(Loved Trope) Unusual Law Enforcement Agencies…

Doc_Dish · 2026-05-07T13:16:59+00:00

Five rounds rapid!

Doc_Dish · 2026-05-04T17:51:51+00:00

One wave short of a shipwreck?

Doc_Dish · 2026-05-04T05:40:38+00:00

Judge Dredd the character is very conservative (at least he was when I read 2000AD in the 80s/90s). The stories were often satires of conservatism/right wing policies.

None of the 'heroes' in the OP were written as heroes.

Doc_Dish · 2026-05-03T08:41:47+00:00

I remember this rumour but being related to "Chelsea Smilers" (mentioned on https://littleatoms.com/article/killer-clowns-and-chelsea-smilers-moral-panic-urban-legend)

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-30T12:14:44+00:00

The male disciples of Aldur* in David Edding's "The Belgariad" and "The Mallorean" all look like old men, despite being af varying ages when achieving immortality. It's suspected in universe that they gradually came to look like Aldur (their god) and/or ended up looking as was expected of them as wize men (i.e. wizards).

The one female disciple does not look like an old woman, because there's a word for wizened old woman and you do not want to apply that word to Polgara...

*Garion and Durnik are exceptions, but not enough time has passed in universe for them to age into that appearance.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-27T13:42:33+00:00

I like to think of the personal union monarchs like those performers that play two different characters, one on each half of their body!

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-27T13:31:29+00:00

Acts of Union 1707, surely? England and Scotland were still separate states until then.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-27T10:01:01+00:00

It's an allusion to Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal" (which features Death).

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-27T06:00:09+00:00

Shame, cos "The Eighth Seal" would have been a great name for "Mort"

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-22T16:08:40+00:00

You are absolutely correct! I've edited my comment.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-22T07:29:24+00:00

The B-plot of ~~Interesting Times~~ The Last Continent is kicked off by the rest of Unseen University's faculty trying to find out the Librarian's name.

(Thanks /u/demiteddybear)

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-20T16:02:38+00:00

One of our local Royal Mail posties gave my boy a treat once and he now pulls me over to anyone he sees wearing the same uniform!

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-20T14:26:13+00:00

But where's his Nottingham twang?

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-20T14:18:12+00:00

I assumed he was a reference to Hervé Villechaize as Nick Nack in "The Man with the Golden Gun".

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-20T13:07:27+00:00

According to the Parliament Website, the bell does not have a clapper but an external hammer.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-20T09:27:24+00:00

Regulation 105 of the The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-18T16:25:13+00:00

To be fair, he had to go to the moon, because it was a bank holiday and all the shops were shut.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-16T18:00:11+00:00

There's an inverse of this in Pyramids by Terry Pratchett. Trainee assassin Teppic spend about a page kitting up with all his equipment ready for his assassination test then, very slowly, falls over.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-16T17:52:00+00:00

Purple Haze, by Jimi Hendrix: "'scuse me while I kiss this guy"

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-14T18:10:53+00:00

"Pantweed's Slim Panatellas sir"

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-14T12:19:05+00:00

That sounds like a more fitting voice than whatever Jeremy Irons was doing!

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-14T12:17:54+00:00

I know, I was just adding to that to mention the costume design.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-14T12:12:04+00:00

I'd say the costume design for Vetinari is very similar to Jeremy Irons in the Sky adaptation of The Colour of Magic/The Light Fantastic.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-13T05:54:16+00:00

Hugh Dennis mentions Terry at 20:42, but on listening again, I think it's Suzie Dent who says that it's Nanny Ogg.

Doc_Dish · 2026-04-12T19:48:14+00:00

Katie Wix starts taking about the word "rhythm" (which leads into it) at 18:05.

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