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Jaguars! posted:I'm a bit mystified by that too. Is it non-commonwealthers who don't get the references? Australians who do? The plot is not very coherent but no more so than the other early ones. From the perspective of an Australian (or at least this australian), it's because most of the aussie-based jokes read like something a tourist would say they saw in a movie. The only really standout bits were the place names and the tradie who can't say "very", because yeah, accurate observation, and very well written. But the wizard plot was great, and he nailed the whole "rain" thing. e: Not to say I didn't enjoy it, but the Rincewind parts read like The Colour Of Magic, but with the fantasy references replaced by references to australia as it appears in movies. I like The Colour Of Magic, and I think The Last Continent was done as well as it could possible be done and definitely has its moments. e2: The bit about XXXX being made last, when there wasn't enough stuff left is pretty great too. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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YggiDee posted:Best footnote, go. Do we count footnote within footnotes? I have forgotten which book, but isn't there in one Rincewind book a footnote that has like 3-4 footnotes ?
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Dirty Frank posted:You can tell when the Alzheimers started to set in. I read Snuff, then threw the book away and decided that I was very glad that Pratchett stopped writing at I Shall Wear Midnight.
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Nov 2, 2017 12:05
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I always really liked the footnote in Interesting Times about the different meanings of "argh" in different languages. I wouldn't say it's the BEST footnote, but it is highly enjoyable.
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Nov 2, 2017 15:21
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I remember one about explorers grabbing natives to ask them what particular landmarks were called, which is why if you know the native language all the maps show locations like Just A Mountain and Hands Off You Idiot.
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Nov 2, 2017 15:33
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DontMockMySmock posted:I always really liked the footnote in Interesting Times about the different meanings of "argh" in different languages. I wouldn't say it's the BEST footnote, but it is highly enjoyable. Hang on, what's boiling oil got to do with anything?
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My Lovely Horse posted:I remember one about explorers grabbing natives to ask them what particular landmarks were called, which is why if you know the native language all the maps show locations like Just A Mountain and Hands Off You Idiot. I think the second one was Your Hand You Fool. Gives me a good chuckle.
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Is "where the falling angel meets the rising ape" the most on point thing he ever wrote? It's definitely way up there.
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effervescible posted:I think the second one was Your Hand You Fool. Gives me a good chuckle. Close enough, it's the Forest of Skund whose name means "Your Finger You Fool". Related is Mount Oolskunrahod: "Who is this fool who does not know what a mountain is?"
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Nov 10, 2017 09:02
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I didn't like those jokes. How retarded or "native" do you have to be to fail to understand someone pointing at something and asking what it is, is talking about the object they are looking/pointing at? not the finger held far away from the body.
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Nov 11, 2017 03:34
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It's referring to the myth that the llama was named by the conquistors asking "What is it named?" ("¿Cómo se llama?") and the natives being so terrified of them at that point that they were like 'It's called a llama? Whatever you say, please don't kill me."
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504 posted:I didn't like those jokes. It's not suggesting they were stupid. It's suggesting they were making fun of the idiot explorer who was asking the question badly.
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Tunicate posted:It's referring to the myth that the llama was named by the conquistors asking "What is it named?" ("¿Cómo se llama?") and the natives being so terrified of them at that point that they were like 'It's called a llama? Whatever you say, please don't kill me." I've never heard that one, cute. The standard example in the UK is Kangaroo meaning "I don't know".
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Tunicate posted:It's referring to the myth that the llama was named by the conquistors asking "What is it named?" ("¿Cómo se llama?") and the natives being so terrified of them at that point that they were like 'It's called a llama? Whatever you say, please don't kill me." Also the fact that "Canada" is most likely a corruption of "kanata", an Iroquois word meaning village or settlement. As in "That's a village you pale idiot." Stroth fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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Nov 11, 2017 07:27
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I'm reminded of Nome, Alaska. Also, Pratchett would be very disappointed at the word "retarded" used a pejorative.
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Nov 11, 2017 08:54
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Yeah be a classy dude and just say it went over your head. These books are full of stuff like that and it is great.
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I'm a bit ashamed that I had to pick this up from a TVTropes page, but Ok, you know in Lords and Ladies, when the Elf Queen is doing the thing to Magrat, and the metaphor Terry uses is of a planet being ablated by a supernova, layer by layer, until it reaches the core And Magrat hauls off and decks the Queen right between the eyes. Well, what's at the core of the Earth? A giant sphere of white-hot liquid iron, that creates the Earth's magnetic field even That is a well-chosen metaphor
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It's a good catch, i never noticed that. The TVTropes mention reminds me of the mock threads we had back in the day, where it was clear that there were members of that site that were convinced you could break down every story, no matter how complex, into tropes. And then you could also assemble a story out of tropes like it was lego (these were always godawful). Whenever I think about that, I always think about the Auditors reducing the paintings to piles of pigment in Thief of Time, trying to find out where the Art is.
