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Going Postal

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Going Postal	comment	The 33rd Discworld book, Going Postal centers around Moist von Lipwig, a new main character for the Discworld. A self-admitted con man, the book opens with Lipwig (under the pseudonym Albert Spangler) awaiting execution, because he finally got caught. Albert Spangler is hanged, buried, and gets a nice little paragraph in the Tanty Bugle.Moist von Lipwig, however, wakes up in Lord Vetinari's office, receives a pleasant speech about the nature of angels, and is "offered" a job as the new Postmaster in charge of the mostly-defunct Ankh-Morpork Post Office. True to form, the first thing he does once he's loose is to run as far away as he can. The next morning, he wakes up when the golem Vetinari set as his parole officer crashes through the door, bodily picks him up along with the horse he acquired, and carries them both back to Ankh-Morpork.Despite the complete incompetence of the existing Post staff,note (Stanley Howler, a slightly deranged boy obsessed with pins, and Tolliver Groat, an old man who believes very strongly in his homemade medicines and despite his advanced age holds the rank of Junior Postman when Moist first meets him because none of the previous Postmasters lasted long enough to promote him) Moist manages to begin rebuilding the Post Office via the application of a liberal helping of Refuge in Audacity. It helps that the Grand Trunk clacks system note a semaphore tower chain which allows messages to be transmitted great distances very quickly is under new management, a gang of voracious corporate backstabbers who are running it into the ground. Moist's rivalry with Reacher Gilt, the leader of the corporate moneygrubbers, and his budding romance with Adora Belle Dearheart note a cynical, chain-smoking young woman who has been known to drive her spike-heeled shoes through people's feet when provoked provide a bit of backdrop as Moist essentially invents a new system of currency,note by introducing stamps, which people start to use instead of coins single-handedly restores the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, rescues a cat (and two men) from a burning building, summons divine intervention, and exposes the crooked dealings of Gilt and his accomplices to the world.Did we mention that Moist is a really big believer in Refuge in Audacity? And that he saved a cat?An adaptation aired on Sky One on May 30 2010.Preceded by Monstrous Regiment, followed by Thud!. The next book in the Moist von Lipwig series is Making Money.Not to be confused with Going Postal, which is a trope.
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Going Postal / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Going Postal / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: In the book, when Moist gives a man a long undelivered acceptance to his marriage proposal, it's been forty years, and he and his former sweetheart have both since been married and widowed. In the series, it's only been a few years, and the two are still in their twenties or thirties and unattached.
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Going Postal / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Going Postal / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Terry Pratchett shows up as an unnamed postman at the end.
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Going Postal / int_13556074	type	Brotherhood of Funny Hats
Going Postal / int_13556074	comment	Brotherhood of Funny Hats: The Order of the Post, a secret society of postmen. Moist has joined several of these groups before (he even created a few himself), and assumes that their initiation test won't be anything dangerous, only to realise they're taking it very seriously.
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Going Postal / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
Going Postal / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: Subverted; Moist has carefully honed the skill of very rapidly learning just enough about a topic to fake being an expert to non-experts and pass as a less-knowledgeable enthusiast to experts who don't ask too many questions.
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Going Postal / int_14b85a5f	type	Fat Idiot
Going Postal / int_14b85a5f	comment	Fat Idiot: A first impression of Crispin Horsefry, one of the owners of the Grand Trunk, is that he is if not fat then definitely well on the way there, or that he is a mix of an incredibly stupid piglet with a very anxious little dog. While unfair, this impression is in no way wrong.
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Going Postal / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Going Postal / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: For many British readers, what Gilt does to the Grand Trunk had a great deal of resonance with what happened to Britain's railways after they were privatised in the 1990s. Especially since the real-world Grand Trunk was a British-owned Canadian railway company.
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Going Postal / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Going Postal / int_16ad6f7f	comment	Vetinari quietly but firmly corrects Moist every time he refers to Mr. Pump as "it," and treats the golem with respect.
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Going Postal / int_16dda55f	type	Simple Solution Won't Work
Going Postal / int_16dda55f	comment	Simple Solution Won't Work: Long ago, Bloody Stupid Johnson was hired to build a mail sorting machine for the post office. However, he decided to make things easier on himself by having Pi equal three. Somehow, this worked and the machine was completed, but this warped reality so the device began receiving mail that shouldn't exist, and it posed the threat of destroying the entire universe altogether. Ultimately, this led to the dissolution of the postal service until Vetinari had Moist resurrect it many years later.
