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posted on 2025-06-12, 13:54 authored by Matthew PartridgeMatthew Partridge
<p dir="ltr">A three-panel induction tour in which a new lab member (“Anthony”) is quietly revealed as a Terry Pratchett fan by his hat and habit of mumbling footnotes. Footnotes add absurd backstory.</p>

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2017-07-02

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New lab member wears a Pratchett-style hat and mutters footnotes, prompting a fan-recognition joke.

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Person 1: So this is the lab, you’ll be working over there Person 2: Great¹ Person 1: And down this corridor is the coffee machine and offices Person 2: Okay² Person 1: By any chance are you a Terry Pratchett fan? Person 2: Yes, how did you know!? Person 1: Well the hat and that you keep muttering footnotes under your breath Person 2: Oh³ ¹ Anthony was as overwhelmed as a church mouse suddenly discovering its at a conference for double glazing ² His tour guide didn’t know it but Anthony had been known to use coffee machines in a similar way that a dialysis patient uses dialysis ³ Shit

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