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Cicadalek posted:Whenever I think about that, I always think about the Auditors reducing the paintings to piles of pigment in Thief of Time, trying to find out where the Art is. “Tᴀᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀsᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ɢʀɪɴᴅ ɪᴛ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪɴᴇsᴛ ᴘᴏᴡᴅᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ sɪᴇᴠᴇ ɪᴛ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪɴᴇsᴛ sɪᴇᴠᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇɴ sʜᴏᴡ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴀᴛᴏᴍ ᴏғ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴏɴᴇ ᴍᴏʟᴇᴄᴜʟᴇ ᴏғ ᴍᴇʀᴄʏ...”
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The_Doctor posted:“Tᴀᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀsᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ɢʀɪɴᴅ ɪᴛ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪɴᴇsᴛ ᴘᴏᴡᴅᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ sɪᴇᴠᴇ ɪᴛ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪɴᴇsᴛ sɪᴇᴠᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇɴ sʜᴏᴡ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴀᴛᴏᴍ ᴏғ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴏɴᴇ ᴍᴏʟᴇᴄᴜʟᴇ ᴏғ ᴍᴇʀᴄʏ...” People always quote that part of the exchange, but what's always been the best part of Hogfather for me is the bit immediately before it: quote:
Because the Sun and the ball of flaming gas aren't the same. Terry got it.
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I'm sure I've owned a copy of all the Discworld books but now my kids are old enough to start reading them there's an awful lot missing from my bookshelves
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fluppet posted:I'm sure I've owned a copy of all the Discworld books but now my kids are old enough to start reading them there's an awful lot missing from my bookshelves You probably loaned them to someone. Happens to the best of us.
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I understand (assume) that Pratchett was reacting to an abundance of horse stories in contemporary fantasy back when he was writing, but I can't decide whether having all his characters dislike horses is more similar to a series set in the 20th century be populated entirely by people who hate driving, or by characters who hate domestic animals.
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Whatever happened to the night watch tv series? Did it go into development limbo? I know the movies weren’t the best, but I’d rather they kept making them than have nothing at all 
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hanales posted:Whatever happened to the night watch tv series? Did it go into development limbo? Rihanna said in October '16 that it was still ongoing. That was the last word. By 'the movies' do you mean the Sky TV specials? Michelle Dockery (Susan in Hogfather) is in the National Theatre production of Network with Bryan Cranston at the moment, and the whole play I was racking my brains over where I'd seen her before.
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I was thinking about the telly Watch stuff the other day and felt sad. I doubt it is going to happen now.
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I’ve been waiting for the Rivers of London tv adaptation that got announced for several years now.
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The_Doctor posted:I’ve been waiting for the Rivers of London tv adaptation that got announced for several years now. Do you really want to see that CGI? You know what I'm talking about. e: You do don't you you sicko?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Do you really want to see that CGI? You know what I'm talking about. The Mr Punch face stuff? Hell yeah I do.
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The_Doctor posted:Rihanna said in October '16 that it was still ongoing. That was the last word. By 'the movies' do you mean the Sky TV specials? Yeah the sky specials. I enjoyed them in a “on in the background” kind of way.
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Xander77 posted:I understand (assume) that Pratchett was reacting to an abundance of horse stories in contemporary fantasy back when he was writing, but I can't decide whether having all his characters dislike horses is more similar to a series set in the 20th century be populated entirely by people who hate driving, or by characters who hate domestic animals. Death is a fan of horses. 
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Rereading Good Omens. Verdict: still good. My copy has an unreasonable amount of errors, though.
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Nobody taking a break for soup though, right?
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Xander77 posted:I understand (assume) that Pratchett was reacting to an abundance of horse stories in contemporary fantasy back when he was writing, but I can't decide whether having all his characters dislike horses is more similar to a series set in the 20th century be populated entirely by people who hate driving, or by characters who hate domestic animals. I mean, horses kind of suck. Especially in a city where mostly all they do is piss and poo poo everywhere in between kicking and trampling people.
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Beachcomber posted:Rereading Good Omens.
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didn't realize that Nation existed it is Very Good
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Cicadalek posted:I mean, horses kind of suck. Especially in a city where mostly all they do is piss and poo poo everywhere in between kicking and trampling people. Yeah, that's kind of the thing. Vimes hates horses because they are a pain in his rear end as traffic, and as a foot constable he's probably spent years almost getting run over by them and walking in what they leave. Carrot's a dwarf, hating horses is Traditional. Horses hate Angua because they know what she is and are afraid she'll eat them. Outside of that, the Wizards are generally too fat to ride, the Witches prefer broomsticks when they have to travel outside of walking distance, and Moist -likes- horses.
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I imagine CMOT Dibbler also found them very very useful.
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My Lovely Horse posted:The rare Buggre All This Good Omens! lol
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