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The moment that was awesome which will be remembered forever, winning your eternal fannish loyalty.
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 +55 (yeas:59 nays:4) Where! Is! My! Cow!
+36 (yeas:41 nays:5) Carpe Jugulum, the almighty Granny Weatherwax.
"I ain't been vampired. You've been Weatherwaxed."
+28 (yeas:31 nays:3) Granny Weatherwax in Witches Abroad:
'Are you watchin', Mrs Gogol? Are you watchin' real close?'
Her gaze travelled the room and rested for just a fraction of a second on Magrat.
Then she reached over, carefully, and thrust her arm up to the elbow into the burning torch.
And the doll in Erzulie Gogol's hands burst into flame.
+21 (yeas:25 nays:4) Men At Arms, Carrot Ironfoundersson: To make a long story short...
"...So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word."
+18 (yeas:19 nays:1) Death vs the Auditors from "Hogfather"
AND NOW THERE REMAINS ONLY ONE FINAL QUESTION. HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY...OR NICE? HO...HO...HO!
+15 (yeas:18 nays:3) The Fifth Elephant:
Sam Vimes while hanging upside down in a tree, fighting a werewolf, in an Uberwald winter, wearing nothing more than a pair of old, baggy trousers. after escaping prison and setting a barn on fire. but then he's pretty much awesome no matter where he is.
Gaspode the talking dog setting up the howl for Gavin...
+14 (yeas:14 nays:0) A.E Pessimal's attack on the troll. With his teeth. 'Mr. A.E Pessimal? You are sure? Small man? Very clean shoes?'
+12 (yeas:21 nays:9) Moist von Lipvig in general. A man who specializes in making people believe things is a very, very powerful force in a setting where people believing things has an actual, physical effect.
+12 (yeas:17 nays:5) Magrat in Lords and Ladies.
One of my favorite quotes:
"There was a click. She looked down the length of a
crossbow and met Magrat's steady gaze.
"Go ahead," said the Queen of Lancre softly, "bake my quiche."
+10 (yeas:12 nays:2) Pyramids:
Pteppic outsmarting a Sphinx's riddle by pointing out that the Morning, Noon and Night synonym was faulty, then running away before the sphinx realised.
+10 (yeas:11 nays:1) Rincewind beating up the most powerful magic user in the world who at the time was being possessed by the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions in The Light Fantastic. (A shame it hasn't been mentioned, that he did it with a brick in a sock!)
+6 (yeas:6 nays:0) DEATH to Azerael (the death of universes) asking for time:
"Lord, we know there is no good order except that we create. There is no hope but us. There is no mercy but us. There is no justice, there is just us."
+3 (yeas:4 nays:1) from Unseen Academicals :
If the striker thinks he scores .... now imagine that being sung/howled by a 450 strong crowd of morporkians.beautifull.
Or the keeper cries in shame They understand not the crowd’s applause I make, and hear and earn again For I am the crowd and I am the ball I am the triumph and the blame I am the turf, the pies, the all Always and ever, I am the game It matters not who won or lost Nothing is the score you made Fame is a petal that curls in the frost But I will remember how you played +1 (yeas:1 nays:0) From Unseen Academicals:
"Ball lost! Substitute ball!"
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