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problemet med TGHTTG är att det är
svårt att hita oneliners i dem.
Men nog finns de där oki, det blir
en hel del då,
"I love deadlines. I like the
whooshing sound they make as they
fly by."
"in the beginning the Universe was
created. This has made a lot of
people very angry and been widely
regarded as a bad move."
"In those days spirits were brave,
the stakes were high, men were
real men, women were real women
and small furry creatures from
Alpha Centauri were real small
furry creatures from Alpha
Centauri."
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime
doubly so."
"Ah, this is obviously some
strange usage of the word 'safe'
that I wasn't previously aware
of."
" ...You hadn't exactly gone out
of your way to call attention to
them had you? I mean like actually
telling anyone or anything.'
But the plans were on display...'
o n display? I eventually had to
go down to the cellar to find
them.'
`That's the display department.'
`With a torch.'
`Ah, well the lights had probably
gone.'
`So had the stairs.'
`But look you found the notice
didn't you?'
`Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did.
It was on display in the bottom of
a locked filing cabinet stuck in a
disused lavatory with a sign on
the door saying "Beware of The
Leopard".'"
"`This must be Thursday,' said
Arthur to himself, sinking low
over his beer, `I never could get
the hang of Thursdays.'"
När det gäller TPerry så är det
bara att läsa "The Pratchet Quote
File" på lspace.org, de mesta i
böckerna är roligt. För att inte
glöma, "May you forever live in
intresting pants". Om man tar en
titt på [url]http://www.lspace.org
[/url] så är "The annonated
Pratchett file" att rekomendera.
Man hittar så mycket bakgrund där
så de gör allt mycket mer läsvärt.
Nåja några får jag väll ta:
"Until an unfortunate axe
incident, Gloria had been captain
of the school basketball team." -
Soul Music (Gloria är en dvärg...)
"Scum," said Crash, his voice low
with resigned menace, "you've
bought a leopard, haven't you?" -
Soul Music
"The class was learning about some
revolt in which some peasants had
wanted to stop being peasants and,
since the nobles had won, had
stopped being peasants really
quickly." - Soul Music
"++?????++ Out of Cheese Error.
Redo From Start." - Intresting
Times
""Luck is my middle name," said
Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind
you, my first name is Bad." " -
Intresting Times (ursäkta dubla
citattecken men jag orkar inte
fixa till det.
"Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant
"idiot"." - Color of Magic
"It would seem that you have no
useful skill or talent
whatsoever," he said. "Have you
thought of going into teaching?" -
Mort
"I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said,
BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY."
- Mort
"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with
many forms of government and had
ended up with that form of
democracy known as One Man, One
Vote. The Patrician was the Man;
he had the Vote." - Mort
"The duke had a mind that ticked
like a clock and, like a clock, it
regularly went cuckoo."
""I'd like to know if I could
compare you to a summer's day.
Because -- well, June 12th was
quite nice, and..."
"It gets worse. I have, before
now, waited for a pen to perform a
macro." - alt.fan.pratchett sagt,
ni vet TPerry har använt datorer
sen 80-talet
"However, you do need rules.
Driving on the left (or the right
or, in parts of Europe, on the
left and the right as the mood
takes you) is a rule which works,
since following it means you're
more likely to reach your intended
rather than your final
destination." - alt.fan.pratchett
sagt igen
"This isn't life in the fast lane,
it's life in the oncoming
traffic." - alt.fan.pratchett
"I mean, I wouldn't pay more than
a couple of quid to see me, and
I'm me." - alt.fan.pratchett
"I have to admit that I drive past
Bridgwate quite regularly. And
fast." - alt.fan.pratchett (=afp,
varför kom jag inte på det
tidigare)
"I didn't go to university. Didn't
even finish A-levels. But I have
sympathy for those who did." -afp
"Oh, come on. Revelation was a
mushroom dream that belonged in
the Apocrypha. The New Testament
is basically about what happened
when God got religion." -afp
"I once absend-mindedly ordered
Three Mile Island dressing in a
restaurant and, with great
presence of mind, they brought
Thousand Island Dressing and a
bottle of chili sauce." - afp (obs
TPerry har arbetat som
presskontakt (<inte säker på om
det är så det heter på svenska)
på kärnkraftsverk)
"I must confess the the activities
of the UK governments for the past
couple of years have been watched
with frank admiration and
amazement by Lord Vetinari.
