# Ponder Stibbons, Front and Center, Please!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 25, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponder-stibbons-front-and-center-please/346032 "2006-02-25T04:12:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponder-stibbons-front-and-center-please/346032/1 "2006-02-25T04:12:41Z")

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I’ve been wondering about Ponder’s name for some time now. Hmmm, say I, it sounds like a Pilgrim name to me. A Pilgrim who looks like Benjamin Franklin (I know, wrong era and all) with one of those black hats with the brim that curls up and in on the sides.

So, this evening I turned to my friend Google, that great disabuser of odd notions, and looked it up. I found out that Ponder Stibbons is a character in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. And I found [this page](http://world.std.com/~kcl/discponder.html) where Ponder has been memorialized in crochet. Just thought I’d share.

I also know what I want to read next. 🙂

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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:** [February 25, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponder-stibbons-front-and-center-please/346032/2 "2006-02-25T04:33:42Z")

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Search for Pratchett threads and learn, Grasshopper. 😃

Or go to [Lspace.org](http://Lspace.org) and play.

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponder-stibbons-front-and-center-please/346032/3 "2006-02-25T07:53:36Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> Search for Pratchett threads and learn, Grasshopper. 😃
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> Or go to [Lspace.org](http://Lspace.org) and play.

Or best of all, just start reading the series. I personally suggest _Mort_ as a good beginning point. 😉

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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ponder-stibbons-front-and-center-please/346032/4 "2006-02-25T14:39:05Z")

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> [@Kythereia](#):
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> Or best of all, just start reading the series. I personally suggest _Mort_ as a good beginning point. 😉

A good start. I’m in the midst of The Last Continent right now, in which Ponder Stibbons is a major player.