A Quote Game: thread #19

An easy one to start us off:

Thanks very much! Every time I see a cow’s arse, I’ll think of you!

Moving Pictures, if memory serves it's Ginger to Victor.

Yes indeed. Over to you.

Just posting here so I get the new messages. :-)

That's genuine Klatchian pottery, you know. Made by a genuine Klatchian craftsman. From Klatch.

That sounds like C.O.M.T. Dibbler.

Moving Pictures?

That sounds more like Jingo and Sgt. Colon... Yes?

Sounds like the witches...
Wyrd Sisters?

Over to you AnnieMod.

It is Wyrd Systers? Really? I just guessed...

Oh well.. Next then:

"The eyes of Fate are hardly eyes at all - just dark holes into an infinity speckled with what may be stars or, there again, may be other things."

Thief of Time?

nope.

The Last Hero?

nope

Or Interesting Times?

Another time when the Gods play with the fate of the Discworld, Small Gods?

Just to be in on the action Unseen Academicals :)

I'm pretty sure joannasephine got it since our fair Annie is missing. :-)

I just looked it up. It IS from Interesting Times and joannasphine has it right.

Huzzah! I shall leap in then. Please pardon the shouting.

"NO. I AM NOT ALLOWED TO ENLIGHTEN YOU, EVEN BY DEFAULT, ABOUT CURRENT TEMPERATURES IN THE NEXT WORLD."

Hahaha that sounds awesome and since I cannot remember the book I will pick it up and read it once it is guessed. Totally at random: Moving Pictures

I will go for my default answer, since I have no idea either

Unseen Academicals

Sourcery?

Sourcery it is!

"What I could do with right now is one of Mr Dibbler's famous meat pies -"

Hmm I'm debating between Vimes as keel and Mr Shine. I will go for Night Watch.

Or is it one of the lines that mysteriously appear innfilm scripts after Dibbler takes over the studio in Moving Pictures?

It's such an UNUSUAL sentiment, you would think its location would have stuck in our minds!

I know that it was mostly a yen for mashed potatoes but ... The Last Continent?

It was precisely that unusualness that made it stick in my mind, ronincats. But as for the three guesses above, well none of them have it.

Interesting Times?

Not that either.

//Worldcon was fun. Sorry for disappearing.

Reaper Man ? Windle Poons dying? (and I might have mispelt the name...)

No mispelling, no mistake either - it's all yours.

Extending a hand and shouting `Halt!' in a firm, authoritative voice probably would not be sufficient.

nope.

Making Money?

no

Ok let me get things going again with Guards! Guards!.

No but I almost posted something from there :)

Men at Arms to continue the guards.

Nope...

Jingo with Sam Vimes and the D'hregs?

I *love* the D'hregs, not least, because of their name.

Nope... (and I am trying to remember how the D'hregs were translated the first time I read the book)

It is rumoured that once the Gahanka has started, if you hear it you will soon be dead!

It's going to be Koom Valley all over again!

Thud?

That sounds right! Honestly...it could be ANY guards book with a charge.

justjim, yep :) All yours.

I haven't done one of these for ages! Here we go.

"Well technic'ly a few inches," said Nanny. That's helpful to know, isn't it?"

Carpe Jugulum?

Too quick, too good! Yes, it's Nanny and Magret travelling over the gnarly ground.

Good Omens?

No, not Good Omens

Sorry - I thought that I had posted this a couple of days ago. I must have neglected to hit the 'post' button.

Hm one of the Johnny books? Johnny and the Dead?

No - not that one either

Just bumping this thread up to my home page again.

Does anyone want a hint?

A hint would be nice, thank you.

Hint - Why would a person eat dirty rice?

Hmm, I was thinking Pestilence before, hence my Good Pmens suggestion. So ... Thief of Time?

Yes - but it was famine who was eating dirty rice and sulking.

Thief of Time it is. Over to you joannasephine

Yay! Right:

How 'bout something with bananas in it?

Witches Abroad?

Too easy. Yep, take it away.

Ah - I knew that the Librarian took his bananas neat. :)

"When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry."

