We all love the heavy-hitter Discworld quotes.
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Also, since my publication-order reread is currently most of the way through Hogfather, shoutout to the way he could keep one silly joke about a pig having a wee going for half a book without it getting old.
@thegiddystitcher it's the way he understood children's minds, which is essentially also adult minds, right? I mean we all know that would have been EXACTLY how that pig wee would have gone. And as adults, our "job" is to pretend it isn't funny. But why can't that be funny? It's absurd we can't laugh, and that makes it funnier, which is the joke he keeps coming back to, in so many ways, in so many books, through characters old and young, human and not. "Give up already and laugh."
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We all love the heavy-hitter Discworld quotes. Vimes and his boots, Death and his harvest. The rising ape and the moving turtle.
But today of all days I am especially grateful for the silliness, the parts that make me stop and giggle decades later no matter how many times I've read them.
And I could list so many! Magrat Garlick "standin' there bifurcated" in Witches Abroad, Colon's "slanty thing over the e" from Men At Arms, pretty much everything Gaspode ever says.
But my number one underrated Discworld quote is and will always be:
"It was a large, ornate pot. About the height of a man of large pot height." - Moving Pictures
So simple. So ridiculous. Gets me every time
What's yours?
@thegiddystitcher The Lancre Reciprocating Fox ("It's front legs go like this and it's back legs go like that") will live forever in my mind. I'm not even sure I've got the exact phrase right, but I don't care.
And
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY from Mort, of course.
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We all love the heavy-hitter Discworld quotes. Vimes and his boots, Death and his harvest. The rising ape and the moving turtle.
But today of all days I am especially grateful for the silliness, the parts that make me stop and giggle decades later no matter how many times I've read them.
And I could list so many! Magrat Garlick "standin' there bifurcated" in Witches Abroad, Colon's "slanty thing over the e" from Men At Arms, pretty much everything Gaspode ever says.
But my number one underrated Discworld quote is and will always be:
"It was a large, ornate pot. About the height of a man of large pot height." - Moving Pictures
So simple. So ridiculous. Gets me every time
What's yours?
@thegiddystitcher There are so many clever music jokes in Soul Music, but the shaggy dog story in a footnote just to get a punchline about a felonious monk always struck me as a joke crafted with a malicious and gleeful love for both comedy and jazz.
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We all love the heavy-hitter Discworld quotes. Vimes and his boots, Death and his harvest. The rising ape and the moving turtle.
But today of all days I am especially grateful for the silliness, the parts that make me stop and giggle decades later no matter how many times I've read them.
And I could list so many! Magrat Garlick "standin' there bifurcated" in Witches Abroad, Colon's "slanty thing over the e" from Men At Arms, pretty much everything Gaspode ever says.
But my number one underrated Discworld quote is and will always be:
"It was a large, ornate pot. About the height of a man of large pot height." - Moving Pictures
So simple. So ridiculous. Gets me every time
What's yours?
@thegiddystitcher Annoyingly I can’t remember the exact wording of the quote, or which book it’s from to look it up (stupid brain fog).
But there’s one about the long drawn out accordion note that has to be played to warn people that folk music is about to be perpetrated, so that they have time to get to a safe distance.
Always make me giggle and has saved me from folk music several times in real life
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@thegiddystitcher Annoyingly I can’t remember the exact wording of the quote, or which book it’s from to look it up (stupid brain fog).
But there’s one about the long drawn out accordion note that has to be played to warn people that folk music is about to be perpetrated, so that they have time to get to a safe distance.
Always make me giggle and has saved me from folk music several times in real life
@Lemlems Hah, yes I know the one you mean! Has to be one of the Witches books, I reckon.
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@thegiddystitcher There are so many clever music jokes in Soul Music, but the shaggy dog story in a footnote just to get a punchline about a felonious monk always struck me as a joke crafted with a malicious and gleeful love for both comedy and jazz.
