I'm close to translating the mating call of the giant clam...'"– This is a Pratchett shout out to a very old jokes. Miss Maccalariat represents that typically holier than thou attitude person in her lines, "I feel I am responsible for the moral welfare of the young people in my charge', the kind of line regularly used by people in favour of censorship from Tipper Gore's campaign against "immoral music" to fundamental Christian ministers' campaigns against everything from gay rights to evolution. Cover - The cover design was inspired by the original Star Wars film poster, because there are other Star Wars references in the book. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 'No one's sure, exactly, but you can hear the sounds of cutlery,' said Pelc...."

"– Long John Silver's parrot always repeated "Pieces of eight!" Postal Service employees who went on shooting spree at post offices, killing employees and bystanders. Twelve and a half percent is exactly one-eighth of 100% of the whole dollar, gold coin or whatever -a piece of eight. Con Artist; Postmaster of Ankh-Morpork. A position that has not been filled in years.

(p146) "'Three and a bit, that's the ticket. Shouting "fire' is usually not included in the checklist, however. This appears to be a move made to complement a recent bilateral agreement made with Kazakhstan to speed up e-commerce parcel delivery between the two countries. Depending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc.

– In J.R.R.

Similar comparable "dodgy" establishments would be shops selling rolling papers, pipes and medicinal marijuana in the store front and less medicinal products out the back, the old speakeasies for buying booze during prohibition and even pharmacies in the days when Playboy and Penthouse were sold with a plain brown cover to hide the real cover that was not appropriate for young eyes and which sold contraceptive devices and products from behind the counter instead of out in the open. Likewise, early mechanical typewriters could lock up if the wrong series of letters were pressed in quick succession, a phenomenon which the QWERTY keyboard was designed to make less likely. (p137) "'Look, I'm not the One you're looking for!'" In England, a 'tump' is a hummock, the antithesis of an erection such as a tower. – Mercury (Hermes to the Greeks) was the messenger to the gods in general and Jupiter (Zeus) in particular. (p176) "These [books] are not on the public shelves lest untrained handling cause the collapse of everything that is possible to imagine. "Even Miss Extremelia Mume ... was doing good business among those prepared to back an outside chance. ... Worth more signed, of course.'" With great reluctance, Lipwig takes up his duties, only to find things are even worse than he had presumed. The sexual innuendos between this and the connection to Donald Trump (with his small hands) are obvious. After passing the initiation, Groat takes Moist to the basement to see the Bloody Stupid Johnson's Sorting Engine. Nevertheless, he is confined to a cell in Ankh-Morpork and scheduled to be hanged, having stolen a total of AM$150,000. There's a nice story how the engraver forgot the correct wording (Postage Paid), took a walk to the Post Office to ask, but when he saw the sign "Post Office" turned back without asking and wrote that on the stamp. Title: Tolliver Groat (a groat is a medieval coin) and his naturopathic remedies is a send up of the whole alternate medicine field where everything natural is deemed to be good for you. Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and the opera Faust by Charles Gounod are the best examples of the devil winning but other Roundworld examples include the movie starring Jimmy Stewart It's a Wonderful Life where the angel wins. – The Viking concept of the afterlife for warriors, Valhalla, was basically an enormous and never-ending feasting hall. They maintain our principal place of business and corporate headquarters at 4941 4th Street in Zephyrhills, Florida 33542. He's commonly depicted with a winged cap and ankles. In Peter Jackson's movie adaptations, the Eye appears (aside from a literal interpretation on top of Sauron's fortress) in the palantíri (seeing-stones), which have a very similar function to the University's omniscope. Moist's plan of "feel the front door,...quite cool. This is a play on Lauren Bacall's famous line in the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not," "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? At the very end of Going Postal, the game is up and the financial corruption of the Grand Trunk Board of Directors is revealed. The German word "Frei" means "free", therefore suited to the recurring topic of freedom in the book. "'Ha, even the damn soup there is fifteen dollars!' Whether Pratchett intended it or not Code 181 is from the California Penal Code and refers to the enforced bondage of one individual by another - very apropos for the novel given the "free golem movement". ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal.

