1 | * The ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' shout outs. The best part being that in the epilogue, Sam is surprised to find that Jane's novel (''Pride and Extreme Prejudice'') is now dedicated to him. |
2 | * Young Sam's continuing obsession with poo. |
3 | -->'''Young Sam:''' I've got a laboratory in the lavatory. |
4 | * Young Sam learns to milk a goat. |
5 | -->'''Young Sam:''' Dad! I know how to milk a goat, Dad! You have to pull its tits, Dad, they're all wiggly! |
6 | * The titles of the children's books. "The World of Poo", "Melvin and the Enormous Boil", or "The Boy Who Didn't Know How to Pick His Own Scabs" among others. |
7 | * The bathroom in Ramkin Hall, where the decorator had gone rather overboard with Faun motifs. As Sybil said, use of the bathroom when she was a child rather ensured that she wouldn't be shocked in later life. |
8 | * The explanation of the rules of crocket, which takes so long that (metaphorically presumably, but with Pratchett you never know), the universe ages and ends, a new universe is born, life evolves, a new Sam Vimes exists, and he's there just in time to hear the end. |
9 | * Early on, the explanation of why Vimes never argued with Sybil: |
10 | -->... because even when he thought he had won, it would later turn out, due to some magic unavailable to husbands, that he had been misinformed. |
11 | * Vimes uneasily reflecting that he had always thought of authors as people who just lounged around in their dressing gowns all day, drinking champagne, and a footnote asserts that this is, of course, completely true. And in at least one language, that footnote has a translator's footnote stating that this must be true, since Mr. Pratchett knows what he's talking about. |
12 | * The ''Wonderful Fanny'' (already a source of double entendres: "by then we should be able to see the ''Fanny''", etc.) gets [[{{Malaproper}} malapropismed]] by Vetinari [[NotSoAboveItAll of all people]] as the ''Enormous Fanny''. When corrected, he's implied to be embarrassed and/or trying not to laugh; "he did not exactly meet Vimes's gaze". |
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