A Game: thread #12

Welcome to the bright, shiny, magpie-attractant twelfth iteration of the Discworld quote game!
And now the quote to start us off:

“And it doesn’t occur to you that they might be part of some clever plan?”

The Fifth elephant?

Nup!
;-)

Night Watch?

And pwaites has it – it was indeed Night Watch. Take it away pwaites!

"Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all."

The lost continent?

Interesting Times?

The Colour of Magic?

endrandrew got it! Over to you.

You have the right not to injure yourself falling down the steps on the way to the cells. You have the right not to jump out of high windows.

Going Postal?

Lords and Ladies?

Neither.

Is that a young Kzad-bhat*, later to become Captain Carrot, quoting the Laws and Ordinances of the Cities of Ankh and Morpork in Guards! Guards!?

*Head banger

You have it - though I rather suspect that the two lines may appear elsewhere, that's where I found them

Let's stick with the Watch.

Detritus looked mildly offended at this. 'Oh no, sir' he said, 'I made sure they knew I hit 'em.'

Looks as though everyone has dived for cover here so I will hazard a guess;

The Fifth Elephant?

Sorry but no.

*sigh* and I am sure that it is not from Unseen Academicals. Is it?

Feet of Clay?

No, neither of those.

Jingo?

No, not Jingo!

Thud?

Yes indeedy do! Vimes remark just before this was "Didn't know what hit him, eh?" Over to you.

Ah - and I was running out of options.

Here is one for all the Amelia Peabody fans out there:

Just my hair messed up and another shirt ruined

Hmm, I know it’s Angua talking to Carrot, but when? Feet of Clay?

No - not that one

Going Postal?

No, not Going Postal.

Jingo?

Yes it is from Jingo. Over to you pwaites.

"On the fabled hidden continent of Xxxx, somewhere near the rim, there is a lost colony of wizards who wear corks around their pointy hats and live on nothing but prawns."

As a Forexian, I distinctly remember reading that and hoping that Pterry would write more about this fabled hidden continent, and of course in The Last Continent he did just that.

Where did I read it though? I don't think it was in the first few books because by that time I was already hooked and really knew I wanted to see what his treatment of Australia would be.

So, middling early... My guess is Mort.

I have read that phrase reasonably recently. Ummm Interesting Times?

Neither one!

Jingo?

Or is it early? The Light Fantastic?

I'll try another of e early ones and go for Sourcery.

Reaper Man?

Ardagor got it. Over to you!

"He stared at the label. It seemed to be Jimkin Bearhugger`s Old Selected Dragon`s Blood Whiskey. Cheap and Powerful. You diden`t have to drink much of it to get drunk, which was just as well."

Jingo?

Feet of Clay?

Guards, Guards?

Guards, Guards is correct. edrandrew is next.

"If you please, sir, I'm just a little lad led astray bu bad companionship."

Night Watch? The young Nobby to Carcer?

No

Monstrous Regiment?

Eric being the little whiner that he is?

Yeah, winging little oik. Over to you justjim.

What a coincidence! I just tweeted this quote because I love it, but I couldn't immediately remember where it was from. Then I checked LT Talk and it clicked.

Disclaimer: This is from memory. I'm in bed and I'm not getting up to check the exact wording!

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for one night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Sounds like the theology of Deacon Vorbis in Small Gods.

It does, doesn't it! It isn't though.

I've just read that somewhere and the last Pratchett I read is Unseen Academicals. I know that it is my default answer but ...

It's not UA this time either! ;)

*sigh* Jingo? That is the one I read before UA

And that's where you would have found it! Or something like it, I still haven't looked it up to see how close I was.

Over to you!

This one is for the Andrew Marvell lovers.

The crypt's a handsome place to be, but none I think leave after tea

Carpe Jugulum to go for the obvious one.

No - not Carpe Jugulum

Making Money?

No - not Making Money.

Do you need a hint?

Going Postal?

No - not Going Postal

Ok, guessing wildly – The Fifth Elephant?

No - not The Fifth Elephant either

A hint.

