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Sanford posted:I first read Mort in 1988, at the age of seven. I am currently sitting beneath a shelf bearing a full collection of hardback Pratchett originals, some of them sought out at great expense and effort. I have read all the books at least three times, and some up to a dozen. Oh my god it only took me a couple decades, multiple rereads and a post explicitly explaining it 
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quote:“He’s been murdered. Where were you when he was killed?” Ffs
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In other somewhat related news: https://twitter.com/bootstrapcook/status/1484605738781655040?s=21 Jack Monroe rose to prominence as a campaigner and blogger on food poverty, and in a shocking indictment of how hosed things are, they’re still campaigning on it. The VBPI has the endorsement of Rhianna, and is going to work to try and more accurately model inflation and price elasticity in essential foodstuffs, as inflation drives basics prices through the roof.
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Well, gently caress me sideways. 25 years and I never realised that was a play on "offal".
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Chloe Jessica posted:what's yalls favorite Pratchett pun ever and why is it "felonious monk" Not a funny pun(e), but still a play on words Lords And Ladies posted:[...] the Queen attacked again, exploding into her uncertainty like a nova. They live on a disc. Why the planet metaphor all of a sudden? The core of a planet is made from solid, white-hot, iron.
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Phy posted:They live on a disc. Why the planet metaphor all of a sudden? Ah gently caress, now it's my turn to say I never caught that one. Goddamn, Pratchett was too loving clever.
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My favorite Pratchett pun? "Ars Enixa Est Candelam."
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Sometimes you don't get a pun until you're staring at it and trying to figure it out.
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I got Djelibeybi right away, but it took me twenty years to get Hersheba.
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Gambrinus posted:Well, gently caress me sideways. ...OH. Okay, got it now, thank you!
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Phy posted:The core of a planet is made from solid, white-hot, iron. Now that's deep !
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I also love every time Magrat is compared to something small and squeaky and fuzzy but when the chips are down that little critter is a mongoose
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christ those three puns in a row that i never got until now i love discworld, man
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Inspired of course by my recent Wordle failure: a top tier pun to which he draws no attention is when the Watch's witness to an attempted assassination is a grassy gnoll.
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Had to sound that one out with the clue in hand. Some of these puns are bit unfair to non native speakers.
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Jables88 posted:Inspired of course by my recent Wordle failure: a top tier pun to which he draws no attention is when the Watch's witness to an attempted assassination is a grassy gnoll. goddammit, alzheimer's hitting pterry seems particularly cruel after reading all of these puns i never noticed
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In other news, it looks like you can finally buy the new Hogfather audiobook in the USA.
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...and apparently there's also a full-cast audiobook of Good Omens now read by the entire TV show cast?
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Rand Brittain posted:...and apparently there's also a full-cast audiobook of Good Omens now read by the entire TV show cast? It’s got Sheen and Tennant, but everyone else is different. quote:the new audiobook will feature Rebecca Front as the book’s narrator, and will see the return of Tennant and Sheen as their characters. Other cast members include Katherine Kingsley (Anathema Device), Arthur Darvill (Newton Pulsifer), Peter Forbes (Shadwell), Gabrielle Glaister (Madame Tracy and Agnes Nutter), Louis Davison (Adam), Pixie Davis (Pepper), Chris Nelson (Wensleydale), Ferdinand Frisby Williams (Brian), and Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Josh Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves, and Lemn Sissay as various other voices. Neil Gaiman will also make an appearance, as himself. Katherine Kingsley (Anathema Device), Arthur Darvill (Newton Pulsifer), Peter Forbes (Shadwell), Gabrielle Glaister (Madame Tracy and Agnes Nutter), Louis Davison (Adam), Pixie Davis (Pepper), Chris Nelson (Wensleydale), Ferdinand Frisby Williams (Brian), and Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Josh Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves, and Lemn Sissay as various other voices. Neil Gaiman will also make an appearance, as himself. The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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There's a BBC radio drama of Good Omens from 2014 that's really good too. The vinyl comes with some extra info from Neil Gaiman explaining how Terry really wanted to be in it but by that point his alzheimer's meant he counld read the script so he had to have someone read his lines for him and then they recorded him repeating them back (you can't tell this is the case in the final product) Reminds me a bit of how Douglas Adams really wanted to be in Life, The Universe and Everything but died before it was made so Dirk Maggs (who also directed the Good Omens adaptation) took Agrajag's lines from the audio book version read by Douglas Adams and worked it into the radio version.
