of two warehouses, complete with said batons, other armies' uniforms, golden teeth, other petty valuables and several kilos of boots, some of them still occupied.
Nobby played a role in the resolution of the "war" between Ankh-Morpork and the empire of Klatch in Jingo, and in recognition the Patrician gave him a new job in traffic control.
According to the back-cover text of Fifth Elephant, Nobby was 'disqualified from the human race for shoving'.
completeidiotsguide.com /encyclopedia/Nobby_Nobbs   (936 words)

  
 Cecil Wormsborough St John Nobbs - DiscWiki
Er wird von allen nur Nobby Nobbs genannt.
Er hat einen Bruder namens Errol Nobbs, von dem er findet, dass er dem Sumpfdrachen Errol ähnlich sieht.
Nobby ist der Sohn von Sconner Nobbs und einer Dame, die Maisie von der Ulmenstraße genannt wird.
www.thediscworld.de /index.php/Cecil_Wormsborough_St_John_Nobbs   (332 words)

  
 Fantasy-Fan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One day Nobby Nobbs was tramping his usual beat around the city of Ankh Morpork- or rather he would have been, had he not nipped down a quiet alley to have a quick smoke.
Nobby couldn't quite put his finger on it, and besides he was flattered at being taken notice of by such a stunner.
As the ringing noise in his ears died down, Nobby looked mournfully at his dogend, which was now a small piece of charred tar.
www.fantasy-fan.org /print.php?sid=784   (337 words)

  
 Feet of Clay
It was its tendency to bend at the knees.
Colon beamed at [Nobby] with the rather worried expression of a mad doctor who has bolted on the head, applied the crackling lightning to the electrodes, and is now watching his creation lurch down to the village.
Nobby was vaguely aware of animals as being food in a primary stage and left it at that.
www.electric-escape.net /pratchett/Feet-of-Clay?PHPSESSID=d71d872f93d3072ed117fe14f13a88a8   (6618 words)

  
 Shooting Star
Nobby had seen shooting stars before, sometimes it was just some magic escaping from the Unseen University, but they still looked pretty.
Nobby saw them as…well he wasn’t quite sure what, but they meant something.
Nobby had the ability to hide himself away during the day, but at night it was even easier.
i-dunno.com /fan/discstar.htm   (932 words)

  
 .::Lord De Nobbes::. The Nobby Nobbs Fanlisting
This fanlisting, as you may have noticed, is dedicated to Nobby Nobbs from the Discworld Novels.
This is the offical fanlisting for Nobby Nobbs, approved by the thefanlistings.org.
Nobby is not the most good looking human around, in fact there is speculation as to whether he is human at all, Nobby has often been mistaken for a monkey.
nobby.i-dunno.com   (367 words)

  
 Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett - Review - Watch the Watch.
Fred is a little like Nobby, great friends and both very keen on bunking off to have a quick pint and a smoke when there's work to be done.
This is the 1st of Terry Pratchett's books to feature the city Watch; it has the background of the bunch and follows their adventures in their time of great peril.
It is, like all of Pratchett's books, a very funny story, the use of Nobby as the Watch clown is great and the introduction of a 6-foot dwarf is a stroke of genius.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/guards-guards-terry-pratchett/351177   (987 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Feet of Clay: Books: Terry Pratchett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To make things worse, he learns that the extremely un-royal Corporal Nobby Nobbs may be the rightful king of Ankh-Morpork (if that doesn't warp your view of reality, nothing will), and that the Patrician is being slowly poisoned -- but no one knows just how the poison is being administered.
I'd be speaking of Sir Samuel Vimes, and Nobby Nobbs.
Nobbs is such a fantastic character, Pratchett gives him great scenes, the best in my mind being the scene in which a few Puppetmasters are trying to get Nobby to assume his royal position.
www.amazon.ca /Feet-Clay-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0613572076   (2028 words)