The misquote comes from a poem by Andrew Marvell, called "To His Coy Mistress", and the proper lines are:

The grave's a find and private place
But none, I think, do there embrace.

it goes on -

Thus therefore whilst the youthful dew
Sits on thy cheek like morning dew
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pour with instant fires ... etc.

Maskerade?

No - not Masquerade. Sorry ...

Know the original source, but not which Pratchett it comes from!
And poetry doesn’t fare too well on the Discworld. Hmm. Are we being too literal, going down the vampires route? Do we need to think more … romantically? The mad Seraph who kept wanting to be told stories? Sourcery?

Not Sourcery but getting a bit warmer. Try google for the next line of the poem.

Unseen Academicals?

Yeah! Yes it is Unseen Academicals. Nott telling Glenda that he is not quite sure about that couplet in the poem which he wrote for Trev to give to Juliet.

Your turn, pwaites

Is anyone surprised that Pinkozcat's quote came from UA? ;)

I am just surprised that it took so long.

"There was not a lot that could be done to make Morpork a worse place. A direct hit by a meteorite, for example, would count as gentrification."

It sounds like an early one. Guards! Guards?

Thief of Time (a wild guess)

Neither one.

Another wild guess - Equal Rites?

No, but I will confirm that it is an earlier one.

Maybe The Colour of Magic?

Night Watch?

No, still not it.

The Light Fantastic?

It's not that, but it is one of the first ten.

Mort?

Not Mort.

Eric?

I can't remember reading anything like it so i am guessing wildly.

Sourcery - though largely by a process of elimination

Moving Pictures? Only because it's number 10, and why would you have said in the first TEN and not the first 5...

Pyramids?

Ardagor got it! Wow, this was a long one.

"Hright, said sergeant Colon, this men, is your truncheon, also nomenclatured your night stick or baton of office. He paused while he tried to remember his army days, and brightened up.
Hand you will look after hit, he shouted. You will eat with hit, you will sleep with it, you-"

Men at Arms?

That is correct!

"Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork."

Thief of Time?

It sounds like either Vimes or Vetinari so I'll opt, first up, for Making Money.

pwaites got it first thing!

Okay, I've had this real recently so does anyone else want to jump in and take it?

Well, really - are we all suffering from a surfeit of (something suitably alliterative that I can't think of at the moment)? To get things moving (and as a bonus clue, itth Igor thpeaking)....

"Thurtainly, thur. If you will excuthe me, I will go and fetch another finger."

Well done for picking up the baton and thankths for the hint!

Hmm, Igorth are my favourite characterth, but which one?

Perhaps this one has been careless around a Watchman-carrying bird of prey? Monstrous Regiment?

Suffering from a surfeit of somnolence, Ed.

The Fifth Elephant?

Carpe Jugulum?

King john was said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys but I think that was an urban myth.

No, non, nein. With my usual disclaimer that it may appear in some, one or several of the above but I happened to find it somewhere else.

Hmm … The Truth?

Not there either.

Thief of Time?

Going Postal?

Artur has it.

Ok, let's try this one-

"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show."

Guards! Guards!?

Sounds like the wisdom of the Low King. The Fifth Elephant?

Sorry, it's not Guards! Guards! or The Fifth Elephant.

Hmmm, who else might be thinking of a coronation? Pyramids?

Jingo?

No, it's not Pyramids or Jingo.

Going Postal?

Thud?

pinkozcat has it; it's Going Postal. It's just at the point where Moist decides to challenge the Grand Trunk to the race. Over to you, pinkozcat.

I should have guessed it sooner; I re-read Going Postal only a couple of weeks ago.

Here is a nice easy one:

Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler, a name bigger than the man himself.

Too easy as I posted it a couple of threads ago! I found it in Making Money.

A couple of threads ago?? I must have missed it but you are correct; it is Making Money.

Change of plan on the text as some vital formatting didn't work out. Let's go for...

'Yes. And he'll either pass or fail. I'd like to see him manage 84 per cent on that.'

