Footnotes*

[Annebn]

I got 9/10 and 11/15. Good quizzes though!

[mspanners]

Same here 9/10 & 11/15....

[snapcase72]

Here's one of my absolute favourite footnotes, concerning King Murune of Lancre, who met a terrible fate:

"Involving a red hot poker, a privy, ten pounds of live eels, a three mile stretch of frozen river, a butt of wine, a couple of tulip bulbs, a number of poisoned eardrops, an oyster and a large man with a mallet. King Murune didn't make friends easily."

-Wyrd Sisters

[AceTrilby]

My favourite would be the Pavlovian Response footnote from Jingo:

It was an almost Pavlovian response.*

* A term invented by the wizard Denephew Boot**, who had found that by a system of rewards and punishments he could train a dog, at the ringing of a bell, to immediately eat a strawberry meringue.

** His parents, who were uncomplicated country people, had wanted a girl. They were expecting to call her Denise.

[bikkit]

I think mine would be the one about how Ankh-Morpork was made when some men threw animal dung off the sides of their ship and named it Ankh-Morpork.

Grrr...cant remember which book it's from. I thnk it was pyramids. I'm really not sure.

[Tonyblack]

I think mine would be the one about how Ankh-Morpork was made when some men threw animal dung off the sides of their ship and named it Ankh-Morpork.

Grrr...cant remember which book it's from. I thnk it was pyramids. I'm really not sure.

Welcome to the site WeeKelda!

[Bouncy Castle]

Robert Rankin uses a lot of footnotes.

I find that with Terry's books, the asterisk is so small that I miss it and have to scan the page to find it.

[chris.ph]

welcome to the site weekelda

[Who's Wee Dug]

Hi WeeKelda welcome to the forum. neat avatar.

[Tina a.k.a.SusanSto.Helit]

I find that with Terry's books, the asterisk is so small that I miss it and have to scan the page to find it.

Sometimes... I read the footnote first...

I have to scan the pages sometimes too... and even scan the footnotes when they have footnotes.

[Tina a.k.a.SusanSto.Helit]

:D My favourite from Hogfather:

'Why d'yer think I want it opened?'
'Er... why?' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.
'To see why they wanted it shut, of course.' *
*This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.

I Believe that bit is concerning the Bathroom designed by B.S Johnson?

[Who's Wee Dug]

If I remember correctly that was in the film as well.

[raspberry]

I love the footnotes.
They make me feel like the author is talking directly to me, I think it's quite an intimate way of writing. CS Lewis creates a similar effect by directly addressing the reader in an informal way.
I think the footnotes make (for me, anyway) the books better than any TV/film adaptation could ever be.

[GrayGriffin]

The footnotes add an extra dimension of funny to the books, in my opinion. But I can't pick my favorite!

[Sjoerd3000]

One of my favourite footnotes:
*This at least was true. Rincewind could scream for mercy in niniteen languages, and just scream# in another forty-four.
#This is important. Inexperienced travellers might think that 'Aargh!' is universal, but in Betrobi it means 'highly enjoyable' and in Howondaland it means, variously' I would like to eat your foot', Your wife is a big hippo' and 'Hello, Thinks Mr Purple Cat.' One particular tribe has a fearsome reputation for cruelty merely because prisoners appear, to them, to be shouting 'Quick! Extra boiling oil!'

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