# I don't want to alarm you...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-alarm-you/425062>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 2, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-alarm-you/425062 "2007-11-02T21:12:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-alarm-you/425062/1 "2007-11-02T21:12:50Z")

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But [Terry Pratchett](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=490576&in_page_id=1774) had a minor stroke a couple of years ago.

SQUEAK!

Scary, but I’m glad he got through it, and has kept his sense of humor!  
Errr…could a passing mod move this into Cafe Society?

Not sure what happened there.

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-alarm-you/425062/2 "2007-11-02T21:19:10Z")

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[QUOTE=yanceylebeef]  
Errr…could a passing mod move this into Cafe Society?  
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Sure.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-alarm-you/425062/3 "2007-11-02T21:34:32Z")

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So much for book tours.

That’s ok, PTerry. You just keep home, keep healthy, and keep writing.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-alarm-you/425062/4 "2007-11-02T22:19:50Z")

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I’m not a Pratchett fan, but the television adaptation of his Christmas…er, Hogswatch tale _Hogfather_ is going to make its US premiere on ION (formerly I, formerly PAX) around Thankgivingtime.

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**Author:** ![pprgrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-to-alarm-you/425062/5 "2007-11-03T01:25:19Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Thankfully for Terry, who has sold 55 million books and just published Making Money —the 36th novel in the Discworld series — his ability to write, controlled by the left side of the brain, was unaffected.

Whew, dodged a bullet there. Let me be the first to volunteer to take dictation if he can’t type anymore.