Outright theft as a policy had
never occured to him." - afp
"I save about twenty drafts --
that's ten meg of disc space --
and the last one contains all the
final alterations. Once it has
been printed out and received by
the publishers, there's a cry here
of 'Tough shit, literary
researchers of the future, try
getting a proper job!' and the
rest are wiped." - afp
"I reckon that Stonehege was build
by the contemporary equivalent of
Microsoft, whereas Avebury was
definitely an Apple circle." - afp
"Currently there's five machines
permanently networked here. They
all contain the serious core
stuff. A couple of the machines
are pensioned off 486s, with
little other value now. Plus
there's two Jaz drives in the
building and the portable also
carries a fair amount of stuff.
Plus every Friday a man comes
around and carves all the new
stuff onto stone slabs and buries
them in the garden... I think I'm
okay." -afp
"She wanted a HOLIDAY in
Australia, she said, and if I
turned it into work she'd hit me
-- so I gave in, because I did not
want to be beaten about the Bush."
- afp
"Have a bit more patience with
newbies. Of course some of them
act dumb -- they're often
students, for heaven's sake." -afp
"The net software here did its
meltdown trick again at the
weekend (it happens about once
every six months -- if only
everything was as reliable as
WordPerfect 4.2, which only chews
up a novel about once every two or
three years...)" - afp
"'They can ta'k our live but they
can never ta'k our freedom!' Now
there's a battle cry not designed
by a clear thinker..." -afp
"Eight years involved with the
nuclear industry have taught me
that when nothing can possible go
wrong and every avenue has been
covered, then is the time to buy a
house on the next continent." -afp
"Not only did I wipe Lemmings from
my hard disc, I overwrote it so's
I couldn't get it back." -afp
"Somewhere around the place I've
got an unfinished short story
about Schrodinger's Dog; it was
mostly moaning about all the
attention the cat was getting.
" -afp
"I've always thought the Patrician
is a party animal. Can you imagine
waking up next day and remembering
all those witty things you said
and did, and then realising that
he was listening?" -afp
"It's not Brits who think American
readers are a bunch of whinging
morons with the geo-social
understanding of a wire
coathanger, it's American
editors." -afp
"I don't think I've ever been
critical of the money Douglas
Adams makes, especially since, as
has been tactfully pointed out, I
myself have had to change banks
having filled the first one up."
-afp (ha, ett citat som har
referenser till båda)
"Many people, meeting Aziraphale
for the first time, formed three
impressions: that he was English,
that he was intelligent, and that
he was gayer than a tree full of
monkeys on nitrous oxide. " - Good
Omens (vist credit kanske bör gå
till Neil Gaiman för alla Good
Omen citat)
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon
can be dangerous. Do not attempt
it in your home." - Good Omens
"They drove back through the dawn,
while the cassette player played
J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor,
vocals by F. Mercury." - Good
Omens
"Anathema didn't only believe in
ley-lines, but in seals, whales,
bicycles, rainforests, whole grain
in loves, recycled paper, white
South Africans out of South
Africa, and Americans out of
practically everywhere down to and
including Long Island." - Good
Omens
"English Burger Lords managed to
take any American fast food
virtues (the speed with which your
food was delivered, for example)
and carefully remove them; your
food arrived after half an hour,
at room temperature, and it was
only because of the strip of warm
lettuce between them that you
could distinguish the burger from
the bun. The Burger Lord
pathfinder salesmen had been shot
25 minutes after setting foot in
France." - Good Omens
"Along with the standard computer
warranty agreement which said that
if the machine 1) didn't work, 2)
didn't do what the expensive
advertisement said, 3)
electrocuted the immediate
neighbourhood, 4) and in fact
failed entirely to be inside the
expensive box when you opened it,
this was expressly, absolutely,
implicitly and in no event the
fault or responsibility of the
manufacturer, that the purchaser
should consider himself lucky to
be allowed to give his money to
the manufacturer, and that any
attempt to treat what had just
been paid for as the purchaser's
own property would result in the
attentions of serious men with
menacing briefcases and very thin
watches." - Good Omens
"Crowley had been extremely
impressed with the warranties
offered by the computer industry,
and had in fact sent a bundle
Below to the department that drew
up the Immortal Soul agreements,
with a yellow memo form attached
just saying: "Learn, guys."" -
Good Omens
okej, jag slutar nu innan jag har
citerat varenda Pratchett bok, (ni
sa iofs favoritcitat och då blir
det varenda bok rakt igenom.
alltihop)
(nu ska jag bara komma på hur man
sparar saker, i brr..ed, måste
koppla ihop lynx med emacs
istälelt. argh... ännu värre det var vi. måste se till det här)
_________________ "seen so many come and go / but my heart never beats slow / respect is payed where respect is due / rather die than live like you " - Forever Young - The Guarantee
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