Discworld: Going Postal

[wistwisp]

Fun Quotes

"I'm Mad Al, he's Sane Alex, and that's Adrian, who says he's not mad but can't prove it."

They'd cursed and, worse, used logarithms. They'd waded through rivers and dabbled in trigonometry. They hadn't dreamed, in the way people usually used the word, but they'd imagined a different world, and bent metal around it. And out of all the

Comments

[wistwisp]

“When the Turks refused [to accept an armistice in the matter of Greek Independence], a combined naval force [of Britain, France, and Russia] destroyed the Turkish fleet at Navarino. After the Battle of Navarino, the allies actually apologized to the Ottoman sultan for sinking his fleet.”

[If anyone stumbles upon this post... This comment is inconsequential and merely here because I needed to post this as a sample; this journal entry happened to be conveniently located in my tabs and was fairly out-of-the-way.]

[wistwisp]

...BUT THESE QUOTES ARE STILL HILARIOUS, DAMMIT