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1	* In ''Literature/{{Unique}}'', Helga's past is mentioned to include fighting demons, vampires, Nazis and demonic Nazi vampires.
2	* In one of the ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' books, Pew is searching through his occult equipment for a healing spell: "Dowsing rod, pickled penis, dowsing rod made from a pickled penis ..."
3	* In the original web-based novel ''Literature/TheDwayneDiaries'', after the captain questions who would ever need ten boats, Cthulhu says he could use the money for "A mansion, or a yacht, or a mansion on a yacht, whatever!"
4	* A staple of Creator/DaveBarry's numerous lists. He generally has a list of three or four things, starts mixing and matching two at a time, and culminates with all of them together. One such list, from the column "Vacation Reservations":
5	-->"You can keep your food costs down by eating at one of the many fine roadside stands, such as the Dairy Queen, the Dairy Freeze, the Dairy King, the Frozen Dairy Queen, the Freezing King of the Dairy, the [[{{Spoonerism}} Dozing Fairy Queen]], and so on."
6	** In ''Dave Barry in Cyberspace'' he lists off some possible chat room topics: "Poets, Cat Lovers, Religious People, Gays, Gay Teens Who Read Religious Poetry to Cats..."
7	** In ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'', the issues which UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush's campaign commercials focused on are stated to include:
8	### The pledge of allegiance.
9	### Furloughed rapist Willie Horton.
10	### The budget deficit, and whether it could be corrected by forcing furloughed rapist Willie Horton to say the pledge of allegiance over and over. For fifty years.
11	** In ''Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway'', a chart outlining the Medieval feudal hierarchy lists three consecutive ranks as "Duke" "Earl" and "Duke of Earl."
12	* In the children's book ''Literature/ThePirateAndThePenguin'', the eponymous penguin complains that the south pole is boring, so his friends remind him of all the fun things there are to do, like daydreaming, yoga, and daydreaming about yoga.
13	* In an essay from his book ''When You Are Engulfed in Flames'', Creator/DavidSedaris discusses the kinds of people who buy different cigarette brands. Camels, in his view, were for "procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry."
14	* ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'' has a short titled "Stepchild", whose protagonist, sixteen year old Kathy, would talk like this every now and then.
15	--> '''Kathy''': These are clothing that would look good in airports, restaurants and airport restaurants.
16	* In ''Literature/ZenGhosts'', Karl can't decide whether to be a pirate or an owl for Halloween. Stillwater, his panda friend, suggests going as an owl-pirate, but Michael protests that there's no such thing. Though not mentioned in the story, the illustrations show that Karl took Stillwater's advice.
17	* Creator/IsaacAsimov was often criticized for the absence of extraterrestrial life and sexuality in his works. So he wrote ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'', which contains aliens, sex and ''alien sex''.
18	* Lemony Snicket's ''[[Literature/LemonySnicketTheUnauthorizedAutobiography Unauthorized Autobiography]]'' has a photograph of three detectives named "Detective Smith, Detective Jones, and Detective Smithjones".
19	* In ''[[Literature/HaroldAndThePurpleCrayon Harold's Fairy Tale]]'', Harold encounters an enchanted garden that's barren. The king tells him this is due either to a witch or a giant, but he doesn't know which. Harold later finds that the trouble is being caused by a giant witch.
20	* ''Literature/HankTheCowdog'':
21	-->'''Drover:''' She had pretty brown eyes...\
22	'''Hank:''' Were they pretty and brown or pretty brown? This could be important!\
23	'''Drover:''' Both. They were pretty and brown. And pretty brown.
24	* A bit of financial-scandal gossip from ''Literature/FiveHundredYearsAfter'':
25	-->'''Khaavren:''' Do you know that, when the economy is troubled, intendants are dismissed? And, in addition, when war goes badly, generals are executed?\
26	'''Aerich:''' Well, yes. That is the usual way of the world.\
27	'''Khaavren:''' Well, they have been executing intendants.
28	* From the ''Literature/ShiversMDSpenser'' book, ''The Thing in Room 601''. " It might be ten o'clock. It might be later. Or it might be both ten o'clock and later."
29	* In ''[[Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant The End of the World]]'', Valkyrie is mentioned as looking at Ryan with a face that people usually reserve for "Idiots, or toddlers. Or idiot toddlers".
30	* In ''Literature/NotJustAWitch'' by Creator/EvaIbbotson, when the main character Heckie (who has the power to [[ForcedTransformation change people into animals]]) and her friend Dora (who has the power to [[TakenForGranite turn creatures to stone]]) have just discovered that [[ManipulativeBastard Mr. Knacksap]], whom they thought was their friend, had secretly been leading them both on and tricking them into abusing their powers for his own benefit:
31	-->''Oh, Lord, don't let them get me'', prayed the furrier. ''Don't let me become a louse. Don't let me become a statue. And please, please don't let me become the statue of a louse!''
