Siliconism also has links to belief in alternate value systems other than technology but whether Pratchett was thinking along this line is unknown. Both before and after, the company exhibited all the trademark bureaucracy of an unwieldy monolithic corporation with the associated lack of concern or interest in their clients - the travelling public. The line originates in a slightly altered form from the 1930 film Hell's Angels when Jean Harlow said: "Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable? Clowns' faces are trademarked and cannot be copied by any other clown (unlike clothes or a specific act).

Loofah is a genus of tropical climbing plant bearing a fruit, the fibrous skeleton of which is used for scrubbing backs in the bath. Lovecraft also uses the entity Father Dagon as the leader of the Deep Ones in some of his horror stories. The rhyme is said to be about the mob of Dutchmen that William of Orange brought over with him to England in 1688, with the "one in a velvet gown" being the Prince himself. Page 198 - In response to Vimes agonizing that it has all been a waste of time, Carrot says, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness. In the late 40s and 50s, no hot rod was complete without them and they became a symbol of 'dicing with death' - a willingness to race your hot rod on the street.You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place. DC Comics 1940s creation the Joker led to both the comic book series and the resultant Batman movie .

But in the days before standardized spelling, 'Gonne' was an older spelling for 'gun' and can be found as far back as the works of Chaucer. Secret rooms were common in medieval castles as a way of hiding from attackers and also spying on guests.Chrysoprase as an applegreen variety of chalcedony, used as gem, but literally from the Greek words 'chrusos', gold and 'prason', leek. And the line is also the common movie pickup line where the woman is changing into something more suitable for the evenings activities, like a flimsy negligee easily removed. Page 25 - "Here be Dragns" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.

Note for UK types: this place was the White Horse Café at Cherhill on the A4 near where Eddie Cochran, the man behind “Summertime Blues” and “C’mon Everybody,” was killed on April 17, 1960 when the taxi carrying him from a show in Bristol, England, crashed en route to the airport in London, where he was to catch a flight back home to the United States. Some believe that if a werewolf ingests it when they are in human form, it will enable them to keep their human mind when they transform into a wolf. Page 74 - "'I think perhaps Lance-Constable Angua shouldn't have another go with the longbow until we've worked out how to stop her. So since they are used to base 4 it makes sense for Cuddy to teach Detritus these numbers early in the education process since they are all multiples of the Troll's number 4 which is 'many'. It turns out that d'Eath has stolen the gonne, the Disc's first and only handheld firearm, from the Assassins' Guild, with the intention of discrediting Vetinari's government through the murders.

Each used, to varying degrees, a combination of blunt-force and puncture attack to kill or wound the enemy. Page 135 - "cautiously raising a decoy helmet on a stick" The decoy helmet on stick is a reference to the tactic from WW I where soldiers in the trenches would put a helmet on a stick and lift it above the trench line to draw the enemy's fire and thus provide their location for counter-fire. Cuddy and Detritus are forced to work together, resulting in them becoming friends as they overcome their deep-seated racial enmity. The hermit crabs on Bermuda are only surviving by recycling old fossil shells, of which there are fewer and fewer as time goes on, thus causing the hermit crab to become, slowly but surely, just as extinct as the snails. Since she is a werewolf she could rip the literal heart out of a person and eat it (except she is mostly vegetarian) and since she is a gorgeous female she could rip the figurative heart out of a potential suitor.

Page 8 - Edward d'Eath's slide show of the kings and queens of Ankh-Morpork is similar to a Roundworld Powerpoint presentation. Roundworld's hermit crab (which can be found on islands like Bermuda) behaves similarly: it has no protective shell of its own, so it utilises the shells of dead land snails. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is a harmonic oscillator: It swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length, and resists swinging at other rates. Page 31 - Cuddy describing his double headed throwing ax as a "Cultural weapon" resonates with the debate over the Sikh dagger, the kirpan. Pratchett plays with the concept that Unseen University's bell would naturally be a silent one so that it would not give away the 'unseen' aspect of the university's location.Vetinari accedes, making Carrot Captain of the Watch and elevating Vimes to the recreated position Commander of the Watch, and the rank of Knight. Page 243 - Carrot's comments to Angua "A clown wouldn't wear another clown's face" flow from the above (Page 239) annotation. This resonates with the Monty Python's Candid Photography ( Nudge Nudge) sketch which Pratchett has referenced in many of his novels, notably A Hatful of Sky and The Truth. But increasingly this line is reflecting the views of many ordinary and even poor people in supposedly advanced societies who think that the world was a better place in the 'good old days'. Page 92 - "Yo, bitch" Pratchett is playing with the urban slang greeting and the fact that Angua in her werewolf state is in fact a 'bitch' or female wolf.