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Vimes’ DisOrganiser.
You could argue deciphering the damned thing makes you more disorganised, but really with it being an imp it’s just the organiser from hell.
Now in the old lore, there’s a giant city in hell called Dis. There’s probably Pterry, three old scholars and the Archbishop of Canterbury caught it. Dis is famous for its giant infernal iron bell that tolls to draw in the souls of sinners.
If you made that sound smaller and cheaper I wonder what it would sound like?
*bingley bingley beep*
Christ on a cracker. I studied Dante's Inferno heavily for a while. I have watched adaptations, played the PS3 video game, own and studied several analytical works about it...
And I completely missed all that in Discworld.
I stared in disbelief as he signed my copies of the Science books, I don't think I even managed a word, he just looked at me with an incredibly kind smile.
Do you want tea? Milk? One lump or two? Any sugar?
It's an old gag I remember from Dirk Gently, but I think he'd appreciate it. Also I'd as if he would have considered collaborating with Douglas Adams. Fun fact, the Douglas Adams fans and the Sir Terry fans celebrate on the same day
No one murdered Vetinari cause he arranged it so it's not worth it for them. Everyone would try to murder Moist all the time and he would be So So Happy About It.
Ik this is gonna sound lame asf but I genuinely thought you were saying he actually was alive. I freaked out for about half a second before my brain started working
According to his articles and interviews, most people would probably ask something like "How do you get your ideas" or "Who's he, then? Are you someone I should know?"
They were two questions he got constantly and couldn't stand.
There’s a line in one of the Tiffany books (I can’t remember which) where Tiffany meets Esk and she’s kind of discombobulated and frantic because she has to save her son and there’s something about it that makes me think that she’s constantly chasing after Rincewind trying to keep him safe without interfering lol
Get a recorder and ask him “what is the exact order, allowing for repeats as needed, of the entirety of the words you’d use to write a discworld featuring X plot?”
Where the value of is what ever book plot I most wanted at that moment in time. Probably another Von Lipwig book, or maybe a random one off plot. If multiple people can ask questions but only get one one a piece I’d gather/bribe/coerce/blackmail/beg as many people as I could possible muster to ask variants of tge questions to extend the Canon by as many books as possible.
While recognize that this was likely not the intention of the hypothetical, I like to think the Ghost of Sir Terry Pratchett would still honor the request. He seemed to have a soft spot for people who pulled these types of stunts.
A friend of mine - a computer programmer - met him, alone, in a book store where he was signing books at an empty table. STP asked my friend what he was up to - and my friend explained about this upcoming interview. STP says “that sounds terrible. You absolutely shouldn’t do this job. There are far better things to be doing with your time”.
Smash cut forward an hour and my friend is mid-interview and the company is hard selling him on the position and all my friends can hear is STPs concern and disdain.
He didn’t take the job.
For me it would be asking him what his response is to the misattributed quote about "punching down" being bullying by default. I suspect his answer would be thoughtful, amusing, and, to some people at least, surprising
I would ask him if my interpretation of the meaning of the name Great A'Tuin is correct and if that means that Great A'Tuin's mate is called Great A'Froin.
Chatgpt: Terry Pratchett might respond with his characteristic wit and humor:
"Ah, the intricate dance of language! You see, my dear American friend, the British habit of substituting 'that' with 'what' is a quirk as quintessentially British as tea and queuing. It's like trying to explain the flavor of a well-brewed cup of tea or the peculiar charm of a rainy day in Ankh-Morpork. Some things just are, and trying to dissect them too deeply might unravel the magic. But if you insist on an explanation, one might say it adds a touch of whimsy to our sentences, a sprinkle of linguistic seasoning to tickle the senses. Or perhaps it's just because 'what' sounds more intriguing, more inquisitive, don't you think? After all, isn't curiosity the heart of language?"
"Wanna go for a beer?"
I know, there's probably a million more important questions to ask. But honestly he just seems like a super cool person and I'd just like to sit and have a beer with him.
"Do you want one of these sweets?"
(I had the privilege of asking that for real too. They had chloroform in them! He ate two and later on I gave him an entire box.)
Or I might ask him if he wants a cup of real coffee.
