There's a CT joke coming up, I can just feel it!
Or is that not the kind of fantasy you meant?! 
Terry Pratchett on conspiracy thinking
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There's a CT joke coming up, I can just feel it!
Or is that not the kind of fantasy you meant?! gumboot
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Would he really try hide it?
Or would he put a big sign above the smoking ruin of the WTC with letters 8 feet high saying "NEXT TIME PAY YOUR RENT ON TIME" so the other residents of the city got the message?
-Gumboot
Well he is in favour of the 'one man one vote' type of democracy.
Havelock Vetinari is the man, and he has got the vote
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You should, The bit about spies, secret socities "verily verily said the nightwatchman' sister's daughter" is priceless. As in the whole of the wyrd sisters books.
However none of them have made me laugh as long and hard as when you said that it was "sheer common sense" that the towers were brought down using technological that we weren't aware of.
Of course I laughed at both, unfortunately I was laughing with Prachett, and laughing at you.
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Have I read the passage that the OP says is about conspiracy thinking? Yep. Does this passage make you look like a fool who doesn't know his ass from a whole in the ground. Certainly. Did I deftly elucidate this fact in a very terse and entertaining fashion. Ya betcha bottom dolla.[/QUOTE]
Still laughing atacha. Hey don't you worry the United states are just about waking up to this. Hey whenever a moron watches loose change, an angel gets splattered on the windscreen of a semi, or something.
Stgil
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Yeah, but it's not bad living in his city, as far as tyrannies go. Unless you're a mime.
-Gumboot
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Mimes hanging upside down in a pit of scorpions with a sign saying "Learn the words". Man I haven't read those books in years, but can still remember a bus full of people staring at me as I read one of the weird sisters books, in nigh on hysterical laughter.
gumboot
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He and Douglas Adams are probably the only authors who consistantly make me actually laugh out loud uncontrollably.
Very hard to read in public!
-Gumboot
For those who have not read Pratchett
I would like to offer another author with a very surreal view of life. Jasper Fford.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Over-Easy-N...f=pd_ka_6/202-6528980-8724659?ie=UTF8&s=books
This work of fiction helps as it shows critical thinking into the murder of the big bad wolf by the three little pigs (after all how long DOES it take to boil a wolf?) and the fact that Humpty Dumpty could have been pushed.
You may laugh but it is that sort of thinking that helped me understand how to do a Literature Review for my degree.
As for Pratchett and his work, I think The Truth is a good place as any to start, as is Nightwatch as both work with plots to remove those in power.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Truth-Discw...ef=sr_1_2/202-6528980-8724659?ie=UTF8&s=books
And
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Watch...ef=sr_1_1/202-6528980-8724659?ie=UTF8&s=books
I would like to offer another author with a very surreal view of life. Jasper Fford.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Over-Easy-N...f=pd_ka_6/202-6528980-8724659?ie=UTF8&s=books
This work of fiction helps as it shows critical thinking into the murder of the big bad wolf by the three little pigs (after all how long DOES it take to boil a wolf?) and the fact that Humpty Dumpty could have been pushed.
You may laugh but it is that sort of thinking that helped me understand how to do a Literature Review for my degree.
As for Pratchett and his work, I think The Truth is a good place as any to start, as is Nightwatch as both work with plots to remove those in power.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Truth-Discw...ef=sr_1_2/202-6528980-8724659?ie=UTF8&s=books
And
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Watch...ef=sr_1_1/202-6528980-8724659?ie=UTF8&s=books
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I'm glad someone finally posted an explanation of what the hell you were all talking about.
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Give the Red Dwarf books a try, a lot of material in there that never made it into the TV series.
Has anyone considered the possibility that our CTist friends are actually trolls, and wherever they live it is quite warm.
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(oh no what have I started. We will have people going on about the 5 Horsemen soon...only for a truther to try and debunk it by claiming that one of has to be Chris Benoit from his WCW days. After all, he has a DVD that proves it.)
Still.....
Don't let me delay you.
Still.....
Don't let me delay you.
gumboot
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Did any of you see "Hogfather"?
I rather liked it. The editing was a bit loose, and some of the minor character acting left a lot to be desired, but overall I thought it was quite nice. Not as funny as the book though. A lot of his humour doesn't really translate well to the screen.
-Gumboot
I rather liked it. The editing was a bit loose, and some of the minor character acting left a lot to be desired, but overall I thought it was quite nice. Not as funny as the book though. A lot of his humour doesn't really translate well to the screen.
-Gumboot
I watched it and no, not as good as the book. And did it need to be so long? I wonder if Pratchett 'mucked about' with the script too much trying to cram every single joke into it.
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I thought it would probably be a bit difficult to follow in places for anyone who didn't know the background to the characters.
(eg the wizards speculating that the Hogfather might deliver to apes early - there was no explanation about this)
Dave
I enjoyed it.
Mashuna
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I'm not that keen on Mark Warren as an actor (Teatime in Hogfather). I think he's Dracula in the upcoming programme on that, and he was in the last series of Dr Who for one episode. I just find him a bit jarring, for some reason.
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I don't think I'd normally like him, but I thought he was great as Teatime. Jarring is a good way of describing the character.
-Gumboot
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I don't blame him. Those tasty waffles, covered with syr--
Oh, you said "ego".
Nevermind then.