this man found a gemstone the size of a new york apartment on the side of the road and said "sorry im excited about rocks" about it
“This is the most honkin’ skookum rock” bro.
i know a lot of people won’t know who this guy is but he’s running a company that’s building electric semi trucks because tesla sucks so bad and they named it Edison Motors because they’re stealing Tesla’s idea.
This explanation of who he is makes this 400 times more enjoyable, and I liked it ALREADY.
Me
Aah, thank you for the tag, @luck-and-larceny! It's fun to get to talk about the OOC stuff a bit!
1. Are you named after anyone?
My original name is the same as my great grandmother, but I'm not exactly named after her, it was more like "That works out."
I changed my name a few years ago, and the named was partly inspired by the book Ella Enchanted. The book, not the movie.
2. When was the last time you cried?
It doesn't really take a lot to make me cry. I read a post about a grizzly bear raising her cubs earlier today.
3. Do you have kids?
Nope, and no intentions of having any. I do have 2 cats though!
4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
Sarcasm is practically the national language of Denmark. That being said, I use it a lot less than I used to.
5. What sports do you play/have you played?
My family in general were never huge on playing sports. I did play handball for a short while when I was 6 or 7, but my extracurricular were usually more on the creative side. I played the cello throughout my childhood and teenage years.
6. What is the first thing you notice about other people?
I've never really thought about it! Like @luck-and-larceny I think it's just like a general vibe thing?
7. Scary movies or happy endings?
I really enjoy both, depending on my mood! If it's one of those "you can only ever have one," I'd probably go with Happy Endings cause I feel like a world without those seems harder to go through than a world without fear, but I do really like watching scary movies as well, so... Both!
8. Any special talents?
I like to think I'm fairly creative and good at thinking on my feet. I'm a terrible planner, but very good at just winging it.
9. Where were you born?
In Denmark, in the outskirts of Copenhagen. Fun fact, I was almost stolen from the hospital as a baby.
10. Do you have any hobbies?
I play video games and RPGs. I enjoy storytelling in general, so watch a decent amount of movies and TV. I don't get as much reading done as I used to, sadly. Sometimes I draw or write. Is daydreaming a hobby?
11. Do you have any pets?
Two cats! Palida is a fluffy white Norwegian Forest Cat we brought with us from Denmark. She's deaf and a total diva. Monroe is a scrappy ginger kitty who we adopted from a shelter after he was picked up on some street in New York. When is their Disney movie coming out?
12. How tall are you?
Just under 5'8. Pretty average in Denmark, though I've been told I'm fairly tall in the US. I have no idea.
13. Favorite Subject in School:
Danish (similar to what would be considered English in the US), History, Art. In high school, we also had a class on Ancient Greece that I was very into.
14. Dream job?
I'd still really love to work on storytelling in games, but I have accepted that it's probably a pipe dream at this point. I don't know, something that lets me have a flexible schedule, be creative, and not having to deal with too many people, and *especially* not having to deal with bad management.
15. Eye Color?
Blue-greyish? They pick up a ton of color from the surrounding lights, so it kind of depends. My passport says blue.
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
I recently saw on reddit someone remind me of when Angua and Cheery visit Dorfl in the slaughterhouse during Feet of Clay, and Dorfl explains how he makes the sausages at night, and Cheery replies ‘That’s *awful*’, to whit Dorfl corrects with 'CLOSE’.
They said “Took me a while to work out why…”
And I still needed to scroll down to see someone reply “sausages are made from *offal*”
I died, not just at his humor, but how I pride myself on noticing these kinds of jokes and *could not remember that one!*
However, one of my favorites which I did notice was Pyramids, and I remember this one because I ran down the stairs to tell my mother, excited and exuberant to share the amazing joke with her. She didn’t really get it, and honestly that speaks volumes to this entire premise and his subtle genius, but I was astounded at how clever and magical the joke was at the time.
It was the passage where it described in literary masterpiece the three assassin classmates who had gotten pissed drunk and then stalked by robbers in the Shades, I think… And the quote was something like:
“Broadly, therefore, the three even now lurching across the deserted planks of the Brass Bridge were dead drunk assassins and the men behind them were bent on inserting the significant comma.”
It’s langague like that, humor like that, that also paints the perfect picture (I believe Paul Kidby even illustrated that exact moment, I hope because he was hit by that sentence and the others nestled around it as much as I) that get me up in the morning and keep me going every day.
It’s language like that which makes me wish I could afford to quit my horrible soul-crushing, stress-filled and time-consuming job and work to become a writer.
Maybe one day I’ll win the lottery and write at least “one molocule of narativium” as wonderful as the beautiful, compassionate, hilarious and righteous anger that Sir Terry was able to capture in prose. Maybe then I’ll finally be able to live how I deeply desire to live… in a small cottage in the country or woods with my two cats and the most important person I’ve ever met in my life, my wife.
… I guess in order for that to come true, I shall have to begin playing the lottery. Terry would probably point that out in an asterisk with a clever quip such as…
Me Using Terry’s Humor: “The American lottery is built on the tantilizing lie that every man can be destined for comfort and greatness. It however failed to mention that Jeffrry Bezos was the man, he had already purchased all the greatness, and he was selling it in small 'affordable’ quantities for only overnight shipping delivery, discounted if you subscribed to greatness, and half-off once a year from midnight to one minute past.“
