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So the above mentioned BBC Player for Android got an update with the help of Adobe. According to the reviews, it's still poo. As one reviewer said next time don't go to Adobe, go to pornhub
I don't even know why it's funny, but I can't stop giggling.

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He died this morning.

His Twitter account posted

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER

I still can't believe it.

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Rest in peace.

One of the greatest authors ever, I think.

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WHAT IS THAT SENSE INSIDE YOUR HEAD OF WISTFUL REGRET THAT THINGS ARE THE WAY THEY APPARENTLY ARE?

"Sadness, master. I think. Now-"

I AM SADNESS.

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Peter S. Beagle (author of The Last Unicorn) said this of Tolkien, but in a sense, I think it could be said of Pratchett as well. Except that Pratchett knew our follies, too, and used the Discworld to show us ourselves through laughter.

"He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live... We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."


I am sorry he developed Alzheimers. Once he had it, I'm not sorry he was spared the final indignities of that illness.



This was written by Neil Gaiman before Terry Pratchett's death. I don't know if it's been linked to before in this thread, but I think it says things very well.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/s ... eil-gaiman

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If you thought you were done crying over PTerry

How To Tell If You Are In A Terry Pratchett Novel
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No matter what country you find yourself in, someone always offers you a cutthroat deal on very dubious-looking sausages in buns.

You’ve sung every verse of “All the Little Angels,” which at first seems silly, but then gains significance until the very question “How do they rise up?” makes you unexpectedly weepy. Soldiers’ songs are alike that way: sentimental with naughty bits in, and sung by voices you hear only in your memory.

You have a matter-of-fact way of explaining complex systems of institutionalized social inequality using household objects; i.e., socks and boots.

You know the difference between stories that want you to believe what you are told, and the ones that want to help you learn. There is nothing so powerful as a story — and nothing so human.

You may live in a ridiculous world full of lies, but you hold fast to the important lies of fairness, mercy, and human dignity. Even if you never find a single molecule of fairness, the fantasy of it is what unites the falling angel to the rising ape. It’s what makes us human.
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Buggrit, I still have this something in my eye.

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Check out the lspace.org home page.

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Part one of seven, about 25 minutes each. Back on TOB we were lamenting that the DVD wasn't available in North America. Problem now solved!

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You coulda just asked me... I have had the DVD for years.

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Do you perchance have the BBC adaptation of Good Omens? :whistle:

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The Radio Play?

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Yes, that one.

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Yeah, I do. Dropbox ok?

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That would be great! Thanks!

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Is it there?

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Oops! Forgot all about it. Uploading now. Should be at this location shortly:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/otnd7r88sws3 ... fLoHa?dl=0

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Downloaded - thanks!

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