I used to give away Pratchett books on the anniversary of his death, March 12th. I haven't done it in a few years. I'm bringing it back. I can send a potato to a politician on your behalf, or I can send you a Pratchett book on the 12th, your choice. To enter, list your fav Pratchett quote. - ThreadSky

esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social • 6 days ago

I used to give away Pratchett books on the anniversary of his death, March 12th.

I haven't done it in a few years.

I'm bringing it back.

I can send a potato to a politician on your behalf, or I can send you a Pratchett book on the 12th, your choice.

To enter, list your fav Pratchett quote.

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zamackic.bsky.social•6 days ago

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.” said by you.

BTW. I have all books already, so if you choose me, could you leave book somewhere in public for random person to pick it up?

melancholyhammer.bsky.social•6 days ago

‘Zoology, eh? That’s a big word, isn’t it." ‘No, actually it isn’t,’ said Tiffany. Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short."

idrood.bsky.social•6 days ago

Can I have the whole of Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness as my quote?

sawdustmaker.bsky.social•6 days ago

I like Dick Simnel's speech to Mister Hardwick at the grand opening of the railway "...write total stinking made up gristle meant to frighten folk who don't know owt about..." seems appropriate right now.

rwilts96.bsky.social•5 days ago

So hard to pick one! Vimes' Boots is certainly up there, but I love the passage about the linesmen living on in the clacks in Going Postal.

'Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?'

spareri.bsky.social•6 days ago

In current times...
"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."

Keep the books for those in need, I got them all.

miriamvishniac.bsky.social•6 days ago

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

tinmanawi.bsky.social•6 days ago

"And what would you have done if I hadn't been here, pray?"
"Yes, probably." Said Lu-Tze.

stellars-jay.bsky.social•6 days ago

What a delightful idea, Esme. Not asking, just admiring. Go Terry!

hitchkitty.bsky.social•6 days ago

Asking me to pick a favorite Pratchett quote is like asking the old lady in the shoe to pick a favorite child. But if you put a gonne to my head...

HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO -BE- HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

kitvaria.bsky.social•6 days ago

Fools rush in, but they are laggards compared to little old ladies with nothing left to fear.

I love sending potatoes to idiot politicians!

jrsinohio.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope tomorrow is better.

wortezimmer.bsky.social•6 days ago

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.

Monstrous Regiment

andrewvargaauthor.bsky.social•4 days ago

From Moving Pictures:

However, a section headed 'Other Books By the Same Author' indicates that his previous published work was Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches's Book of Humorous Cat Stories, which might explain a lot.

xhumed.bsky.social•6 days ago

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."

blaftrakesh.bsky.social•6 days ago

From my 12-year-old:

"I know everything about pins."

doomaflatchie.bsky.social•6 days ago

Two:

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

"And what would humans be without love?"
"RARE," said Death.

jmwcook.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's a lovely idea.

loves2read56.bsky.social•4 days ago

All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is BASTARDS (is this allowed?) I’ve used this word so much lately, with the F word in front.

gkkcmg.bsky.social•5 days ago

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?

The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.

Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

mplsmccullough.bsky.social•6 days ago

People should not die for their god. They can die for their country, or family, or an idea. But for their god, they should live every day of a full life. (or something like that, I don't have it in front of me.)

mplsmccullough.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don't need you to send me a book. I have them all.

esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social•6 days ago

but would you want me to send a fuck you potato to your choice of congressman?

mplsmccullough.bsky.social•6 days ago

Im in Minnesota. Any one who voted for Kennedy would do.

ainthavingit.bsky.social•6 days ago

I really must watch Going Postal.

esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social•6 days ago

its not a bad rendition, i kind of like most of the discworld live action movies

ainthavingit.bsky.social•6 days ago

I've hear that.

