Hey, all! Sorry that I've mostly been using reddit lately and have been remiss on posting #PratchettQOTD here for some time now. I ran across a #Discworld bundle, though, and shared it to my reddit page (39 of the 41 volumes in the series are included in the bundle) - www.reddit.com/user/Middlet...
'It's a Johnson,' she breathed. 'I haven't got my hands on a Johnson for ages...' Nanny Ogg, #Carpe-Jugulum #Discworld #PratchettQOTD
How will you mark the Glorious 25th of May this year? I special ordered the #Penguin edition of #Night-Watch from a local #bookstore wiki.lspace.org/Glorious_Rev... #Discworld "...and a hard boiled egg" #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD
Happy #TerryPratchettDay to all my #Discworld #PratchettQOTD followers. A QOTD below from #Witches-Abroad
An #EarthDay #Discworld #PratchettQOTD from the #YA #TiffanyAching #novel #WinterSmith under a #bluesky
Today's #PratchettQOTD.
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Hogfather: “I gather the Archchancellor won’t have milk in the University,’ said Susan. ‘He says he knows where it comes from and it’s unhygienic. And that’s a man who eats three eggs for breakfast every day, mark you.”
Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD comes from #Hogfather and concerns #hygiene, #milk, and #eggs
A Terry Pratchett quote from the Discworld novel Men at Arms: “They walked between aisles of faces. Angua fancied she could hear the squelch of a million custard-filled trousers and the echoes of a thousand honking noses and a million grins of faces that weren’t smiling. About halfway along was a sort of alcove containing a desk and chair, a shelf piled with old ledgers, and a workbench covered with crusted pots of paint, scraps of colored horsehair, sequins and other odds and ends of the egg-painter’s specialized art. Carrot picked up a wisp of colored horsehair and twiddled it thoughtfully.”
Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD comes from #Men-At-Arms and concerns the art of #egg painting.
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Thief of Time: “The poet Hoha once dreamed he was a butterfly, and then he awoke and said, “Am I a man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming he is a man?”’ said Lobsang, trying to join in. ‘Really?’ said Susan briskly. ‘And which was he?’ ‘What? Well . . . who knows?’ ‘How did he write his poems?’ said Susan. ‘With a brush, of course.’ ‘He didn’t flap around making information-rich patterns in the air or laying eggs on cabbage leaves?’ ‘No-one ever mentioned it.’ ‘Then he was probably a man,’ said Susan.”
Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is from #Thief-of-Time and concerns #butterflies, #poets, #philosophers, #dreams, and #eggs.
Quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Equal Rites: “The library was full of wizards, who care about their books in the same way that ants care about their eggs and in time of difficulty carry them around in much the same way.”
Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is an #eggs #library #books threefer. With #wizards. From #Equal-Rites
Quotes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Pyramids and Equal Rites: “The doctor looked shifty. “He’s still breathing,” he said. “Look, his pulse is nearly humming and he’s got a temperature you could fry eggs on.” He hesitated, aware that this was probably too straightforward and easily understood; medicine was a new art on the Disc, and wasn’t going to get anywhere if people could understand it. “Pyrocerebrum ouerf culinaire,” he said, after working it out in his head. “Well, what can you do about it?” said Arthur. “Nothing. He’s dead. All the medical tests prove it. So, er…bury him, keep him nice and cool, and tell him to come and see me next week. In daylight, for preference." "But he’s still breathing!” “These are just reflex actions that might easily confuse the layman,” said the doctor airily. Chidder sighed. He suspected that the Guild, who after all had an unrivalled experience of sharp knives and complex organic compounds, was much better at elementary diagnostics than were the doctors. The Guild might kill people, but at least it didn’t expect them to be grateful for it.” “He had to admit that this boy looked like good wizard material. In other words, he was thin, gangling, pale from reading disturbing books in unhealthy rooms, and had watery eyes like two lightly poached eggs....Wizards are martyrs to things like asthma and flat feet; it somehow seems to give them their drive.”
I've been quite remiss on my #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD entries lately, so here's a double language mention of #eggs (English AND Latatian) and two quotes to help make this dereliction of duty on my part up to #eggsky
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Eric: "Everyone who has found a hitherto unknown egg-whisk jamming an innocent kitchen drawer knows that raw matter is continually flowing into the universe in fairly developed forms, popping into existence normally in ashtrays, vases and glove compartments. It chooses its shape to allay suspicion, and common manifestations are paperclips, the pins out of shirt packaging, the little keys for central heating radiators, marbles, bits of crayon, mysterious sections of herb-chopping devices and old Kate Bush albums. Why matter does this is unclear, but it is evident that matter has Plans. It is also apparent that creators sometimes favor the Big Bang method of universe construction, and at other times use the more gentle methods of Continuous Creation. This follows studies by cosmotherapists which have revealed that the violence of the Big Bang can give a universe serious psychological problems when it gets older."
Apologies for not posting much here lately. Working on a big update for my MineDoku app. Here, have a #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD about #universal #creation methods from a footnote in #Eric.
Another #eggciting edition of #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD, once again from #Pyramids. #Eggs #Eggsky
Well, if I want my #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD posts to last until #Easter, I'll probably need to use a few like this one, from #Pyramids. #eggs ##eggsky
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Wyrd Sisters: “Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*. * Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survive having its bristles pulled out one by one in mid-air. According to the small black raven she had trained as a flight recorder, the answer was almost certainly no.”
Today's #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is from #Wyrd-Sisters and involves nearly insatiable curiousity.
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel The Light Fantastic: “The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.”
Today's belated #Discworld #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is from #The-Light-Fantastic and concerns the Disc geography being more fried #egg shape than #hardboiled egg shaped.
