A Quote Game: thread #15

And here we are, a brand new thread and a brand new quote.

“Aye myself started as a maid, you know.”

Bonus anorankh points for providing the next line of the quote too.

Unseen Academicals?

Ah, Mrs Whitlow putting on her airs and graces. This is as Granny 'foresees' the arrival of Esk at UU in Equal Rites, I think.

Granny's response is on the lines of "We all do.", which is telling, since Granny was able to capture the unicorn in Lords and Ladies.

Monstrous Regiment

Blouse explaining that he can pass as a woman

Jim has it. And the smugness points too, so well done sir! Over to you.

Smugness? Smugness! Yeah, probably*. Anyhoo...

AFTER ALL, he thought, HE MUST KNOW, MUSTN'T HE? IT'S NOT LIKE LINT ON YOUR JACKET OR SOMETHING...

*I'd give my leftie for an Anorankh. You just can't get them any more. Apparently you can't get the wood. (Goon show reference - not a hundred miles from Pterry's humour!)

Soul Music?

#6 I'm one of the lucky ones who do actually have an anorankh ...

As to the quote, Mort?

Reaper Man?

Hogfather?

Morning all! Annie got it in one. It's Death wondering about Duck Man's duck in soul Music.

Next:

"It was hard to tell his expression under the permanently downcast mouth, but as far as she could tell she might as well have suggested that he performed a specific sex act with a small chicken."

Sourcery?

Nope.

This is Angua, failing to quite grasp the subtleties of Dwarf/tool relations, isn’t it? So … Men at Arms?

It's Angua talking with Boffo about putting a different makeup and being a different clown :) But you got the book right. So all yours.

I'm out of here; it is getting too detailed and no longer fun. No more guesses when one has to produce the book, the speaker, the circumstances and the person being spoken to then you have to know the exact answer.

I need to read all my Pratchetts again before I rejoin this thread.

>17 pinkozcat:

:( Noone need to produce anything...

Sorry PinkOzCat, it was never intended to be taken that way. I'm just always curious to see if other people remember the things I do. And at iteration 15 of this game, it takes something a bit tricksy to get a challenge to go more than one or two answers.

Not sure that my offering will help or hinder, but for what it's worth:

And what did he mean about fish not having a word for water?

Aaarghhhh! This sound so familiar but can I place it? No I can't! If only to restore pinkozcat's faith in this thread I'm going to MAKE A WILD GUESS and go for (eeney meeny miney mo) Interesting Times.

No, not Interesting Times.

I will admit that I too have found that the quotes are astonishingly obscure and it sometimes astonishes me that anyone is able to guess them. And some of you have an amazing recall of all the books! But yeah, after so many of them I can see how a more obvious quote is too easily guessed.

My wild guess for this quote is Small Gods although I don't think that is correct and the line sounds very familiar.

No, you are absolutely correct -- it is indeed Small Gods.

Does it help if I confess that I read each new Pratchett at least twice through when I first get it, and that I must have read every one up to and including Going Postal at least half a dozen times? And I really love the fact that there are people on LibraryThing who are even more anorankhish than I am, and I have a burning desire to best them at every possible opportunity? (she says, narrowing her eyes and looking menacingly in the direction of ...)

But that is all beside the point. I'm sorry if the game hits levels so rarified that it makes some of you uncomfortable. I will sit out the next dozen or so rounds, so that there's plenty of chances for others. (Not meant to sound arrogant -- just the only thing I can think of that I can do to try and help?)

Take it away, anatwork.k!

Hmm, not sure what the fuss is. I'm still enjoying the game and I like to see people showing their knowledge, and hence love, of the series. I don't guess when I have no clue, or I take a wild guess if I feel like it. It's all good.

Oh my god, a hole in one! (Pardon the metaphor)

Joannasephine, you absolutely don't have to sit out any of the rounds at all. I'm still enjoying the game too. The only complaint I have is that sometimes there isn't as much activity on this thread so we definitely don't need to lose anyone... :)

Okay here is the quote for this round:

There were three loud knocks from below. They were repeated. And then they were repeated again.

*smirk* Thud. Get it? 3 loud knocks? I gotta go to bed, my funny bone is way out of alignment. :)

Hahaha...I do get it. But sadly, no. :)

Men at Arms?

From below? This makes me thing dwarfs and tunnels. Maybe The Truth?

Non and nein.

I was thinking of sitting out for a while as well (I was actually sitting out). But then - oh well...

