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Cruces gives Carrot the evidence that he is the royal heir, upon which Carrot kills Cruces with his sword and has both the evidence and the dismantled gonne buried with Cuddy. Page 59 - "Chopping off queen's heads and fighting their cousins every five minutes" is a reference to Henry VII lopping off Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard's heads and the War of the Roses between the Lancasters and the Yorks. Page 129 - "They keep extracting the urine" is a fancy way for Fred, who has been reading to improve his vocabulary for the new recruits, to say "They keep taking the piss. During the Middle Ages, the jesters and fools who entertained kings while wearing bizarre costumes, which presaged the bright outfits worn by today’s clowns, were often dwarfs or those who were deformed in some way - dwarfs, hunchbacks (to use the vernacular of the time) and so were seen as sinister or abnormal.

The burden of proof meaning hard facts not circumstantial evidence and the proof of an alcohol like Soggy Mountain Dew - its percentage of alcohol. And the line is also the common movie pickup line where the woman is changing into something more suitable for the evenings activities, like a flimsy negligee easily removed. The double entendre relates to the conventional stereotype that both under-sized males as well as black males are 'better-endowed' than white males.Twelfth Night celebrations, however, came under the special supervision of another mock ruler: the King of the Bean.

Evidentia means that which is evident and also the quality of being manifest not only to the eyes but to all the senses. Old Stoneface plays the same role as Cromwell did in ridding the kingdom of an unjust king and ending the monarchy, albeit temporarily in the case of England but permanently in the case of Ankh-Morpork.No, no, sorry, bad taste there" Pratchett plays on the dog wanting a bone to chew on, the bone obviously being the remains of the senior member of the d'Eath family and eating a human bone being in bad taste as well as not tasting particularly good given its origin and the fact that it has been buried for some time.