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Guards, Guards Men At Arms (those two are basically 50% Carrot books) Feet of Clay Jingo The Fifth Elephant Night Watch Thud Snuff (and he makes an important cameo in Monstrous Regiment, which works at any point after 5th Elephant)

Makes me think of the Clarke story "Neutron Tide" which spends a couple of pages of an accident report on a starship torn apart by the tidal forces of a neutron star to reveal that the only debris recovered was a severely deformed wrench - a star mangled spanner

My seven year old is still absolutely outraged about the short story which is actually a multiple page build up to a sneeze joke.

There’s the Kirsty MacColl one in Soul Music

God-tier pun!

dammit Pterry you magnificent bastard

An enjoyable percentage of Pratchett is several paragraphs of well-written setup to deliver a single, TERRIBLE pun.

... dammit, Terry 🤣

one I saw recently: “One day, when he was naughty, Mr. Bunnsy looked over the hedge into Farmer Fred’s field and saw it was full of fresh green lettuces. Mr. Bunnsy, however, was not full of lettuces. This did not seem fair.” -- TAMAHER, page 1

Gosh dammit, Terry.

GodDAMN it Terry.

Goddamnit Terry...

God DAMMIT, Terry. This pun comes through even in the audiobook. I groan every time.

I feel exactly the same way when I play a game on my high end desktop.

With that said, I still love the Colin Morgan rendition of Rincewind novels.

God fucking dammit lmao

Sad that the site has been abandoned to aggressive ads, the old comment sections have disappeared, and he privated all the videos (though I am sure they were of dubious legal standing to read entire books.) Actually went through old files I saved to see if I had the clip; have Thud not Night Watch.

I was wondering when you'd get to this quote. One of the many reasons I married my husband for the puns. So when I got to show them this gem, they immediately got jealous.

I absolutely love Terry's work and think he deserves huge respect as a writer. Trying to look at his work outside of my love for it I would consider it in general as ranging from good to really good. Night Watch is the one I would comfortably describe as truly great. Like just an amazing novel.

Do you celebrate Lilac Day?

(I am, admittedly, a die hard Vimes fan)

I go back and forth. Night Watch is so well done, but Reaper Man gets me in the feels every time

It’s the only one that makes me cry (every time!)

It was actually the first book of his that I ever read. The whole timeloop aspect actually made it a fantastic way to start off the night's watch books. I got a taste of who they'd become, a bit of who they were, and then got to go back and watch the development progress.

I read Night Watch for the first time earlier this year and even by Discworld standards it is extraordinary. But also … GODAMMIT TERRY.

Gilt by association?

This, of course, is a phallussy.

I love this for another reason - it's a pun @stephenbriggs.bsky.social makes very sure is *heard* in the audiobook version. Just enough emphasis to make you realise how it's written. Brilliant narration.

Masterpiece

This is the book that got me back into Discworld. I was living in the dorms and there was a guy who loaned me the early ones, but I kinda bounced off Rincewind and the witches, initially But I remembered the series, and when I actually paid my own money for Night Watch, I was hooked

Its PLOT RELEVANT gilted armor too.

3. Vimes is far too realistic to tell himself Commoners are necessarily Better People than Aristocrats. And he has too much respect for the Common Folk to idealize them. But he's very aware that people on the lower rungs as opposed to the Rich and Powerful have no one else to look out for them.

It's my favorite too, Carcer is a better Joker than most Jokers

Tough to top "All the wizards were wazards" but my man found a way.

One of my favourite things about Night Watch is it humanized Reg Shoe, who had always until then been treated as a joke that I fucking hate, looking back on it.