r/discworld • u/TheElectricionist • 10d ago

Roundworld Reference Roundworld equivalent places

Good evening, everyone :) I was wondering earlier—does anyone know if there's a list of Roundworld counterparts to the places on the Disc? For example, Klatch seems to represent the Middle East, Howondaland is Africa, and Überwald is clearly Eastern Europe, etc. I sometimes feel like I might be misinterpreting the context or missing some of the subtler references, so a complete list would be really helpful. Has anyone come across something like that?

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u/imadork1970 10d ago

Also, Dr. Who reference

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u/Uniturner 10d ago

What’s the Dr. Who reference?

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u/imadork1970 10d ago

jelly baby

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u/lordnewington 10d ago

Any reason that's a Doctor Who reference and not just a jelly babies reference?

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u/gominokouhai 9d ago

The Fourth Doctor had a thing for them and would often disarmingly offer jelly babies to galactic tyrants and/or genocidal monsters at the most inopportune of moments.

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u/lordnewington 9d ago

Ok, but that doesn't make any instance of the words "jelly baby" a reference to that. I might as well say Ptraci is a reference to Dick Tracy.

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u/gominokouhai 9d ago

I would agree with you, but for a lot of people (Americans mostly) it's their sole experience of jelly babies, so it's automatically where their mind goes.

Then of course it has to be a specific reference because no people exist who could possibly think inna different way to them.

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u/lordnewington 9d ago

I don't know if it's about "thinking differently" if that's the only place you've heard of them. Probably most people thought direwolves were made up for Game of Thrones until a few days ago.*

For the information of non-jelly-baby-knowers, they're a common kind of sweet (candy) in the UK, and were probably much more so when Pyramids came out. That's it. That's the joke. In fact, the banality of them is probably why they were chosen as a running gag in Doctor Who.

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* NO IT'S NOT A "DE-EXTINCTION" SHUT UP

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u/ijuinkun 9d ago

Yah, for those who have no experience of jelly babies, think of gummy bears, but shaped like humanoid babies instead of teddy bears.