#imprecise

"Yeah?"

"You can go and tell him you're not doing it..."

The panic in Colon's face was replaced by glazed gray terror.

"Thank you very much, Nobby," he said bitterly. "Let me know if you've got any more suggestions like that, 'cos I'll need to go and change my underwear."

"Or you could accept it and make such a screw-up of it that he takes it away from you..."

"You're doing this on purpose, Nobby!"

"Might be worth a try, Fred."

"Yeah, but the thing about screw-ups, Nobby, is that it's hard for you to be, you know, precise. You might think you're making a little screw-up and then it blows up in your face and it turns out to be in fact a big screw-up, and in those circumstances, Nobby, I'm sort of worried that what His Lordship might take away from me wouldn't just be the job. I hope I don't have to draw you a picture?"

"Good point, Fred."

"What I'm saying is, screw-ups is like...well, screw-ups is...well, the thing about screw-ups is you never know what size they're going to be."

Rincewind's hourglass looked like something created by a glassblower who'd had the hiccups in a time machine. According to the amount of actual sand it contained--and Death was pretty good at making this kind of estimate--he should have died long ago. But strange curves and bends and extrusions of glass had developed over the years, and quite often the sand was flowing backwards, or diagonally. Clearly, Rincewind had been hit by so much magic, had been thrust reluctantly through time and space so often that he'd nearly bumped into himself coming the other way, that the precise end of his life was now as hard to find as the starting point on a roll of really sticky transparent tape.

Top Portugal court nixes euthanasia law, says it’s imprecise

Portugal’s Constitutional Court on Monday blocked a law passed by parliament introducing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill and gravely injured people. The court said in a statement that the law is imprecise in identifying the circumstances under which those procedures can occur. The judges rejected the law in a 7-5 ruling. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa…