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Did we mention that Moist is a ''really big believer'' in [[Refuge in Audacity]]? And that he saved a cat?
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* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Moist never, ever used violence in his criminal career, though Mr. Pump deconstructs his assumption that this made him not such a bad person.
* [[Addiction Displacement]]: Stanley is completely obsessed with collecting pins, to the point where even the owner of a pin store considers him to be weird. He eventually drops his pin obsession and starts up stamp collecting.
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* [[Severely Specialized Store]]: Dave's Pin Exchange sells pins, with the owner being ''very'' adamant that he doesn't sell nails.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** When the Wizards are trying to tune their Omniscope, Ridcully continually complains that they keep getting [[The Lord of the Rings|"That damn enormous flaming eye again"]] ...which turns out to be the magnified eye of the student they're trying to contact, inflamed due to his allergies.
** "This book with a red cover and it turns out they were twins" is quite possibly ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''.
** Stanley Howler, pin-fanatic-turned-stamps-guy, is named for Stanley Gibbons, a [[Real Life]] company that sells collectible postage stamps and stamp-collecting supplies.
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