A Quote Game: thread #14

Just got an opportunity to use the automatic continued feature. I haven't found my quote yet though.

Ok, here it is...

Whatever happened to all that, you know, hi-ho, hi-ho and being kind to poor lost orphans in the forest...

Thud! ? And I think it was Sybil that said it

Well that's a quick start to the first game of the new thread. Thud! it is!

Take it away, Annie

This post is to try to get this thread onto my page; it isn't showing.

Jim, I left a message for you in thread 13.

That is only because I read part of it recently :)

Next:

"A fortune-teller in the Street of Cunning Artificers heard the footsteps run across her bedroom floor and found her crystal ball had turned into a little glass sphere with a cottage in it, plus snowflakes."

Why do I think that it is from Sourcery?

Nope.

Reaper Man?

Nope...

One last try ...Wintersmith?

Nope again...
Not sure how often you are giving clues here so if someone wants a clue, let me know.

Not sure either - I think that it is when, by common consensus, people ask for a hint

Eric?

Thief of Time?

Eric ?

Hogfather?

>13 edrandrew:

edrandrew,

Eric it is indeed. All yours.

Granny had nothing against fortune telling provided it was done badly by people with no talent for it.

That sounds like Equal Rites

D#%n and b@#¥t, I thought it would last a bit longer than 8 minutes! Your go.

PS Happy New Years all round.

Sorry! *trying to look contrite*

An easy one; perhaps you can take the baton back again.

Females are absolutely forbidden. Their brains overheat.

Fifth Elephant? Though this does seem to be my default answer in the absence of any more definite ideas. Still, it has a drawfish twang to it so who knows.

pyramids?

eclectidodo has it; it is from Pyramids.

woohoo! my first ever!

"He didn't belong to a Guild. Or he belonged to all the Guilds, I suppose. He got around quite a bit. He tinkered, if you know what I mean."

I'll start the ball rolling with Jingo

nope

Moving Pictures ?

no, not moving pictures

It's Leonard of Quirm! I have no clue what book though...

Feet of Clay?

Sourcery?

yes, it's Leonard of Quirm, but still not there

Men at Arms?

The Last Hero?

ArmyAngel has it! it was men at arms

Woooooo!

"Theft was the only crime, whether the loot was gold, innocence, land or life."

The Last Hero?

Nope

The Fifth Elephant?

Nope, not that one either.

The Colour of Magic?

Snuff?

Neither of those

Going Postal?

No...

Unseen Academicals?

Back to my default answer ...

Still no :)

monstrous regiment?

Nope...

Should I post a clue?

Night Watch?

No

I'll go right off at a tangent ...

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Jingo?

Sounds like Vimes to me and I seem to remember a passage there that can fit it.

Annie got it!

Yay!

OKey... let's see how hard this one will be:

It had a strange, greasy feel, like static electricity. The wood itself was almost black, but the carvings were slightly lighter, and hurt the eyes if you tried to make out precisely what they were supposed to be.

That is from Equal Rites

And it took less than hour to guess it...

Note to self: Find something harder next time.

All yours, pinkozcat :)

Thank you; try this one.

None of you ever bother with details, you see. Technically, I have to report to other people, but usually the other people are me.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure it's Ponder Stibbons talking. Unseen Academicals?

Absolutely! I just HAD to use my default book for a change.

Over to you, joannasephine.

Pinkozcat, I feel quite bad about guessing your default! Someone else have a go. First in, first served.

Noone wants to post? OK - here is one:

"This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been. "

Lords and Ladies?

Nope.

Maskerade?

Thief of Time? I'm guessing, of course ...

Nope...

That was quick.

Um - Unseen Academicals?

Around for a bit. Nope again.

Wyrd Sisters?

It is a very Granny Weatherwax sort of quote.

And nope again.

*sigh* last try and then I'm out of here ...

Carpe Jugulum

Nope, not this one either.

Witches Abroad?

