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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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* Averted and lampshaded in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s |
* Averted and lampshaded in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]''. Vimes is very surprised to find out that arsenic is not green, since that is how he imagined a deadly poison. |
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** A dwarf who succumbs to poison in ''[[Thud!]]'' does salivate green, however. |
** A dwarf who succumbs to poison in ''[[Thud!]]'' does salivate green, however. |
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** [[Terry Pratchett]] is very familiar with this trope: when he was press officer for British Nuclear Fuels, he got used to TV journalists bringing their own green smoke and bubbling test tubes so power plants would [[Reality Is Unrealistic|look right]]. |
** [[Terry Pratchett]] is very familiar with this trope: when he was press officer for British Nuclear Fuels, he got used to TV journalists bringing their own green smoke and bubbling test tubes so power plants would [[Reality Is Unrealistic|look right]]. |
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