I do not think it is one of the regular books - for some reasons it sounds like one of the YA ones (had been leafing through a few of them a few days ago looking for something which means that I had been reading random passages... and this one does sound familiar) - so let's try with The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Yes, it is The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. It is the scene where the value of a secret knock is discussed with trademark Pratchett hilarity. Take it away, Annie.

OK - let's go for a personal favorite of mine (the passage, not the book - I am not saying anything about the book)

No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well, technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders always found, after a few days, that they didn't own their own horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.

The Colour of Magic, isn't it?

It is one of those quotes that pops up in a generalized form in a bunch of books I think. I also associate it strongly with the Watch books. Well, this is the guess for now.

It is not :) At least I did not take it from there - and if it is in the Colour, it is in a slightly different form... I hope.

As someone involved in the teaching of English as an additional/second language, as well as acceptance of cultural differences, I love the final part of this phrase; "…just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops."

It is in Eric, I think.

Hahaha, I just looked it up -- it is Eric. :)

Oh, I will never get it...

>36 justjim:

Of course :) All yours

>37 anatwork.k:

And here I was throwing an easy one so you can get it ;)

Woohoo!

A large hairy hand grabbed Angua's wrist. She looked up into a terrifying face, all eyes and mouth and hair.

Feet of Clay, isn't it?

Yes, of course it is. Sgt Angua deals with Schlitzen quite calmly, deploying her anti-bogeyman blanket.

Well done.

Ooo, yay. :)

Let us try this one:

Meat pies! Hot sausages! Inna bun! So fresh the pig hasn't noticed they're gone!

Let me know if this is too generic; I will come up with something else. Although I do think the last line adds specificity. :)

Moving pictures?

Aaand it's not generic... :)

Over to you AnnieMod.

I think even hasn't was not spelled exactly like that ;) Although it was almost a wild guess - I know that it happens in a few books so I picked the one where I can remember it happening exactly.

Next - should be easy.

"And then there was the young male walk to master. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You have to try to occupy a lot of space, she thought. It makes you look bigger, like a tomcat fluffing his tail."

Monstrous Regiment! I've always loved this line. :)

Of course. All yours, pwaites :)

Yeah - I like it also - I kinda decided to post favorite passages for a while.

"WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE"

Sounds awfully familiar as in I've re-read it recently. The Truth! (I think)

Its one of my favourite passages. :)

Yes! That went much quicker than I expected.

It was the potato -- it was the only book I could think of that had Death of Rats eating a potato. :)

Making Money?

Nope.

Soul Music?

Yep. Over to you Annie.

"It was a dark night, the kind of darkness which is not simply explainable by absence of moon or stars, but the darkness that appears to flow in from somewhere else-so thick and tangible that maybe you could snatch a handful of air and squeeze the night out of it."

Witches Abroad?

Lords and Ladies?

KayEluned got it :)

:D

'Despite rumour, Death isn't cruel, merely terribly, terribly good at his job'

Hmmm, Mort?

Welcome back, Minnie. :)

Temporarily only. I was imagining my favourite Pratchett scene in which
Greebo eats the vampire.

Nope not Mort.

Equal Rites?

Not Equal Rites but you're in the right area :)

Sourcery? I was going between the 2 before posting and decided to just post one of them and hope for the best.

>64 pinkozcat: Hahaha I love that scene. It is so hilarious. By the time Magrat finished thunking the vampire with her window for the third time I felt quite sorry for the poor guy.

The Light Fantastic?

Thud?

Annie got it, it was Sourcery :) Over to you....

Now they were arriving, each family branch and often each individual with their own lawyer and bodyguards, being careful about whom they deigned to notice, just in case they inadvertently smiled at someone they were currently suing.

For once I feel really sure I know which one this is, but I just had a go so I can't say it! : (

Why not? :)

Making Money I think.

>76 edrandrew:

Good thinking :) All yours.

The landlord of The Fiddler's Riddle considered himself to be a man of the world, and this was right,because he was too stupid to be really cruel, and too lazy to be really mean and although his body had been around quite a lot his mind had never gone further than the inside of his own head.

EDIT: To correct a typo.

** ear, maybe?

EDIT: Changing my guess (I hope no one saw it)

The Wee Free Men?

Or head?
(But no title guess.)

Runner's up prize to joannasephine for correctly correcting the quote. It wasn't from Wee Free Men so first prize is still up for grabs.