Ok that sounds Rincewind - like to me. Maybe. I will try The Light Fantastic

No - not Rincewind and not The Light Fantastic.

Hmm then let us try Ankh Morpork in the winter with Hogfather.

I like your logic but it is not the right book.

Is it Men at Arms?

"Is it not said that when a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork he is tired of ankle deep slurry?" in Thief of Time?

If it is, very sneaky Minnie!

Sorry - it is neither of those books.

Edited to add:
Mostly I try to give some hint in the actual quote but this time I simply picked a book at random, opened a page and random and chose something which didn't give the source away so there is no clue in the quote at all.

I can tell you who quoted it but that may not mean anything either.

In the spirit of a random pick, I'll try Feet of Clay.

sorry - not Feet of Clay

I will try Night Watch

No - sorry, not Night Watch

I think we come across variations of this sentiment more than once ... let's try early. The Colour of Magic?

No, sorry ...

Reaper Man purely at random?

That's the parody of Samuel Johnson's view of London ("When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life" - not an exact quote I think - but that's the gist of it). Which I think was in Mort.

PS: One of the reasons I like rereading Pratchett. The more you learn and read, the more parodies and so on you notice in the text.

AnnieMod has it with Mort

The whole quote is "Catroaster was found floating face downward in the river within hours of uttering the famous line, 'When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.'"

Go for it, Annie ...

I don't remember the context but I had been working on Johnson around the time I reread Mort and a few more so I remembered the modified line :)

Lets' try this one:

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"

Pyramids!

Yes. All yours

follow us, like the knight in soaking armour that you are, and you will see fair play

follow us, like the knight in soaking armour that you are, and you will see fair play

Unseen Academicals?

Not that one.

The Last Continent?

//I have no clue whatsoever. Not even a hunch. Or a guess of which series it is in. Weird...//

Guards! Guards!

Neither of those.

Ok, random guess – Nation?

Interesting Times?

Nor those, though joannasephine is the closest so far (for a certain definition of close).

I only recognize it because I just read the preview chapter.

Dodger

I was just about to go for the new book by process of elimination. :)

Snuff?

Got it SockMonkey Girl.

Nanny Ogg, standing with a bunch of onions in each pudgy hand, looked guilty, but only for a moment.

This is from Wintersmith when Tiffany causes plants to grow by walking on the seeds!

Got it in one! Go pwaites.

"It was a puzzle why things were always dragged kicking and screaming. No one ever seemed to want to, for example, lead them gently by the hand."

Thud?

Or The Truth?

The Last Continent?

joannasephine got it. Over to you.

And I almost changed my guess …

“Don’t you know anything? Bodies aren’t just handy things for storing your mind in. Your shape affects how you think. It’s all this morphology that’s all over the place.”

Thief of Time?

No …

A Hat Full of Sky? I feel certain it is a witch book.

There are variations of this general idea in quite a few Discworld books, but this particular quote is not from A Hat Full of Sky.
;-)

Witches Abroad?

112- That is definitely true.

How about Equal Rites?

No, and still no ...

Maskerade? Thinking of Greebo here

Not Maskerade.

Last Continent?

Ommmmmmmm :) Small Gods
Not that I ever understood what's the problem with thinking as a tortoise... cynical is not such a bad thing after all...

And Annie has it!
I’m with you about the advantages of cynicism. Easiest way there is to make nearly all surprises pleasant ones …

"Because if this was not the case, then human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing big stupid grins, similar to those worn by certain remote tribesmen who occasionally get raided by the authorities and have the contents of their plastic greenhouses very seriously inspected".

Hmm, another one that I suspect recurs in various guises in multiple books. Start with the obvious: Good Omens?

Nope.

Thief of Time?

Nope. :)

Moving Pictures as the least likely candidate.

Of course not.

I keep thinking it's a guards book, but it's a very faint suspiscion. Men at Arms?

Just to be in the loop ... Nation?

No and no.

Mort?

The Last Continent?

Small Gods?

Eric?

anatwork.k got it :)

Woo finally got one. Let us try this:

Oh, you could order men to smash down doors and drag people off to dungeons without trial, but too much of that sort of thing lacked style and anyway was bad for business, habit-forming and very, very dangerous for your health.

