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16 set 2009 · What's the use and meaning of the term 'going postal' to mean becoming uncontrollably angry, often in a violent way? The phrase is American English slang although it is now being used increasingly on this side of the Atlantic. Terry Pratchett used it as the title for a novel in 2004. Meaning to become uncontrollably angry, it originates in a ...
Synopsis. Moist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in Terry Pratchett's remarkable Discworld, he must work off his debt to society as the land's head Postman. Things are not always as they seem, and soon Lipwig is delivering mail for his very life!
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5 giorni fa · Jinnie’s Story- Book Six, Chapter Twenty-Nine. 9th May 2024 Going Postal 0. As Izzy drove away, Jinnie hurried into the Green Acres reception and was delighted to find someone she knew, Adrienne, on the desk. Adrienne had been on the staff from when Jinnie had worked on [more…] 21st Century.
2 giorni fa · 13th May 2024 Going Postal 1 I never did quite discover Miss Pronter’s exact connection with a once-well-known – not to say notorious – Girls’ Boarding School in Berkshire, but she claimed that the then-Chaplain, having delivered this, left the script [more…]
This darkness and concrete morality sets his work apart from imitators of his English Absurd school of comic fantasy' ― Guardian Going Postal again does justice to the author's peculiar vision. The weirdness of Discworld is appropiately captured in a tale of love and redemption which blends satire, humour and drama ― The Daily Telegraph
23 mar 2020 · When someone says that a person is ‘going postal’ they are saying that that person has completely lost their temper and is exceptionally angry. The term is particularly useful to describe a violent outburst of anger. Origin of this idiom. The term ‘going postal’ became a popular idiom in the 1980s and 1990s when several tragic murders ...
Cast. Richard Coyle Tamsin Greig Charles Dance Andrew Sachs Steve Pemberton Timothy West David Suchet Marnix Van Den Broeke Claire Foy Ian Bonar Alex Price Ingrid Bolsø Berdal Paul Barber Don Warrington Nicholas Farrell Adrian Schiller Ben Crompton Terry Pratchett John Henshaw Asif Khan. 180 mins More at IMDb TMDb. Sign in to log, rate or review.
