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  • Nov. 27, 2002, midnight
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I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don’t know how to do it, and wouldn’t be any good at it if I did, so I’m going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course…

Terry learns Naomi Campbell has written a book.

She wanted a HOLIDAY in Australia, she said, and if I turned it into work she’d hit me — so I gave in, because I did not want to be beaten about the Bush.

If I heeded all the advice I’ve had over the years, I’ve have written 18 books about Rincewind.

AFPer: Can anyone PLEASE tell me the “rules” and “regulations” of headology?? It just seems to me that it’s an area which is not properly defined, that’s all. TP: Ah. It appears you have discovered Rule 1.

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb — they’re often students, for heaven’s sake.

Death isn’t on line. If he was, there would be a sudden drop in the death rate. Although it’d be interesting to see if he’d post things like: DON’T YOU THINK I SOUND LIKE JAMES EARL JONES?

The net software here did its meltdown trick again at the weekend (it happens about once every six months — if only everything was as reliable as WordPerfect 4.2, which only chews up a novel about once every two or three years…)

I’d like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger — chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce… It is common knowledge in my family that I can’t tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high.

‘They can ta’k our live but they can never ta’k our freedom!’ Now there’s a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker…

Braveheart

Mort isn’t fashionable UK movie material — there’s no parts in it for Hugh or Emma, it’s not set it Sheffield, and no one shoves drugs up their bum…

Too many people want to have written.

DW is based on a slew of old myths, which reach their most ‘refined’ form in Hindu mythology, which in turn of course derived from the original Star Trek episode ‘Planet of Wobbly Rocks where the Security Guard Got Shot’.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

What your soldier wants– really, really wants — is no-one shooting back at him.

Up until now I’d always though RSI meant ‘I hate my damn job’.

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

You know what I’d really, really like? What I’d pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81. It was so easy to interface stuff to it.

Not only did I wipe Lemmings from my hard disc, I overwrote it so’s I couldn’t get it back.

To get the walkthrough, you have to take the sponge from Nanny Ogg’s pantry and stick it in the ear of the troll with the tutu, then take the lumps and put them in the pouch with the zombie’s razor.

You can’t remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn’t have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

Dream on. British TV Is The Best In The World is on a par with the statement about how British Justice Is The Envy Of The World (“Hey, Miguel, how come we can’t convict innocent people so quickly and expensively?”)

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it.

AFPer: Incidentally, do you have strong opinions about the meanings of “alternate” and “alternative”? TP: Yes. I think that pedants should be alternately ignored and flamed, unless there is a better alternative.

And before anyone complains about the grammar, I’m so jetlagged that my hands aren’t even in the same time zone…

TBC


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