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I think there's enough material there to make "really likes to eat and drink" a pretty incomplete list.
I think there's enough material there to make "really likes to eat and drink" a pretty incomplete list.


Nanny Ogg could be said to be carrying on the established Chaucerian and Shakespearean archetype of The Bawd.
Nanny Ogg could be said to be carrying on the established Chaucerian and Shakespearean archetype of The Bawd. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[User:Steverapaport|Steverapaport]] ([[User talk:Steverapaport|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Steverapaport|contribs]]) 12:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

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Picture is somewhat wrong. Nanny is described as having 'face like old apple', so is presumably not fat, despite her appetite.

I was under the impression that she was plump in the way elderly women can be. The face, though, needs to be lined. --Kizor 04:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Pratchett mentions or alludes to her being fat at several points. In Thief of Time, Susan meets her and sizes her up at being fat with "little black currant" eyes. And then in Maskerade when she's part of the ballet line and earlier in Witches Abroad when she's dancing, it talks about parts of her orbiting. 209.244.16.209 23:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nanny's children

I removed this:

(it is suspected that the name of three of her offspring are a reference to the artist Paul Kidby's own children)

Most of Nanny's named offspring were named before Kidby was known as a Discworld figure.

Incidentally, what are the names of Paul's kids? Because I strongly suspect the line about them being called Sharleen, Shawn and Pewsey was A Joke. Daibhid C 19:52, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oggham

Somebody please fill in the Ogg ancestry legends and relevance to Ogham. 62.0.129.41 09:31, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Very little information actually exists in the books themselves, it has been suggested that the relationship between Nanny Ogg, Ogham and some of the other history that has been alluded to, is merely a 'fond desire' of Nanny Ogg of which nobody is certain of the truth any more, least of all her.

--perfectblue 11:24, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nanny's voracious appetites

I notice that though she's said to really like to eat and drink, nobody mentions the several broad hints Pratchett lays down about her carnal appetites, especially when she was a bit younger. Among them:

  • The "off the shoulder" dress that she mentions from her past, which Granny Weatherwax mentions was "right off the shoulder and onto the floor mostly", in Witches Abroad.
  • The scenes in Thief of Time where a younger Nanny Ogg is sought out at the wrong times in her life. She's pictured adjusting her clothing for her date to be a bit less demure.
  • The rather bawdy nature of her songs and books
  • And of course the number of husbands she wasn't married to, and children with unexplained fathers

I think there's enough material there to make "really likes to eat and drink" a pretty incomplete list.

Nanny Ogg could be said to be carrying on the established Chaucerian and Shakespearean archetype of The Bawd. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Steverapaport (talkcontribs) 12:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]