You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.