32	* In ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Blood Rites]]'', Harry faces a giant monkey-demon that forms from smaller monkey-demons merging together. Being both a PopCulturedBadass and TheNicknamer, he first calls it monkey Kong, then Monkey Voltron, and finally Kongtron.
33	* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', a group of English kids hear the rumor that in America there are ice-cream stores with 39 flavors:
34	-->"There aren't thirty-nine flavors in the whole world." \
35	"There could be, if you mixed them up," said Wensleydale, blinking owlishly. "You know. Strawberry ''and'' chocolate. Chocolate ''and'' vanilla." [[SmallReferencePools He sought for more English flavors.]] "Strawberry ''and'' vanilla ''and'' chocolate," he added, lamely.
36	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
37	** In ''Literature/WyrdSisters,'' the witches give the HiddenBackupPrince to his adoptive parents, who ask for his name. Granny says "Tom" while Nanny says "John"--they settle on Tom John, which the family renders as Tomjon.
38	** In ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', when [[spoiler:Teach]] dies, the barbarian heroes suggest giving him a variety of different [[VikingFuneral warriors' funerals]], like being on a boat set on fire, being under a burial mound, or on top of a pile of the corpses of all of his enemies. They eventually settle on "''In'' a boat set on fire, ''on'' top of a pile of his enemies, ''under'' a burial mound."
39	** According to ''Literature/TheWeeFreeMen'', the Nac Mac Feegle are infamous for stealing, fighting, drinking, drinking and fighting, and stealing and drinking and fighting.
40	** ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' has "the smell of pipe smoke and old socks, and since the wizards are lax about knocking out their pipes, smoking socks as well."
41	* When [[spoiler:the picture of Alex kissing a man is leaked]] in ''Literature/HeartInHand'', the media speculates his partner might be drugged, underage, a prostitute, or even a drugged underage prostitute.
42	* In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', among the things that Colonel Christina Eliopolis says are being dropped into the blue zones holding out against the zombies are "tools, spare parts, and tools to make spare parts."
43	* In ''[[Creator/JasperFforde The Song of the Quarkbeast]]'', King Snodd comments, "Magical contests are always enjoyed by the unwashed and the destitute--and ''especially'' by the unwashed destitute."
44	* When Tyler of ''Literature/ABadDayForVoodoo'' is explaining to [[TheSmartGuy Kelley]] how [[spoiler: Mr. Click died]], she says, "Are you kidding me?", "Are you serious?", and "You can't be serious! Are you kidding me?".
45	* The Dornish capital of Sunspear in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' was named because the Rhoynar sigil was the sun and the Martell sigil was a spear.
46	** In [[Literature/AClashOfKings the second book]], Shae, when talking about Lollys, says, "She sleeps and she eats. Sometimes she falls asleep while she's eating."
47	* In ''Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat'', the Industrial Revelation leads to the passage of a wave of Acts including Tory Acts, Factory Acts, Satisfactory Acts and Unsatisfactory Acts.
48	* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': During the course of ''Literature/AMagesPower'', Eric and Dengel have an argument after Eric [[spoiler: kills Tahart, an orc]].
49	-->'''Dengel''': ''...Orcs are savages.''
50	-->'''Eric''': ''He was a person!''
51	-->'''Dengel''': ''He was a savage person.''
52	* Judy Jones and William Wilson's ''An Incomplete Education'':
53	** Supreme Court case ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furman_v._Georgia Furman vs. Georgia]]''.
54	-->Never mind the gory details of ''Furman'', which was only the lead case among five involving rapes, murders and rape-murders.
55	** What you need to know if dating a "Frenchperson."
56	-->Be prepared to discuss, for hours on end, politics, philosophy, foreign policy, the politics of philosophy, the philosophy of politics, the politics and philosophy of foreign policy, the early films of Jean-Luc Godard, and what's wrong with the New York art scene.
57	* JRR Tolkien's [[Literature/TheHistoryOfMiddleEarth ''The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two'']] contains a scene in which "an army of Orcs descended upon them, and wolves, and Orcs mounted upon wolves".
58	* In the children's book ''Literature/{{Scrooge}}'' a shortened adaptation of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol,'' one illustration features three stamps on Scrooge's desk that read "NO", "NEVER", and "NO NEVER".
59	* The title character in ''Literature/JeremyFinkAndTheMeaningOfLife'' says his mom taught him to ThinkHappyThoughts, her examples being butterflies, babies laughing, and hot dogs in a ballpark. So when he thinks he's about to be arrested, he pictures "babies laughing in a ballpark surrounded by butterflies eating hot dogs. Very small, tiny hot dogs."
60	* In ''Daves Gorman's Googlewhack! Adventure'' Dave explains the concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack Googlewhacking]] to the reader by telling them to type the word "Animal" into Google and press Enter, then to type the word "Balloon" into Google and press Enter, then to type the words "Balloon Animal" into Google and press Enter. He also warns that at all three stages of process, [[RuleThirtyFour you are likely to come across bizarre pornography]].
