Acting like a bumbling fool, making as if to leave, then smacking his head, 'remembering' something in the doorway, and unleashing an absolute killer question is exactly how TV Detective Columbo always catches the criminal.

This comment and the other dogs reactions to it, is particularly apropos because about the time the book came out, dogs were reclassified from the separate species canis familiaris to the subspecies canis lupus familiaris, making every dog a wolf - even a poodle. The burden of proof meaning hard facts not circumstantial evidence and the proof of an alcohol like Soggy Mountain Dew - its percentage of alcohol. 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.Colon is clearly using the term 'men' as in 'human' rather than referring to the male of the species, whereas Angua is thinking the opposite. Page 210 - "'Hi-ho -- '-- hi-ho --' 'Oook oook oook oook ook --'" The best-known song in Walt Disney's 1937 full length animation movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is sung by the seven dwarfs (also referenced on p. Page 243 - Carrot's comments to Angua "A clown wouldn't wear another clown's face" flow from the above (Page 239) annotation. Long before real life mass murderer John Wayne Gacy, who dressed as Pogo the clown to entertain children at birthday parties, led to numerous slasher clown movies such as the 1988 Mike Meyer's Out of the Dark, there were evil clowns. These words are commonly found in source code and are intended to be modified or substituted before real-world usage.

Many imaginative, but incorrect stories have come up over the years, including that cop refers to the police uniform's copper buttons, the police man's copper badge, or that it is an abbreviation for "constable on patrol", "constabulary of police", or "chief of police". Rings may be sent from one party to another as tokens of love, distress, identification, used as signets, and so forth and are perhaps the most useful pieces of jewelry for purposes of communication or of intrigue. And they need all the help they can get, because someone in Ankh Morpork has been getting dangerous ideas – about crowns and legendary swords, and destiny. Page 266 - The scene where the dogs execute the other dog for "fetching a stick" resonates with inner city gangs, the Mafia, prison inmates, etc. This expression means that it is more worthwhile to do some good, however small, in response, than to complain about the situation.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.

Until recently transport cafes always had menus like that, except that 'Chips' was the recurrent theme. Every number, no matter how large can be represented in binary (29, for instance, is 11101; sixteen + eight + four + one). This, like the whitewash bucket over the door is another in the standard repetoire of clowns everywhere. Bjorn Again is also the name of an Australian band with a repertoire that consists entirely of Abba covers.Leonard of Quirm is famous for writing backwards but of course turning the paper around would not reverse the letters. The Twelfth Night cake not only provided dessert, but also helped to facilitate an old custom (see also Christmas Cake). Page 138 footnote - " Slumpie, Jammy Devils, Fikkun haddock, Distressed Pudding, Clooty Dumplings, and not to be forgotten, the Knuckle Sandwich. Pratchett is likely just referring to a generic musical stereotype but there are a number of musicals that fit the bill for this reference. The tolling of the bell on the church tower signalled a death, so by combining the two expressions, Pratchett is hinting to the detectives that there is a connection between the various deaths in the novel and Edward d'Eath, something the reader already knows.

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. Page 87 - Jimkin " Bearhuggers Old Persnickety" resonates with Jim Bream Bourbon or Corn Whiskey and "Old Persnickety" resonates with Old Pulteney Scotch Whiskey.Page 267 - The scene with the sniper, at the top of the Tower of Art, shooting innocent passersby resonates very clearly with what was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in USA history - the University of Texas at Austin tower shooting of August 1, 1966. Meanwhile, Captain Samuel Vimes, captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, prepares for his imminent wedding to Sybil Ramkin, the richest woman in Ankh-Morpork. Page 92 - "Werewolfs could spot another werewolf across a crowded street" This line resonates with the Rogers and Hammerstein song Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific.