Page 177 - When the Troll Detritus gets locked in the pork futures warehouse, he creates an elaborate "theory of everything" equation all over the walls, in an attempt to pass the time until he is rescued.

Page 246 - Gaspode says, "There's rats along there that'll make your hair stand on--" Gaspode is a terrier type dog and they were originally bred to catch and kill rats. Flannel takes his name from the British slang expression meaning to use bland fluent talk to avoid addressing a difficult subject or situation directly. Page 137 - The menu: Soss, egg, beans and rat etc resonates with the Monty Python's Viking sketch involving spam in everything, rather than rat.A knight, who was a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor and night time, in this case a cop who works the graveyard shift .

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? Wolves operate this way and the victims of werewolfs in classic movies and tales are described as having their jugulars ripped open.Cuddy and Detritus are forced to work together, resulting in them becoming friends as they overcome their deep-seated racial enmity. The OED suggests that "copper" is from "cop" in this sense, but adds that the derivation is uncertain. Knowing Pratchett's frequent references to Douglas Adams' Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it is pretty clear that the answer to the equation is 42 with Discworld having the Question, and the Hitch Hiker's having the answer. Pratchett is playing with the name of the Swedish pop group Abba, one of whose members was Bjorn Ulvaeus.

His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. honchesa" Pratchett is playing with the various ways languages convert a male role into a female role using a word 'honcho' that doesn't use any of those endings.Cuddy is therefore absolutely right when he points out to Detritus: "If you can count to two, you can count to anything! Page 104 - "interesting examples of dwarf bread" Dwarf bread is characterised by being as hard as rock (in fact it often has bits of gravel forged - not baked - into it.

Note how both the 'gold' etymology and the 'waxy appearance' perfectly match Chrysoprase's character as the rich, suave, uptown Mafia-troll. From the 1530s, "the regulation and control of a community" (similar in sense to policy); from Middle French police "organized government, civil administration" (late 15c.

Page 64 - "Capability Brown, Sagacity Smith, Intuition De Vere Slade-Gore" Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1715-1783) actually existed, and was a well known landscape gardener and architect. Page 63 - Bloody Stupid Johnson is a regular feature in Pratchett's novels, always creating something that does not work the way it was intended - the Mail Sorter in Going Postal and the bathroom in Unseen University. This mineral, a colour banded form of fluorspar, is so beautiful that it has been prized for many hundreds of years.