This Carrington Stuff Is Amazing. She's Only Been Around For One Episode And I LOVE It, I Hope She Comes

There is also the glory of Hogfather's villain, Teatime. In both the English and French version, he gets irritated because people mispronounce his name. But in French, Teatime translates to "L'heure du thé", which he insists is pronounced "Le Redouté" (The Dreaded One)

I deeply appreciate the fact that Discworld translators add their own terrible, terrible puns.

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Thinking about it a bit more after having slammed the reblog button, I can't help but remember this exchange from Cabin Pressure:

"So, this is your husband’s famous executive jet.

It’s not an executive jet; he’s not my husband; and it’s not his – but otherwise, spot on."

And compare it to the Naked Man Friend, who is not a man, nor a friend, and not even naked anymore. Worth noting that the author of Cabin Pressure, John Finnemore, is the co-author for season 2 of Good Omens.

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I am happy to have discovered this wonderful addition:

From 24x36

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I am happy to inform the public that there is a dataset of hair salons with puns in their name. It's all in French, but I can only applaud the effort and I hope that one day, similar work will be done for coffee shops, if only to simplify the work of authors wanting to check whether or not something is taken.

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Coordonnées des enseignes de Coiffure comportant des jeux de mots cocasses dans leur appellation - data.gouv.fr

Ce jeu de données contient, au format geoJSON, les…

Names include such gems as Faudra Tiff Hair, United Hair Lines, Lucif'hair, No Peigne No Gain, and my personal favorite, Queer Chevelu.

I think people are vastly underestimating how complicated metallurgy and engineering are. Have these 20 people studied it beforehand? Because I don't know how to make steel. I don't know how to extract iron. I don't even know how to recognize iron ore. Plus I think it tends to be underground, so how do I know where to dig? I don't even have a shovel. Then I have to refine it and alloy it with something maybe? So I need to test different alloys and purification methods. And we need to feed ourselves all the while. Starting from absolute zero I think we'd be lucky to have a sword after 3 years.

its terrible for any number of reasons, but i think if we invent immortality there should be an extreme sport called civilizational speedrunning where teams of 20 go into the wilderness somewhere and try and be the fastest build the first internal combustion engine. i bet you could get it down to like 3 years tops

oh to be a pup being painted - by William Henry Hamilton Trood (1848-1899).