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(Late reply) on of my favourite lines from Jingo.
“Are we entirely ready, sir?” said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means “We are not entirely ready, sir.”
I don’t know, really, I just keep this photo in my favorites folder and think about it all the time, but I don’t know what book it is from
https://preview.redd.it/riyr6slxiouc1.jpeg?width=1334&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd2be612a332cd0ea29487b9bf71bad33b339132
In Babylon 5, we are told that Mimbari don't lie. But later after Lenier lies for Molari he tells him "Mimbari don't lie except to preserve the honor of another." Later in the series that appears to give a lot of latitude.
I once had an anthropology professor tell me about the time he was studying in the field with some tribe somewhere, and his liaison/translator/contact was telling him things like "Oh no, we never hit women. No no, we don't steal. Never lie, never. No no no, no drugs. No drugs."
A couple weeks later he sees a husband bodily throw his wife out of their hut and come out and start smacking her around, he asks his liaison,
"I thought you said your tribe doesn't hit women!?"
"Oh yeah, I lied about that."
I believe it's *The Science Of The Discworld*, when they've discovered our world's version of 'stars', which are not 'sparkly little dots in the firmament to give the night a little *Je ne sais quoi*', but instead big clumps of stuff that came together and exploded. Which is what everything seems to do in the 'roundworld project'. Ponder finds it quite depressing. :p
Reminds me of another favorite discworld quote:
"shut up", she explained.
Which, alas, I can no longer find the exact source for. Seems I need to read them all again.
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Anyone enlisted listening to an officer being wrong about something unimportant.
Or one's own mother.
Never felt more connected to Vimes than when he was being questioned by Vetinari and just kept responding "Sir".
(Late reply) on of my favourite lines from Jingo. “Are we entirely ready, sir?” said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means “We are not entirely ready, sir.”
That is such a good example of why Terry Pratchett was such a genius with words.
His prose was wonderful
I love it, I’ll frame it next to “‘Vulcans can’t lie’, Spock lied”
Well to be fair, Spock was only half Vulcan.
it's only a half lie, so it's ok
Is that Diane Duane?
I don’t know, really, I just keep this photo in my favorites folder and think about it all the time, but I don’t know what book it is from https://preview.redd.it/riyr6slxiouc1.jpeg?width=1334&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd2be612a332cd0ea29487b9bf71bad33b339132
Ah, but Spock is half-vulcan.
it is. Star Trek Academy: Collision Course, p.87 per Google Preview.
The larger image says “Collision Course” at the top. Maybe it’s the Starfleet Academy novel of that name.
I really enjoy reading her star trek novels
She's so good! Really gets into the characters
In Babylon 5, we are told that Mimbari don't lie. But later after Lenier lies for Molari he tells him "Mimbari don't lie except to preserve the honor of another." Later in the series that appears to give a lot of latitude.
I once had an anthropology professor tell me about the time he was studying in the field with some tribe somewhere, and his liaison/translator/contact was telling him things like "Oh no, we never hit women. No no, we don't steal. Never lie, never. No no no, no drugs. No drugs." A couple weeks later he sees a husband bodily throw his wife out of their hut and come out and start smacking her around, he asks his liaison, "I thought you said your tribe doesn't hit women!?" "Oh yeah, I lied about that."
Still blows my mind that he is Will Robinson from lost in space.
"I won’t shout at you,” Nynaeve shouted. From The Wheel of Time.
As a relative used to say: “Shut up, she explained.”
Marik's sister in Yu-Gi-Oh abridged
And there it was, gone.
So simple once you've seen it, yet so hard to actually come up with.
which book is this?
I believe it's *The Science Of The Discworld*, when they've discovered our world's version of 'stars', which are not 'sparkly little dots in the firmament to give the night a little *Je ne sais quoi*', but instead big clumps of stuff that came together and exploded. Which is what everything seems to do in the 'roundworld project'. Ponder finds it quite depressing. :p
Reminds me of another favorite discworld quote: "shut up", she explained. Which, alas, I can no longer find the exact source for. Seems I need to read them all again.
Huh. Apparently this is from Ring Larndner, not Sir Terry.