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* Back again to ''The Baltic War'': ''"Who ordered this?"''
* From ''The Grantville Gazette'', [[Gossip Evolution|the origin of the Sewing Circle's mutual fund]] (amusingly, titled "[[Other People's Money]]").
* In ''The Bavarian Crisis'', "[[The Trope Formerly Known as X|the prince formerly known as the Cardinal-Infante]]" has the idea for a bold action that will make great propaganda for his new regime. His advisors are aghast, since it involves him risking his life in one of the still-somewhat-crude airplanes. He points out, "Just think of the songs. The poems. The Harlequin Romances." (They're ''still'' aghast.)
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* In "Diving Belle" from ''Ring of Fire II'', the story of the church bells of Delsbo.
* Eddie Cantrell getting drafted in "In the Navy".
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{{quote|'''Jesse:''' No, I've got plenty of other things to attend to. And participating in another argument over machine guns ranks somewhere below getting a colonoscopy, in my book.
'''Torstensson:''' What is a colonoscopy? And how soon could we have one deployed against the Ostenders? }}
** After learning what a colonoscopy '''is''', Torstensson wonders if he could use it, not against the enemy, but to discipline his own officers. Squeal like a pig!
* In the first novel, the D&D boys gush about Frank Jackson's tactical planning of an imminent battle and name drop [[The Duke of Wellington]], leading to this exchange:
{{quote|'''Frank Jackson (gruff tone):''' So who the hell is Wellington?
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* In ''1632'', when some of the mercenaries are put in WANTED-DEAD and advised to leave American territories before July 5, the mercenaries' commander complains about the fact that the "American territories" part is unclear. Mike Stearns just stares at the commander. [[Gilligan Cut|A few months later]], the commander has found a job. In Russia. He figures that it would be far enough.
* In 1636: The Saxon Uprising, as the authority and legitimacy of Axel Oxenstierna is slowly eroded, and he loses the support of the people, we occasionally cut to a group of Pomeranian fishermen commenting on events. In the beginning, they are all in support of Axel. The second time we see them, they say they should have voted for Stearns, not Wettin. The third time, they all claim they actually voted for Stearns, prompting the one skeptic in the room to comment that [[Lampshade Hanging|within a year, it will seem to have been magic how Wettin got elected, 'seeing as how no one seemed to have voted for him']]. The final time we meet them, only one person in their village, an old widow, claims to have voted for Wettin - they promptly remark that Stearns shouldn't have given women the vote, and that ''[[Refuge in Audacity|they almost didn't vote for him because of that.]]''
* "The Ram Rebellion" has Brillo, an unusually intelligent ram with terrible wool who becomes an in-universe [[Memetic Badass]] and [[Memetic Molester]]
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