A Pratchett Quote Game: thread #24

espadrile - welcome to the game.

Thanks guys! This is a really cool game.
Okay, this one shouldn't be too hard.

"'What's a twofour?' 'A two and a two and a two and a two.'"

Welcome to the game espadrile. :)

The Amazing Maurice?

Not that one.

Men at Arms when Detritus is learning to count.

Men at Arms it is. Exactly right. Your turn!

"It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of."

I'll start out with Monstrous Regiment...

I'll try for Interesting Times.

I'll try Jingo.

Eric?

*edited to fix touchstone

Carpe Jugulum?

Night Watch?

Guards! Guards!?

OLLEH has it.

Ok! so here it goes...

'' 'No,' said the shopkeeper, 'not really. I always say that home is where you hang your hat' ''

Come on... just guess....

amazing maurice?

No. =)

I can't really place it. Perhaps Soul Music?

No. It is in an early book.

Are we talking about one of the mysterious travelling shops? Soul Music?

The Light Fantastic, perhaps?

I haven't read it but I'll go out on a limb and guess Truckers

Espandrille is right. :-)

Yay!
"Logic would have told him that interfering with the process a second time around would only make things worse."

The colour of magic?

night watch?

Mort?

Mort! Your turn.

Ah! I am sort of reading Mort at the moment.

Vimes wasn't keen on games because they led to crowds, and crowds led to work for coppers.

Go for it ...

Unseen Academicals?

Sorry - but not that one

Thud?

Not Thud

Guards! Guards!?

Jingo?
I seem to recall Carrot leading a variety of football in it...

No, neither of those books.

To turn the book titles into links you put the title into square brackets.

For authors you use a double square bracket at each end of the name.

They are called 'touchstones'

The Fifth Elephant? I used 'touchstones'!!

LOL - but not The Fifth Elephant

Men at Arms?

Snuff?

Yep - it comes from Snuff and the game being discussed os Crockett. Over to you, ronincats.

Whee, it's been a while since one of my wild-ass educated guesses was correct!

Farmers liked big wives. Farmwork was hard, and there was no call for a wife who couldn't carry a couple of piglets or a bale of hay. But these two could have carried a horse each.

That sounds like a witch book, but I don't think I've seen it before, so I'll guess I Shall Wear Midnight?

I've read it somewhere fairly recently. I think that it might be Interesting Times.

No and no, so far.

Thief of Time?

Sorry!

Then . . . Perhaps it was Maskerade?

Uh-uh!

Now I am really guessing. Small Gods?

Monstrous Regiment is my guess!

Still no hits, and I thought this might be easy.

I'm guessin another Tiffany Aching. It reminds me of the bees in Wee Free Men.

Reaper Man?

Wyrd Sisters?

Espadrile has it, when Tiffany first stumbles into the Queen's strong dream.

I knew it was a witch book! I think we will follow that with . . .
"'If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.'"

I have to revert to my default here as I have no idea.

Unseen Academicals

It rings a bell...but I have no idea where. It could be any one of the myriad of the Disc's cynical characters.
Men at Arms?

It does sound like Granny W, in one of the early books, so I'll go for

wyrd sisters

The only reason I chipped in at all was because I expect to get "the science of diskworld 4" in the next few days, here in Australia.

#63 Guido, have you read A Blink of the Screen?

It is Terry Pratchett's early published works, starting when he was 13 years old. The idea for The Long Earth is in there. It was published last year. I have a hardback copy of it.

Hi Pinko,

Yep I own it, but haven't read that many stories yet.
I do though 'feel' that I have read some of them, somewhere else before.

Well that's an interesting thought. Where can I find a COMPLETE and I do mean complete list of all of Terrys works. And I do mean the maps and "nanny
Oggs cookbook" (which I still don't own) and the "world of poo" which I do do :-)

and I wonder which others, other than the 39 and his early stuff I should get to make me a "complete" completist nut?

his official web page would be the best place to look but I doubt if his very early stuff would be listed

None of those.

Making Money?

Jingo?

Nope.

Witches Abroad?

Default #2

The Last Continent?

