Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind, #8)

by Terry Pratchett

This thing was all of them, plus some other bits of beasts unknown to science or nightmare or even kebab.

Shouting in public, yes, he liked that, he was good at that. Speaking in public, now, that was a different kettle of humiliation.

and as a cook she knew how to seethe.

The fat kid in his class had been the unfortunately named ‘Piggy’ Love, whose father owned a sweet shop, which gave the son some weight in the community, not to mention clout.

he has been cited in two hundred and thirty-six papers and, er, one divorce petition.’