Why clowns paint their faces on eggs (2017)

> As secretary of the European division of the [International Circus Clown Club] Bult keeps a file of faces so that clowns can avoid copying each other. Each clown's make-up is his professional, jealously guarded property.

Just this one half-paragraph seems like enough to define the Hall of Faces.

They’re not pixies, but pictsies. Their accent is a bit Scottish. They seem to have blue colored skin, but actually those are tattoos and they believe they’re currently in the afterlife (and must have been really nice persons in their previous actual life because they’re convinced they’re currently in heaven)

I always found that a bit lame and over the top.

The I learned that in northern england there once lived a keltic clan called the Picts. They were covered in blue tattoos and the kelts famously believed they lived in the afterlife and life was so good they were convinced they lived in heaven.

He often took real occupations and set them in his fantasy world to satirize them.

His humour was to take something from our world, put it in discworld, and then point out how ridiculous it all was.

What always amazed me was the diverseness of it. Whether he was taking the mickey out of hollywood, newspapers, rock music, somophore, stamp collecting, he seemed to have an eclectic knowledge about so much.

But not savagely, it was with the gentle fondness that underlies the best humour of friends ribbing each other.