Making Money (49 page)

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A periodical published throughout the Plains, noted for its coverage of murder (preferably ’orrible) trials, prison escapes, and the world that in general is surrounded by a chalk outline. Very popular.

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The invention of which Moist was very proud. The people of Ankh-Morpork took a straightforward approach to letter-writing, which could be summarized as: If I know what I mean, so should you. As a result, the Post Office was used to envelopes addressed to “My brofer Jonn, tall, by the brij” or “Mrs. Smith wot does, Dolly Sistres.” The keen and somewhat worrying intellects employed in the Blind Letter Office enjoyed the challenge, and during their tea break they played chess in their heads.

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The dwarfs didn’t think to count them and see if any had been left behind. It wouldn’t have made any difference, but later on the king might not have shouted at them so much.

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For considering implications and intervening with due clarification: $AM12.98p.

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Every Assassin knew that real black often stood out in the dark, because the night in the city is usually never full black, and that gray or dark green merge much better. But they wore black anyway, because style trumps utility every time.

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In fact they would probably laugh at you if you said “sausages.” They laugh at lots of things.

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Fortunately, this is the case.

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“Wasting Watch time” is an offense committed by citizens who have found ways of wasting said time that haven’t already been invented by the Watch themselves.

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The strange thing about what lawyers have fun with is that
no one
else ever sees the joke.

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Who was being guarded from whom was not, at this point, either certain or germane.
Guarding was in the process of happening.

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As a member of the Ancient and Venerable Order of Greengrocers, Mr. Parker was honor-bound never to put his punctuation in the right place.

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The only real expense was tea and biscuits halfway through, which seldom happened with the iron maiden.

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1 down “Shaken players shift the load.” Nine letters. Lord Vetinari had sneered at it.

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Total cost, including time and disbursements: $AM253.16p.