Men at Arms: A Discworld Novel:15

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Angua works with the talking dog Gaspode, and also forms a romantic connection with Carrot, who loses his virginity to her but handles the discovery that she is a werewolf poorly. When Cuddy and Detrius are chasing Cruces down Grope Alley, Pratchett mentions that the origin of the name is "fortunately" lost in the mists of time.

Besides supplying the name for a Goth music group, the New Model Army was the Parliamentarian army which turned the tide of the English Civil War, and ensured the defeat of King Charles I. Pratchett is playing with the tradition from Christian, heterosexual weddings that the bride's parents sit in the first row on the left side of the aisle, while the groom's parents sit n the first row on the right side. This expression means that it is more worthwhile to do some good, however small, in response, than to complain about the situation. Page 177 - When the Troll Detritus gets locked in the pork futures warehouse, he creates an elaborate "theory of everything" equation all over the walls, in an attempt to pass the time until he is rescued.

The French saying, il a trouvé la fève au gâteau, which means "he found the bean in the cake," comes from this Twelfth Night custom and means "he's had some good luck. Page 151 - "Sham Harga's coffee was like molten lead" "'That,' said Vimes, 'was a bloody awful cup of coffee, Sham. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place. Pratchett regularly references David Nobb's The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin in his novels and this line is the kind of statement Reggie's pompous son in law Tom regularly makes when he says he is 'not a (fill in the blank) kind of person'. Berk was originally the cruder of the two deriving from the 1930s as a shortened version of Berkeley Hunt, the hunt based at Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire.

People conveniently forget that life was often brutal and short, with no safety net, poor health outcomes, high infant and childbirth mortality and widespread poverty and dwell instead on the few positives and the false perceptions - the idea of a safer simpler time. This is the slogan of the US National Rifle Association and is the standard jargon used to argue against any form of gun control each time another mass murder takes place in the USA. Page 2 - Edward d'Eath's name is an obvious play on the word 'Death" but it is in fact an old English name.Pratchett indicated that he was not referring to Mountain Dew, the American soft drink, but is using the term in its original meaning, as a colloquialism for whisky -- particularly, the homemade 'moonshine' variety. when Detritus repeats the phrase as "You got a field-marshal's button in your knapsack", Each time the phrase gets progressively more confused, like the childhood game 'telephone'. The last two items are equivalents of two of Roundworld's 'seven wonders of antiquity': the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes. Pratchett is playing with two meanings for discharge; one being the dismissal from service for inappropriate actions and the other being a bodily fluid leakage that needs medical attention.

It has also bee said to be a reference to Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, forcing monks to beg on the streets for a living. Page 115 - Sendivoge the Alchemist Guild secretary takes his name from a Polish alchemist named Michael Sendivogius. Page 288 - "There were already a couple of ushers in place, ready to ask guests whose side they were on. His nickname derived from his frequent statement to prospective employers that their estates held great "capabilities".

It premiered at the Globe Theatre, London, on 1 March 1966, directed and choreographed by Gillian Lynne. The mushroom, Phallus Impudicus is the Stinkhorn fungus, and it has been described as a large, phallus-shaped, pallid, woodland fungus smelling very strongly of rotten meat, and usually covered with flies. Page 250 - "Used to be as rich as Creosote" The line is a reference to the Roundworld expression "as rich as Croesus" but there is also a connection between Creosote and King Midas and his touch as well as to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan and Omar Khayyam's The Rubaiyat.

Pratchett's drawing the reader's attention to Colon's use of the French 'metier' with the slanty thing over the 'e' emphasizes that this line will be important shortly. It also resonates with the 1970 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles hit, Tears of a Clown cowritten by Robinson, Hank Cosby and a 17 year old Stevie Wonder . shaped like a pair of artificial breasts" Pratchett plays with the colloquialism for breasts - as in a 'nice pair of knockers'. This is not surprising given the fact that his ancestor led 600 men (the same number as in the Charge of the Light Brigade) to glorious defeat at the Battle of Quirm. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal.It can be used as a weapon and the most important example is the Scone of Stone, a take of on Scotland's Stone of Scone.