From the back, Vetinari looked like a carnivorous flamingo. The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other. A romantic, in fact. The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving. He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it.
Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.
The river Ankh is probably the only river in the universe on which the investigators can chalk the outline of the corpse. The Alchemist's Guild is opposite the Gambler's Guild. Sometimes it's above it, or below it, or falling in bits around it. The Patrician relaxed, in a way which only then drew gentle attention to the foregoing moment of tension. Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.