Post #399,946
3/12/15 11:55:06 AM
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RIP Terry Pratchett
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #399,952
3/12/15 2:36:03 PM
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Amen!
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #399,955
3/12/15 3:39:20 PM
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awww
I thank those on board for recommending him.
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Post #399,971
3/13/15 3:30:53 AM
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{sigh} Irreplaceable
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Post #399,973
3/13/15 8:08:17 AM
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XKCD #1498
 His writing didn't "click" with me (or at least, it hasn't yet), but he was creative and thoughtful and will be missed. RIP. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #399,979
3/13/15 9:33:00 AM
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Was just coming to post that
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Post #399,985
3/13/15 2:50:13 PM
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clickety-click
Sorry that, apparently you missed catching his long-running academia vignettes, as seems to moi one of the best Send-ups of well, very much which merited Sending-^Up^
;^>
Ankh Morpork! (what can one Say?)
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Post #399,990
3/13/15 4:25:31 PM
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Couple of them got made into movies
His wit and wordplay can be so dense though that keeping up with it in a movie can be a bit too much work to really enjoy the first time through.
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Post #399,991
3/13/15 6:14:31 PM
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Concur.. I have to read them, ever to grok to Fullness..
Hadn't heard about the movies, time to search.
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Post #399,997
3/13/15 9:59:04 PM
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I read that book while in jail.
Got it from the prison library. It pretends to be a children's book while introducing some very sophisticated concepts
It is wonderful and very appropriate for the situation.
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Post #399,977
3/13/15 8:28:42 AM
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>Sadness<
I think the single most compelling piece of evidence for global warming is that Fox News viewers think it's a hoax.
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