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Terrybot :pratchett:<p>It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to *me*"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, The Unadulterated Cat</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, Mort</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>"ER...HO. HO. HO."</p><p>Death makes a career move<br>Terry Pratchett, Hogfather</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>"He's a man of few words, and he doesn't know what either of them mean," people said, but not when he was within hearing.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, The Carpet People</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's *American* editors.</p><p>Setting the record straight<br>Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>"You mean mysterious ancient races of Amazonian princesses who subject all male prisoners to strange and exhausting progenitative rites?" said Eric, his glasses beginning to fog.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, Eric</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Raj<p>Love this definition of space in Pratchett's Wings:<br>"There are two types of space: a) something containing nothing and b) nothing containing everything"</p><p>"Nothing containing everything." Excuse me while I go and stare out the window for a moment.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase "people are people everywhere" had traditionally thought of as people. And even if you weren't virtuous, as you had been brought up to understand the term, you did like to see virtue in other people, provided it didn?t cost you anything.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>Oh dear, I'm feeling political today. It's just that it's dawned on me that 'zero tolerance' only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>- "It could be a torture chamber or a dungeon or a hideous pit or anything!"<br>- "It's just a student's bedroom, sergeant."<br>- "You see?"</p><p>Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>I'm getting a lot of mail and email about FoC (I particularly liked the postcard which read 'We were *sure* it was the wallpaper, you bastard!!!!!'). I'm glad to say that most Baconians hared off after poissons rouge.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Baltergeist<p>University of Magic's worst student,<br>Danger followed him wherever he went.<br>"My life," Rincewind thought,<br>"Is hellishly fraught.<br>Death seems to be ever imminent!"</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WizardlySongsPoemsOrLimericks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WizardlySongsPoemsOrLimericks</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HashTagGames</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Queer Like The Slur<p>This one also deserves a lot more airtime. </p><p>‘Can’t do that,’ he said, ‘ ‘cause of happy ass. The sergeant told me all about it. Happy ass. Happy ass corp ass. Means you can’t just lock somebody away if they haven’t broken the law. Happy ass corp ass. It’s all written down. Happy ass corp ass,’ he repeated helpfully.</p><p>Preston complying, as we all should. In I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett<br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GNUTerryPratchet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchet</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HappyAssCorpAss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HappyAssCorpAss</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"</p><p>Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...</p><p>Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
Terrybot :pratchett:<p>It was hard enough to kill a vampire. You could stake them down and turn them into dust and ten years later someone drops a drop of blood in the wrong place and *guess who's back*? They returned more times than raw broccoli.</p><p>Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay</p><p><a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUTerryPratchett</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/SpeakHisName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakHisName</span></a>, <a href="https://frikiverse.zone/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discworld</span></a></p>
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