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Post #24,413
by Silverlock
1/15/02 8:45:46 AM
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New Good Omens
Co-written with Neil Gaiman and a furiously funny read. Take the movie "The Omen" and apply the dryest wit to it and you come somewhat near to describing the story. Except that description doesn't take into account the partnership of a demon and a devil, the appearance of Tibetan Lamas, spaceships, the Four Motorcyclists of the Apocalypse, the Other Four Motorcyclists of the Apocolypse or Sister Mary Loquacious (of the Order of Chattering Beryl).

There have been reports for a while now that Terry Gilliam will direct a movie version of this story. Those reports have subsided since that colossal ripoff "Dogma" hit the screens.
When I visit the aquarium, the same thought keeps running through my mind;
Leemmmooonnn, Buuttteerrr, MMMmmmmmm good!
Post #24,417
by tjsinclair
1/15/02 9:43:16 AM
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New Don't forget the Discworld series
It constitutes most of his output and the every one is a satiric social commentary which just happens to be set on a 10,000 mile wide disc-shaped planet supported by four enormous elephants which are in turn standing on an even bigger tortoise. Oh, and it has wizards, gnomes, trolls, dwarves, witches, fairies, dragons, golems, vampires, werewolves and even some humans.


And the Pratchett quotes have been coming from me.....


Tom Sinclair
Speaker-to-Suits

"I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's
never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!"
you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the one wearing the
only really arrow-proof helmet!"
-- Rincewind gives a speech on politics.
(Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times)
     World's stupidest math questions - (marlowe) - (23) - Jan. 13, 2002, 02:30:13 PM EST
         Did you catch Ben T's exc. link re math teaching - (Ashton) - (1) - Jan. 13, 2002, 03:48:36 PM EST
             Just recently had time to look at it - (marlowe) - Jan. 13, 2002, 07:36:31 PM EST
         With the great love of maths that I have... - (Meerkat) - (4) - Jan. 13, 2002, 05:26:18 PM EST
             Math is purely a means to an end for me. - (marlowe) - (3) - Jan. 13, 2002, 06:13:20 PM EST
                 Ah yes.. but, - (Ashton) - (2) - Jan. 13, 2002, 06:45:44 PM EST
                     Games and art forms - (Ric Locke) - (1) - Jan. 13, 2002, 11:13:59 PM EST
                         I can almost agree - (Ashton) - Jan. 14, 2002, 05:55:07 AM EST
         I've met math teachers who could make those hard - (mhuber) - (1) - Jan. 13, 2002, 07:23:09 PM EST
             I'd give him what for - (marlowe) - Jan. 13, 2002, 07:51:33 PM EST
         If math were a color... - (jb4) - Jan. 14, 2002, 01:47:51 PM EST
         A Feeling Of Power - (tuberculosis) - (12) - Jan. 14, 2002, 03:29:48 PM EST
             Slide rule.. - (Ashton) - (9) - Jan. 14, 2002, 05:14:20 PM EST
                 lack of cribbage can cause that - (boxley) - Jan. 14, 2002, 05:54:31 PM EST
                 BSJ - (Ric Locke) - (7) - Jan. 14, 2002, 11:26:54 PM EST
                     Keep seein wry quotes by Pratchett.. - (Ashton) - (6) - Jan. 15, 2002, 04:35:33 AM EST
                         Good Omens - (Silverlock) - (1) - Jan. 15, 2002, 08:45:46 AM EST
                             Don't forget the Discworld series - (tjsinclair) - Jan. 15, 2002, 09:43:16 AM EST
                         Reading Pratchett. - (static) - (2) - Jan. 15, 2002, 09:29:55 PM EST
                             Re: Reading Pratchett. - (Ric Locke) - (1) - Jan. 16, 2002, 12:08:25 AM EST
                                 Mmm. - (static) - Jan. 16, 2002, 05:50:37 AM EST
                         Thanks all, for the intro.. - (Ashton) - Jan. 16, 2002, 02:59:09 AM EST
             O'course t'was Isaac; but "book"? Short story, a few pages? -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Jan. 14, 2002, 05:51:21 PM EST
                 Meant "story". - (tuberculosis) - Jan. 14, 2002, 07:07:48 PM EST

Yeah, would be nice if "despair" wasn't such an appropriate word choice.
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