Moving Pictures – the one-question exam paper prepared especially for Victor, which Ponder Stibbons ended up with instead.

Indeed - your go.

Hooray!

Ok, this is either going to go easily or take a very long time:

“Nice roses, though,” said the Dean.

Unseen Academicals?

Soul Music?

No, and no.

Hogfather?

Ah, the Bursar is always ready with "Eringyas' Surprising Bouquet". It doesn't really help in Reaper Man though.

Indeed it does not. Take it away Jim!

Oh, that would be me! Sorry for the delay.

In a similar vein, although not, I promise you, from the same book...

The Bursar, who had been properly brought up, said, "Hooray, there's a rosebush?"

Sourcery?

No, sorry.

Hogfather ?

Sorry, no.

Lords and Ladies?

The Last Continent?

Not L&L, but it is from LC! Artur has it again.

"The shark didn't think much. Sharks don't. Their thought processes can largely be represented by "=". You see it = you eat it."

Small Gods?

No, not Small Gods.

The Light Fantastic?

Jingo?

No, it's not The Light Fantastic or Jingo.

Interesting Times then?

You've got it, pinkozcat. The shark in question is about to try eating the Luggage as it goes by. Over to you...

Yes - I knew that it involved the Luggage but it took me a while to work out which book it was.

Here goes:

She always prided herself on being as ordinary as muck, but there was ordinary and there was ordinary.

Unseen Academicals?

Sounds like Nanny Ogg - but that doesn't narrow things down much. I'll try Maskarade.

No - not Unseen Academicals and not Maskerade.

Or is it way early – Wyrd Sisters?

Not Wyrd Sisters

Wintersmith?!

Hi, I'm new.

No, not Wintersmith

The Wee Free Men?

No, not The Wee Free Men either

We’re starting to run out of witch books … Witches Abroad?

Headed in a whole other direction, Moving Pictures?

I'll try to rule out another Witches book, Lords and Ladies?

joannasephine has it - it is from Witches Abroad.

"Here they were being jostled, as if they were ordinary. Only Nanny Ogg's warning hand on Granny Weatherwax's arm was keeping a dozen jovial drinkers from unnatural amphibianhood and even Nanny's usually very elastic temper was beginning to twang.

Cool bananas!
Since we have a newcomer to the game, anatwork.k can have the next go.

Thank you joannesephine! This might be too easy but here goes:

"No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect."

A wild guess - The Truth?

Not The Truth

Then I'll fall back onto my default answer; Unseen Academicals?

No...not Unseen Academicals either!

Tell me when I should start giving hints...or another quote from the same book.

Hints would be nice!

Moving Pictures?

I think this is not a Discworld Novel but Nation ?

I just looked up the quote and Orangez is correct; it comes from Nation.

Nation it is.

BTW, sorry about the delay. I went to the snuff book reading in NYC on Thursday and then had guests.

anatwork.k - How about starting a new thread to tell us more about the event you went to? I know I would love to hear about it!

Perhaps someone could pick up the baton and get this thread going again. I am not sure what the protocol is or I would do it myself.

Your turn, Orangez.

Nice!

An easy one to get this going again:

"REMIND ME AGAIN, he said, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE."

How about Reaper Man?

Or possibly Mort?

Has to be Hogfather

Nope, Interesting Times.

I second Interesting Times

No, no, no, no and no! :)

Need some clues?

Jingo?

Since we are talking of small things - Small Gods?

Thud!

Take it away Pinkozcat!

Ah, Orangez, now I see why you said that it was easy; the clue was in the quote itself. :)

Here is a random quote from a random book. It is not so easy:

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to those who think they've found it.

Not so easy... Oh, well. I'll go ahead and guess the easy one. The Truth?

No - sorry, not The Truth.

Carpe Jugulum about Pastor Oats?

No - not Carpe Jugulum either

Thief of Time, yes?

Thief of Time no, sorry

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents? Just because I can't remember anyone using this book yet, so it might qualify as 'random book' K : )

LOL - no not The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents either.

:(

We need more! I'm completely stumped. Lol.

