A quotation from Terry Pratchett
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)
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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]."
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"
#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
Listen to 25 Minutes Ago by Shel Silverstein #np on #SoundCloud
Read earlier that #LarrySummers was stepping down from the board of #OpenAI
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
@workingclasshistory possibly a mistake in hindsight ☠️
Eric
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