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* [[Brick Joke]]: Happens quite often, even across books in the form of [[Continuity Nod]]s. As one example, in ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'', there's mention of someone trying to pass a parrot off as a dog by teaching it to bark and writing "DoG" on its feathers. In ''[[Discworld/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'', Leonard of Quirm is shown feeding a bunch of birds, one of which is that parrot.
** Also, a bar called The Broken Drum (You Can't Beat It!) burns down in the first book. It appears rebuilt subsequently throughout later books as The Mended Drum (You Can Get Beaten).
** Bloody Stupid Johnson's handiwork constantly appears around
** In ''Soul Music'', it's detailed that the Klatchian Foreign Legion is where people go to forget their lives ([[Laser-Guided Amnesia|in the literal sense]]). This is mentioned again as a throwaway line in ''Going Postal'', '''12 books later'''.
** In ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', Angua mentions in passing that Big Fido thinks that all wolves have names like Quickfang and Silverback, and laughs it off. We find out in ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]'' that the full names of her parents are Baron Guye von Uberwald, aka ( {{spoiler|Silvertail}}), and Seraphine Soxe-Blumberg, aka ( {{spoiler|Yellowfang}}). Of course, they are family of ( {{spoiler|werewolves}}), so....
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* [[Sanity Ball]]: Let's just say there are only a few bouncing around.
* [[Security Blanket]]: Weapon of choice against bogeymen. Because of the nature of belief, if you pull the covers over your head the bogeyman ceases to exist... so if you put a bogeyman under a blanket it causes severe, crippling existential questions.
* [[Sent Off to Work For Relatives]]: This is standard practice for dwarfs, who are sent to their already-established relatives in (usually)
* [[Self-Proclaimed Liar]]: Casanunda.
* [[Serious Business]]: Humor, as far as the Fools' Guild is concerned. They have incredibly strict and severe guidelines for telling jokes and being funny. Unauthorized joke telling is severely punished, and the Guild is almost completely devoid of warmth and happiness (and, ironically, humor). Graduates tend to be emotionally scarred for life.
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