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i can't believe terry pratchett created the Community pizza gag back in 1989

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thinking non-stop about the Terry Pratchett Method of Deconstruction (TM) and how it works

[...] the wages of sin is death, but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays. (Witches Abroad)

Take a common concept, metaphor, idiom, trope etc. "The wages of sin is death."

Invert, reverse or subvert it to highlight the inconsistency or issue. "But so is the salary of virtue." (Well, actually, everybody dies, right?)

While everybody's contemplating the philosophy revealed, overextend the metaphor and whack them in the back of the head with the joke like a comedic quintain while they aren't expecting it. "At least the evil get to go home early on Fridays."

He does it quite often and I love it every time.

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I like how in Night Watch Vimes has to face his younger self and has the universal experience of cringing at his younger self but realizes you need to start somewhere. You start out naive and ignorant then life bites you in the ass and you learn, unless you're Vetinari then you've always been cool.

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He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you'd expect, and none of the ones you wouldn't. "There he is," people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.

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“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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"Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."

"It's a lot more complicated than that --"

"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, it means they're getting worried they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."

"Oh. I'm sure there are worse crimes --"

"But they starts with thinking about people like things..."

- Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

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forever abnormal about young vetinari in night watch. He's 18(?). He failed his stealthy movement module because the teacher never saw him in his classes. he taught himself to stand still. He hid four copies of "some observation on the art of invisibility" in "anecdotes of the great accountants, vol. 3" and manipulated Downey into burning the fifth. He won't shut up about keel to his aunt. "I think i saw a genius at work" "he stares into shadows. Interesting." He killed Lord Winder in the middle of a crowded room. When he saw keel "die" he killed four men with a lilac held in his mouth. He becomes the man who implements the reforms the glorious Revolution of the peoples republic of treacle mine road fought for. "Do it now or receive an aunts curse!"

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The Archchancellor has an eight pack. The Archchancellor is shredded

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hex may be among my favourite discworld characters now

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Can Vetinari please be in charge of all my meetings

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What I like about Pratchett’s mysteries — because Pterry could write a good mystery and I stand by that — is that they’re almost never whodunnits.

Because we — and usually the characters — know instantly whodunnit. It’s the smug bastard who smiles too much and is dramatically diabolical all the time. We know from the beginning of Feet of Clay that Dragon King of Arms is somehow responsible for the death of Father Tubelcek and Vetinari’s poisoning. We know that the werewolves are somehow behind the disappearance of the Scone of Stone. We see Teatime get hired to kill the Hogfather.

So because whodunnit isn’t a question, the mystery is finding out how they dunnit. The really interesting thing about Hogfather is that in the original book, the method of how Teatime is trying to kill the Hogfather is a twist that shows up late in the book (which was kinda lost in the movie, which as a visual medium couldn’t fall back on the trick of hiding the murder weapon outside of the narration).

And I find this to be sort of like the Columbo “howcatchem” structure. Discworld mysteries are “howdunnit.” “I know you dunnit and once I figure out how ooo you’re in trouble.”

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I love dragging my friends into Discworld

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What can I say? This part struck a chord with me after recent events.

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Fully colored Moist aka the best postmaster

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OKAY SO, I’m reading all of Discworld atm and just finished Sourcery and moved on to Wyrd Sisters. I’ve been enjoying it so far but imagine my surprise when out of nowhere I read THIS

ITS THE MEME, THE COME HITHER FOOL MEME! I had no idea that was from Discworld and it doesn’t matter at all but now I possess this knowledge and I needed to share it with anyone who didn’t know.

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This quote from Guards! Guards! hits real hard right now.