Charles Dance, Richard Coyle and Steve Pemberton turn in great performances, and Claire Foy is also appealing and David Suchet is an interesting Gilt.All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and while I liked all three Sky/Pratchett adaptations this one was the best. – The author has probably been waiting years to use this line from Frank L. Baum's The Wizard of Oz. FreeBookNotes has 63 more books by Terry Pratchett, with a total of 286 study guides. Stibbons!' You've got to. Reacher Gilt's Igor servant says "The Marthter ith having one of hith little thoireeth, thur" which has parallels to the Rocky Horror (Picture) Show where the hunchbacked servant tells the innocents "You've come on a rather special night. This scenario is reminiscent of such films such as The Odd Couple (TV and movie) and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Living Conditions (Pratchett was probably not consciously thinking of the latter, not being a fan).

Stanley says, 'Coo, you're a good draw-er, Mr. Lipwig.

Pratchett of all people would have held somebody faking Alzheimer's as a "get-out-of-jail-free" card up to scorn, satire and ridicule. A documentary about the making of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006). In the same scene, the letters say, "In the beginning was a Word" which is a reference to the Bible, John 1.1 which says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." In the days when the value of money was in the material of the coin (silver or gold) people divided the coin by cutting it if they needed a value smaller than the coin in hand. The defending side comprises twelve soldiers and a king, who start the game in a cross formation in the center of the board. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. to which Terminator replies, "Why?" Since Moist is "von Lipwig" which means from Lipwig, we can assume that his ancestors came from the same place as this breed of dog and he is familiar with them because his grandfather raised them, hence his ability to stop them from attacking him. Vetinari is a master at such unequal sided games in the politics of Discworld. The Best TV Shows About Being in Your 30s. (p326) Harper paperback: Miss Dearheart says, "You know how to pray, don't you? Ponder Stibbons says "I call it baize-space". – Possibly, but not clearly, a reference to Neo's role as the One in the Matrix films. The idea of a someone appearing to give the condemned man or woman a last minute reprieve has been done in many forms; the old folk song, The Maid Freed from the Gallows, which is recreated in various forms including Gallows Pole (done by Leadbelly and made famous by Led Zeppelin) and the fairy tale, The Golden Ball to name two. Postal Service (and many other similarly affected organizations) re-evaluating employee work conditions and decreasing stress in the work place. The British High Commissioner’s Residence. When Moist shows Adora his stamp designs, she says “What’s this? Twelve and a half percent, then, is exactly one-eighth of a dollar--a piece of eight. Going Postal is Terry Pratchett's 29th book in the Discworld series but there's absolutely no need to have read anything else in the series to appreciate this wonderful satire of the postal service, corporate corruption, stamp collecting and so much else...continued.
The American folk trio, The Limeliters did a send up of John Henry about a race between a human street sweeper and an automatic garbage truck - Max Goolis. The mayor of Sto Helit is Joe Camels – Joe Camel was the (un)official name of the now-defunct mascot of Camel Cigarettes. "Gnu" also evokes the Free Software Foundation, which promotes the development and distribution of free software. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Sauron appeared as a great fiery cat's eye in visions and metaphoric descriptions. - This is very likely a reference to The Blues Brothers, also referenced throughout Soul Music. hog code - In the patois of telegraphy, "Hog- Morse" is Morse code practiced by inexperienced operators who tend to make mistakes, particularly using American Morse which had confusing and subtle differences that made it easy to make mistakes; It was named because an a operator missed the space between 'm' and 'e' in the word 'home' (.... --- -- .)

Goin' Postal has developed its Entrepreneur Magazine-recognized system through a true partnership with its franchisees. When Miss Maccalariat questions Moist's practice of hiring dwarfs, Moist says that they are 'fine workers, Keen on the written word' a reminder of the dwarfs' role in starting the Ankh-Morpork Times with William de Worde, with their printing press. Going Postal is the first Moist Von Lipwig book, sometimes considered part of the industrial revolution series. You can absolutely read this as your first Discworld book, where the only drawback is that a couple of the supporting characters started off in different sub-series. The Discworld people are making small donations/prayers to the temples hoping for a monetary windfall like Moist just got. Stanley resorts to the Post Office Book of Regulations; What to do in case of Fire section and goes through the check list which includes yelling "Fire".

Moist is applying Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics to the golem. Considered as pounds per square inch, it's like being trodden by a very pointy elephant. In many cases the rhyming word is omitted - so you won't find too many Londoners having a "butcher's hook" at this site, but you might find a few having a "butcher's".


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