I've never watched a single episode of spn but I've been thinking about the implications of being stuck inside a meme
Description: An illustration of a Black Knight and a Jester in white. The jester is secured by the knight on their shoulder, while the jester embraces their helmet. The white of the jester’s outfit is slightly marred by splatters of blood. Behind them is an ongoing battle.
This is so gay and I am rabid about it!
*sidles up to you at the bar* would you like to hear my wise aphorism
only if it's actually wise. the last guy who asked me this had a pretty foolish aphorism tbh
oh… uhuh… *really should have prepared this ahead of time* never ignore… the melody of time… when your shoe’s untied?
*considers this aphorism sagely, sipping my horrible and bitter potion*
yes. there is wisdom in this. he whose shoes are untied must carefully mind the rhythm of his steps. bartender, another Wretched Potion, for my comrade here
*to self* holy shit… my aphorism… it’s wise!
It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.
#i don’t think this is what pterry meant by ‘a man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’
I absolutely think it is
I read Jingo for the first time when I was 13.
I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.
Terry was a comedic genius
When I was informed that “Vetinari” is a pun on “Medici”. That pun was so painful I couldn’t even see it.
...are you FUCKING KIDDING ME.
*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*
get out here Terry I just wanna talk
Twurp’s Peerage made me throw a book (gently) at a wall.
In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u.
The Book of Silly and Annoying People, based on the real thing with a pun on the name thrown in for good measure.
OMG I FUCKING *KNEW* VETINARI WAS A JOKE ON FUCKONG SOMETHING I JUST COULDNT GRASP IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REFERENCE TO WIND SOMEHOW
I am not a talented punster so I was today old when I realised about Vetinari.
...And you could be sitting talking to him and something like the above would come out of his mouth, absolutely deadpan—and the conversation would continue just as it'd been going until suddenly the joke would land on/in your previously unsuspecting head. And you'd look at him and go "...?!!" —and his eyes (which you then realized had been glinting a little as he waited for you to get it) would crinkle and he'd just keep going.
The king of comic timing. Absolutely without peer. And to do it on the page as well? Genius.
These are my people.
Probably in the original twitter thread, but here’s another: “Minding your Ps and Qs” as a phrase comes from the fact that originally when setting type you were looking at all of your type face mirrored (so that when the page was pressed to the inked type, it would read the right way), and if you were working with a typeface like our modern one where the lowercase p and q look like that, well… you can see how it would be easy to mix them up if you’re working fast and in mirror image
Dear tumblr newbies of #196:
speedycake forgive me
Caramella Girls
“Caramelldansen” with every second beat removed
imagine if this post was the only thing left to signify humanity was ever here