A Quote Game: thread #14
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1justjim
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...
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...
3justjim
Well that's a quick start to the first game of the new thread. Thud! it is!
Take it away, Annie
Take it away, Annie
4pinkozcat
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.
Jim, I left a message for you in thread 13.
5AnnieMod
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."
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."
10pinkozcat
One last try ...Wintersmith?
11AnnieMod
Nope again...
Not sure how often you are giving clues here so if someone wants a clue, let me know.
Not sure how often you are giving clues here so if someone wants a clue, let me know.
18edrandrew
Granny had nothing against fortune telling provided it was done badly by people with no talent for it.
19pinkozcat
That sounds like Equal Rites
20edrandrew
D#%n and b@#Â¥t, I thought it would last a bit longer than 8 minutes! Your go.
PS Happy New Years all round.
PS Happy New Years all round.
22pinkozcat
An easy one; perhaps you can take the baton back again.
Females are absolutely forbidden. Their brains overheat.
Females are absolutely forbidden. Their brains overheat.
23edrandrew
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.
24eclecticdodo
pyramids?
26eclecticdodo
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."
"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."
28eclecticdodo
nope
30eclecticdodo
no, not moving pictures
33eclecticdodo
yes, it's Leonard of Quirm, but still not there
36eclecticdodo
ArmyAngel has it! it was men at arms
37AngelaB86
Woooooo!
"Theft was the only crime, whether the loot was gold, innocence, land or life."
"Theft was the only crime, whether the loot was gold, innocence, land or life."
57AnnieMod
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.
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.
58pinkozcat
That is from Equal Rites
59AnnieMod
And it took less than hour to guess it...
Note to self: Find something harder next time.
All yours, pinkozcat :)
Note to self: Find something harder next time.
All yours, pinkozcat :)
60pinkozcat
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.
None of you ever bother with details, you see. Technically, I have to report to other people, but usually the other people are me.
61joannasephine
Hmm, I'm pretty sure it's Ponder Stibbons talking. Unseen Academicals?
63joannasephine
Pinkozcat, I feel quite bad about guessing your default! Someone else have a go. First in, first served.
64AnnieMod
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. "
"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. "
68pinkozcat
Thief of Time? I'm guessing, of course ...
78AnnieMod
>76 joannasephine: Witches Abroad it is. All yours.
79joannasephine
Ok:
"No it's not, not officially, not unless you eat a whole person."
"No it's not, not officially, not unless you eat a whole person."
84joannasephine
AnnieMod has it -- it was indeed Monstrous Regiment.
85AnnieMod
:)
"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. "
"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. "
89joannasephine
Rincewind, but from which book? Sounds quite lucid by his standards, so maybe a recent one? The Last Hero?
90pinkozcat
I'll go for The Last Continent
92edrandrew
Nay, nay and thrice nay. The unmistakeable philosophy of Rincewind shines through, but this precept came from elsewhere.
93pinkozcat
A wild guess - Small Gods?
94AnnieMod
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).
95edrandrew
AnnieMod has it. He could shout 'help!' in fourteen languages and scream for mercy in a further twelve. Which is pretty impressive really.
96AnnieMod
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."
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."
99pinkozcat
I realise that it could be one of about 34 books. Night Watch?
100AnnieMod
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.
Nope. Not the Night Watch either.
101justjim
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.
103justjim
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. ...
'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. ...
107joannasephine
Ah, the Librarian performing an appendectomy. I know it's from an early Rincewind book, but which one? The Light Fantastic?
110AnnieMod
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."
"Certainly no-one ever got anywhere by worshiping her, and she tended to turn up only where she was least expected, such as now."
115AnnieMod
And joannasephine got it - Interesting Times it is.
116joannasephine
Hooray!
"In that case," said ---, "I commend my soul to any god that can find it."
"In that case," said ---, "I commend my soul to any god that can find it."
117justjim
Moist being hanged to within half an inch of his life in Going Postal?
118joannasephine
Welcome back, Jim! And yes, you are correct. Your turn sir!
120AnnieMod
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?
Soul Music?
122AnnieMod
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.
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.
123Ardagor
The Colour of Magic, at the very beginning.
125Ardagor
"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."
126MrsLee
Moving Pictures? I'm thinking of the tower. Of course, I might have the wrong book for the tower.
127Ardagor
No, not Moving Pictures.
128AnnieMod
That is Vimes falling down some stairs where dwarfs were involved. Or something like that keeps nagging at me.
So Fifth Elephant?
So Fifth Elephant?
129joannasephine
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?
130Ardagor
Fifth Elephant it is, back to AnnieMod.
131AnnieMod
>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.
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.
132pwaites
Oh, this is certainly Rincewind. But which book? Interesting Times?
136pinkozcat
An easy one:
I don't want to, you know, spoil the spirit of the moment, but that is a really awful idea.
I don't want to, you know, spoil the spirit of the moment, but that is a really awful idea.
139AnnieMod
I'm afraid that having a sword and a birthmark are not much in the way of qualifications.
146joannasephine
Someone else take my turn.
147pinkozcat
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.
He leaned forward and took her hand. 'This must be wretched for you,' he said.
148AnnieMod
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..)
So... Carpe Jugulum? (just a wild guess - I know it is the Witches. I am not sure which one..)
149pinkozcat
No - not Carpe Jugulum
150AnnieMod
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 :)
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 :)
152AnnieMod
A favorite sentence:
"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way"
"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way"
156edrandrew
Sounds like Vetinari, but I too haven't a clue where. I'll try Making Money as a random guess.
