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The Lock-In podcast dedicated the month of April 2015 to the Discworld, in memory of Sir Pterry. They brought up some interesting points in their debate, and - as is so often the case, when people discuss the Discworld novels - mentioned some of their favorite punes and playes on words from the books. (Personally, I hadn’t discovered the pun in the name “Llamedos” until they pointed it out in episode 183.)

You can listen to their discussions here:

Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Wincanton (the twin city of Ankh-Morpork) might boast an impressive pub sign by Discworld Emporium illustrator Richard Kingston, featuring an interior view of the Mended Drum; nevertheless, their standards appear to be slipping, as vicious rumours from the Somerset region maintain that the watering hole has, in fact, started watering down their Scumble.

“I ordered a glass o’ Scumble, and when I ax-erdentally spilled a drop onna spoon, it barely even ate its way through the metal! Hardly left any scorch marks on the wooden table unnerneath, neither! I’ll be ‘aving words, I will.” - G. Ogg

“How Watson Learned the Trick”, not because it would be fun, but because Conan Doyle wrote to show all the flaws inherent in the whole “master detective” myth. Vimes would probably approve.

Thank you!

An astute redditor noticed a scene in Night Watch, where the safe in Watch Captain Tilden’s office can be opened with the code 4-4-7-2. This number seems specific enough to be a reference to something, although the date of April 4th, 1972, doesn’t seem to hold any special significance for anything or anyone Discworld-related; for example, Rhianna Pratchett’s was born in 1976, not in 1972.

Another excellent post from the WMG (Wild Mass Guessing) section of the Discworld TV Tropes page:

The question has been asked, why are there so many Dibbler clones scattered across the Disc?

We know, of course, that Time = Money. We also know that, on Discworld, concentrated Time distorts Space (see “Pyramids”). So it should be unsurprising that concentrated Money should have a similar effect on narrative causality.

The local narrative strain spontaneously generates Dibblers much as mice are created by stores of grain. (You know, because of quantum.)

The operation of a Dibbler acts as a Money sink to relieve this local stress. A Dibbler is remarkably efficient; local wealth shifts to debt very rapidly. This shift of receding Money to the Red is so pronounced that it has been termed “The Dibbler Effect.”

Ponder Stibbons, of the Unseen University’s High Energy Magic Lab, has speculated that the “Dibbler Shift” occurs at or near the speed of ₵, a velocity that has so far exceeded his ability to measure. (₵ being speed with which a dwarf picks up a gold coin dropped on a tavern floor.)

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Nice work, but it's really quite difficult to read the lines when they're blurred together and overlapping like that.