Um, I think the title says it all. In which novel did Hex make its first appearance?
Thanks!
This character page would seem to suggest Soul Music.
Anybody want to list the idiosyncracies about Hex which translate into computer-related jokes?
Such as Hex’s refusal to work on complex questions until he was given a larger skull of a male sheep?
Or the hourglass that is deployed on a spring when Hex is engaged in computation?
Or the aquarium that comes down when Hex is busy with a project, to keep the operator entertained. Or the mouse.
And “Anthill Inside”, of course.
Was that a whoosh? If not, here you go.
“List”, not "explain. :smack:
I don’t think it was a whoosh at all… I misunderstood the point of the exercise myself at first.
For this hijack, we are not posting suspected in-jokes and asking other people to explain them.
Instead, we are simply posting in-jokes without the explanations. At least, that’s how I read the thread so far.
[sub]And I shouldn’t really be using the term ‘we’ since I haven’t read discworld at all and thus don’t have any in-jokes to contribute.)[/sub]
On preview, I see that you got it anyway, but I’m posting this anyway. 
Needs more RAM, duh. 
What about FTB enabling? Fuzzy Teddy Bear?
the small religious paintings.
Hex keeps talking about electricity, but no matter how much static electricity Ponder can generate, it still does Hex no good. Besides, the cats tied to a wheel so that they could be rubbed against amber beads were making too much noise.
Hex did first appear in Soul Music. Im currently rereading it.
He/it was invented by Skazz and Big Mad Drongo (or as Ridcully calls him, Big Mad Adrian).
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You mean Adrian Turnipseed, right?
And yes, I mean list the jokes you get! And I’d recommend asking for the explanation if you don’t get it.
Yep, Ponder introduces him as Big Mad Drongo, Ridcully asks him his realy name and he says “Adrian Turnipseed”, after that, Ridcully starts calling him Big Mad Adrian.
Look, I had nothing to do with Hex, really. It’s just that everyone somehow expects me to know all about it …
Hee hee! I was hopinh you’d show up. Explain yourself, young man.
Yep. I suspect Pratchett put that in as a reference to “FTB”, a (non-Discworld) short story he wrote where
Santa delivers a teddy bear to a mainsframe computer. It subsequently refuses to work if the FTB unit is removed.
“FTB” is available in the Terry Pratchett collection, Once More, with Footnotes.
(I’m confused, are we just listing the jokes, or giving explainations to 'em?)
Either one, but I appreciate the explanation,.
I don’t think you can be too sticky about the rules when it’s for a hijack.
Not a joke about Hex, but something that amuses me nonetheless: I think one of the reasons Hex is so great is that it’s so believable. I can actually picture wizards building a thinking machine out of tubes and ants.