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Jedit posted:That's when he plays his own bardic masterwork, Sioni Bod Da, isn't it? I still can't decide if Soul Music has my favourite Pratchett joke (the night club one) or whether it's the completely stealth jokes in the names of the Notafrican countries in Pyramids that I didn't get until I learned what a Hershey Bar was twenty years later. And Night Watch is still the best. GNU. E: 244 is roughly half the number of words per day Terry Pratchett aimed to write. It doesn't take much, just consistency.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:turns out he's devotedly loyal to his wife and treats his female employees with 10e25 of the respect they normally receive from Japanese corporations It's almost like being open and honest about sexuality is the key to having respectful relationships. Huh. Who knew? RabidWeasel posted:
The biggest "oh I'm a loving idiot" moment I've had with Prattchet is when I found out that the climactic fight in Feet of Clay is just the end of Terminator 2.
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Total Meatlove posted:The best Pratchett hidden pun is the Selaachi and Venturi’s, two great households both alike in dignity Well that took some googling but oh my god
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RBA-Wintrow posted:"I'm free of blame!" I yell, as I watch my child slip into diabetic shock. Many parents would happily expend enormous amounts of money and time try to find any other explanation for their child's illness rather than accepting it's their own genes/bad luck which is responsible and working on managing their condition.
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Lol Ken Clarke just said he would support Corbyn as interim PM to block No Deal.
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Angepain posted:Well that took some googling but oh my god Save me the effort please?
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Angepain posted:Well that took some googling but oh my god Well, I'm very dumb 'cause I'm not getting it.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Save me the effort please? Selachii - Latin term for the shark family Venturi - part of a jet engine
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Samovar posted:Well, I'm very dumb 'cause I'm not getting it. Selachii is the superorder in the genus of Sharks Venturi describes the effect of flow on thrust in Jet engines They’re sharks and jets
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Total Meatlove posted:Selachii is the superorder in the genus of Sharks And don't bash yourself for not getting it, because it's made more people say "gently caress" than anything else in Pratchett's books.
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And just in case anyone’s still unsure, the sharks and the jets were the two gangs in West Side Story, which is based on Romeo and Juliet, which is the thing the Selachiis and Venturis are immediately recogniseable as references to, so it’s the most circuitous pune (or play on words) you’ll ever see.
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I'm not good with literature, can this deep cut be expressed in the form of a videogame?
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A venturi is a fluid jet in general, (or the effect that one produces), Pratchett would have probably been more familiar with it from working for the CEGB than from jet engines. It's a pro-tier cryptic crossword level play on words though. We could have had this  Instead we're going to have this  And this  RBA-Wintrow posted:People are going to end up travelling to the mainland to buy medicine in france/belgium/holland because the UK's run out and their package from the internet is stuck somewhere in Customs. The dutch smuggeling drugs all over is going to end up saving lives as smuggeling insulin becomes more profitable than meth..
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Haha wow I didn't know that one. But for future reference if there's a joke to be found in Pratchett the L-space wiki almost certainly tells you about it http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Main_PageDoctor_Fruitbat posted:I'm not good with literature, can this deep cut be expressed in the form of a videogame? There have been several, varying from weird and not very good to just not very good, sadly. And none terribly recently. Can I interest you in a notoriously unbalanced boardgame?
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You could probably play a game of Blood Bowl and name one team the jets and one the sharks. In fact I think you can do that in an NFL EA game. I think there is a team called the sharks and one called the jets.
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Miftan posted:I love the Ankh Morpork board game because just real in real life, barring some insane blinder, the cops always win if they put any effort in. Nah, the Lords usually win
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CGI Stardust posted:god we're fuuuucked. beaten by a man who reads blog posts like The Shart Risk: A Probabilistic Analysis of Follow-Through
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OwlFancier posted:This is the checks and balances that exist in the parliamentary system happening, and parliament repeatedly saying "yeah we're sure we want to drive off the cliff anyway" and I'm not sure it's possible to build a system that refuses to be driven off a cliff if enough of the people in it want it to be driven off a cliff. The desire for that is usually something I associate with either liberals or very serious anarchists, and I only take one of those groups seriously. The one and only thing that Parliament has actually agreed on is that we shouldn't no-deal. Boris is trying to do it anyway, against the express will of Parliament.
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I read Soul Music as a kid because I thought the cover looked cool. Absolutely every single music reference passed me by, even the name 'music with rocks in', and it was the most confusing thing I'd ever tried to read in my young life. It was years before I tried reading Discworld again, but by then I was old enough to actually enjoy it.
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feedmegin posted:The one and only thing that Parliament has actually agreed on is that we shouldn't no-deal. Boris is trying to do it anyway, against the express will of Parliament. But refused to actually legislate to that effect so it doesn't actually make any difference?
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Dabir posted:what's the joke Nonce.
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Profanity posted:Nonce. He got teenage kicks right through the night.
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Gort posted:If John Major ends up being the best prime minister of my lifetime I'm gonna loving flip Brown was basically a flump, but he wasn't a Tory.
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https://twitter.com/OFOCBrexit/status/1167206484880613376 This is pretty big - not the Ken Clarke endorsement, but OFOC (funded by Mandelson and his, ahem, "contacts") begrudgingly admitting that Corbyn needs to be PM. I'd noticed they'd been retweeting Owen Jones (and vice versa) earlier this week and wondered what was going on, seems like even they have a breaking point for Tory bullshit compared to the "risk" of a socialist in government.
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