Nuh uh.

Are we still doing one clue per day if no one has guessed it?

A hint? It's an early book.

Equal Rites?

Yup!

Here goes then ...

'Interesting, isn't it?' said Sweeper. 'But is it not written: "There's a lot goes on we don't get told"?

Thief of Time...

No - that would have been too easy.

What!?
Hmm--I'll wait for somebody else to have a go before I take another turn.

Sounds as though you already know the answer. Go for it ... :)

Hi #81, I guess the rules allow you to have another turn after my interruption.
I have no idea, so will guess thud! but that's not the reason I posted...
Just got The science of Discworld IV
Only 14 on LT at the moment.
If by some weird fluke I guess right, well, you know where my quote will NOT BE COMING FROM.

PS. I am not really DEATH, sorry if I frightened any children/members. I JUST like the voice.

Small Gods?

No - neither of those.

Night Watch?

Correct; it is Night Watch. All yours, Beorn

"You fear he will press his suit?"

Unseen Academicals?

Wild guess - Pyramids?

Correct--over to you ArmyAngel.
It was at hand, lol.

Ok, internet at home is screwy, so the next responder can have my turn.

The trouble is that people are too polite to just grab the chance - except me.

Here is a really easy one to get things going again:

'Yes, well ... but she's qualified, ain't she?'

Oh common Pinko, that could be almost any Granny W quote re. Margaret (?)

NOT my default guess (what sort of person would have a default guess, I mean...)

witches abroad

Pretty sure it's Nanny, talking to Ridcully about why Granny can tame the unicorn in Lords and Ladies.

I agree with #95, it does sound more like 'Nanny' rather than 'Granny'.

Yes it was Nanny talking about Granny's control over the unicorn. She goes on to say that it is nothing to do with witching.

joanna has it - Lords and Ladies is correct

ArmyAngel, do you want this one? Failing that, Guido can take my turn.

Sure, brb.

This will either be tough, or too easy:

'Bigger. Greener. More teeth.'

The Last Continent?

Nope!

Sounds like a monster. Perhaps The Hogfather?

Nope again!

Jingo?

Small Gods?

Lords and Ladies?

No to all three. :)

The Colour of Magic?

Sourcery?

Guards! Guards!?

Hmmmm, still no!

Small Gods?

The Wee Free Men?

Keep guessing!

Sourcery?

Nope

Going Postal?

It's Tiffany, talking about Jenny Thingummy, the monster, isn't it? Wee Free Men?

119: I thought it was exactly that! But, apparently not. lol

Long shot: Moving Pictures?

Anatwork has it! It's Anghammarad discussing messenger service troubles thousands of years past.

Yay, finally! Try this one:

in my tribe we we're traditionally named after the first thing the mother sees when she looks out of the teepee after the birth...

Interesting Times?
I seem to know that line, or something similar...

Nope

Moving Pictures?

Reaper Man?

I'm sure that this refers to One Man Bucket, but I can't remember the book. Going Postal?

I know that one! It had something to do with a dog . . . I'd guess Moving Pictures, but since pink's got that, my second guess is The Last Continent.

Pretty sure Nahkis is right. Ana?

Yup, Nahkis got it. It is referring to One Man Bucket and it is in Reaper Man. Over to you.

Oh, nice, got one! Sorry about the delay, here's the new one:

"A ____ farmer needed a wife who'd think nothing of beating a wolf to death with her apron when she went out to get some firewood."

(The blank space is there just to spice things up.)

I will guess A Hat Full of Sky.

I'll go back a bit farther, and try The Wee Free Men.

I'll follow the theme and go for I Shall Wear Midnight

I'm going to guess Equal Rites. I'm pretty sure Esk had an internal monologue about wolves towards the beginning of that.

Or a reference to Agnes being several figures of Lancre womanhood? Maskerade?

Very nicely done, joannasephine! You nailed it!

Hooray!

Necessarily Extended Duration To ___! Regrettable Decease Without Undue Suffering To The Forces Of Oppression!

(That’s your clue, not a general call to arms.)

Interesting Times for the politest revolutionary slogans?

