On “The Other Place” I remember seeing lots of threads about your favourite line, joke or quote in the series. And those threads were fun, but ultimately it’s always the heavy hitters being repeated over and over.
So my question to you, Lemmings and Kbinauts, is what is your favourite underrated line in the series? Something that makes you laugh, or makes you think, every time but you never see talked about?
Yes, this whole thread is just an excuse to post about how much I adore the following description from Moving Pictures:
It looked like a large, ornate pot, almost as high as a man of large pot height.
Honourable mention goes to my second fave, also in fact from Moving Pictures and the best side character in the series:
Sunnink dreadful in there, he thought. Prob’ly tentacled fings that rips your face off. I mean, when you finds mysterious doors in old hills, stands to reason wot comes out ain’t going to be pleased to see you. Evil creatures wot Man shouldn’t wot of, and here’s one dog wot don’t want to wot of them either.
I’ve read both of these gods know how many times, and still laugh out loud every single time.
Go on, share your favourites!
The one that made me burst out laughing even after decades of reading Pratchett was ‘Minge drinking’
But my fave was the repeated nesting footnotes on Fingers Mazda. You can hear Pterry’s cackling through the page.
The ones where you can just tell he’s having a great laugh at his own jokes are the absolute best!
There was a discussion on here recently about adaptations, and I said in that thread they all kind of feel a bit empty to me because they’re missing that added presence of someone nudging you in the ribs and winking.