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We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/2978…

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Pratchett, Terry - Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002) | WIST Quotations

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. Internal monologue of Sam Vimes. Vimes is riffing off of the anecdotal gladiator salute to the Roman emperor, "We who are about to die salute you [morituri te salutamus]."

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skua Mar 14

@Incognitim

On different timeline that'd have been gallows humor.

Now gather round while we read the modern folk tale, "The Deportation Of The Boy With His Finger In The Dike"

#GallowsHumor #GallowsHumour #USPol

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Miriam Glitsh Mar 2

@serge @kolev if IRC is good enough the IRGC must be better? :p

#currentevents #gallowshumor

Chess Soul Dec 26

#JukeboxFridayNight
#CountingDown
#ShelSilverstein the lyricist who made the 1rst recording of "25 Minutes To Go"
#Folk #GallowsHumor

Shel Silverstein – 25 Minutes To Go (on Inside Folk Songs, 1963) : https://soundcloud.com/shelsilverstein/25-minutes-ago

Well, the Sheriff says :
"Boy, I wanna watch you die"
19 minutes to go
And I laugh in his face and I spit in his eye
I got 18 minutes to go

25 Minutes Ago

Listen to 25 Minutes Ago by Shel Silverstein #np on #SoundCloud

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Roland Maurice Dec 1

#fightoligarchy #elbowsup #gallowshumor #funnybuttrue

Roland Maurice Nov 24

#periodictable #sciencehumor #gallowshumor #funny

Spocko Nov 19

Read earlier that #LarrySummers was stepping down from the board of #OpenAI

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/larry-summers-resigns-openai-board-jeffrey-epstein-emails-rcna244766

Then I saw this headline from The Onion.
I put a content warning on it because it's
#Dark #Humor I think you would call it #GallowsHumor

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Becca Oct 27

@workingclasshistory possibly a mistake in hindsight ☠️

#GallowsHumor

Roland Maurice Oct 10

HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEKEND, CANADA!
#thanksgiving #patriarchy #gallowshumor #metacrisis

Roland Maurice Sep 30

#gallowshumor #fightoligarchy #ITCrowd #elbowsup