# 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:** 8 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung) #### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/21 "2003-04-08T20:08:28Z")
From **Soul Music,** the dwarf band “We Definitely Are Dwarfs.” Runner up: the recurring reference to “The Hiho Song.” ---
### Author: ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius) #### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/22 "2003-04-08T21:39:47Z")
Nobby’s Eddy Murphy routine at the armoury in Men At Arms was one of the highlights for me. ---
### Author: ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan) #### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/23 "2003-04-09T00:00:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > **From Soul Music, the dwarf band "We Definitely Are Dwarfs."** Sorry, but IIRC that’s “We’re certainly Dwarves”. ---
### Author: ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan) #### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/24 "2003-04-09T00:03:47Z")
"and Vestigial Virgins “‘Thesis plus antithesis equals hysteresis,’ said Ibid.” (a nice spoof of Hegel) -Small Gods ---
### Author: ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat) #### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/25 "2003-04-09T00:49:42Z")
Hell, just **Ibid** in Pyramids and Small Gods “The trouble with you Ibid is you think you’re a bloody authority on everything.” Still laugh my ass off when I read that. ---
### Author: ![big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_yellow_kingswood) #### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/26 "2003-04-09T14:54:11Z")
In ERIC, Rincewind is summond using the powerful tome: _Mallificarum Sumpta Diabolicite Occularis Singularum_ MS-DOS I love it… ---
### Author: ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat) #### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/27 "2003-04-09T16:42:24Z")
Hwel the dwarf’s ideas for plays involving character’s like the Marx Brother’s and Laurel and Hardy were excellent. ---
### Author: ![CadburyAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@CadburyAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CadburyAngel) #### Post date: [April 9, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167/28 "2003-04-09T19:09:15Z")
Oh, yes. Casanunda… Casanova… ova… unda… I fell out of my frickin’ chair when I finally got that one, about ten books into the series. Sweet Jesus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-pratchett-allusion/167167.md?page=1)