Is This The Apocralypse?

Submitted by LaFeminista on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 4:37pm

For non Terry Pratchett readers [you really should read his Discworld books you know]

The Apocralypse is the end of the world, so named because it is an apocryphal apocalypse, nobody is sure when it will happen, how it will happen, and whether it will happen in the here-and-now sense. The Tea-Time of the Gods, when the Ice Giants will march against them for the last time, probably without even giving them the lawnmower back first. The End of the Disc, when the Four Horsemen (DEATH, WAR, FAMINE and PESTILENCE) will ride forth. In the older Books of Omnianism, there is also an Angel clothèd all in white with an iron book who presides over the event, and such an angel has come into existence, and has been waiting for this event for centuries. However, by the time the event occurred, he was dismissed as an allegory for something that had already happened. This knowledge had no discernible effect.

The four horsemen Death, War, Famine and Pestulence ride forth then usually stop at the first Inn they come across and get blind drunk, apart from Death being a Skeleton who has no flesh to get drunk with. Hunger always monopolises the bar snacks.
The Hero saves the day by near catastrophic accident, often saved by Rincewind a wizard of no discernable magic talent whatsoever.

There is usually a Mad-Grand Vizier involved and as we all know all Grand Viziers are mad by definition, ready to risk the world for power at the drop of a hat. Quite often Grand Viziers own a snake or scorpion pit [CIA black sites] even if there is only one snake and it is old and asleep.

If Trump plays the ruler and I thought Steve Bannon was the ideal candidate for his Grand Vizier that dubious honour now seems to belong to General John F Kelly [another JFK is this a sign?]. The real problem is, where the hell has Rincewind got to?

[Note the Grand Vizier decides what information the ruler has access to so as to control the rulers decisions.]

Time to read Pratchett again.

A Heisenberg Apocalypse?
A Schroedinger Apocalypse?

Apocralypse seems to fit

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Submitted by jobu on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 6:41pm
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That's where I'll be, eating pancakes.

I will be the one who played this song on the jukebox:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKfMlQ7KWFE]

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Submitted by LaFeminista on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 6:44pm

@jobu

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Submitted by jobu on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 6:47pm
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@LaFeminista You too. As always.

I'm here for the pancakes.

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Submitted by Meteor Man on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 8:17pm
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Okay! I missed this little saga, so I checked it out. Discworld Concepts (page one):

https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Category:Discworld_concepts

This concept is royally disgusting. Lord of The Privy Closet:

There indeed was a position in the Royal Household known as The Groom of The Close Stool in England. It was held that performing such an intimate duty for the King could not be entrusted to a mere commoner, and only a noble-born person could be entrusted with wiping the royal bottom and cleaning the royal orifice after a bowel movement.

The parallel position in France, ( Le Porte-Coton) in the royal palace at Verseilles, called for a "helping hand", or perhaps finger, to be given whenever King Louis suffered from constipation. The corresponding lady-in-waiting position to the Queen was known as "The Lady of the Bedchamber" and the title - but not the actual duty - persists today in British royal households. There, you really needed to know that...

Actually, no I didn't need or want to know that. Too late!

Schrodenger's Apocalypse revealed this:

http://www.mnartists.org/event/schrodingers-apocalypse

Interesting application of the uncertainty principle. I think I would take my chances with the zombies.

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 8:51pm
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@Meteor Man @Meteor Man
had such a hard time in the Privy Closet that he had a fatal heart attack and was found that way.

Not the most dignified death, but then George II wasn't terribly dignified.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by Meteor Man on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 9:53pm
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@Bollox Ref
Too good damn funny!

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Submitted by jim p on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 9:36pm

we have good news and bad news about your cat."

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

Submitted by riverlover on Sun, 08/27/2017 - 2:13am
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And since this persona bounces off walls, I would guess there are some we are unaware of yet. The tailor who makes his invisible garments, the farmer growing the beanstalk (oops! he doesn't eat beans AFAIK), the herder who grows the goose with the golden egg. He has found that last one. And it's somehow us. Unless MMT works. But it's still cash extraction.

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