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'''Short stories:'''
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120309210610/http://members.fortunecity.com/bookdepository/stories/pratchett/trollbridge/trollbridgetext.html Troll Bridge]" (1992) (standalone - Cohen)
* "[httphttps://www.lspace.org/books/toc/toc-english.html Theatre of Cruelty]" (1993) (The City Watch)
* "The Sea and Little Fishes" (1998) (The Lancre witches)
* "[http://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html Death and What Comes Next]" (2002) (Death)
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*** Definitely do not threaten Vimes' family. Even the king of the dwarves knew he'd made a mistake and he was ''lucky'' that Vimes decided not to do anything about it.
*** Chrysophrase, undisputed mob boss of the toughest city on the Disc, made it EXTREMELY clear how displeased he was with a subordinate who made an OBLIQUELY IMPLIED threat to Sam Vimes' family. Later when Chrysophrase asks Sam if he'd like some rocks for a rock garden, Sam thinks that the box cannot possibly contain a WHOLE troll.
* [[BFGBig Freaking Gun]]: Detritus of the Watch wields a siege crossbow, converted to fire bundles of arrows which burst into tiny projectiles at high speed. It can remove doors from their frames, their houses and the world of objects larger than a matchstick. The only safe place to be when Detritus fires it is a hundred feet or more behind him.
* [[Bolt of Divine Retribution]]: Gods tend to throw these at people who annoy them, particularly atheists.
{{quote|A bolt of lighting lanced through the clouds and hit Dorfl's helmet. There was a sheet of flame and then a trickling noise. Dorfl's molten armor formed puddles around his white-hot feet.
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*** Though in ''The Fifth Elephant'', we're told that most true wolves don't have names so much as descriptions. Gaspode attempts to translate one of these for the rather prudish Captain Carrot. They eventually settle on "Bum," which Carrot can choose to interpret in the way common in the US (vagrant, tramp, hobo) while remaining at least somewhat similar to the more precise translation {{spoiler|"Arsehole"}}.
** Another one crops up in Night Watch: In [[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]], one of the newspaper headlines is "CITTY's BIGGEST CAKE MIX-Up!!!". It's a story about cart carrying several tons of flour overturning and causing a cart of carrying a cartload of eggs to overturn, which in turn causes a cart carrying 30 churns of milk to overturn... Anyway, in Night Watch, after Vimes destroys certain siege engine, we find out that it is not the biggest cake mix-up after all. As one of people who ordered siege engine sent against Vimes: "Those oxen were really feisty, sir."
** A character introduced in a book published in 1987 finally makes a second appearance... in a book published in 2010.
* [[Bungling Inventor]]: Bloody Stupid Johnson, whose works tend to warp reality when they're not outright useless: the Colossus of Ankh-Morpork, which fits in a pocket, an exploding sundial, a [[Portal Network]] apartment complex, a tower built with quicksand (it'd be built faster), several pipe organs, a shower that combines with a pipe organ and a geyser, a mail-sorting machine that receives letters from alternate universes...
** A particularly good example being that garden of Patrician's palace, which includes:
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