#pratchett induced i can't believe i missed that moment(s)

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Addition to my List of Pratchett-Induced "I Can't Believe I Missed That" Moments:

Yesterday I was looking for Abominations Unto Nuggan (as one does) and came across this part again. How did I not realize the joke before?

I'd noted the difference before of Polly saying that she was 17 and Jackrum telling Blouse that she was 14, but I kinda just thought that 17 made sense because she was too young to enlist, but no, it's Discworld and Terry Pratchett wasn't going to miss any opportunities to make a joke/reference something.

In a book that talks about various folk songs on multiple occasions, Polly says that she'll be "Seventeen come Sunday" when asked about her age, even though that's not the case. "Seventeen Come Sunday" is another folk song with a soldier.

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Yesterday evening I found out what Carborundum looks like and had a sort of Pratchett induced I can't believe I missed that moment: Carborundum is rainbow.

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Add to my list of Pratchett induced "I can't believe I missed that" moments:

In Lords and Ladies the Librarian travels by coach as a "pet" and wears a bright blue collar that says "PONGO".

Pongo abelii- Sumatran orangutan

Pongo pygmaeus- Bornean orangutan

Pongo tapanuliensis- Tapanuli orangutan

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Another addition to the List of Pratchett Induced I Can't Believe I Missed That Moment(s):

Instead of leaving milk and cookies for Santa and carrots/apples/other for the reindeer, children on the Disc leave turnips for the bristle-y hogs along with sherry and meat pies for the Hogfather.

One slang term for sherry from the 18th century is “Bristol Milk”.

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One of the things on my list of Pratchett induced "I can't believe I missed that" moments:

The second or third time through Going Postal (I read it and later listened to the audiobook with different people), I realized just as they said Hobson's name that it came from "Hobson's Choice".

For anyone unfamiliar with Hobson's Choice, look below for the meaning and origin of the phrase according to Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785), and then the link below for a note on the book:

(Can we take a moment to appreciate "properest"?)