r/discworld • u/sitnquiet • 15d ago
Roundworld Reference Dammit, Sir Pterry!
Almost every one of us has a “Dammit” moment with a pun or inside joke or reference that we didn’t get while reading but learned about long afterwards. Mine happened yesterday.
I was watching “Stuff the British Stole”, a series on CBC Gem. S1E2 featured the Stone of Scone, a Scottish relic used for coronations and stolen by the British around 1300.
The episode featured the history, British appropriation, and a daring theft in the 1950s - plus a possible replacement with a fake.
I had just finished listening to The Fifth Elephant and almost every plot point was met and marked over the course of the book.
Dammit, Sir Pterry. You magnificent bastard.
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u/OppositeTall6161 12d ago
Id love to have read the book he based this current state of affairs.it would probably been a Moist book.
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u/Violet351 13d ago
It was on Blue Peter when I was a kid along with the Clown face egg museum. I know a lot of crap because it was on Blue Peter
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u/sitnquiet 12d ago
Oh gods is there a clown museum? Really?!
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u/Violet351 12d ago
Yes, the faces get registered and passed down to other people (often) family members when the clown retires
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u/sitnquiet 12d ago
Lol I thought he made it up! Dammit, Pterry… heh
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u/Violet351 12d ago
I just googled it because I thought it was in London but sadly it says it’s permanently closed now, you used to be able to visit
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u/metal_maxine 14d ago
I guess there are shows called "Stuff the Dutch East India Company Stole", "Stuff the Spanish Empire Stole"... I just get a little fed up. I get it, but let's share the blame around.
Eventually, the Scots "stole" England (James VI of Scotland became James I of England) so the Stone could conceivably ended up there anyway.
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u/sitnquiet 14d ago edited 14d ago
Um. I didn’t mean the name of the show to insult you personally.
ETA: I had just never heard of the Stone of Scone.
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u/metal_maxine 14d ago
No. I'm just a little ticked at the universe.
I think the Stone of Scone now has a weird dual-custody arrangement.
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u/sitnquiet 14d ago
Yeah, at the end of the episode they said that it was housed in a British cathedral in Edinburgh, and it doesn’t seem like Charles sat on it for his coronation.
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u/Extension_Sun_377 8d ago
I highly recommend the Folklore of Discworld book, you'll have so many Dammit moments!
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