@Fruan Sometimes you can feel him right there with you elbowing you in the ribs and going "get it? get it?!"
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@thegiddystitcher The Lancre Reciprocating Fox ("It's front legs go like this and it's back legs go like that") will live forever in my mind. I'm not even sure I've got the exact phrase right, but I don't care.
And
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY from Mort, of course.
@pdcawley Yes! As I recall from the recent reread, nobody could quite decide which way its legs went
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We all love the heavy-hitter Discworld quotes. Vimes and his boots, Death and his harvest. The rising ape and the moving turtle.
But today of all days I am especially grateful for the silliness, the parts that make me stop and giggle decades later no matter how many times I've read them.
And I could list so many! Magrat Garlick "standin' there bifurcated" in Witches Abroad, Colon's "slanty thing over the e" from Men At Arms, pretty much everything Gaspode ever says.
But my number one underrated Discworld quote is and will always be:
"It was a large, ornate pot. About the height of a man of large pot height." - Moving Pictures
So simple. So ridiculous. Gets me every time
What's yours?
@thegiddystitcher Guards, Guards:
"For a moment the rank felt as though they had just returned from singlehandedly conquering a distant province. They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt."
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@thegiddystitcher Guards, Guards:
"For a moment the rank felt as though they had just returned from singlehandedly conquering a distant province. They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt."
@diyelectromusic Definitely one I laugh at every time too. Damn I love that book!
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@thegiddystitcher Guards, Guards:
"For a moment the rank felt as though they had just returned from singlehandedly conquering a distant province. They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt."
@thegiddystitcher Not to mention Wyrd Sisters: "As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: “When shall we three meet again?” There was a pause. Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: “Well, I can do next Tuesday.”"
But I could also add any number from the greatest mathematician on the disk, through to "banged grains"
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@thegiddystitcher Not to mention Wyrd Sisters: "As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: “When shall we three meet again?” There was a pause. Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: “Well, I can do next Tuesday.”"
But I could also add any number from the greatest mathematician on the disk, through to "banged grains"
@thegiddystitcher Ahh. And I'm so pleased to see that the APF is still a thing...
The Annotated Pratchett File v9.0 - Index
Terry Pratchett's work is full of references, allusions, parodies and in-jokes. Hundreds of such references have been collected in the Annotated Pratchett File (APF). This is the index page of the on-line version of the APF.
(www.lspace.org)
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We all love the heavy-hitter Discworld quotes. Vimes and his boots, Death and his harvest. The rising ape and the moving turtle.
But today of all days I am especially grateful for the silliness, the parts that make me stop and giggle decades later no matter how many times I've read them.
And I could list so many! Magrat Garlick "standin' there bifurcated" in Witches Abroad, Colon's "slanty thing over the e" from Men At Arms, pretty much everything Gaspode ever says.
But my number one underrated Discworld quote is and will always be:
"It was a large, ornate pot. About the height of a man of large pot height." - Moving Pictures
So simple. So ridiculous. Gets me every time
What's yours?
@thegiddystitcher “… to spoon, and on one memorable occasion fork…”
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@thegiddystitcher “… to spoon, and on one memorable occasion fork…”
@fubaroque Haha, I vividly remember reading that for the first time as a teenager
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We all love the heavy-hitter Discworld quotes. Vimes and his boots, Death and his harvest. The rising ape and the moving turtle.
But today of all days I am especially grateful for the silliness, the parts that make me stop and giggle decades later no matter how many times I've read them.
And I could list so many! Magrat Garlick "standin' there bifurcated" in Witches Abroad, Colon's "slanty thing over the e" from Men At Arms, pretty much everything Gaspode ever says.
But my number one underrated Discworld quote is and will always be:
"It was a large, ornate pot. About the height of a man of large pot height." - Moving Pictures
So simple. So ridiculous. Gets me every time
What's yours?
@thegiddystitcher nice to see Gaspode the Wonder Dog mentioned. I swear if I ever have time for another dog I'm going to call him Gaspode.
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