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Offline TrueMonk

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Favorite joke lines of the series
« on: January 06, 2025, 09:50:50 AM »
Because it was an excellent idea here we are: What are your favorite joke lines and conversations in the series?

...Maybe there should be a separate thread for what are our favorite joke lines and conversations in the Dresden Files, because there are certainly a good number of those.

I dont know when I will type my own in because I only have the audio books.

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Re: Favorite joke lines of the series
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2025, 05:00:44 PM »
Because it was an excellent idea here we are: What are your favorite joke lines and conversations in the series?

I dont know when I will type my own in because I only have the audio books.

  The funniest thing I can remember, but cannot remember exactly what was written or the book, was a tee-shirt Harry wore to some crisis.. It said something about Easter I believe...

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Re: Favorite joke lines of the series
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2025, 07:36:20 PM »
Too many to name, I can't choose. The door is ajar. The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault. The problem is that Harry reflexively snarks when frightened or stressed, so I feel like a solid 5-10% of the dialogue could quality.

So by that fact, it has to be "For my next trick, anvils"/"I told you bastards! Next time, anvils!"

A 17 year set-up/payoff isn't bad at all. But what puts it over the top is imagining The (Mad) Wizard of Chicago gaining a myth/rep for following through on threats, no matter how petty. Harry's been leveraging that nervous tic in fights for over a decade in-universe. In my headcanon, somewhere there's a group of nasties trying to remember which appendages and who's orifices he was talking about. Just in case.