On “The Other Place” I remember seeing lots of threads about your favourite line, joke or quote in the series. And those threads were fun, but ultimately it’s always the heavy hitters being repeated over and over.
So my question to you, Lemmings and Kbinauts, is what is your favourite underrated line in the series? Something that makes you laugh, or makes you think, every time but you never see talked about?
Yes, this whole thread is just an excuse to post about how much I adore the following description from Moving Pictures:
It looked like a large, ornate pot, almost as high as a man of large pot height.
Honourable mention goes to my second fave, also in fact from Moving Pictures and the best side character in the series:
Sunnink dreadful in there, he thought. Prob’ly tentacled fings that rips your face off. I mean, when you finds mysterious doors in old hills, stands to reason wot comes out ain’t going to be pleased to see you. Evil creatures wot Man shouldn’t wot of, and here’s one dog wot don’t want to wot of them either.
I’ve read both of these gods know how many times, and still laugh out loud every single time.
Go on, share your favourites!
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.” ― Small Gods
A close second is also from the Small Gods; the very dark
“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”
Those are good ones! Small Gods is such a great book and really touches on some surprisingly dark stuff for so early in the series.
I played the Duke in a Stage adaptation of Wyrd Sisters and the whole cast wrote quote for their character in the front of their script. Mine was
“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”Haha, love this! Really gives you so much of a sense of his character in such a simple statement.
I saw a local production of this a few years ago too, wonder if they did anything similar. Sadly the only DW production they’ve done, but it was great. Have you been in any others?
Unfortunately not this was many years ago (college production!) but loved every minute of it - I find his work translates very well to the stage
Not that underrated, but don’t see it around as much as it deserves too. From The Truth:
“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who’s been pinching my beer? And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman’s eye.”
The one that made me burst out laughing even after decades of reading Pratchett was ‘Minge drinking’
But my fave was the repeated nesting footnotes on Fingers Mazda. You can hear Pterry’s cackling through the page.
