The Nomes are divided into different tribes reflecting the store's different departments, with only the Stationeri, the store's priesthood, allowed to read. The Nomes live in perpetual fear of a fearsome monster called Prices Slashed, while Bargains Galore! is a common exclamation.
For instance, as the store's slogan is 'All things under one roof', the Store Nomes do not believe in the existence of anything outside. Inside the store they find a colony of Nomes whose religion is based around worshipping Arnold Bros (est 1905) and interpreting the store's rules and regulations as gospel. They carry few possessions, taking with them only an old relic they call the Thing, which is really the Navigational computer and flight recorder of a spacecraft that brought their distant ancestors to Earth 15,000 years before. After seeing their friend Mr Mert being eaten by a fox, Masklin guides them onto a lorry which takes them to an old department store, called Arnold Bros (est. Masklin, Grimma and Granny Morkie and Old Torrit are the only surviving Nomes, small people about 4-inches tall who move, walk and talk ten times faster than humans, living next to a motorway. Plot You know the words of Arnold Bros (est 1905)! 'Everything Under One Roof.' Everything! Therefore there can be no Outside. This was the first television adaptation of the work of renowned author Sir Terry Pratchett and is based on the first novel in Pratchett's Bromeliad trilogy. Truckers, also known as Terry Pratchett's Truckers to differentiate it with various other television series of a similar name, was a 1992 stop-motion animated television series made by legendary British animation studio Cosgrove Hall. Hogfather | The Colour of Magic | Going Postal The 'Truckers' series was superb.
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