Why do I keep picturing picturing Corpus Christi and mud buggy racing after reading this thread?
Since WV_Hominid hasn’t condescended to drop by in a while, can we just let this thread go into a Terry Pratchett appreciation thread?
What about Neil Gaiman? He co-authored, and I’m a fan of his work 
I would create some tortured pun about it only making sense that you’d be fond of a Gaiman, Hamish, but you might see it as an insult and it would totally hijack this thread (not that that wouldn’t be a good thing!)
I know someone who’s friends with Neil Gaiman.
What?
JFTR, the meaning of that last parentheses is “Not that having the thread hijacked wouldn’t be a good thing” – on reread, my poor phrasing makes it sound like “Not that insulting Hamish wouldn’t be a good thing!” :eek:
Polycarp’s Law: Whatever you say on a message board, no matter how many times you reread and revise, will inevitably be misunderstood.
Thanks for the ego-strokes, elf6c and Francesca. Maybe I should skip my medication more often. 
The only Terry Pratchet I’ve ever read is Good Omens, but I’m a big Neil Gaiman enthusiast. I can’t believe I’ve never heard his name as “Kneel, gay man” until this minute, though-- I usually have a pretty good ear for, errrm, homophony.
Don’t worry. I’d have never taken it as such – not from you, anyway.
I love the Sandman – I have every volume. Neverwhere and “We Can Get Them for You Wholesale” were both great. I still haven’t had the chance to read the “Dream Hunters.”
FTR, I like his portrayal of gay characters – neither monsters nor paragons of virtue, just human beings. Or elven beings, in the case of Cluracan 
What I’d originally meant to post was:
“Pratchett and Gaiman–two great tastes that taste great together”, but after that “Kneel, gay man” comment I, er, um. Yes, well.
I adore Gaiman. Sandman should be required reading (and why didn’t the Cluracan get his own spin-off series, dammitall?), and Good Omens is on my list of Ten Books to Take to a Desert Island.
<Sigh>
Gotta love the British ones. . .
I meant authors. No homophony intended.
And Gaiman’s Death characters are much less cool than Pratchett’s. Sandman’s sister is like Susan, only less so, and the Death of Good Omens is only funny when he’s acting like Pratchett’s Death.
From Hogfather:
Er, just, “Ho, ho, ho,” will do, master. You can leave off the “Cower, brief mortals” bit unless you want them to grow up to be accountants or some such.
Eeep!
What I meant to post was:
Pratchett’s novels are comedy novels; Gaiman’s Sandman was not a work of more than incidental comedy but rather a more philosophical work. Hence the difference in characterization. Personally, I don’t regard “coolness” as an appropriate valuation (except maybe for videogames).
And since this is just too gosh-derned polite for a Pit Thread…
<clearing throat>
Listen, WV_Woman, you can stick your fingers in your ears all you want to but your refusal to explain or defend your posts makes it apparent to me at least that you aren’t capable of any thought deeper than a soundbyte.
And furthermore, WV_Woman, you give hillbillies a bad name. As a proud former hillbilly who has been publicly chided for saying “fixin’s” and “taties”, I am ashamed of you. Were I a conservative, a Christian, or any other group with which you associate yourself, I would be ashamed of that also. In fact, I am glad that I have only set foot in West Virginia one night in 1969 so that whatever has tainted your character and brain cells has not affected me.
Neener, neener, neener.
“list of Ten Books to Take to a Desert Island.”
Hmmm…sounds like a great topic…
goes to start one, hoping that it hasn’t already been done and Squish won’t get pissed at me…eheheheheeheh…
As for Good Omens, I think I have that book…maybe I ought to READ it sometime! EHEHEH!
No, we can’t.