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Rand Brittain posted:Oh, no, is Kidby an anti-vaxxer? Where are you getting that?
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The_Doctor posted:Where are you getting that? This, more or less.
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I was just having similar talk with my friends today. Anyways, I'm y'know very pro being safe about COVID and everything. Meat Loaf ruled, it's cool to pay tribute to the guy. Jim Steinman last year, now Meat Loaf, we're losing a lot of great rocknrollers. I hang out in the arts areas of SA because that's where the fun is! And Meat Loaf brought fun into people's lives.
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Heavy Metal posted:Jim Steinman last year, now Meat Loaf, we're losing a lot of great rocknrollers. coincidentally, both of these artists are also mentioned in The Long Earth, as two of Sister Agnes's favorites. the book takes place in the late 2030s, though, i think, so i guess it's a period piece now. 
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That rocks.
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Ah, the transitive property of cancellation,
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Literally the first I've heard of it so maybe Paul didn't know this either
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toasterwarrior posted:Ah, the transitive property of cancellation, Well I think it's hard to believe that someone might have liked Meat Loaf for his musical prowess instead of his distasteful political takes. It's such a terminally online take.
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Rand Brittain posted:Oh, no, is Kidby an anti-vaxxer? What a bizarre conclusion to reach.
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angerbeet posted:Well I think it's hard to believe that someone might have liked Meat Loaf for his musical prowess instead of his distasteful political takes.
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Chloe Jessica posted:been rereading the Long Earth series here lately. seeing how Pratchett works with a co-author is pretty interesting. most of the book is pretty tonally different than Discworld, which is probably down to Stephen Baxter, but every now and then a joke that's just utter purestrain Pratchett pops up and it's immediately obvious. All right, I'm gonna pull the trigger on these finally, been looking for something new to read. I don't know why I've been reluctant to start them, I think I've just heard a lot of mixed reviews.
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Phenotype posted:All right, I'm gonna pull the trigger on these finally, been looking for something new to read. I don't know why I've been reluctant to start them, I think I've just heard a lot of mixed reviews. They're not bad, but they're not great either. Lot of interesting ideas looking for a plot.
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There's going to be an announcement of some kind of Wednesday. I'll keep you posted.
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Jedit posted:There's going to be an announcement of some kind of Wednesday. I'll keep you posted. Deathless Mort is finally getting the go ahead?
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Total Meatlove posted:Deathless Mort is finally getting the go ahead? The universally acclaimed The Watch is getting a second season?
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Dave Syndrome posted:The universally acclaimed The Watch is getting a second season? Now why would I be mentioning that in the Pratchett thread?
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I really wish I was good enough at that kind of patter to come up with a bit where Dibbler is trying to sell an NFT to someone.
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Mad Hamish posted:I really wish I was good enough at that kind of patter to come up with a bit where Dibbler is trying to sell an NFT to someone. You get to own the idea of the sausage, it's essential sausageness, if you will. The priests of offler get a sausage sandwich.
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yaffle posted:You get to own the idea of the sausage, it's essential sausageness, if you will. The priests of offler get a sausage sandwich. With which we are reminded that if you need to know what Pterry would have thought about almost any modern development, he probably already told you.
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yaffle posted:You get to own the idea of the sausage, it's essential sausageness, if you will. The priests of offler get a sausage sandwich. How did I only just now realize that the reason that Offler gets sausage offerings is because of the crocodile in Punch and Judy shows?
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Strange Cares posted:How did I only just now realize that the reason that Offler gets sausage offerings is because of the crocodile in Punch and Judy shows?  I mean really Pratchett never had a single original thought, its references all the way down!!!
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Dirty Frank posted:
Oh I don’t know about that, but I do admire that he was unashamed to draw from whatever joke or reference that he liked. For whatever reason seeing that quotation today really made the crocodile/sausages thing connect for me. Strange Cares fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Jan 24, 2022 |
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Strange Cares posted:Oh I don’t know about that, but I do admire that he was unashamed to draw from whatever joke or reference that he liked. For whatever reason seeing that quotation today really made the crocodile/sausages thing connect for me. I don't think it either, I was goofing around and hoping the multiple exclamation points would point to a diseased mind 
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what's yalls favorite Pratchett pun ever and why is it "felonious monk"
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I'm very fond of "Fingers" Mazda, the very first thief, who stole fire from the gods* *He couldn't fence it, it was too hot* *He really got burned on that deal
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YggiDee posted:I'm very fond of "Fingers" Mazda, the very first thief, who stole fire from the gods* A classic
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The whole of Soul Music leading up to a world of hertz pun
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thetoughestbean posted:The whole of Soul Music leading up to a world of hertz pun I thought we were leaving out Soul Music because it's all references?
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Dirty Frank posted:I don't think it either, I was goofing around and hoping the multiple exclamation points would point to a diseased mind Ah, I took it as sincere. Clearly I’ve been posting too much outside of the SA ecosystem.
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The soul music show/movie was how I got into Pratchett in the first place. I liked it.
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"The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery..." was the first time I realized what kind of book I was reading all those many years ago.
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Chloe Jessica posted:what's yalls favorite Pratchett pun ever and why is it "felonious monk" *Who stoked the boiler
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Chloe Jessica posted:what's yalls favorite Pratchett pun ever “But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.”
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Chloe Jessica posted:what's yalls favorite Pratchett pun ever and why is it "felonious monk" Not a Pun, but one of my favorite things "All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—" MY POINT EXACTLY. immoral_ fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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Jedit posted:I thought we were leaving out Soul Music because it's all references? We're on a mission from Glod!
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I am a big fan of THERE'S NO JUSTICE, THERE'S JUST US.
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Rand Brittain posted:Oh, no, is Kidby an anti-vaxxer? No, that piece was a riff on the Bat Out Of Hell coverart.  Like all things in Soul Music, it's a reference. 
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DontMockMySmock posted:I am a big fan of THERE'S NO JUSTICE, THERE'S JUST US. 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. Today is the first time I got the justice/just us wordplay.
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