Things you laughed yourself sick over

[OrangeEyebrows]

Terry Pratchett is the only author I can think of, other than Wodehouse, who can make me laugh, out loud and uproariously, with a single line - sometimes a single word. Even the late, great Douglas Adams, as much as I admired him, couldn't do it.

My username represents a time when I laughed until my stomach hurt [Spoilers! for Men at Arms]:

DON'T ARSK US ABOUT:
rocks
troll's with sticks
All sorts of dragons
Mrs Cake
Huje green things with teeth
Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
Rains of spaniel's
fog.
Mrs Cake

It's a silly, simple thing. As with most subtle humour, analysing it would probably break it, but I lost it at "Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows" and really lost it when I got to the second "Mrs Cake".

Another one that really made me lose it was from [Spoilers! for A Hat Full of Sky]:

"Come Quick!" she yelled. "He willnae tak' a drink. I think he's deid!"

I'm sure we all love Terry Pratchett's humour. But when has he really tickled you? Which lines made you laugh out loud? Trust me - I'm a black dog with orange eyebrows.

 

[MongoGutman]

Nobby whirling (or being whirled by) a morningstar in Guards Guards! - simple slapstick really but I couldn't get the image out of my head

and Nobby again, his reaction to being told he could be the next Patrician in I forget

 

[OrangeEyebrows]

Ooh, umm. That would be...Feet of Clay, I think. Right out of the window

 

[Bouncy Castle]

I didn't laugh my self sick, but I often smile when I think of (I think) Witches Abroad, and the farmhouse landed on Nanny.

 

[Dotsie]

I can't control myself when I read about Death being the Hogfather in the department store. Or when the Feegles see Death, and one tries to headbutt him. Happy days!

 

[OrangeEyebrows]

Dotsie, the scene with Nobby sitting on Death's knee always gets a smile from me. "nk you..."

 

[Tonyblack]

It's a small thing, but it makes me hoot with laughter. Any time a character uses the word: "et".

 

[OrangeEyebrows]

I think it's often the little things rather than the big set pieces that really tickle the funny bone!

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

The old man had a large white horse tethered to a withered tree in a snow-filled gully some way from the circles. It was sleek, glossy and the general effect of a superb battle charger was only very slightly spoiled by the haemorrhoid ring tied to the saddle.

I nearly stopped breathing I laughed so much

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

In the Wee Free Men when Tifany was trying to get the names correct Not as big as medium Jock but bigger than Wee Jock Jock put a big grin on my face, in fact quite a lot of the Feegles replies like how did you get into a nut,wis bit difficult when ye're a wee bitte pished. I had better stop there before I fill a page.

 

[raisindot]

Om-the-Tortoise ineffectually cursing people (who can't hear him) in the early parts of Small Gods always makes me giggle. Also whenever someone says, "There's good eating on one of those."

 

[Catch-up]

Nearly anything the Feegles say! Reading Wee Free Men aloud to the girls provided a lot of entertainment as I tried to do a Feegle accent (which I was told sometimes went French) and tried not to laugh at the same time.

 

[OrangeEyebrows]

Wee Dug, I also liked "Medium Dave" in Hogfather.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Hi Orange,I think Medium Dave is a nod or take off Hodgesaagh aka known as Dave Hodges the Falconer, but I could be wrong but that stuck in my mind, he was first in Lords and Ladies.

 

[=Tamar]

The Dread Portal scene in Guards!Guards!

 

[KamexKoopa]

In Monstrous Regiment, when Polly and the squad were "dressed as women" and the captain said "you sir are either deformed, or you put rolled up socks down your top" bless her

 

[raptornx01]

Om-the-Tortoise ineffectually cursing people (who can't hear him) in the early parts of Small Gods always makes me giggle. Also whenever someone says, "There's good eating on one of those."

Have to agree with this. Particularly "May your genitals sprout wings and fly away"

Also the Dragon Dirty Harry bit in guards guards. when it started i was like, "please let him say it, please let him say it" so when he did i couldn't contain myself.

And Granny telling lilith "When you left, I, had to be the GOOD one."

 

[OrangeEyebrows]

Oh! Dibbler's feng shui, telling William to put the lid down on the privy so the dragon of unhappiness doesn't fly up his bottom. And his protests that he wasn't to know there really was a dragon of unhappiness.

 

[=Tamar]

Particularly "May your genitals sprout wings and fly away"

There's a kind of double-bounce on that one, because there really is an ancient god-form like that... look up "herms".

 

[Tina a.k.a.SusanSto.Helit]

In Wintersmith, when Rob has to Holler at and then explain that Daft Wullie should have only worn the One eye patch.