Thud?

>76 joannasephine: Witches Abroad it is. All yours.

Ok:

"No it's not, not officially, not unless you eat a whole person."

The Fifth Elephant?

Last Continent?

Monstrous Regiment?

Snuff?

AnnieMod has it -- it was indeed Monstrous Regiment.

:)

"The small but very select audience watched it with the carefully blank expressions of people who are half convinced that their host is several cards short of a full deck but are putting up with it because they've just eaten a meal and it would be rude to leave too soon. "

Men at Arms?

What took you that long? :) All yours.

I run, therefore I am; more correctly, I run, therefore with any luck I'll still be.

Rincewind, but from which book? Sounds quite lucid by his standards, so maybe a recent one? The Last Hero?

I'll go for The Last Continent

Interesting Times?

Nay, nay and thrice nay. The unmistakeable philosophy of Rincewind shines through, but this precept came from elsewhere.

A wild guess - Small Gods?

Eric? Somewhere close to a discussion in how many languages he can cry "Help" in and in how many he can use to beg for mercy? (I seem to remember talking about always running AND about what he does when he does not run - and the sentence above can very well be from that passage).

AnnieMod has it. He could shout 'help!' in fourteen languages and scream for mercy in a further twelve. Which is pretty impressive really.

Had forgotten the exact numbers :)

Next:
"It separated those curs who went around murdering people for money from the gentlemen who were occasionally consulted by other gentlemen who wished to have removed, for a consideration, any inconvenient razorblades from the candyfloss of life."

Pyramids?

But perhaps that is a bit obvious.

It might have been. In this case though, it is not the Pyramids:)

I realise that it could be one of about 34 books. Night Watch?

No, I meant that if I had seen the sentence and had not read the actual book recently, I would have thought Pyramids as well.

Nope. Not the Night Watch either.

Having just now finished watching Hogfather on TV (well, the recording on my PVR. And what a wonderful job they did, glad I caught it this Hogswatch since I missed it last year), I think that this is early in said book.

And we have a winner. All yours.

Wheee! For once it was good to be behind the times.

'Blessings be upon this house,' said Granny Weatherwax, stamping snow off her boots. 'Your boy said I shouldn't come in, but i think he was wrong. ...

Wintersmith?

It was the snow that gave it away, wasn't it?

Winner!

'Um,' he said, 'er, do you mind if I go away? I faint at the sight of glue'

Ah, the Librarian performing an appendectomy. I know it's from an early Rincewind book, but which one? The Light Fantastic?

Sourcery?

AnnieMod has it.

OK... next:

"Certainly no-one ever got anywhere by worshiping her, and she tended to turn up only where she was least expected, such as now."

The Last Hero?

Nope. :)

There is something nudging at the back of my mind but I can't pin it down.

Interesting Times?

And joannasephine got it - Interesting Times it is.

Hooray!

"In that case," said ---, "I commend my soul to any god that can find it."

Moist being hanged to within half an inch of his life in Going Postal?

Welcome back, Jim! And yes, you are correct. Your turn sir!

I've only been away since #105!

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW SORRY THIS MAKES ME, he said.

Jeez - this could be almost any book.. and any author. But taking the case of the letters in consideration... it must be one of the Death books. Something is reminding me of Mort... but I do not think it was the first book. So..
Soul Music?

Well that was cleverly worked out! Correct, your turn.

Only in terms of locking down the series - it was mostly a guess which one exactly.

OK, something that should be easy:

The twin city of proud Ankh and pestilent Morpork, of which all the other cities of time and space are, as it were, mere reflections, has stood many assaults in its long and crowded history and has always risen to flourish again.

The Colour of Magic, at the very beginning.

As I said - should be easy. All yours.

"There was a lot of things that could profitably be done in a minute, but most of them couldn`t be done with no hands while hanging in darkness over a long drop."

Moving Pictures? I'm thinking of the tower. Of course, I might have the wrong book for the tower.

