“The whole business with the fossilized dinosaur skeletons was a joke the paleontologists haven‘t seen yet.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Paleontology
They Are in on the Joke
Tag: Good Omens
What Should It Be?
Pink or blue? Green or grey? German or French (or possibly Italian)? Truck or mini? Ford or Fiat?
I don’t mind. Next question: What flavour? Apparently, there are 39 flavours of ice cream. But how when there is only vanilla, strawberry and chocolate? I suppose there could be 39 flavours of ice cream if you mixed them up. Vanilla and chocolate. Strawberry and chocolate. Strawberry and vanilla. …” (with apologies to Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett).
First Impressions Be … Correct?
“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett: Good Omens
“They told me this green stuff was as good as nitrous oxide. I can’t feel it.”
“Don’t eat it, bruh! You needs to ssssmoke it!”
Wednesday Quotes: First Impression
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Omens Mostly Come in Packs
The novel Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, also seldom comes alone. I’ve got it as an audio book and I got it in electronic form and this is my fourth or fifth paperback version. Pratchett and Gaiman both or possibly one of them … Continue reading Omens Mostly Come in Packs
But Who Invented This?
I found out that this watchamacallit is actually a locking device. I wonder if it was named after Sir Joshua Device? On the other hand, it’s a handy gadget so maybe it was invented by Sir Humphrey Gadget? Other contenders could be Pietr Gizmo from Russia, or Ella Reader Widget – an American as was Cyrus T. Doodat. Germans have been known to invent strange little contraptions of which nobody remembers their names and are just called thingies or Dingsbums, so Hans-Joachim Dingsbums might be an option as the originator.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Whatchamacallit
PS: Except for HaJo Dingsbums all names come from Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman.
What Will the Future Hold?
“No one was badly hurt by the fire, but it went on for some hours, doing a fair amount of damage in the process.”
“The instigator of the fire lurked on a nearby hilltop and watched the blaze. He was tall, thin, and a Duke of Hell. It was the last thing that needed to be done before his return to the nether regions, and he had done it.”
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
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When The Neighbour Is Away
the neighbour’s cat keeps watching us.
“He lurks under the bushes at the end of the garden. A shadowy figure, hunched and squat, an Olympic-grade lurker.”
with apologies to Mssrs Gaiman and Pratchett
A Car Named Dick Turpin
“because everywhere I go, I hold up traffic”
from Neil Gaiman / Terry Pratchett: Good Omens
WQW #32: Transportation: Cars or Trucks
Wow, Indeed!
“There’s one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.”
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman – Good Omens
And I guess that goes for sunsets, too.
This is for Paula’s new challenge: Words of Wisdom. Find a quote and illustrate it with a fitting photo. Why not join her?
Hand me that whatchamacallit!
If you read Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman you will know that there was a Sir Joshua Device, a Sir Humphrey Gadget, a Pietr Gizmo, a Cyrus T. Doodad and an Ella Reader Widget – they all invented “things so simple and universally useful that everyone forgot that they’d ever actually needed to be invented” and the utensils were named after them. I’m pretty sure that one of the thingies in my photos has been invented by Angus Watchamacallit, a Scottish inventor of (forgotten) renown.
Linked to One Word Sunday: Watchamacallit.
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