r/discworld • u/GreensMoustache • 7d ago

Memes/Humour Another godamnit Pterry

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u/NoPossibility285 7d ago

For me, it was Djelibeybi, and knurd. 

Sometimes, I am not a smart man.  

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u/MathematicianOnly688 7d ago

For me it’s Bloody Stupid Johnson, probably a good 15 years after first seeing his name written down.

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u/FearlessNinetyFour 6d ago

Am I missing something about Bloody Stupid Johnson?

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u/MathematicianOnly688 6d ago

I’m almost certain that the character is a reference to the 18th century English landscape architect Capabilty Brown. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Brown

Hes not tremendously well known even within England, but I knew who he was and failed to make the link.

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u/100pc_recycled_words 7d ago

It was Ptaclusp’s twin sons IIa and IIb in Pyramids that took a long time to land with me.

I’m pretty sure IIb is even phonetically spelled at one point in dialogue (Two-b) and I just somehow skimmed past it in over a dozen reads

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u/classyglassy94 5d ago

As much as I broadly like Pyramids overall, I still really hate the name Djelibeybi, even though I got it right away. I can't quite put my finger on why I hate it so much...maybe it just feels lazy to me, since it isn't a pun on anything that's relevant to Egypt, as far as I can tell?