Dibbler’s pies quite often looked appetising. Therein lay their one and only charm. (NW)
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... although it was possible to live on figs you soon wished you didn't. (TT)
'Is this the wee bairn? Ach, what a noseful o' bogeys!' (WFM)
A sleep full of dark dreams was no sleep at all, it was like a meal of ashes. (N)
'Willow bark,' said the Bursar.
'That's a good idea,' said the Lecturer of Recent Runes. 'It's an analgesic.' 'Really? Well, possibly, though it's probably better to give it to him by mouth,' said Ridcully. (H) 'You are armigerous, Nobby.'
Bobby nodded. 'But I got a special shampoo for it, sir.' (FC) Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. (Ma)
That was the trouble with royalty. However decent they were, and understanding, they were also likely to think that such things as security arrangements were for other people. (RS)
... the people of Quirm called the people of Ankh-Morpork sphincters, mostly for fun. Mostly. (RS)
Henry and All Jolson were in complete agreement about what made a good meal - namely, calories .... (RS)
You could fish in the River Ankh, provided you took care not to catch anything. In fact it was amazing what you could catch by just letting one drop of the Ankh pass you lips. (Sn)
Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way, Drumknott. It’s good for the hygiene of the brain.’ (Sn)
Why did they never find a vegetable that was bad for you, hey? And what was so wrong with onion gravy anyway? It has onions in it didn’t it? They made you fart, didn’t they? That was good for you, wasn’t it? He was sure he had read that somewhere. (Sn)
There are those who say that sherry should not be drunk early in the morning. They are wrong (UA)
'Are you seriously suggesting that we give out degrees for mere physical prowess?' said the Chair of Indefinite Studies.
'No, of course not. I am seriously suggesting that we give out degrees for extreme physical prowess.' (UA) 'I have a very fast metabolism,' said Nutt.
'I don't mind about that,' said Glenda, 'so long as you don't go showing it to people.' (UA) Gander looked at the lad in question. He had met a good many wizards in his time and considered himself a good judge and 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. (ER)
Granny suffered from robustly healthy teeth, which she considered a big drawback in a witch. She really envied Nanny Annaple, the witch over the mountain, who managed to lose all her teeth by the time she was twenty and had real crone-credibility. It meant you ate a lot of soup, but you also get a lot of respect. (ER)
As one man, they turned in their seats to look at the Experimental Privy Mk 2. Mk 1 had worked – Leonard’s devices tended to– but since the key to its operation was that it tumbled very fast on a central axis while in use it had been abandoned after a report by its test pilot (Rincewind) that, whatever you had in mind when you went in, the only thing you wanted to do once inside was get out.
Mk 2 was as yet untried. It creaked ominously under their gaze, an open invitation to constipation and kidney stones. (LH) 'I was rather thinking of problems associated with the thin air and low gravity,’ said Leonard. ‘That’s what the survivor of the Maria Pesto reported. But this afternoon I feel I can come up with a privy that, happily, utilises the thinner air of altitude to achieve the effect normally associated with gravity. Gentle suction is involved.’
Ponder nodded. He had a quick mind when it came to mechanical detail, and he’d already formed a mental picture. Now a mental eraser would be useful. (LH) Lu-Tze bent down, picked up a fallen cork helmet, and solemnly handed it to Lobsang.
‘Health and safety at work,’ he said. Very important.’ ‘Will it protect me?’ said Lobsang, putting it on. ‘Not really. But when they find your head, it may be recognizable.' (TOT) Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness, apart from in a very sternly abridged
dictionary. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap. (TT) 'An' there's some kid outside says he’s got to speak to you, hnah, specially,’ Snouty went on. ‘Shall I give him
a clip alongside the head?’ ‘What does he smell like?' said Vimes, sipping the scalding corrosive tea. ‘Bottom of a baboon’s cage, sarge.’ ‘Ah, Nobby Nobbs.' (NW) '... humans get such interesting diseases. I’d rather like to see how weasles turns out, too.’ One crusted eye winked at Death.
‘You mean measles?’ said the angel. ‘Weasles, I’m afraid,’ said Pestilence. ‘People are getting really careless with this bio-artificing. We’re talking boils that really bite.' (TOT) |
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