Ok, going for A Hat Full of Sky. :)

I think that this is the wrong direction for this quote. I am almost sure it is one of the Witches books.
Equal Rites by any chance?

Right you are AnnieMod.

Ugh - and it was a wild guess on which Witches... :) ok. Next

"As he sat down at his desk there was another gust of wind, which rattled the hour-glasses on the shelves and made the big pendulum clock in the hall pause briefly in its interminable task of slicing time into manageable bits."

Reaper Man?

Nope.

Hogfather?

Nope. :)

Mort?

Nope....

Thief of Time?

Not this one either.

Soul Music? It is the only Death book that hasn't yet been guessed.

And it is not correct either. :) Wrong direction with the Death books -- there is another book that has a very prominent Death episode :)

The book which is mostly about death (note lower case) is Pyramids but I doubt very much if that is the correct answer.

Nope, it is not.

Clue: This sentence is very early in a book - very very early. :)

Sourcery?

Wow, is this still going?

How about The Light Fantastic as a totally random guess.

Eric?

No and no.

A second line very close in the text to that one (not next one but close enough and that should help... I hope: "OH, he said. IT'S HIM."

>101 pinkozcat:

And while I was trying to get off the phone to post, pinkozcat got it.

Of course it is Eric :) All yours.

Hmmm, perhaps when His Lordship, the Duke is not supposed to be detecoring? Snuff, perhaps?

Snuff is correct. Over to you Jim.

It looks as though justjim has been flooded out of house and home.

Would someone else please pick up the baton.

Whaaaat? For real?????

The east coast of Australia has had a great deal of rain in the last couple of weeks. I'm not sure where he lives but a lot of towns have had to be evacuated and even parts of Sydney have been severely flooded.

Oh crap!

Firstly; no I'm not in the flooded area. Comfortably south and west of those poor folk.

Secondly, sorry for the long delay in keeping up the DW fun here. I have had a very busy week with photographing cricket finals and end of season administration. Also, I forgot I had made a guess!

He'd got hard pad, soft pad, the swinge, licky end, scroff, mange and something rather strange on the back of his neck that he couldn't quite reach.

The Amazing Maurice?

No, sorry. This poor animal is not Maurice nor any of the rats.

Sounds like Gaspode.. so... Men at Arms?

It is indeed Gaspode, so that narrows the field a bit. Not MAA though.

Sounds a bit like Moving Pictures

The Fifth Elephant?

Not MP, but it is from The Fifth Elephant. Gaspode is worrying about being accepted by the wolves.

Again, sorry for the long delay and for causing any worries.

new quote somebody!!! :)

An aside, perhaps. I was trying to think of this when I was answering #111. What was the collective name that the rats had for themselves in The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents?

I'll put up my hand to get the game going again.

You had to assume he was a human being because he was broadly the right shape, could talk and wasn't covered in hair.

Men at Arms? I suspect that the 'person' described like that is Nobby Nobbs... no clue which book so guessing :)

Yes, it is about Nobby Nobbs but the book is not Men at Arms.

'k

Since it is Nobby, is it Nobby in Jingo?

No - not Jingo either.

Guards! Guards! by a process of elimination?

>120 justjim: I can't remember but now I feel like reading the book again. :)

Not Guards! Guards! either.

#120 It was one of the books I bookcrossed. I didn't like it enough to keep it.

Feet of Clay? And yes, I am going in order. :)

thud?

No - not Feet of Clay or Thud.

Ummmm...I could be haring off on completely the wrong track but is this Hogfather? I get the feeling that it might not be a straight up guards book...

Not Hogfather either

Night Watch?

No - not Night Watch

The Truth?

Yes, yes, yes! It comes when William is interviewing Nobby.

Over to you, Annie

"Cooks and scullery maids darted for cover as the old woman pounded along the slippery flagstones, leapt up the stairs to the courtyard and skidded out into the lane, her shawl flying out behind her and her boots striking sparks from the cobbles."

Wyrd Sisters?

Witches Abroad?

Nope and nope

I'll go way out on a limb and guess Monstrous Regiment

Wrong limp....

Unseen Academicals?

I Shall Wear Midnight?

*sigh* Back to the witches. Maskerade?

That's a triple Nope.

Just for a lark, Eric?

Equal Rites?

>147 anatwork.k:

I tried 3 times (or thereabouts) with Eric and you missed it :) So decided to change the book.

