from "jingo"
Ankh Morpork's pigeons were, because of many centuries of depredation by the city's gargoyle population, considerably more intelligent than most pigeons, although Vimes considered that this was not difficult because there were things growing on old damp bread that were more intelligent than pigeons.
When you hear the bang there's no time to wonder how long the little fuze has been fizzing.
(this sounds like philly)
There were about fifty youths in the wide alleyway. Average age in years: about eleven. Average age in cynicism and malevolent evil: about 163. Although Ankh Morpork football doesn't usually have goals in the normal sense, two had neverhteless been made at each end of the alley using the time-honoredmethod of piling up things to mark where the posts would be. Two piles: one of knives, one of blunt instruments.
At least I don't treat the punctuation fo a sentence like a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
...mugged in Memory Lane
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its oeprating manual.
...clever as an inflatable dartboard.
THat was in the old days when you attacked anyone else's city on principle, and went back and did them over again if they looked like getting up. And in those days you didn't care if the world watched. You WANTED them to watch, and learn. "Veni, vidi, vici." I came, I saw, I conquered. As a comment it always struck Vimes as a bit too pat. It wasn't the sort of thing you came up with on the spur of the moment, was it? It sounded as if he had worked it out. He'd probably spent long evenings in his tent, looking up short words beginning with V and trying them out...veni vermini vomui. I came, I got ratted, I threw up? Visi veneri vamoosi. I visited, I caught an embarassing disease, I ran away? It must have been a big relief to come up with threeshort acceptable words.He probably made them up first, and then went off to seesomewhere and conquer it.
"Well, because it is submersed in a marine environment I've always called the Going-Under-The
-Water-Safely Device."
This is Mine and That is Yours. Trespass on Mine and You'll get Yours.
Theft was the only crime, whether the loot was gold,innocence, land or life.
"Give a mane a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
While the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast does not.
"I've only been a woman ten minutes and already I hate you male bastards."
When you hear the bang there's no time to wonder how long the little fuze has been fizzing.
(this sounds like philly)
There were about fifty youths in the wide alleyway. Average age in years: about eleven. Average age in cynicism and malevolent evil: about 163. Although Ankh Morpork football doesn't usually have goals in the normal sense, two had neverhteless been made at each end of the alley using the time-honoredmethod of piling up things to mark where the posts would be. Two piles: one of knives, one of blunt instruments.
At least I don't treat the punctuation fo a sentence like a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
...mugged in Memory Lane
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its oeprating manual.
...clever as an inflatable dartboard.
THat was in the old days when you attacked anyone else's city on principle, and went back and did them over again if they looked like getting up. And in those days you didn't care if the world watched. You WANTED them to watch, and learn. "Veni, vidi, vici." I came, I saw, I conquered. As a comment it always struck Vimes as a bit too pat. It wasn't the sort of thing you came up with on the spur of the moment, was it? It sounded as if he had worked it out. He'd probably spent long evenings in his tent, looking up short words beginning with V and trying them out...veni vermini vomui. I came, I got ratted, I threw up? Visi veneri vamoosi. I visited, I caught an embarassing disease, I ran away? It must have been a big relief to come up with threeshort acceptable words.He probably made them up first, and then went off to seesomewhere and conquer it.
"Well, because it is submersed in a marine environment I've always called the Going-Under-The
-Water-Safely Device."
This is Mine and That is Yours. Trespass on Mine and You'll get Yours.
Theft was the only crime, whether the loot was gold,innocence, land or life.
"Give a mane a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
While the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast does not.
"I've only been a woman ten minutes and already I hate you male bastards."