No, not Moving Pictures.

That is Vimes falling down some stairs where dwarfs were involved. Or something like that keeps nagging at me.
So Fifth Elephant?

Or is it Moist, trying to distract himself in Adora Belle's absense? I can hardly bring myself to type the name, but Making Money?

Fifth Elephant it is, back to AnnieMod.

>129 joannasephine:

Not a fan of Making Money? :)

Next:

Everywhere in the world, someone turned up out of some strange primal mould to sell him a really dreadful regional delicacy.

Oh, this is certainly Rincewind. But which book? Interesting Times?

Nope. :)

The Last Continent?

Yep, All yours.

An easy one:

I don't want to, you know, spoil the spirit of the moment, but that is a really awful idea.

Monstrous Regiment?

Of course :)

Over to you ...

I'm afraid that having a sword and a birthmark are not much in the way of qualifications.

Men at Arms?

I think that you and I are having a routine going on... :) Nope, it is not this one.

Guards, Guards?

Nope again.

Feet of Clay?

Yep. All yours

Someone else take my turn.

I'll pick it up otherwise we could go a whole weekend without a quote. I'll select a random book opened at a random page so -- here goes ...

He leaned forward and took her hand. 'This must be wretched for you,' he said.

That's one of the witches. And I am pretty sure the lady in question is Agnes.

So... Carpe Jugulum? (just a wild guess - I know it is the Witches. I am not sure which one..)

No - not Carpe Jugulum

Maskerade?

These are the only two where Agnes could have been in this situation. Or I have the situation all wrong and it is not Agnes :)

Yes it is Agnes and yes it is Maskerade.

Your turn. :)

A favorite sentence:

"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way"

Oh, no clue...

Thud!?

Nope :)

Jingo

I haven't a clue either ...

Sounds like Vetinari, but I too haven't a clue where. I'll try Making Money as a random guess.

Is that Ponder Stibbons critiquing Adora Belle Dearheart's analogy of how the Cabinet of Curiosities works in Making Money? It was a recent read, so I'm hopeful.

The Last Hero. :)

I'm pretty sure -- I just read it again.

Is this a reference to the city being like a clock? Or is Making Money correct?

>157 justjim:

Sorry for the delay - had been offline.
Yep but edrandrew guessed the title before you. It is Making Money

I love it when a random guess is right for all the wrong reasons! So...

If you felt like a smoke and couldn't find a pipe, a book was your man every time.

It doesn't even ring the faintest little tinklle of a bell but I can always guess.

Mort?

I'm with pinkozcat. It doesn't sound even a little bit familiar but lets say Eric. I seem to gravitate towards Eric a lot. I can't see why; to my knowledge we've not had a quote from it since I joined. But, hope springs eternal I suppose.

The Light Fantastic? Sounds like Cohen's thoughts about bonfires of books and people writing on books? :)

AnnieMod has it Incidentally, you will find a quote from Eric as recently as post 88 in this thread.

"The storm walked around the hills on legs of lightning, shouting and grumbling."

witches abroad?

Nope :)

Wintersmith?

Nope.

OOOps - I was changing my guess when you posted.

I changed The Last Continent to Wintersmith .

Are they both wrong? Or is it Wintersmith?

Shall I try again.

Both wrong :)

Wyrd Sisters?

That is a good thing or there would have been a muddle.

Lords and ladies?

No and No.

The Fifth Elephant perhaps?

165. I *would* miss the one Eric quote. I've been on vacation for the last couple of weeks.

Nope. :)

PS: Eric is always fun... :)

It sounds like a witches book, but I'm going for a different take with Cohen the Barbarian. The Last Hero?

Nope. :)

The Wee Free Men? This really sounds like a witch book.

Nope, it is not that one either.

Sorry, not this one either

Equal Rites?

But of course :) One of the first pages :)

A wild guess; Equal Rites is 'different'.

