# Your favourite Pratchett allusion
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 7, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167 "2003-04-07T21:29:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/1 "2003-04-07T21:29:28Z")
Lets be honest, a good part of what makes the Discworld so fun is catching the allusions and references to our own world and feeling clever because we did so.
Inspired by my remembrance of a favourite allusion in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=175133), I thought it would be fun to share our favourite Discword allusions.
My two favourites:
Vetinari. Medici. Hee!
and
Llamedos. Sod’em all backwards. A reference to Llagerrub in Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood. This one made me feel SMRT.
What’s yours?
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/2 "2003-04-07T21:50:53Z")
And in case you need reminding, a wealth of Pratchett allusions can be found [here](http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html).
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/3 "2003-04-07T22:07:56Z")
“But you read a lot of books, I’m thinking. Hard to have faith, ain’t it, when you’ve read too many books?”
From Carpe Jugulum
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/4 "2003-04-07T22:11:05Z")
I still get a kick out of the Druid’s and their megalith computers from **Light Fantastic**
As far as an out and out pun I love “who’re people going to remember Glod, you or some felonious monk?” (approximately) from **Soul Music**.
Oh, and the basketball references from **Soul Music** too.
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### Author:  [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/5 "2003-04-07T22:41:15Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Francesca \*
> \*\*Lets be honest, a good part of what makes the Discworld so fun is catching the allusions and references to our own world and feeling clever because we did so.
>
> Inspired by my remembrance of a favourite allusion in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=175133), I thought it would be fun to share our favourite Discword allusions.
>
> My two favourites:
>
> Vetinari. Medici. Hee!
>
> and
>
> Llamedos. Sod’em all backwards. A reference to Llagerrub in Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood. This one made me feel SMRT.
>
> What’s yours? \*\*
Shurely shome mishtake Francesca, not Llagerrub but Llareggub 🙂
V
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/6 "2003-04-07T22:53:53Z")
How about the musical about that poor bum **Miserable Les** , in **Maskerade**. You don’t have to be smart to figure that one out, but I love how he twists things. Maskerade is **Soul Music** grown up.
I actually got an annotation listed at [lspace.org](http://lspace.org). When we meet **Casanunda** the dwarf who - in **Witches Abroad** - introduces himself as _"The second greatest lover in the world - but I try harder_.
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/7 "2003-04-07T22:54:47Z")
You’re quite write.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/8 "2003-04-08T01:25:30Z")
Perdita thought that not obeying rules was somehow cool. Agnes thought that rules like “Don’t fall into this huge pit of spikes” were there for a purpose.
– (Carpe Jugulum)
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/9 "2003-04-08T02:34:18Z")
I like when he does “Deformed Rabbit.”
Sorry, thought you said “illusions.”
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/10 "2003-04-08T10:28:21Z")
I got the Chekhov allusions in _The Fifth Elephant_. I felt dead clever.
And which book is it that has some hero talking about killing a monster, and “next day its mum came down to the hall and complained”? I liked that one.
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/11 "2003-04-08T11:48:21Z")
My favorite is where he mentions someone being pressganged and having to spend years plowing the ocean waves, and adds a footnote saying it’s hard work, especially when the damn horses keep sinking.
So, how many Biblical scholars are there here? How many get this one?
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### Author:  [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/12 "2003-04-08T11:59:28Z")
> [@](#):
>
> - [p. 19/15] You Don’t Have To Be Pitilessly Sadistic To Work Here But It Helps!!!
>
> Refers to those lame stickers and signs in offices and work areas all over the world that say: “You don’t have to be insane to work here but it helps!”.
Small gods. Oh yeah!
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### Author:  [@evilhomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhomer)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/13 "2003-04-08T14:06:38Z")
In **Reaper Man** , I like the image of the Dean running around saying “huthuthut” and “Yo!”. I picture him looking like a really fat Rambo.
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/14 "2003-04-08T15:29:51Z")
In Guards! Guards!, Errol, the little dragon was called a “Whittle”. The inventor of the jet engine. Heh.
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/15 "2003-04-08T15:48:02Z")
The “Cool” Vampires in **Carpe Jugulum** who adopted names like Tracy and Brad. Brilliant anti-goth.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/16 "2003-04-08T15:58:30Z")
“Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.”
Matthew 2:16: “Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, […]”
-The Last Continent
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/17 "2003-04-08T16:24:15Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by photopat \*
> \*\*I
> As far as an out and out pun I love “who’re people going to remember Glod, you or some felonious monk?” (approximately) from **Soul Music**.
> \*\*
Not to mention: “They can’t stop us, we’re on a mission from Glod!”
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/18 "2003-04-08T16:35:40Z")
\*\*“The next time somebody comes in here and tries to play, what was it…Pathway to Paradise, he’s to rip their head off and stick it on a post.”
“Don’t they get a warning?”
“That’ll _be_ the warning.”\*\*–Soul Music
I loved that.
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### Author:  [@banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banks)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/19 "2003-04-08T16:58:46Z")
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, “they can’t stop us, we’re on a mission from Glod.” Best allusion ever!
Wow, it’s been a while since I posted… stupid laziness.
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/20 "2003-04-08T19:29:15Z")
From **Men at Arms**
Vetinari: What are these drawings?
Leonard: Oh, those are just some of my cartoons.
Vetinari: The one of the boy with his kite stuck in the tree is quite good.
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