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If we (foolishly) ignore the one true source and read the wiki:

Stephen Hawking incorporates the saying into the beginning of his 1988 book A Brief History of Time:[20]

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down




This is what the internet was supposed to be ! Correcting the others on how many turtles is holding up everything :D :D

Dammit I missed Terry Pratchett :( - The man had a wicked crazy mind and flair to focus it to produce the most amazing stories, scenarios and humour.

Like having a "Thieves Guild" - "If you going to have crime you might as well have organised crime"

For those that don't know, in this scenario. The Thieves guild" got a 'budget' of how much they can steal per year (?) and if you got robbed the thief would give you a receipt. Oh and any 'unlicensed thieving' was dealt with and 'policed' by the guild itself :)


Was Pratchett making a dig at taxation? The thieves guild sounds rather like government taxation.


Lol maybe !




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