The most you could do was lock up his body. you couldn't really imprison someone like Leonard of Quirm. 'One of the advantages of horses that people often point out,' said Vetinari, after some thought, 'is that they very seldom explode.' (J) 'In my experience, Vimes, you can argue with anything.' (J) 'Vimes, Sergeant Colon and Corporal Nobbs have never been pugn'd in their entire lives.' (J) 'I hope you are not impugning my men, sir.' It wasn’t proper police work, Vimes considered, unless you were doing something that someone somewhere would much rather you weren’t doing. (J)Īnd there was nothing finer than a wizard dressed up formally, until someone could find a way of inflating a Bird of Paradise, possibly by using an elastic band and some kind of gas. (J) For…for people whose brains aren’t clever enough for numbers, see?’ (J) ‘Well, there’s…’ Colon racked his brains. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo.’ (J)
The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. ‘Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. he listened with great care because what people said was what they wanted him to hear.
(J)ĭetritus's intelligence wasn't too bad for a troll, falling somewhere between a cuttlefish and a line-dancer, but you could rely on him not to let it slow him down. People live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work every day, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus. (J) The sinking of continents is usually accompanied by volcanoes, earthquakes, and armadas of little boats containing old men anxious to build pyramids and mystic stone circles in some new land where being the possessor of genuine ancient occult wisdom might be expected to attract girls. (J)Īs every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. This made them very much in demand in a certain kind of restaurant where highly skilled chefs made, with great care, dishes containing no trace of squid whatsoever. The Curious Squid were very small, harmless, difficult to find and reckoned by connoisseurs to have the foulest taste of any creature in the world.
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