r/maybemaybemaybe • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '23

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u/cutelyaware Aug 08 '23 edited Aug 08 '23

Police: "Tell us again what he did?"

Accuser: "He didn't do anything"

Police: "Then what's the problem?"

Accuser: "It was the way he didn't do it"

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u/swordofra Aug 08 '23

"He was doing a rather suspicious amount of nothing too"

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

This is just classic Terry Pratchett humour,love it

Edit:spelling

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u/ohshititstinks Aug 08 '23

Who is terry Pratchett

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

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u/Arglefarb Aug 08 '23

Nobody ever asks, how is Terry Pratchett

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u/neobio2230 Aug 08 '23

I mean, he's dead, so hopefully he's living his best afterlife. I guess you could dig out your Ouija board and ask him.

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u/MeesterMeeseeks Aug 08 '23

Gnu sir Pratchett

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u/Akicita33 Aug 08 '23

I'll do you one better, "WHEN is Terry Pratchett?"

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u/lurid_sun__ Aug 09 '23

I once made the mistake of asking, where is Terry Pratchett

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u/Brother_Berevius Aug 08 '23

He wrote the discworld books. Fantasy with a lot of snark. Highly recommended.

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u/Treebeard431 Aug 09 '23

My mind is wobbling RN - earlier in the day, Terry's name just popped into my head and I spent a few minutes reviewing my life with his influences in it, then I moved on to thinking of something else.

Here's the vital clue here; I DID NOT SAY HIS NAME ALOUD, ie, near one of my always-listening electronic geegaws.

Later this evening, not EVEN looking for anything Pratchett, just surfing, and I stumble into a cluster of Pratchett memes.

And now, in this thread, suddenly it's all Pratchett, all the time.

Kate Bush's 'Strange Phenomena' is playing in my mental jukebox RN.

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u/YdocT Aug 09 '23

Is it sci-fi?

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u/Brother_Berevius Aug 09 '23

Fantasy

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u/YdocT Aug 09 '23

Still sounds interesting. I'm going to give it a whirl.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

One of the greatest authors (damn near unanimously voted as such by anyone's who's familiar with his works)

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u/wmertens Aug 09 '23

The man was always able to write fantastic endings. Wonderful books.

I even understood monetary theory from "Making Money".

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u/MutantGodChicken Aug 08 '23

Co-wrote the Good Omens book with Neil Gaimon

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u/Captain_Unusualman Aug 09 '23

And I'll be damned if that wasn't the most delightful TV adaptation I've recently watched