There's no way that's not Interesting Times, so I'm not even going to guess.

Me neither. :)

Every now and then I like to throw in an easy one. Yours Ana!

Okay yay! Lets do a classic (concept, that is):

It's all a sort of relativity. The faster you live, the more time stretches out.

I'll try Witches Abroad because I really haven't a clue

I'm going to go with the obvious guess: Thief of Time. Although it's so obvious, it's probably wrong. : P

Lol, nope and nope.

It is actually something he has explored in a couple of books. If no one gets it soon I'll post a clue!

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents? It could have to do with mice, or Nac mac Feegle...

I'll try Wyrd Sisters where the witches stretched time

No again. Okay, another line from the previous paragraph:

To a mayfly, a single hour may last as long as a century. Perhaps old mayflies sit around complaining about how life this minute isn't a patch on the good old minutes of long ago, when the world was young and the sun seemed so much brighter and larvae showed you a bit of respect.

eric?

Reaper Man?

No, no and no. Keep going guys!

Mort?

No and no again.

Okay, think of species that live faster than the human average and just have shorter lifespans...

Snuff?

Nope.

Time for another hint? It's a kids book... :)

Wintersmith?

pinkozcat, check post 148. Not sure how the rules went, but might think you'd be allowed to change your guess.

Thanks, Nahkis. I didn't see that post. I'll opt out of this one; I really have no idea.

Carpet people?

Nope but so far Guido is the closest!

Truckers? The nomes live much faster. . .

You got it espadrile! Take it away.

The lines come from the very first pages of Truckers and there is a similar exposition about mayflies in Reaper Man since PTerry wrote both around the same time.

I knew there was a death book like that. That's cool to know.

"History was full of good men who followed bad orders in the hopes that they could soften the blow."

Small Gods?

Nope.

Thud?

Not quite.

Monstrous Regiment?

Jingo?

Night Watch?

Pyramids?

Anatwork's got it. Your turn!

Yay! But I just took two turns so Ronincats can have my turn!

Oops, me?

“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

Guards! Guards!?

No.

Thud?

Unseen Academicals?

Jingo? Again?

Men at Arms?

anatwork has it--couldn't fool you with following up with Jingo again!

I've read Jingo too many times and that's one of my favourite lines!

Let us go with:

'How many times have you thrown a magic ring into the deepest depths of the ocean and then, when you got home and have a nice bit of turbot for your tea, there it is!'

Men at Arms?

Pretty sure it's Nanny, and the next bit is Granny saying something along the lines of "Never, and neither have you." But which book? Witches Abroad?

No and no! Points to Joanna for picking out the talkers!

Wyrd Sisters?

Guessing of course, I have no idea.

Lol, over to you Minnie.

Ah - I was intending to start from the beginning and work my way through the witch books. This one should be easy ...

Then he pushed him into a corner and, to faint stunned protestations, dragged the mail shirt over his head.

Thud. It's A E Pessimal and Vimes. I'm listening to it now.

LOL - I have just finished re-reading it.

Over to you.

That's one of my most favorite. And now for my other:

"Hundreds of generations of living in a highly charged magical environment had raised the intelligence level of what had been bright creatures to begin with."

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents?

Nope.

This is the ravens near unseen university. Not sure which book... Interesting Times?

Hogfather?

Nope, but ana's got the ravens' right.

Thief of Time?

No luck.

Moving Pictures?

Guards! Guards!

No and nope.

Is this a reference to Quoth? Mort?

I feel like its the ravens with Gaspode. I know they came off as quite irritating too. So lets try The Fifth Elephant. :)

Nightwatch? The ravens bugging a guard while watching Vimes fight what's his name?

Night Watch! Carcer. And the guard is Buggy Swires. Your turn, Angel!

Weeeeee!

"Probably the roof leaks. You can't trust tiles. A good reed thatch'll give you forty years bone dry."

Sounds like a witch. But who?
Lords and Ladies?

Witches Abroad?

Maskerade?

Nope to all!

Equal Rites?

Interesting Times?

Pinkozcat has it!

I'll start as new thread - #25