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What is your favourite cat anecdote? Share a picture of your cat with us.
"Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw."
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Who was thinking this and what was happening at the time?
Bonus Q: What is your favourite Carrot quote?
"Carrot was much better at this sort of thing. He knew the laws of Ankh-Morpork by heart. He was the only person who did."
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Remember, remember, the 5th of November: dragons, treason, and plot.
Edward d'Eath originated the plot to discredit Vetinari and his government in Men At Arms, but who murders him and continues the plan himself?Bonus: How did d'Eath get the dragon to explode?
“The dragon hiccuped again, and looked puzzled. Then it exploded.”
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CW: Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness
I came across this rather accurate #quote from Terry Pratchett's "Men at Arms" #Discworld novel again:
«The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.»"
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