Things tend to look better when the world has stopped spinning and you have a warm drink in front of you ...

>186 pinkozcat: Yes... but everyone was gravitating around the Witches - and just kept missing the correct one :)

This sounds awfully familiar... one of Tiffany's maybe
A Hat Full of Sky ?

No ....

Early Vimes? Men at Arms?

No, sorry

I Shall Wear Midnight?
I think it is Tiffany. So I am going to push in this direction.

Yes, you are quite right, Annie, the book is I shall Wear Midnight.

:) Educated guess based on a guess of who the book was about. Ok, next.

"Among the soldiery, at least among the soldiery of a certain rank, there was a lot of back-slapping and telling of anecdotes, jovial exchanging of shields and a general consensus that, what with the fires and sieges and armadas and wooden horses and everything, it had been a jolly good war."

Eric? The siege of Tsort?

Dang - that was fast.

All yours.

Hahaha, and I was just about to go for Eric too!

>196 anatwork.k:

You complained that you wanted Eric so I decided to oblige :)

Drat, that means I now have to try and come up with one that won't immediately disappear. Hmm ...

"Isn't that certain death?" said ---
"That didn't seem to worry him, sir."

Bonus smugness points if you can also say who is being spoken about.

Monstrous Regiment?

The only two that can have this conversation unless if it is out of character are Vimes and Vetinari. So... Thud? Someone attacking a troll with no warning or something like that?

Jingo? With Vimes as the subject?

AnnieMod has it, on both counts. They're discussing how AE Pessimal came by his injuries.
Back to you!

Pessimal, right. :)

"You needed to be a moderately good theological disputant to accept this, especially since a fair number of sausages and prime cuts had disappeared from butchers' slabs in a blur of grey and a lingering odour of lavatory carpet..."

Gaspode insisting he had never been a bad dog - The Fifth Elephant.

>204 pwaites:

Yep. All yours

"*** was not, however, satisfied simply with being vouchsafed the difference between right and wrong. He felt it his bounden duty to tell the world."

Bonus if you can name the character this is about!

The preacher guy in Lords and Ladies?

Constable Visit in Feet of Clay?

Nope, keep guessing.

R.P.Taylor (spelling?) in Good Omens?

(Presuming that all books are allowed...)

Yes! I can't believe it went that quickly. Oh, well. Over to you AnnieMod

Nothing to do with reading the book in 2 languages... and way more times than twice. :)

"And it was composed, after all, of men they were about to fight, and everyone knew they were treacherous greasy towel heads or perfidious untrustworthy sausage-eating madmen."

That's got to be Jingo, right?

Yep. All yours

Okay!

Now to find one that won't immediately disappear. I must try to find a way of thwarting Annie...at least for a little while. ;)

Lets try this:

"In fact, although assassination has always been an important political tool, with its own rigid and more-or-less-gentlemanly (or ladylike) rules, many members might barely touch a dagger from one year to the next."

I'll kick off with Night Watch.

Or Pyramids?

No and no. Continue... :)

Annie is going to go off tangent here a bit because I have a very strong suspicion that this might be the case... So Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000 by any chance?

Edit: Just fixing the touchstone

No!

Mwahahaha

The New Discworld Companion? It might be a novel but something is nagging me so...

No again!

The Art of Discworld? There was some description of the Guild there (and as is obvious, I am almost ready to place the sentence in one of the descriptions...). I hate not being able to place a quote... :)

I will go for my default reply.

Unseen Academicals

And The Art of Discworld it is.

Annie gets it again. (I don't think there's any danger of you not being able to place a quote). :)

That one was just luck and elimination though - I just thought it is not in the novels, it was obvious it was for the Assassins Guild so started from the most likely one to the least likely one from the non-fictions :)

Next:
"He decided to try the truth again. It was a novel approach and worth experimenting with."

The Truth, at the risk of being too obvious.

