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** Zemelda Cleat uses a variety of bizarre slang terms, the meaning of which can '''sometimes''' be deduced. After one of them, "flyposting for slash gigs," Amberley footnotes simply: "No, I don't know either."
** In ''The Greater Good'', there's a sequence in which she's trying to figure out, from clues in what Cain says, just which ship he was aboard at a certain time. Certain statements contradict deductions based on other remarks, and Amberley finally says, "I give up."
** In one very cold situation, Cain mentions that he feels like he's turning into a "
** She can find no explanation for why a planet was named "Simia Orichalcae" ([[Canis Latinicus|High Gothic]] for "Brass Monkey"), but [[Future Imperfect|speculates]] that long ago, a statue of this kind may have been found there. Though she also can't figure out why anyone would've put a statue of a monkey, brass or otherwise, on such a frozen world as Simia Orichalcae.
** Amberley orders an immediate [[Tactical Withdrawal]] when she realizes her small party is about to be attacked by tyranids. Cain's narrative comments that he has no doubt she did so from far nobler motives than mere self-preservation. Her footnote admits, "In all honesty, looking back, none spring to mind."
* 'Then the prophet spake: saying "Frak this, for my faith is a shield proof against your blandishments".' Just the fact that a splinter cult worships Cain as the living embodiment of the God-Emperor's will at all...
* Even in the grim darkness of the far future, people stepping on rakes is good for a laugh.
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{{quote|''Ciaphas Cain, regimental commissar, Valhallan 597th. My aide, Jurgen. Terrorist attack.''}}
* Cain's tailing-off rebuttal of Penlan's [[Dojikko|accident-prone nature]], and her resultant nickname, "Jinxie":
{{quote|"She's not nearly as accident prone as she's supposed to be. I'll grant you [[Continuity Nod|she fell down an ambull tunnel once]], and there was [[Urine Trouble|that incident with the frag grenade and the latrine trench]], but things [[Cursed with Awesome|tend to work out for her]]. The orks on Kastafore
** If "Skweki" isn't a typographical error (some other sources give the spelling as "Skekwi"), the fact that a planet was named "Squeaky" may itself be good for a grin.
* ''Caves of Ice'' has an excerpt from a children's book about promethium, with a footnote by Amberley saying she still finds the pictures of Pyrus the Flame immolating heretics to be amusing.
* "The Wheels on the Bus" isn't quite [[Grimdark]] enough to teach to Imperial children:
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* ''The Last Ditch'': While Cain and Jurgen watch a horde of orks thundering towards them in the distance, Jurgen makes small talk about the weather. Cain tries to remember the last time he saw his aide look at all bothered by overwhelmingly poor odds, and comes up blank.
* How Ciaphas Cain met Amberley Vail. It was [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|most certainly not]] [[Love At First Sight]], as he does not believe in such things, and can merely remember the exact moment he first saw her, with perfect clarity, even a century later. Cue his conversational attempts to not have a simple cabaret singer see through his every attempt at playing the "modest hero," Kasteen's silent mocking as they waltz, and a final attempt to impress the new lady friend... By voicing suspicions that the [[Obviously Evil]] Rogue Trader has to be an Inquisitor, which leaves poor Amberley visibly nervous and trembling--[[Hilarious in Hindsight|with what had to be a stubborn refusal not to burst out laughing]].
* In ''For the Emperor'', Cain comments on how Colonel Mostrue seems to suspect the truth about his "heroism" on Desolatia, and he "never quite seemed to trust me after that. Which was extremely sensible of him when you think about it."
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