The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[prabe]

Granny Weatherwax is best Granny.

Or worst. I remember thinking she was a bit of a bully.

 

[CleverNickName]

Or worst. I remember thinking she was a bit of a bully.

Yeah, I can see that. She definitely has that "take no B.S." attitude, and she's certainly not grandmotherly in that bake-you-some-cookies kind of way. She doesn't suffer fools, though, and that's what I like best about her.

 

[Parmandur]

Granny Weatherwax is best Granny.

Yes, Nanny Ogg frequently made such single-intenders. And famously would get drink and sing a song about a hedgehog...

Her coven-mate Granny Weatherwax is one of my favorite witches ever.

As someone with theological training and strong religous commitments, Carpe Jugulum is one of my favorite literary treatments of religous belief and doubt.

 

[Mannahnin]

As someone with theological training and strong religous commitments, Carpe Jugulum is one of my favorite literary treatments of religous belief and doubt.

As someone with clerical training and strong religious commitments, this is encouraging me to dive back into Pratchett, as I never got around to that one back in the day.

 

[Umbran]

Sometimes, you need to bury the dead horse. It's been beaten enough.

Or at least walk away from it.

Did you know it is quite possible for a dead horse to explode?

 

[CleverNickName]

Or at least walk away from it.

Did you know it is quite possible for a dead horse to explode?

A dead whale famously exploded not too far from here, back in the day.

(It had help. Like, multiple sticks of dynamite.)

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Did you know it is quite possible for a dead horse to explode?

Sometimes the live horses do, too.

 

[Parmandur]

As someone with clerical training and strong religious commitments, this is encouraging me to dive back into Pratchett, as I never got around to that one back in the day.

It's so good, so deeply serious and important yet so goofy.

 

[prabe]

She doesn't suffer fools, though, and that's what I like best about her.

I'm not arguing much or hard here, but a failure mode of "doesn't suffer fools" is naughty word. To paraphrase one SF writer while thinking of another. (Paraphrasing Scalzi, thinking about H. Ellison--whom I've seen described as "an naughty word who wrote like a dream.") It has been a while, and my wife adores Pratchett's witches, so it's possible I was or am wrong.

 

[prabe]

It's so good, so deeply serious and important yet so goofy.

I remember Small Gods and Jingo playing in similar fields, though they might not appeal as much to readers with strong commitments (which I don't have).