:) Would have been just a little too obvious. Nope. :)

Going Postal?

Is that a Rincewind situation? Interesting Times?

Making Money?

No. I am not saying. No. No.

Or is it Mightily Oats? Carpe Jugulum?

thud?

I am not saying. No. No :)

And here I was thinking that this one will be easy...

Night Watch?

And that is one more No.

Snuff?

My N and O keys are feeling unhappy from being pressed that much. :)

*sigh* Unseen Academicals

Nope...

Eric?

Definitely referring to Rincewind in Eric

Yep, Eric it is.

All yours MikSeab :)

Here goes! Probably far too easy...

"What a city. In the spring, the river caught fire. About once a month, the Alchemist's Guild exploded."

Moving Pictures?

Nope

Soul Music?

Thud?

Feet of Clay?

Well done, KayEluned! All yours...

Very easy one here;

'Och, ye wouldnae pick on us if we was big!'

The Wee Free Men? :)

I Shall Wear Midnight?

Edited to change my guess. I had a think while I was in the shower.

Since it is still up for grabs I will go outside the square and guess Carpe Jugulum

Nuts, I wanted to change it to Midnight because I seemed to remember that it was the Feegles in response to Granny but Annie got there before me!

>256 anatwork.k: BTW- I kept posting Eric above and you kept missing to guess it. No more Eric for you... for a while... or maybe not. :)

PS: I think it is the Feegles as well - thus my answer in 254 ;)

Yes Annie has it, bit obvious I know, it was I Shall Wear Midnight

>258 KayEluned: There were four or five books it could've been in (as we all demonstrated). :)

>257 AnnieMod: I know. There were so many and someone always seemed to have guessed it by the time I checked this thread.

I am on a business trip with limited internet time so can someone take over for me please? Thanks :)

I'll pick up the baton to get things moving

The real city had been burned down many times in its long history - out of revenge, or carelessness, or spite, or even just for the insurance.

So not TCOM. (No insurance at the time).

I think this is one of the guards books and not one of the earliest ones. I'm going to go for Feet of Clay.

Or Men at Arms?

Neither of those.

Night Watch?

No, sorry

Last guess, Jingo?

No - not Jingo

I think that the key word here is "real" and I can only remember one "false" city. Moving Pictures.

Yes - the quote is from Moving Pictures.

You are quite correct in your assumption; the previous paragraph is "And, towards the end of the afternoon they burned Ankh-Morpork."

(sound of forehead hitting desk)

Nice one, Minnie!

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted by an angry sheep. A sheep, moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

The Fifth Elephant?

>270 pinkozcat: OMG, Moving Pictures! Seriously, good one.

My guess for the new quote: Interesting Times?

The Last Continent?

No to all three.

Snuff?

Thud?

Still no I'm afraid

Men at Arms?

'Fraid not. If it helps, these thoughts were occasioned by meeting a representative of the Guild of Merchants and Traders.

The Colour of Magic???

Feet of Clay?

anatwork.k has it.

Sorry about the delay. Forgot to check this thread.

No one knows why it is, but in any group of employed individuals the only naturally early riser is always the office manager, who will always leave reproachful little notes (or, as it might be, engraved helium crystals) on the desks of their subordinates.

Note 1: Stars indicate italics (dunno how to do those on here).

Note 2: Edited to change the quote; I don't think anyone saw it though. :)

Note 3: Edited again to change to actual italics thanks to pinkozcat and jim.

Sounds a bit like Going Postal

Can anyone who knows html post an easy "how to"?

I've tried doing it here and also on anatwork.k's page but half of it drops out and reversing the pointy brackets doesn't work for me either.

Also, Going Postal is incorrect. :)

The is about the wizards, I know it! But which book? Moving Pictures?

No and no. :)

I think it's being said in response to Ridcully's habits ... Lords and Ladies?

And Lords and Ladies is it. Over to you joannasephine.

Hooray!
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