The oldest person "alive"
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Google, I think you may be confused:
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@Cabbage Nope, she was the oldest.
The last of the oldest.
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@TimeBandit said in The oldest person "alive":
@Gribnit said in The oldest person "alive":
Nope
Only if you ignore the "alive" part of the query
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.
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@DogsB That’s a less serious version of what my father once mentioned he was told as part of first aid training during his military service: “To you, a casualty is not dead unless his head is separated from his body.”
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Reminds me of the Terry Pratchett quote about an assassin who'd been trained to check his target was dead by holding a mirror in front of their mouth to check for breath. It took him a while to find the head but he did it
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@Jaloopa Actually I'm pretty sure that was carrot, in Guards! Guards!
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@PleegWat said in The oldest person "alive":
@Jaloopa Actually I'm pretty sure that was carrot, in Guards! Guards!
Hincorrect. That was Mr. Teatime.
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@Gribnit It's Te-ah-tim-eh. Nobody ever gets it right.
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@Gribnit That said I must admit you're right. Hogfather, page 32 of my corgi paperback.
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@Gribnit said in The oldest person "alive":
@PleegWat said in The oldest person "alive":
@Jaloopa Actually I'm pretty sure that was carrot, in Guards! Guards!
Hincorrect. That was Mr. Teatime.
It's entirely possible he reused the joke. I thought it might have been Pteppic
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@Jaloopa I do recall something about trying every method to test if someone was dead he knew, and that definitely isn't in the Mr Teatime instance (since I just looked that one up).
It does fit early Carrot, but there's a rather larger stretch of text that could be in so I'd end up re-reading half the book. The Teatime one was easy because I knew it could only be in his initial interview with Lord Downey.
Mind you, there's worse things to do with your time than re-reading a Pratchett book.
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@PleegWat said in The oldest person "alive":
@Gribnit That said I must admit you're right. Hogfather, page 32 of my corgi paperback.
Oh good, I was right not to try to name the title, I thought it was Hogsfather.
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@PleegWat said in The oldest person "alive":
@Jaloopa I do recall something about trying every method to test if someone was dead he knew, and that definitely isn't in the Mr Teatime instance (since I just looked that one up).
It does fit early Carrot, but there's a rather larger stretch of text that could be in so I'd end up re-reading half the book. The Teatime one was easy because I knew it could only be in his initial interview with Lord Downey.
Mind you, there's worse things to do with your time than re-reading a Pratchett book.
Correction! There is nothing better that you can be doing with your time than re-reading a Pratchett book.
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@DogsB Reading a Pratchett book you haven't yet read.
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@DogsB said in The oldest person "alive":
@PleegWat said in The oldest person "alive":
@Jaloopa I do recall something about trying every method to test if someone was dead he knew, and that definitely isn't in the Mr Teatime instance (since I just looked that one up).
It does fit early Carrot, but there's a rather larger stretch of text that could be in so I'd end up re-reading half the book. The Teatime one was easy because I knew it could only be in his initial interview with Lord Downey.
Mind you, there's worse things to do with your time than re-reading a Pratchett book.
Correction! There is nothing better that you can be doing with your time than re-reading a Pratchett book.
I've only read a handful of them, but I've read most of Louis L'Amour's books several times.
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@HardwareGeek said in The oldest person "alive":
@DogsB Reading a Pratchett book you haven't yet read.
Tell me what it is!
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@HardwareGeek said in The oldest person "alive":
@DogsB Reading a Pratchett book you haven't yet read.
None of those ever. I think I've even read all of his early short fiction now
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