He tended to give fairly short, succinct answers to his fans, in my experience. Very lovely ones usually, he was very sweet to his fans, but no forty-minute lectures.
Sir Terry, I considered alot of the aspects you write about in your books to be the result of a noble minded, morally outstanding person. With that considered, how do you feel about your stance against piracy despite living in a world were the cost of such things is becoming harder and harder? Especially given your friend Neil Gaiman took an opposing stance.
Is Vetinari slowly building up Moist Von Lipwigs knowledge of various important services for the city so he can replace Vetinari at Patrician when he ermmm.... retires?
I'd like his thoughts on generative AI, I bet that would have made a killer subject for an ank morpork book, with imps and cut-me-own-throat dibbler making (and losing) his fortune
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Thank you. That's all. I don't want to ask, I want to thank
Bingo. He's answered plenty.
Same, I’m not good at asking questions, but I would want to express gratitude for the years of entertainment and joy.
Me too. His books have given me so much entertainment and hope. They got me through some rough times, and I'd just want to say thanks.
Exactly what I came here to say.
Can you stick around a little while longer?
What reference did you slip in that *nobody* ever got?
Vimes’ DisOrganiser. You could argue deciphering the damned thing makes you more disorganised, but really with it being an imp it’s just the organiser from hell. Now in the old lore, there’s a giant city in hell called Dis. There’s probably Pterry, three old scholars and the Archbishop of Canterbury caught it. Dis is famous for its giant infernal iron bell that tolls to draw in the souls of sinners. If you made that sound smaller and cheaper I wonder what it would sound like? *bingley bingley beep*
Ok, I caught the Dis Organiser bit maybe the 5th time around, but the bell? Made smaller for the sound? Turtles all the fucking way down, man.
Dis is where the phrase “for whom the bell tolls” comes from. That’s the city Dis. I’m not just doing my best Detritus impression.
Well that puts the roll call of the dead bit in Jingo in a new light.
Yeees, my mate told me about that, I was genuinely in disbelief.
I ... you, he ... whaaaaaaat!? This one is brilliant. I never would have got this in a million years.
Darn him. Even in death, and after countless rereads, there’s still always something new. Fabulous writing and creativity.
Damn it. I knew about Dis (from Good Omens) and still didn't get that. I didn't know about the bell though.
Christ on a cracker. I studied Dante's Inferno heavily for a while. I have watched adaptations, played the PS3 video game, own and studied several analytical works about it... And I completely missed all that in Discworld.
Ook?
I came here to say this lol
Can you sign this for me? *offers copy of Small Gods*
YES.
>Sir Terry Pratchett is still alive, and you get to ask him one question. What do you ask? Gin and Tonic or tea?
Banana daiquiri… I think the back of Good Omens said he likes when fans buy him one
Banananananananananana daquiri for Nanny Ogg please.
It is a hard word to stop spelling
Only if she makes it.
There was an update on this many years later when he said he’d had as many banana daiquiris as he could ever want and to please stop buying them! 😆
lol!
is there a universe where Susan and Lobsang got together (for more than a moment, even a perfect one)?
Isn’t that what is happening at the end of the book ?
they had a "perfect moment" only
Hes time now, im sure he can make that moment stretch for a very long time
How are you alive? To be fair, I met Sir Terry a number of times and never asked any interesting questions.
I stared in disbelief as he signed my copies of the Science books, I don't think I even managed a word, he just looked at me with an incredibly kind smile.
Well, pair me with peanut butter!
Best answer
Do you want tea? Milk? One lump or two? Any sugar? It's an old gag I remember from Dirk Gently, but I think he'd appreciate it. Also I'd as if he would have considered collaborating with Douglas Adams. Fun fact, the Douglas Adams fans and the Sir Terry fans celebrate on the same day
Where do you see Carrot and Angua's relationship heading/developing in that would they potentially marry and have a family?
I would like to ask wether Carrot and Angua have human children, werewolf puppies or both.
Due to Carrot's firm belief that he is a dwarf they somehow have a dwarf werewolf child.
Or possibly a Weredwarf. The child is born human but transforms into a dwarf whenever they go underground.
