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Shawn Ogg[29].
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Except when he was lying down.
30
But not huge, by wig standards. There have, in the course of decadent history, been many large wigs, often with built-in gewgaws to stop people having to look at boring hair all the time. There had been ones big enough to contain pet mice or clockwork ornaments. Mme. Cupidor, mistress of Mad King Soup II, had one with a bird cage in it, but on special state occasions wore one containing a perpetual calendar, a floral clock, and a take-away linguini shop.
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i.e., far enough so's not to look like you're intruding on the conversation, but close enough to get a pretty good idea of what is going on.
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Carrots so you can see in the dark, she'd explain, and oysters so's you've got something to look at.
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The Librarian, an ape of simple but firmly held tastes, considered an episode with custard pies, buckets of whitewash, and especially that bit when someone takes someone else's hat off, fills it with something oozy, and replaces it on the deadpan head while the orchestra plays 'WHAH . . . Whah . . . whah . . . whaaaa . . .' to be an absolutely essential part of any theatrical performance. Since a roasted peanut is a dangerous and painful item when hurled with pinpoint accuracy, directors in Ankh-Morpork had long ago taken the hint. This made some of the grand guignol melodramas a little unusual, but it was considered that plays like 'The Blood-Soaked Tragedy of the Mad Monk of Quirm (with Custard-Pie scene)' were far better than being deaf in one ear for five days.
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Made it up.
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Had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too.
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'He's just an old soppy really' — from the Nanny Ogg Book of Cat Sayings.
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He knew this because the previous month's issue of Popular Armour had run a feature entitled 'We Test The Top Twenty Sub — $50 Helmets.' It had also run a second feature called 'Battleaxes: We Put The Ten Best Through Their Paces' and had advertised for half a dozen new testers.
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The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of
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