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* Played with in ''[[Dave Barry]] Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States'', describing the occasion of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the first July Fourth ([[Running Gag|October 8]], 1776): "The members took turns lighting sparklers and signing their John Hancocks to the Declaration, with one prankster even going so far as to actually write '[[wikipedia:John Hancock|John Hancock]].'"

* The first modern novel, ''[[Don Quixote]]'', inspired the adjective "quixotic", which means, to be an ordinary person with grandiose or impossible dreams. However, at least one dictionary uses "quixote" as a lower-case noun with the same connotation. "He's such a quixote."

* Done rather cruelly in ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]'': Pulling a "Charlie Gordon" is messing up.

* As usual, Shakespeare invented this one - "He out-Herods Herod."