157justjim
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.
159pwaites
Is this a reference to the city being like a clock? Or is Making Money correct?
160AnnieMod
>157 justjim:
Sorry for the delay - had been offline.
Yep but edrandrew guessed the title before you. It is Making Money
Sorry for the delay - had been offline.
Yep but edrandrew guessed the title before you. It is Making Money
161edrandrew
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.
If you felt like a smoke and couldn't find a pipe, a book was your man every time.
163anatwork.k
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.
164AnnieMod
The Light Fantastic? Sounds like Cohen's thoughts about bonfires of books and people writing on books? :)
165edrandrew
AnnieMod has it Incidentally, you will find a quote from Eric as recently as post 88 in this thread.
171pinkozcat
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.
I changed The Last Continent to Wintersmith .
Are they both wrong? Or is it Wintersmith?
Shall I try again.
176anatwork.k
The Fifth Elephant perhaps?
165. I *would* miss the one Eric quote. I've been on vacation for the last couple of weeks.
165. I *would* miss the one Eric quote. I've been on vacation for the last couple of weeks.
178MrsLee
It sounds like a witches book, but I'm going for a different take with Cohen the Barbarian. The Last Hero?
180pwaites
The Wee Free Men? This really sounds like a witch book.
186pinkozcat
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 ...
Things tend to look better when the world has stopped spinning and you have a warm drink in front of you ...
187AnnieMod
>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 ?
This sounds awfully familiar... one of Tiffany's maybe
A Hat Full of Sky ?
189joannasephine
Early Vimes? Men at Arms?
191AnnieMod
I Shall Wear Midnight?
I think it is Tiffany. So I am going to push in this direction.
I think it is Tiffany. So I am going to push in this direction.
192pinkozcat
Yes, you are quite right, Annie, the book is I shall Wear Midnight.
193AnnieMod
:) 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."
"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."
194joannasephine
Eric? The siege of Tsort?
196anatwork.k
Hahaha, and I was just about to go for Eric too!
198joannasephine
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.
"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.
200AnnieMod
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?
201anatwork.k
Jingo? With Vimes as the subject?
202joannasephine
AnnieMod has it, on both counts. They're discussing how AE Pessimal came by his injuries.
Back to you!
Back to you!
203AnnieMod
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..."
"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..."
204pwaites
Gaspode insisting he had never been a bad dog - The Fifth Elephant.
206pwaites
"*** 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!
Bonus if you can name the character this is about!
207anatwork.k
The preacher guy in Lords and Ladies?
208pinkozcat
Constable Visit in Feet of Clay?
212AnnieMod
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."
"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."
213anatwork.k
That's got to be Jingo, right?
215anatwork.k
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."
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."
216pinkozcat
I'll kick off with Night Watch.
218anatwork.k
No and no. Continue... :)
219AnnieMod
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
Edit: Just fixing the touchstone
220anatwork.k
No!
Mwahahaha
Mwahahaha
221AnnieMod
The New Discworld Companion? It might be a novel but something is nagging me so...
222anatwork.k
No again!
223AnnieMod
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... :)
225anatwork.k
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). :)
Annie gets it again. (I don't think there's any danger of you not being able to place a quote). :)
226AnnieMod
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."
Next:
"He decided to try the truth again. It was a novel approach and worth experimenting with."
227anatwork.k
The Truth, at the risk of being too obvious.
230ronincats
Is that a Rincewind situation? Interesting Times?
233joannasephine
Or is it Mightily Oats? Carpe Jugulum?
240pinkozcat
*sigh* Unseen Academicals
245MikSeab
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."
"What a city. In the spring, the river caught fire. About once a month, the Alchemist's Guild exploded."
255pinkozcat
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
Since it is still up for grabs I will go outside the square and guess Carpe Jugulum
256anatwork.k
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!
257AnnieMod
>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 ;)
PS: I think it is the Feegles as well - thus my answer in 254 ;)
258KayEluned
Yes Annie has it, bit obvious I know, it was I Shall Wear Midnight
259anatwork.k
>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.
>257 AnnieMod: I know. There were so many and someone always seemed to have guessed it by the time I checked this thread.
260AnnieMod
I am on a business trip with limited internet time so can someone take over for me please? Thanks :)
261pinkozcat
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.
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.
262anatwork.k
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.
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.
267anatwork.k
Last guess, Jingo?
269edrandrew
I think that the key word here is "real" and I can only remember one "false" city. Moving Pictures.
270pinkozcat
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."
You are quite correct in your assumption; the previous paragraph is "And, towards the end of the afternoon they burned Ankh-Morpork."
271joannasephine
(sound of forehead hitting desk)
273edrandrew
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.
275anatwork.k
>270 pinkozcat: OMG, Moving Pictures! Seriously, good one.
My guess for the new quote: Interesting Times?
My guess for the new quote: Interesting Times?
282edrandrew
'Fraid not. If it helps, these thoughts were occasioned by meeting a representative of the Guild of Merchants and Traders.
286anatwork.k
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.
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.
289pinkozcat
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.
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.
291anatwork.k
Also, Going Postal is incorrect. :)
293pwaites
The is about the wizards, I know it! But which book? Moving Pictures?
294anatwork.k
No and no. :)
295joannasephine
I think it's being said in response to Ridcully's habits ... Lords and Ladies?
296anatwork.k
And Lords and Ladies is it. Over to you joannasephine.
297joannasephine
Hooray!
New thread time, folks, this one is getting slow to load. See you over on Thread 15.
New thread time, folks, this one is getting slow to load. See you over on Thread 15.
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