SPOILERS Thief of Time Discussion *Spoilers*

[mystmoon]

I've just looked up procrastination. Theif of Time makes more sense now

 

[fords]

Gotta love the punes

 

[raisindot]

I've just discovered why "Procrastinators" are called procrastinators. 8)

There's an old English proverb;

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

Excellent catch! Why, I made this very same discovery myself several years ago...on Lspace.

http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/thief-of-time.html



J-I-B

 

[poohcarrot]

Ta J-I*b I hadn't read that one.

 

[Dotsie]

I don't want to sound like a know-it-all, but isn't that saying actually very famous? Maybe it's just particularly popular amongst students (which I seem to have always been in some form).

 

[Tonyblack]

I don't want to sound like a know-it-all, but isn't that saying actually very famous? Maybe it's just particularly popular amongst students (which I seem to have always been in some form).

I already knew the saying and therefore wasn't surprised at the procrastinators.

Tony Hillerman also has a book titled A Thief of Time set on the Navajo Reservation.

 

[raisindot]

Tony Hillerman also has a book titled A Thief of Time set on the Navajo Reservation.

Yes, and this is (arguably) Hillerman's best book in a long-running series about two Navajo Reservation cops, one older and more "Americanized," the other younger and more "traditional." who solve various tribes that take place in the southwest. Highly recommended. The U.S. "Mystery" series did a pretty good adaptation of ATOT several years ago.

J-I-B

 

[bikkit]

I was going to look up procrastination but I put it off until tomorrow

 

[Dotsie]

 

[poohcarrot]

I don't want to sound like a know-it-all, but isn't that saying actually very famous? Maybe it's just particularly popular amongst students (which I seem to have always been in some form).

Probably one of those southern sayings which never made it up to the real north. 8)

How about, "I'll go to the foot of my stairs!", or "If ifs and buts were pots and pans there'd be no use for tinkers." Do you know those two sayings?

 

[Dotsie]

Yes I do! How about "it's black over Bill's mother's", or "I'll run up our gennel"?

Southern my arse mumblemumble

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

I'm a Southerner born and bred (though I prefer South-westerner) and I know the 'go to foot of our stairs' (quite frequently used in late 70s-80s Corrie) and the 'if's and but's' one (although this one's better - if wishes were horses, beggars would ride).

As a practising procrastinator of Olympian standard, if I do say so myself, yes, the thief of time thing is a pretty common saying

But I've not come across those last two Dotsie

 

[BatrickPatrick]

What does 'I'll go to the foot of our stairs' actually mean?

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Extreme amazement or surprise in my interpretation

Perhaps it's that you're so shocked you need to go for a lie-down - so go to t' foot of your stairs?

 

[poohcarrot]

Well, all I can say is that I had never heard that "Procrastination is the thief of time" before 3 days ago.
If everybody knew it, why didn't anybody mention it in the discussion?

 

[Tonyblack]

Well, all I can say is that I had never heard that "Procrastination is the thief of time" before 3 days ago.
If everybody knew it, why didn't anybody mention it in the discussion?

Because I thought everyone knew it.

 

[poohcarrot]

Are you going to the DW Con, or what, Tony?

 

[Dotsie]

If everybody knew it, why didn't anybody mention it in the discussion?

Because I thought everyone knew it.

Me too

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Exactly

 

[poohcarrot]

I thought some of the non-Brits might not have understood the "They think it's all over, it is now!" bit at the end of UA.
So I kindly explained.

Do you know, I had forgotten that other's wouldn't spot that either