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Chloe Jessica posted:what's yalls favorite Pratchett pun ever and why is it "felonious monk" The Selachi and Venturi families of Ankh as old rival families. The Sharks and the Jets... it's a couple of steps for each one
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Gambrinus posted:Well, gently caress me sideways. My dad would take a Pratchett book with him on every business trip, and when he came home tell us a new pun or reference he'd spotted. They're so full of them I never get tired of re-reading.
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I'm looking for the particular quote that involves two big nations deciding to have a war/battle/conflict/fight and them explaining to a smaller neighbour that it had to actually take place in the smaller country. This is very convincing to the person from the smaller country but it gets harder and harder to remember the argument by the time to get home. Or something along those lines anyway. At this point I have a full text search of all of the Discworld novels so if people want to suggest more relevant keywords that'll work too. I've looked through all the usual suspect quote sites. Can anybody remember what I'm thinking of or what book it might be from? I would have said Jingo, Fifth Elephant, or Monstrous Regiment but I can't help but suspect that it's just a wildcard anecdote in a completely unrelated one instead. gonadic io fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Feb 11, 2022 |
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gonadic io posted:I'm looking for the particular quote that involves two big nations deciding to have a war/battle/conflict/fight and them explaining to a smaller neighbour that the it had to actually take place in the smaller country. This is very convincing to the person from the smaller country but it gets harder and harder to remember the argument by the time to get home. I have very recently read Jingo, and I don't recall it being in there, and I finished a reread of Fifth Elephant last night and I don't recall it there either.
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gonadic io posted:I'm looking for the particular quote that involves two big nations deciding to have a war/battle/conflict/fight and them explaining to a smaller neighbour that the it had to actually take place in the smaller country. This is very convincing to the person from the smaller country but it gets harder and harder to remember the argument by the time to get home. I think that was from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books.
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The_Other posted:I think that was from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. If this is true I'm going to be so mad at my brain but I'll look there, thanks for the suggestion.
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God dammit, hitchhiker book 3. It's actually much longer than I remembered so I put it in a pastebin: https://pastebin.com/raw/iiBh5Rpc Thanks for the help.
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Bruceski posted:The Selachi and Venturi families of Ankh as old rival families. jesus christ
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Bruceski posted:The Selachi and Venturi families of Ankh as old rival families. oh my god
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^ One of the thing you can learn from the annotated Pratchett file. Which is why I'm still bitter it was abandoned, even decades later.
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Xander77 posted:^ One of the thing you can learn from the annotated Pratchett file. Which is why I'm still bitter it was abandoned, even decades later. GNUoon Project
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See, he does all this incredible three layers poo poo, and then he also goes ahead and repeats the 'beautiful like a forest fire' or 'they got on like a house on fire' joke in 3 books in a row.
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I’m going to go ahead and reply to the Pratchett argument I missed in the Schadenfreude thread. In Monstrous Regiment, I though Vlad was meant to be trans (he’s a man, not pretending to be a man) as in transgender but also Transylvania. Because he’s a vampire. It’s a few years since I read it - am I making up my own content?
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Sanford posted:I’m going to go ahead and reply to the Pratchett argument I missed in the Schadenfreude thread. In Monstrous Regiment, I though Vlad was meant to be trans (he’s a man, not pretending to be a man) as in transgender but also Transylvania. Because he’s a vampire. It’s a few years since I read it - am I making up my own content? I think you are but also I'm pretty sure Terry would get a kick out of that so it's canon now.
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And speaking of digging up mouldering arguments about Terry Pratchett, I'm half way through The Truth right now. What's amazing to me is how the watch looks entirely different from the outside in. Not so much "copaganda," especially when read back-to-back with The Fifth Elephant.
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gonadic io posted:I preferred Going Postal for this viewpoint Haven't read it yet but now I look forward to it.
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He said that the whole reason he started it was to come up with a character that would have the least possible interactions with the Watch in order to avoid it ultimately becoming a Watch story (but still set in AM). Even the Wizards ended up on good terms with Vimes. E: but yes, it's very good. Probably my 2nd favourite of his books tbh. The show is okay too. gonadic io fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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CommonShore posted:And speaking of digging up mouldering arguments about Terry Pratchett, I'm half way through The Truth right now. What's amazing to me is how the watch looks entirely different from the outside in. Not so much "copaganda," especially when read back-to-back with The Fifth Elephant. And remembering that The Truth came out after The Fifth Elephant. makes the "She's your..." "Friend." exchange between Vimes, Carrot, and Angua hit different. They're on a bit of a break post Fifth Elephant., I think, even if Pterry never spells it out.
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