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I was thinking of a different Pratchett joke: in Making Money, Moist is told to use the barber's knock: "shave and a haircut, no legs!"

I'm rereading the Moist series again, and it is so incredibly thick with humour and references. I mean, all of the books are, but that series really feels like him at the top of his game.

"the smoking GNU"

For those who don't get it, it's a reference to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island which features a parrot that repeats "Pieces of Eight" (also known as a bit).

If your bird repeats "Pieces of Seven" you should check its settings; it might have a parroty error.

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https://wiki.lspace.org/Main_Page Is a great resource for this; so many of the books have deep or obscure British jokes that even Native English (simplified) ((American)) don’t get.