I refuse to countenance The Watch.

esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social•6 days ago

not that one.

anechka.bsky.social•6 days ago

Wait. There’s going postal and Hogfather. What else? (Don’t say colour of Magic). Did I miss one???

orivia.bsky.social•2 days ago

It was amazing, this mystic business. U tell them a lie, then when you don’t need it anymore you tell them another lie& tell them they r progressing along the road to wisdom.

orivia.bsky.social•2 days ago

Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they’ll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing.

Gaurds Gaurds again 🥰

orivia.bsky.social•2 days ago

Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. 1/2

orivia.bsky.social•2 days ago

2/2 Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

Gaurds, Gaurds

davewaggy.bsky.social•6 days ago

There was a wicked ole witch once called Black Aliss. She was an unholy terror. There's never been one worse or more powerful. Until now. Because I could spit in her eye and steal her teeth, see.
- Granny Weatherwax, Maskerade

davewaggy.bsky.social•6 days ago

send a potato 😁

devinmadson.bsky.social•6 days ago

Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks around, the whole board could’ve been a republic in a dozen moves

devinmadson.bsky.social•6 days ago

- from Thud! that fit perfectly in the character limit and this pleases me. so glad you’re giving your representatives hell, poop and potatoes, keep it up 💪

esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh my politicians are going to know me personally very soon if not already. If the last 10 days I have called Dave Mccormick 14 times. I am making it my morning ritual and trying to work it into my after dinner activity as well.

lmurch.iwsyn.org•6 days ago

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

slygrin.bsky.social•6 days ago

'Your sexual organs to sprout wings and fly away!'
-The Great God Om

(There were a lot of 'em, but this is one I utter aloud with some frequency.)

slygrin.bsky.social•6 days ago

...God just liked this. I am laughing so hard.

indylush.bsky.social•5 days ago

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Just 1 of many.)

nannyoggsknickers.bsky.social•6 days ago

"But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same ..." /1

nannyoggsknickers.bsky.social•6 days ago

"...time and would still have wet feet."

Vimes' boots theory of economic inequality. So, so relevant today

ctpoodle.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I just came here to say I was immediately drawn by your handle! I love the Discworld!

mordant.bsky.social•6 days ago

Hah, ironically I JUST got done buying all the remaining Discworld novels I didn't already own secondhand. This is cool, though. Don't need a book or potato and couldn't pick just one favourite quote anyway, but here's a good one for these Interesting Times.

edappleby.bsky.social•6 days ago

She had a face like a bulldog licking a thistle
—Snuff

esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social•6 days ago

Alternatively, you can show me receipts of a phone call, email, or other communication (cough potato) with your USA representatives and I may send you a copy of Night Watch

1texsun.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think our secretary of defense should receive about 3,000 copies of Monstrous Regiment.

davidkmitchell.bsky.social•6 days ago

Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

anechka.bsky.social•6 days ago

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time

anechka.bsky.social•6 days ago

Decadent but has more than ten teeth

anechka.bsky.social•6 days ago

*I also have all the books, send someone a potato!

esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social•6 days ago

who would you want me to send a potato to and what would you want it to say?

anechka.bsky.social•6 days ago

Or “do more” “say more”

anechka.bsky.social•6 days ago

So many options. Any dem senator “do something” “say something”

anechka.bsky.social•6 days ago

Btw you got me started on cozy fantasy, and for that, I’m forever grateful. Just finished house witch (all 7) after half soul and spellshop. Any cozy recs always very welcome. Esp with a bit of humour.

esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social•6 days ago

there's also https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123245772-small-miracles?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=bqMOf1s3qM&rank=1

esmeweatherwax8.bsky.social•6 days ago

Have you read Quenby Olson's dragon series?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/328851-miss-percy-guide

1livelyrogue.bsky.social•6 days ago

“FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS. Death took a step backwards.”

I know it’s not the 12th. I don’t care, I love this quote. Also I own all the books.

kikidevine.bsky.social•6 days ago

Mostly apples

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