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The Twelfth Night cake not only provided dessert, but also helped to facilitate an old custom (see also Christmas Cake). Clearly Carrot thinks she is going to change into something more suitable for being incognito instead of a policeman's uniform. A haha is a boundary to a garden or park, usually a buried wall or shallow ditch designed not to be seen until closely approached. Fact of measurement" Pratchett explores and exposes the pseudoscience known as craniology in other novels as well, notably in Night Watch. Twelfth Night celebrations, however, came under the special supervision of another mock ruler: the King of the Bean.

Another popular reference to this expression is "I'm too old for this shit", a catchphrase for Danny Glover's character in the Lethal Weapon series of movies.Page 80 -"'That's three beers, one milk, one molten sulphur on coke with phosphoric acid --'" Phosphoric acid is in fact an ingredient of Coca Cola. Page 59 - "Chopping off queen's heads and fighting their cousins every five minutes" is a reference to Henry VII lopping off Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard's heads and the War of the Roses between the Lancasters and the Yorks. Page 35 - "Steal the secret of Fire from the gods" is a reference to Prometheus stealing fire from the gods for mankind in Greek mythology. Other regions of the world, including India and China, also have early evidence of water clocks, but the earliest dates are less certain.

In others, a pea was also added to the cake batter and the woman who found the pea in her serving of cake enacted the role of "queen. Chrysoprase is a regular in Discword novels although his name is spelled 'Crystophrase' in Wyrd Sisters. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran and sharpshooter, Charles Whitman, killed his wife and mother before using the University of Texas clock tower as a sniper's nest to kill 15 people, including a pregnant woman, and wound 31 before being killed by police. As in ancient China, the alchemists know that the described compound can be used for fireworks but have not grasped its potential as gunpowder in a weapon. shaped like a pair of artificial breasts" Pratchett plays with the colloquialism for breasts - as in a 'nice pair of knockers'.Toute de suite" means immediately in French and is usually mispronounced like this by people who only learned basic French in school or for comic effect. 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.