Wyrd Sisters?

I think this is referring to Vetinari.

Jingo?

No and no.

Mort?

Nope.

Lords and Ladies?

No again. :-)

Men at Arms?

And again, no.

Taking them in order now;

Feet of Clay?

Going Postal ?

Annie has it. Going Postal it is. pwaites was correct about its being Vetinari. When Moist is being brought to him after escaping.

"The Discworld turned against the glittering backdrop of space, spinning very gently on the backs of the four giant elephants that perched on the shell of Great A'Tuin the star turtle. Continents drifted slowly past, topped by weather systems that themselves turned gently against the flow, like waltzers spinning counter to the whirl of the dance. A billion tons of geography rolled slowly through the sky"

That's early, very early. Perhaps even as early as The Colour of Magic?

Nope, not that early

Hogfather?

nope.

Reaper Man?

Nope.

Sourcery?

No.

The Light Fantastic?

Nope...

The Last Hero?

Nope..

The Last Continent?

No. :)

Going Postal?

Two times in a row to post a repetition of what I just guessed correctly? Not that it is beyond me doing it one day but not this time :)

My default answer ... Unseen Academicals?

My default answer back. No.

The Last Hero?

Oh Annie, I put nothing beyond you. ;)

Equal Rites

No and no. :)

Well - as I said, it is not beyond me... just not this time around.

Mort

And yes, I am going in order.

nope.

Noone is even trying to guess?

Guards! Guards!?

I think we need a hint - this one could belong to any Discworld book.

Nope.

OK - hint: A beggar received 30 dollars just before this passage which led to his dead by stepping on a tiger in the future.

I haven't read that book.

You probably had but you don't remember the below the line note about the beggar's destiny :)

Men at Arms?

Nope...

Sourcery?

Nope....

Let us try Pyramids. I do remember the beggar story - I also feel vaguely that press-ganging was mentioned but I cannot remember which book.

*sigh* No.

Feet of Clay. The 30 dollars had come from the sale of the Golem King.

Yep. All yours

Bumping this thread up so someone will post a quote!

Here goes then ...

Death stepped out into the street and accosted two figures who were tramping through the drifts.

That should be easier than the last one to get things going again.

I'm going to say Hogfather purely for the drifts of snow.

Of course it is Hogfather

We need a couple more guessable ones to lure people back to this thread. I think that people were getting discouraged.

Yay! Sorry for the delay -- real life has been crazily busy the last couple of weeks.

An easy one coming up:

If there's one thing a ______ likes more than a party, it's a bigger party, and if there's anything better than a bigger party, it's a bigger party with someone else paying for the drink.

This feels like Nanny Ogg... then again, it could easily be someone else.

Maskerade?

No and no but you guys are on the right track with witches!

I'll try Lords and Ladies

No again.

I'm thinking it could be a wizard-book, but sadly the thought stops there.

Okay - small hint: Think about the quote carefully and consider the pronouns. Remember there is an "a" before the dash so it cannot be referring to a person. And I've already said it is a witch book. :)

Well - there are witch books that are not part of the witches subseries and I am thinking Tiffany here... Wintersmith maybe?

Can be way off but none of the real witches books seem to match...

I'm betting AnnieMod got it. This is probably refering to Ms. Treason's funeral party.

Annie did not get it!* Still up for grabs people...

*I still re-checked though. :)

It was a wild guess. :) I am pretty sure it is Tiffany but I cannot place it at all.

Hmm, could the blank be a MacFeegle? In which case we just have the Tiffany and witches books to guess our way through. So ... Wee Free Men?

I'm thinking that the blank should be "dwarf", because that just fits*. And with the benefit of the hint of "Witches" I'd just have to go for Witches Abroad.

*not that it disnae fit the Feegles. Sure and it does that.

You guys are getting close but not with dwarves. :)

A couple more guesses should see this done. ;)

A Hat Full of Sky?

Yes. Over to you joannasephine.

Hooray! Right, follow me to the new thread!