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{{spoiler|'''Tiger:'''}} Bite your head off. Then crunch it. Then swallow it. }}
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'', about the Discworld's first newspaper, begins with someone yelling "Stop the presses!"... because the cart carrying the printing press in question has come loose and is careening down the street.
** In ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', Moist's reaction to seeing the once-proud Post Office is "Oh, shit!" Mr Pump reproves him for his language, but he explains it was a statement of fact: the place is filled with pigeon droppings. Then he finds out {{spoiler|they're actually piles of letters.}}
* Inverted in ''[[The Dresden Files|Death Masks]]'': Dresden tells Molly she's sounding all grown up, and Molly snarks that "the breast fairy came to visit and everything". Quoth Dresden, to the reader, "Some might find it significant that it took me a second to realize she wasn't being literal about the faerie. Sometimes I hate my life".
* ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' had [[Eskimo Words for Snow]] gag running into this:
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