A Discworld quote from Terry Pratchett's novel The Wee Free Men: “THE WONDERS OF PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING 1 ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY ABOUT THE COMMA! 2 I BEFORE E COMPLETELY SORTED OUT! 3 THE MYSTERY OF THE SEMICOLON REVEALED!!! 4 SEE THE AMPERSAND! (SMALL EXTRA CHARGE) 5 FUN WITH BRACKETS! ** WILL ACCEPT VEGETABLES, EGGS, AND CLEAN USED CLOTHING”
Today's #Discworld #PratchettQOTD #EggQOTD involves #eggs as a form of payment and is from #The-Wee-Free-Men.
A Discworld Terry Pratchett quote from the novel Monstrous Regiment: “This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.”
Today's #Discworld #PratchettQOTD #EggQOTD involves kicks to the (ham and) #eggs and comes from #Monstrous-Regiment #eggsky
A quote from Terry Pratchett's novel The Fifth Elephant: “He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”
Today's #Discworld #egg related #EggQOTD #PratchettQOTD is from #The-Fifth-Elephant and concerns the similarities between #cooking and #sex. #eggsky
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Mort: “They don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon and a fried slice of toast.”
Today's entry in the #Discworld #PratchettQOTD #EggQOTD series comes from #Mort and involves plain vs. exotic #foods (among them, #eggs) #eggsky
#Egged on by the apparent #egg on the face of the #OrangeTurd, I've decided to see #eggactly how many #EggQOTD I can make from #Discworld #PratchettQOTD posts. Ignoring #cliched #hardboiled slogans, that is. I suspect at least a few #dozen #Maskerade #eggsky
Catching up with the #PratchettQOTD. #DiscWorld
A Discworld quote from Terry Pratchett from Thud! “Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,’ said Fred Colon. This sounded a bit weak even to him, so he added, ‘or a plinth. Both is best, o’course. It’s a secret sign, see, that they put in to say that it’s Art and okay to look at.’ ‘What about a potted plant?’ ‘That’s okay if it’s in an urn.’ ‘What about if it’s not got an urn or a plinth or a potted plant?’ said Nobby. ‘Have you one in mind, Nobby?’ said Colon suspiciously. ‘Yes, The Goddess Anoia* Arising from the Cutlery,’ said Nobby. ‘They’ve got it here. It was painted by a bloke with three i’s in his name, which sounds pretty artistic to me.’ ‘The number of i’s is important, Nobby,’ said Sergeant Colon gravely, ‘but in these situations you have to ask yourself: where’s the cherub? If there’s a little fat pink kid holding a mirror or a fan or similar, then it’s still okay. Even if he’s grinning. Obviously you can’t get urns everywhere.”
Today's #Discworld #PratchettQOTD is from #Thud! and concerns the rules transform #images of nude women into #art. Because,there's more to life than #politics
A Discworld Terry Pratchett quote from the novel Thief of Time: "“Take Death," said Ronnie Soak. "Impressive, I’ll grant you, and who doesn’t look good in black? But, after all, Death… What’s death?" "Just a big sleep," said Lu-Tze. "Just a big sleep," said Ronnie Soak. "As for the others… War? If war’s so bad, why do people keep doing it?" "Practically a hobby," said Lu-Tze. He began to roll himself a cigarette. "Practically a hobby," said Ronnie Soak. "As for Famine and Pestilence, well…" "Enough said," said Lu-Tze sympathetically. "Exactly. I mean, Famine’s a fearful thing, obviously—" "—in an agricultural community, but you’ve got to move with the times," said Lu-Tze, putting the roll-up in his mouth. "That’s it," said Ronnie. "You’ve got to move with the times. I mean, does your average city person fear famine?" "No, he thinks food grows in shops," said Lu-Tze.”"
Today's #Discworld #PratchettQOTD comes from #Thief-Of-Time and discusses #Death, #War, #Famine and such #apocalyptic harbingers of the #Apocralypse (Discworld term)
A quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Going Postal: "‘Several hundred?’ said Greenyham. Gilt waved him into silence, and continued: ‘—several hundred thousand dollars in a challenging, relevant and exciting systemic overhaul of our entire organization, focusing on our core competencies while maintaining full and listening co-operation with the communities we are proud to serve. We fully realize that our energetic attempts to mobilize the flawed infrastructure we inherited have been less than totally satisfactory, and hope and trust that our valued and loyal customers will bear with us in the coming months as we interact synergistically with change management in our striving for excellence. That is our mission.’"
Today's #Discworld #PratchettQOTD is from #Going-Postal and involves #systemic #overhaul of #organizations by means of #gobbledygook
“Where Nobby went wrong was in thinking small. He sidled into places and pinched things that weren’t worth much. If only he’d sidled into continents and stolen entire cities, slaughtering many of the inhabitants in the process, he’d have been a pillar of the community.” #Discword #PratchettQOTD
Last #PratchettQOTD from #NightWatch.
A quote from TerryPratchett's Discworld novel Night Watch: “And what do they talk about beyond the barricade, my little lad?’ ‘Um . . . well, Justice an’ Truth an’ Freedom and stuff,’ said Nobby. ‘Aha. Rebel talk!’ said Carcer, straightening up. ‘Is it?’ said the major. ‘Take it from me, major,’ said Carcer. ‘When you get a bunch of people using words like that, they’re up to no good.”
Today's #Discworld #PratchettQOTD from #Night-Watch concerns #rebel talk about things like #justice, #truth, and #freedom. This wraps up my Night Watch quote series. More daily Discworld quote from other novels to come.