61	* From ''The Bad Book'' by Australian author Creator/AndyGriffiths:
62	-->'''Q:''' What's brown and sticky?\
63	'''A:''' A stick.\
64	'''Q:''' What's yellow and smells like bananas?
65	-->'''A:''' Monkey vomit.
66	-->'''Q:''' What's brown and yellow and sticky and smells like bananas?
67	-->'''A:''' Monkey vomit [[XOnAStick on a stick.]]
68	* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', [[CoolTeacher Professor Lupin's]] first lesson for the third-year students is on how to tackle a Boggart by invoking NightmareRetardant on the forms it takes, making it look silly. Lupin asks Neville, the class' resident ButtMonkey, what he fears the most, and Neville answers with [[SadistTeacher Professor Snape]]. Lupin then asks how Neville's grandmother is doing, and Neville replies that she's doing fine, and that he doesn't want the Boggart to transform into her either. Lupin's suggestion to Neville on how to turn his Boggart into a complete joke? Imagine the Boggart as Professor Snape...in [[DraggedIntoDrag Neville's grandmother's dress]].
69	** This part becomes a bit [[HarsherInHindsight uncomfortable to read about]] after knowing Rowling's take on trans people.
70	* In ''Literature/EleanorAndPark'', when Eleanor hears gunshots near her house at night: "gang members, she thought. Drug dealers. Rapists. Gang members who were also drug-dealing rapists."
71	* ''Literature/StarWarsRazorsEdge'': Sneaking around an {{Asteroid Min\|ers}}ing facility converted into a SpacePirate base, Sian points out that there's probably a former mine detention center repurposed as a slave pen, and Han agrees that that would make sense. The narration from his POV:
72	--> A mine this big must have had some kind of facility to deal with the miners who stole or got drunk or did spice or got into fights about stealing and drinking and doing spice.
73	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': From ''[[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/9-original-canon/93-an-imp-perfect-world-ch-2 An Imp-perfect World (Ch 2)]]'' Imp's banter:
74	--> “I like pie,” I continued with my mouth running almost on automatic. “And whip cream. And whips. And whip cream and whips together…” I paused at that to give Chickenhawk a suggestive wink.
75	* In ''Literature/WillGraysonWillGrayson'', from Will #2: "of course i don't say any of these things to [my mom]. moms don't need to hear that kind of shit from their kids, unless they're doing something really wrong, like smoking in bed, or doing heroin, or doing heroin while they're smoking in bed".
76	* ''Literature/FrannyKStein'':
77	** When looking inside her house in the BadFuture in ''The Fran That Time Forgot'', Franny is described as seeing snakes, spiders and things that looked like they were half-snake and half-spider.
78	** In the book ''The Fran With Four Brains'', Igor's methods of getting his owner Franny to laugh include juggling chainsaws, alligator wrestling, and wrestling alligators with chainsaws.
79	* The ''World of Thedas'' books are expansions on the lore of the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' video games. In the second volume, the in-universe dominant religion offers a scathing commentary on the works of the resident popular author, party member Varric Tethras. They generally feel that he's a terrible writer, and describe the bulk of his work as being "by and large, little more than smut, pulp, or, at times, smutty pulp."
80	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': In the prequel ''Literature/TheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes'', Coriolanus is getting tired of all the music in his life.
81	-->''It seemed to be everywhere: birdsong, Covey song, bird-and-Covey song.''
82	* In the non-fiction book ''How to Make the World Add Up'', Tim Harford questions forger Han van Meegeren's claim that he didn't do it for the money, noting that "his mansions were decorated with prostitutes, jewellery, and prostitutes draped in jewellery".
83	* ''How to Invent Everything'' by Creator/RyanNorth says, "While the spoken word is great, it still suffers from significant limitations. It frees ideas from their original host, but it allows ideas to be transmitted only as far as the speaker can travel, or can shout, or can travel while shouting."
84	* In the novelization of ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', when the adults track the babies through the forest, Rex Pester does a news report on it, and gives the readers this line:
85	-->''"Will they get eaten by a bear? Will they freeze in the night? Or will they run out of clean diapers? Perhaps they'll run out of clean diapers, freeze, and then get eaten by a bear!"''
86	* ''Literature/LilyAndDunkin'': Before Dunkin's first basketball game, he worries about everything that could go wrong: he could trip, fall, miss the basket, or trip and fall while missing the basket.
87	* ''Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell'':
88	-->'''Boss:''' Excellent, ten days since the last accident.\
89	'''PFY:''' I think you'll find that's a binary number.\
90	'''BOFH:''' And that's only because we don't count disappearances as accidents.\
91	'''PFY:''' Or people who don't work here.\
92	'''BOFH:''' Or disappearances of people who don't work here.

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