>148 pinkozcat:

Yep. So all yours :)

Dammit... Lol, I thought it was Equal Rites but then thought about how often you picked Eric. :)

Uhm... sorry :)

It doesn't sound very familiar.

Sourcery?

I'll kick it off with unseen academicals?

No not Unseen Academicals

This is one of the early books I think. So... The Colour of Magic?

No, not The Colour of Magic.

Night Watch perhaps?

No, not Night Watch.

The Light Fantastic?

Yes - over to you, Annie

Also at about the same moment as the homing rat disappeared into the maze of runs under the city, scurrying along in faultless obedience to an ancient instinct, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork picked up the letters delivered that morning by albatross.

Guards! Guards!?

Nope.

I think that it sounds like a kiddie book so:

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Not this one either

The Colour of Magic - I feel sure it's Twoflower's arrival being brought to the Patrician's notice.

>167 edrandrew: Yep :)

All yours.

It's not true about the rats, or the snake heads, or the lead shot. The one about the dead sheep is a complete fabrication. We can lay to rest all the variations of the one about the trouser button.

Equal Rites?

Phew, I was thinking that the world had ended and nobody told me! However, Equal Rites it is not.

171: The quote didn't sound at all familiar so I didn't reply but here is me taking a stab...

Eric?

I love a wild guess as much as the next man, but Eric it wasn't.

Equal Rites was a wild guess to get things going. The next mention of scumble is, I think, in Mort.

After that I'll have to hunt through for the description of how Nanny Ogg makes the stuff but that will take some time as I am d****d if I can remember which book that came in.

Let us try Wintersmith since Minnie has kindly pointed out that we are dealing with scumble. :)

Damn, pinkozcat already got it - I am 99% sure it is indeed Mort. So I am silently disappearing... :)

I am only assuming that we are talking about scumble because cider, also made with apples, is supposed to be greatly improved by tossing a sheep's head into the barrel.

It's more of an insight than I have had. :)

EDIT: OMG are you serious? That sounds awful!

Fascinating bit of back story on the origins of the rumours of scumble. Mort it was, so it's your turn pinkozcat.

#178 It almost puts one off drinking cider ...

Even so, he was conscious of a certain heaviness of mind, a feeling that if he turned his head sharply then memory would slosh out of his ears.

Pyramids?

No, not Pyramids

fifth elephant?

No - not that one either

Thud?

Small Gods?

Just sounds like something that would fit there....

The Colour of Magic?

Annie has it. It is from Small Gods.

Over to you, AnnieMod ...

If he tapped his foot he could persuade himself that he could feel the floor, he could know that he was really standing in the room, and that the urgent signals from all his other senses, which were telling him that he was suspended in the air some thousand miles or so above the Disc, were just a bad dream he'd wake up from.

Aha...Eric??? Finally?

Of course :))
All yours.

Haha. Ok, let's try this one:

Of the very worst words that can be heard by anyone high in the air, the pair known as 'Uh-oh' possibly combine the maximum of bowel-knotting terror with the minimum wastage of breath.

Lords and Ladies?

Soul Music?

Thief of Time?

Dammit, Jim, that was going to be my second guess.

;)

Haha Thief of Time it is and Jim has it. Next time, Minnie! :)

There's only the quick and the vitally challenged!

'Sounds sensible to me, ' said *****. 'When there's a war around take the day off, that's my motto.'

Interesting Times?

Sourcery?

Too quick! It is Rincewind doing his well-practiced cowardly act in Interesting Times.

Yer up, Minnie!

Ah - I thought that it might be Rincewind. :)

Not that, no. But there's copies all over the place of him in chains and I hear it's been sent by the Clacks to Ankh-Morpork,

There you are - a nice easy one.

Going Postal?

Monstrous Regiment ?

Making Money?

Thud?

AnnieMod has it right. It is from Monstrous Regiment.

It did sound like MR. :)

"Arms tired. Another ten seconds and I'm gonna be a chalk outline..."
"Nah, no one's got that much chalk."

That sounds a bit like Monstrous Regiment too. Didn't they climb down a well or something to break into the castle/fortress or whatever? I really must read it again.

Sounds like but it is not :)

Guards! Guards!? Fred Colon being the first speaker?

Definitely rings a bell for Fred, but even a chalk outline sounds a bit too professional for the watch at that stage. men at Arms perhaps?

Nope and nope :)

214. I was worried about the chalk outline. Can't think of any other (big?) people being suspended though. Ooh it is Nanny!