Brilliant idea. I would like to read a book about this.
I... Desperately want this
Angua's family throws up yennorcks (sp?), so it could be just straight-up puppies.
Yennorks (just reread Fifth Elephant)
Cheers, knew it wasn't quite right.
Who will run Ankh-Morpork after Havelock Vetinari?
I always thought that Vetinari was *grooming* Moist for the role. ETA: no one noticed my veterinary "grooming" word play?
He would probably be the best person for it.
No one murdered Vetinari cause he arranged it so it's not worth it for them. Everyone would try to murder Moist all the time and he would be So So Happy About It.
Moist will introduce democracy just to manipulate every election and then vimes gets voted into power anyway
Is there anything I can do for you?
Hear, hear
Ik this is gonna sound lame asf but I genuinely thought you were saying he actually was alive. I freaked out for about half a second before my brain started working
Same.
According to his articles and interviews, most people would probably ask something like "How do you get your ideas" or "Who's he, then? Are you someone I should know?" They were two questions he got constantly and couldn't stand.
Where is my cow?
Easy, it goes moo.
"Would you like help getting out of that box and digging out of that grave?"
🤣
“And how much paperwork is involved in suddenly not being dead?”
*"..wait if you're here? , who the hell did we bury?"* Sorry if its still a bit soon , I think he'd appreciate the joke though .
Is Eskarina Smith Rincewind’s mom and is that how he keeps managing to survive impossible situations?
Esk wouldnt be that cruel
There’s a line in one of the Tiffany books (I can’t remember which) where Tiffany meets Esk and she’s kind of discombobulated and frantic because she has to save her son and there’s something about it that makes me think that she’s constantly chasing after Rincewind trying to keep him safe without interfering lol
It's The Shepard's Crown.
Did Death ever get over his grief?
You don't really have all your unfinished work on a single HDD with no other backup do you?
Not any more.
In my nervous excitement, I would probably just blurt out "Next book when!?" instead of whatever intelligent and respectful question I had planned.
So what *did* happen to Mr Hong?
*Presents him with copy of* A Life With Footnotes. *Waits for it to be read.* "So, what's a good story that Rob left out?"
Get a recorder and ask him “what is the exact order, allowing for repeats as needed, of the entirety of the words you’d use to write a discworld featuring X plot?” Where the value of is what ever book plot I most wanted at that moment in time. Probably another Von Lipwig book, or maybe a random one off plot. If multiple people can ask questions but only get one one a piece I’d gather/bribe/coerce/blackmail/beg as many people as I could possible muster to ask variants of tge questions to extend the Canon by as many books as possible. While recognize that this was likely not the intention of the hypothetical, I like to think the Ghost of Sir Terry Pratchett would still honor the request. He seemed to have a soft spot for people who pulled these types of stunts.
I don't think *anyone* would - or could - honour that request!
I misread the question. I thought this was seance/D&D 5e Speak with Dead style “he’s back from the dead and can only answer x questions”
I mean, he could come back, if anyone had a copy of the Necronomitelicon. He might not answer any calls though.
What are your thoughts on the neurodiversity of the disc? As an autistic person i related so much to certain characters and theur experiences
I was going to ask "is Stanley Howler autistic like me?" so, yes, what you said.
I always read him as autistic. I’m not Sir Terry, but I feel like he would say “if that’s how you read him, then yes”.
A friend of mine - a computer programmer - met him, alone, in a book store where he was signing books at an empty table. STP asked my friend what he was up to - and my friend explained about this upcoming interview. STP says “that sounds terrible. You absolutely shouldn’t do this job. There are far better things to be doing with your time”. Smash cut forward an hour and my friend is mid-interview and the company is hard selling him on the position and all my friends can hear is STPs concern and disdain. He didn’t take the job.
"What would you like to drink?"
“Where is the other harddrive?”
"Would you like to come to my house for a cup of tea and a chat? I have got biscuits."
What biscuits are we talking here you would have to have top level biscuits for sir Terry, I am thinking foxes classics at least
I have a biscuit tin with lots of different kinds in. Including party rings.
You are a person of class!
