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* In ''[[Snow Crash]]'' by Neal Stephenson, there is an inordinately long inter-office memo about having workers give money for toilet paper. The memo in its entirety is contained within the novel and takes up several pages while going on and on about trivial points. While it effectively lampoons American Bureaucracy, the joke gets very old after the first few paragraphs.
* Lampshaded in the second book of ''[[Belgariad|The Malloreon]]'' where [[Deadpan Snarker|Silk]] continues to make complaints about having porridge for breakfast and enjoying any breakfast that isn't porridge...until Polgara suggests his [[Running Gag|incessant repetitiveness]] could be a sign of limited intelligence.
* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
** Also, in ''[[
* John Hodgman's lists:
** 700 hobo names in ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]''.
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