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Can we get a cite for that definition? A quick googling found seven or eight slang uses, all of them obscure, but including "skater", cool guy, and rural person. Vicki Rosenzweig 23:21 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I think "Grebo" is meant, a British term (note spelling) -- see http://www.grebo-heights.wox.org/index2.htm for a self-declared usage. -- Karada 23:24 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Can a less violent drawing be found? This creeps me out. --Guthrie

I suppose we could use a picture from the television adaptation of Wyrd Sisters. But it wouldn't really have the same effect. Sonic Mew | talk to me 18:19, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
"This creeps me out." Then it's an appropriate drawing. Greebo's supposed to have that effect on people (and anything else he encounters). He's one dangerous cat!! Thnidu (talk) 23:14, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Horse and greebo

that cat form footrot flats is so much like greebo its just not funny. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.185.95.78 (talk) 04:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] British Blue?

Any cite on how we know Greebo's breed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.148.236.234 (talk) 02:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why the call for citations and distinctions?

Almost everything said about Greebo in this article is referred to one of the Discworld novels. What more is required? Page or chapter, perhaps?

And the stories are fantasies whose setting is not historical or realistic, to say the least. It's ALL fiction. When you say where a fictional character was born, does Wikipedia protocol require you to say he's fictional in that sentence, and in every other sentence of the article? I hope not. But just in case I'm adding a paragraph to the top.

Thnidu (talk) 23:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, some people here seriously need to get a life. It's just a minor character from a fantasy book, for chrissakes! Citations? For what, so you won't embarrass yourself while nerding out with your friends about minor Discworld details? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.186.249.74 (talk) 00:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Big Softy

The note

Seen by Nanny Ogg (only) as a sweet, harmless kitten

is apparently contradicted by the quotation

"Don't worry about him," said Magrat dreamily, as the elf flailed at the maddened cat. "He's just a big softy."

Thnidu (talk) 23:25, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Uh... given that at the time she says that she's actually using Greebo - very deliberately - as a lethal weapon, I think it can be safely surmised that she doesn't mean it, and is instead riffing on Nanny Ogg's insistence on the point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.171.163.185 (talk) 10:20, 12 March 2008 (UTC)