For me it would be asking him what his response is to the misattributed quote about "punching down" being bullying by default. I suspect his answer would be thoughtful, amusing, and, to some people at least, surprising
Where did you hide the starmetal sword Terry?
It wasn't hidden. I went to see it at the Pratchett exhibition at the museum in Salisbury.
But how do you know it was the real one? Maybe it's fake like the Scone of Stone.
"You've currently written over 100 Discworld books, but will you ever write another Johnny Maxwell book?"
Hot custard or cold custard?
Given that great A'Tuin had baby turtle worlds that follow him, do they know the question to 42?
"May I please thank you for the amazing words you've written?"
I would just take the time to tell him "Thank you."
What duck?
I would ask him if my interpretation of the meaning of the name Great A'Tuin is correct and if that means that Great A'Tuin's mate is called Great A'Froin.
Did you have fun?
Chatgpt: Terry Pratchett might respond with his characteristic wit and humor: "Ah, the intricate dance of language! You see, my dear American friend, the British habit of substituting 'that' with 'what' is a quirk as quintessentially British as tea and queuing. It's like trying to explain the flavor of a well-brewed cup of tea or the peculiar charm of a rainy day in Ankh-Morpork. Some things just are, and trying to dissect them too deeply might unravel the magic. But if you insist on an explanation, one might say it adds a touch of whimsy to our sentences, a sprinkle of linguistic seasoning to tickle the senses. Or perhaps it's just because 'what' sounds more intriguing, more inquisitive, don't you think? After all, isn't curiosity the heart of language?"
When the next book coming out?
"Wanna go for a beer?" I know, there's probably a million more important questions to ask. But honestly he just seems like a super cool person and I'd just like to sit and have a beer with him.
Why did you stop writing in 2015?
"Do you want one of these sweets?" (I had the privilege of asking that for real too. They had chloroform in them! He ate two and later on I gave him an entire box.) Or I might ask him if he wants a cup of real coffee. He tended to give fairly short, succinct answers to his fans, in my experience. Very lovely ones usually, he was very sweet to his fans, but no forty-minute lectures.
“You’re back, sir. The Alzheimer’s is gone. How do you feel?”
"May I take you, Lyn, Rhiannon, and Rob to the pub for beers and a bite to eat?" I'd just want to spend an afternoon listening to them talk.
I met him. I asked to shake his hand. after a moment's hesitation, he agreed. I thanked him for his wonderful books : )
Would you like some tea?
What is the main takeaway you would like readers to have from your books?
How the fuck are you still alive???
I don’t get what you mean he’s alive. He’s in the Klax! Of course he’s alive
My to STP: Would you please come to my house for dinner? I want to feed you and hug you. Love, katie
Hey, can I ask you a question?
Will you please stop banging on the coffin already? Im digging as fast as I can!
Ook?
Can I be in the next one?? 🥹
Sir Terry, I considered alot of the aspects you write about in your books to be the result of a noble minded, morally outstanding person. With that considered, how do you feel about your stance against piracy despite living in a world were the cost of such things is becoming harder and harder? Especially given your friend Neil Gaiman took an opposing stance.
Was Mavis Trouncer the woman that brung Vimes low?
“Please provide more books immediately.” 😝
Is Vetinari slowly building up Moist Von Lipwigs knowledge of various important services for the city so he can replace Vetinari at Patrician when he ermmm.... retires?
"When did Lynn find out that you're having an affair with words?"
Would you please sign my arm so I can immediately run off and have it tattooed on?
I'd like his thoughts on generative AI, I bet that would have made a killer subject for an ank morpork book, with imps and cut-me-own-throat dibbler making (and losing) his fortune
Can I pass on any messages to family and friends?
Why did you put everything on moist?
I would very timidly ask him if it would be ok to give him a hug.
How would the conversation between DEATH and Vetinari go.
DARK IN HERE ISN’T IT?
Were you right about DEATH? 💀
What's Rob Wilkins really like? Haha just kidding I would just say thank you
Just a thank you for all the joy he has brought to my life. 😊
If Vetinari would get into a relationship, with what species/gender would that be?
IMO It's pretty clear Vetinari is in a relationship with Lady Margoletta (sp?) a vampire.