  
 Nobbs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nobby Nobbs...der wohl einzige Mensch, der eine Urkunde mit sich führt, die beweist, daß er zu eben dieser Spezies gehört.
Nobbs ist klein, krummbeinig und weist gewisse Ähnlichkeiten mit einem Schimpansen auf, der nie zu Teepartys eingeladen wird.
Nobbs neigt dazu, aus dem Mundwinkel zu sprechen.
privat.swol.de /oliverlang/nobbs.htm   (177 words)

  
 Boxing: Nobby's losers not for Amir - Independent Online Edition > General
Amir, who received the Best Young Boxer of the Year trophy, was followed on to his feet by Nobbs, who persistently thrust a piece of paper in front of him.
Instead of calling Nobbs, they have called in an opponent from Belarus, Vitali Martynov, who has a record of 10 wins from 11 fights, seven by knock-outs.
Yet Nobbs has a lightweight named Peter Buckley, the most experienced fighter in the land, who has fought over 250 times and won only 31 though he has never been knocked out or badly hurt.
sport.independent.co.uk /general/article340174.ece   (1057 words)

  
 Review - Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett
His second in command is Sergeant Colon, whose breastplate is one of those feats of engineering designed to give the wearer the appearance of having impressive pectoral muscles and a six pack, but all it actually does is hold in his gut like a jelly in a mould.
Last, and not least is Corporal Nobby Nobbs, described as a rodent of a man who has been docked wages for bringing humankind into disrepute.
A new recruit is Lance Corporal Carrot, who was brought up as a dwarf but is very tall with broad shoulders and has a liking for polishing his armour; he is also trying to memorise an elderly volume of the Laws and Ordinances of Ankh-Morpork.
www.booklore.co.uk /PastReviews/PratchettTerry/GuardsGuards/GuardsGuardsReview.htm   (590 words)

  
 The Watch and it's people
Nobby stands at about four foot tall with the muscle tone of an elastic band.
He has an impressive collection of boils and talks out of the corner of his mouth, usually because he has a dog-end hanging from the other side.
Nobby seems to prefer derogatory terms for anything to the real name.
www.angelfire.com /ut/angusville/Itself.html   (2159 words)

  
 Corporal Nobbs of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 'Feet of Clay', it is revealed that one of Nobby's ancestors was an upper-class member of society.
Nobby is always carrying around a letter from the Patrician.
In 'Soul Music', Nobby and Colon are discussing Death's first name after an encounter with Susan.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=131610   (283 words)

  
 Discworld Chronicle Online Issue 4: the watch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
that we were introduced to the remains of the old City Night Watch in the form of Captain Sam Vimes, Sergeant Fred Colon, Corporal Nobby Nobbs and new recruit, a dwarf by adoption, called Carrot Ironfoundersson.
Nobby is particularly adept at checking doors on a dark street to make sure they are locked.
The Watch has gained respect and recruits and has developed from an undisciplined rabble to a group of crime busting heroes.
home.clara.net /derek.moody/chronicle/issue4/twatch.html   (368 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Nightwatch: Books: Terry Pratchett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The ones that stick in the memory are: Vetinari's unfazable younger self as an assassin in training, the street urchin, Nobby Nobbs, Fred Colon and a superb pre-'Cut-Me-Own'Throat' Dibbler.
Old fans will adore meeting Nobby Nobbs as a street urchin, Havelock Vetinari as a student assassin, and Reg Shoe as a young (and very much alive) rebel-without-a-cause.
There is still a lot of dark humour (and how can you not laugh when Nobby reflects upon Keel giving him a spoon?) and tonnes of laughs.
www.amazon.ca /Nightwatch-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0385602642   (1844 words)

  
 The Vetinari Library: Jingo
Sergeant Colon, Corporal Nobbs, and Leonard of Quirm are greeted by His Lordship upon their arrival at the docks.
He was in the immediate company of a man even the Assassins' Guild was frightened of, another man who would stay up all night in order to invent an alarm clock to wake him up in the morning, and a man who had never knowingly changed his underwear.
Nobby grabbed three of the knives and tugged them out of the man's belt.
www.ealasaid.com /fan/vetinari/vl-jingo.html   (4094 words)