If not 'The Truth' could it be 'Monstrous Regiment'?

I think OliverC (welcome to the game!) may have it …

Yes, Oliver has it. Monstrous Regiment is the correct book.

Over to you, Oliver.

Try this one

"...., the master of the music, had described **********'s voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey."

From the first Discworld novel that I read.

I'll guess the obvious: Maskerade?

Soul Music?

I'll pitch in with the unlikely Thief of Time.

Reaper Man?

Small Gods, describing Brutha's singing.

Well done Joannasephine, Small Gods it is.

Your go.

Ok:

“Got everythin’ you want? Spare notebook? Potty?”

Thief of Time?

Nup.

Lords and Ladies?

Snuff?! I am almost (but not quite) certain. :)

Hang that, I'm pretty certain.

Still no!

Equal Rites?

I'll go right out on a limb with The Wee Free Men.

Not Snuff?! Wow, this is a really hard one. The Truth maybe?

The Last Hero?

Oooh...Interesting Times!. Is it allowed to have more than one guess running at the same time? :s

No - but you can edit your reply if you change your mind - but only before it is read by the person giving the quote.

Interesting Times it is!

Ah, yes. The spy in the urn!

Yeah I remembered after the previous poster said The Last Hero and I thought of Teach and the Silver Horde. :)

#227 Can I keep that in mind for next time around? I shall await judgment.

I'm happy for you to have this turn, so post away!

Yay! Okay, I've got a good one.

Ponder looked absolutely crestfallen. There are some people born with the instinctive feeling that the universe is solvable.

Hogfather?

The Last Continent?

No and no!

The Light Fantastic?

Lol, no.

The Last Hero?

Back to my default position.

Unseen Academicals?

Still no.

And Soul Music it is.

Over to you Snigglefritz. :)

Let's see....

"The trouble with you, Ibid," he said, "is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority on everything."

Small Gods, perhaps?

Pyramids?

Sourcery?

Pyramids it is! All yours, Ardagor!

I means, said the troll, do you have any beer, spirits, wines, liquors, hallucinogenic herbage or books of a lewd or licentious nature?

Moving Pictures? I cannot remember this at all!

No, not Moving Pictures.

The LIght Fantastic?

No, not The Light Fantastic either.

Lords and Ladies??

Carpe Jugulum?

Lords and Ladies it is, anatwork.k is next.

Cool, when the wizards are going to Lancre for the wedding right?

Also, I just went recently so perhaps someone else would like a go? First one to read this posts a quote! :)

anatwork.k, I think that you should nominate someone (not me) because we will all hang back and pretend that we haven't read your post yet.

Ok, I nominate ronincats in the interests of expedience. :) I will leave her a message to that effect.

Bah, humbug!

No, no, that wasn't the quote.

"There was so much silence you could hear it. Everywhere it went, it stuffed the ears with invisible fluff."

Thud?

"Bah, humbug!"

That's just got to be from Hogfather. Ok, no, wait… nevermind… *slinks off*

Hah! Just finished it last night. Unseen Academicals.

Spaceowl has it! Take it away.

(Very funny, Jim.)

OK...

"By the blinking of my eyes, something wicked this way dies."

I Shall Wear Midnight?

Wyrd Sisters?

Well done Artur. Over to you.

Here we go-

"Take parallel dimensions. Parasite dimensions, now, he understood them. He lived in one. They were simply universes that weren't quite complete in themselves and could only exist by clinging on to a host universe, like remora fish."

Random guess: Reaper Man?

Sorry, not Reaper Man.

The Colour of Magic?

Is that Night Watch?

Unseen Academicals?

Eric??

It's not The Colour of Magic, Night Watch, Unseen Academicals, or Eric.

Then how about The Last Hero?

The Wee Free Men? I'm so stumped!

Thief of Time?

The Last Continent?

Tracked it down - it's from the Last Hero.

ronincats has it. It's The Last Hero. Over to you...

And at more than 280 messages, it is well past time for a new thread. Over to this link--

http://www.librarything.com/topic/126552