Witches Abroad? I want to be right! :)

You are not. :)

Nuts. Lords and Ladies? And this is my last guess. Good night everyone. :)

Night. Everyone, keep guessing. That's not it either.

I'll go for my dafault reply - just for the heck of it:

Unseen Academicals

Feet of Clay. It is Fred...talking to Wee Mad Arthur while trying to escape from the King Golem.

>221 anatwork.k:

But of course:) All yours

Awesome. Okay, here goes:

Another little memory burst open as silently as a mouse passing wind in a hurricane.

That sounds like the way Vimes mind operates. The Fifth Elephant?

Alas no.

No, not Vimes or just not TFE?

I'll try Snuff?

Jingo?

Ah, Annie got it. It was Jingo. All yours Annie.

Alright, I was wrong, but was I right? ;)

Jim, of course it is Vimes. Who else :)

Next:
"A wizard could do what he liked in his own study, and in the old days that had largely meant smoking anything he fancied and farting hugely without apologizing."

You were right Jim! :)

My guess: Reaper Man

Unseen Academicals?

>233 KayEluned:

Yep. :)

"Ook! Ook?" "Kneel and deliver!"

Lords and Ladies?

Deleted in the sudden realisation that I'm sure pinkozcat was right.

Lol I know she is! I had a half completed messge too.

I have found the place in Lords and Ladies where Casanunda says "Kneel and deliver" but there is no "Ook! Ook?" before it so the quote may not be from Lords and Ladies.

However:

"Ridcully scratched his head. "Hah ... just wish I could remember her name ... "
He stretched out with his feet on the Bursar.

"S'funny, that," he said. "Can't even remember her name. Hah! She could outrun a horse - "

"Kneel and deliver!!

The coach rattled to a halt.

Keep guessing --- it may be in another book, ... maybe?

That seems odd. The "ook ook" doesn't exist in my version (US Harper Collins kindle edition) either. Can anyone with a Brit edition corroborate?

UK hardback edition is as per #239. We would appear not to have found the right passage or indeed possibly the right book, although I can't think where else a diminutive robber meets the librarian.

Sudden thought... might we have diverged into play scripts?

#241 Anything is possible. :)

I shall wait for KayEluned to come back because I simply cannot think of any other place this quote could be in (apart from the play, of course).

The quote is on a web page devoted to quotes from Terry Pratchett and Oook! Ook? is the one above the "Kneel and Deliver" quote.

http://www.au.lspace.org/books/pqf/lords-and-ladies.html

Edited to add the link

Oh its on Lspace. Honest mistake then. I suppose you can go ahead Minnie?

Yes, an honest mistake; the actual site is a bit misleading. I'd prefer to wait for the OK from KayEluned who may only have access to the internet during the week.

Give it another day; it will give me time to find something difficult. :)

No KayEluned but Lords and Ladies is correct so:

And there was the mouse. It didn't seem to do much, but whenever they forgot to give it its cheese Hex stopped working.

changed my mind - soul music

LOL - you are allowed to do that but no, it is not Soul Music.

ok, maybe it is interesting times after all?

Sorry - not that one either

hmm... I seem to be the only one guessing. I'll have one more try - unseen academicals?

not Unseen Academicals either

Hogfather?

The Last Continent?

Hi people, sorry for not being on had a bit of a hectic weekend. It was supposed to be Lords and Ladies but I double checked it and you're right I got the quote wrong, sorry. Must try harder : )

AnnieMod has it. The quote is from Hogfather.

"She had never been sure, given that she had no idea what sort of thing a boudoir was, what sort of thing you would find in it when you did. She found that it contained people, heat and flowers-not flowers in bunches, but in pillars and towering stacks, filling most of the air with clouds of sticky perfume while the people below filled the rest of it with words, tightly packed. "

That has to be Maskerade. No?

Nope :)

I was changing my guess while you were posting. Is it not Witches abroad or not Maskerade?

Sorry about this; I had hoped that you would not be so speedy.

I'll guess Maskerade again, though, as I suspect that you said no to Witches Abroad

Both are wrong :)

Ah - thank you for your very quick response. I need to think about this one. It sounded very witchy but perhaps not.

Hmmm ... I Shall Wear Midnight?

You might wear it if you feel like that but it is not the correct answer here :)

Monstrous Regiment and I'm out of here; things to do ...

Nope...

A Hat Full of Sky?

Unseen Academicals?

Snuff?

anatwork.k got it :)

Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay, been a bit busy. See quote in next thread!