  
 Central Cortex » Discworld at a glance
The lowly and disregarded City Watch of Ankh-Morpork (all four of them) are actually inspired to investigate something when their headquarters is incinerated by a dragon — a creature that shouldn’t exist.
Then it is up to the witches of Lancre to put her and her minions back in their place.
Meanwhile, the Patrician and Leonard of Quirm have left the Palace and recruited Colon and Nobbs to pedal their Going-Under-The-Water-Safely Device in a secret mission to prevent international relations from falling apart completely.
therem.net /blog/index.php?itemid=48   (2841 words)

  
 The City Watch
The Watch itself is concerned with crimes that do not necessarily fall under the jurisdiction of the Guilds' self-policing.
These include such things as willful destruction of property by dragons and malicious lingering of several crates of beer which, according to Corporal Nobbs, needed to be consumed for the safety of the city.
C-Coporal Nobbs re his lotion - you don't p-put that on b-b-breastplates...
members.fortunecity.com /sampp/watch.htm   (2187 words)

  
 The Discworld Compendium: Character Index Part 3
The last Earl of Ankh, possibly great-grandfather of Nobby Nobbs.
Grandfather of Nobby Nobbs, son of Edward de Nobbes and a parlour-maid.
Father of Nobby Nobbs, son of Slope Nobbs.
www.extenuation.net /disc/dwcharacters3.html   (2334 words)

  
 Hogfather (2006) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Corporal Nobby Nobbs full name is Cecil Wormsborough St. John Nobbs.
He has a paper signed by the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork verifying that he is indeed human.
I was also fascinated to see who/how they would portray Nobby and, although he's not quite the thin, multi-hued creature often described, he IS Nobby.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0765458   (323 words)

  
 LaCdeGA'T - Teatro de Crueldad
-Él -dijo Nobby, tocando el cadáver con su bota-.
Mejor llévatelo a la Casa de la Guardia, Nobby.
Entonces paseó de vuelta a la escena del crimen, conde el cabo Nobbs había dibujado con tiza la silueta del cadáver en el suelo (después lo había coloreado, le había añadido una pipa y un bastón y algunos árboles y arbustos como fondo...
mundodisco.dreamers.com /teatro.htm   (972 words)

  
 Lady Ramkin's Lover 06 by Princess Lauren
And Nobby avoided even speaking to her, which was strangely upsetting.
They made their way downstairs, passing Nobby at the front desk (he ostentatiously averted his eyes as they passed), and out into the night.
He knew about you and...' Sybil refused to stoop to saying that bitch, considering that, at this stage, it would be the cauldron calling the potion octarine.
www50.brinkster.com /princesslauren/dw_files/chatterley06.htm   (1670 words)

  
 Discworld
Looking for a better job, he decided to join the city watch. •Sergeant Fred Colon - Colon is a sergeant in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, and appears to have been so for a long time.
He was a corporal in the Watch at the time Samuel Vimes first joined, and subsequent to this spent some time in the army before returning to the Watch. •Corporal Nobby Nobbs - Nobby Nobbs is the kind of person who joins the army to loot corpses.
He is untidy, smelly, and shorter than most dwarfs, and carries a certificate signed by the Patrician to prove that he's a human being.
home.att.net /~u100486004/discworld_files/slide0008.htm   (291 words)

  
 The Discworld Characters
- Technically human (the divorce papers have been filed), Corporal Nobbs is, in fact, nobility, though all laws of nature and common sense scream against this horror.
Nobby Nobbs would be unemployed, but the hours in the Watch are better.
He can often be found 'patrolling' bars and houses of ill repute in the early hours of the morning.
members.fortunecity.com /sampp/chars.htm   (1757 words)

  
 LaCdeGA'T - Obra - Personajes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cabo Cecil 'Nobby' Nobbs: Ha conseguido papeles que acreditan su pertenencia a la especie humana, aunque todo el mundo cree que son falsificaciones.
Aunque no lo creáis, es el objeto de los intentos amorosos del Cabo Nobby Nobbs.
- Nobby solía volver de la batalla con equipamiento que sus antiguos propietarios ya no necesitaban.
dreamers.com /mundodisco/perso21.htm   (1849 words)

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