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Going Postal / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Going Postal / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Subverted with "Grandad", the tower-master of clacks tower 181, who supposedly "had been everywhere and knew everything", watching over all the younger staff, including the thirteen-year old girl prodigy, Princess. It's easy to miss the offhand mention that, despite his nickname, he's only twenty-six.
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Going Postal / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Going Postal / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Moist Von Lipwig knows very well how things are supposed to go... and plays the part of the hero, because he is a con artist, and taking advantage of what people expect to see is his major skill. So when he hears that the cat is stuck in the burning building after getting everyone else out safely, he knows that there's only one choice. If he wants to continue this story, he must run back in to save the cat "because that's what the hero does".
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Going Postal / int_1796e460	type	Death Means Humanity
Going Postal / int_1796e460	comment	Death Means Humanity: It's a mark of Moist von Lipwig's Character Development that he mourns the death of the Golem Anghammarad, as he initially sees them as nothing more than objects. Unknown to him, Death takes Anghammarad to the afterlife, same as any living creature.
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Going Postal / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Going Postal / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Notably, this is the only book in the main Discworld series to avert this.
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Going Postal / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Going Postal / int_191a3673	comment	More classically, Gilt and Moist recognise each other for what they truly are more or less at first sight, when they meet at Le Foie Heureux. Moist is left in stunned awe, tempted to offer himself as an apprentice to learn how to do things like the three card trick with entire banks. Gilt, off-balance by the fact that Moist isn't in the Post Office (where Mr Gryle is looking for him) and - it is implied - impressed by the gall and skill it took to successfully forge an invite from Gilt to the extremely posh restaurant they're at, graciously offers to pay their bill. At the end, recognising that he has been beaten by the better con-man, Gilt sends Moist his intentionally pirate-like parrot.
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Going Postal / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Going Postal / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: A favored tactic of wild banshees like Mr. Gryle.
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Going Postal / int_1d5786ff	type	Looks Like Orlok
Going Postal / int_1d5786ff	comment	Looks Like Orlok: Mr. Gryle.
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Going Postal / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Going Postal / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Reacher Gilt dresses like a pirate and has a parrot that says "Twelve and a half percent!" In fractions, of course, 12.5 percent equals 1/8th, or "pieces of eight". At the end, Gilt leaves his parrot to Moist. Also, see This Is My Side. For non-commonwealth readers, a Stanley Knife is a box cutter or utility knife.
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Going Postal / int_1ea248b4	type	Neat Freak
Going Postal / int_1ea248b4	comment	Neat Freak: Stanley Howler. You might say he's as neat as a pin.
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Going Postal / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Going Postal / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Although he was a straight villain anyway, Mr. Gryle's set of victims has been expanded to include all of the previous postmasters, because the original explanation that they were killed by the hallucinatory post office was changed. Since they died by falling or fright, and Gryle is a scary flying banshee, it works rather neatly. Vetinari goes from being simply unconcerned whether Moist lives or dies (it's why he sent Moist after a few postmen and clerks died in the position, because Moist is expendable) to threatening to have him hung if he loses the bet with Gilt. This is rather out-of-character for Vetinari. For one thing, he could always find more uses for Moist; for another, getting the Watch and the hangman involved might reveal to the city that the postmaster was a criminal. It's also throwing away his best chance of reigning in the Clacks, especially since Moist is the only person who's had any success at rejuvinating the Post Office so far. Mr. Pump's oddly specific calculation of how many people Moist has killed is upped from 2.338 people in the books to 22.8 people.
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Going Postal / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Going Postal / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: Moist enables Vetinari to investigate the Grand Trunk by forging a message from "the dead" that blames the Trunk's Board for fraud, embezzlement, and murder, and then using the Smoking Gnu's expertise to hack the message in place of the Trunk's code, so that the fake message will be read in front of Vetinari and the Watch.
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Going Postal / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Going Postal / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Early on, Moist notes how people assume someone with a firm handshake and a steady gaze is honest, and how easy those are to fake. When Moist meets Reacher Gilt, he sees right through Gilt's facade by recognizing the man as having the firm handshake and steady gaze of a Consummate Liar who's practiced for years. The dilapidated wizard's tower between Ankh-Morpork and Sto Lat. Unremarkable enough that it hasn't been described on that road in any book before or since, making its mention partway through the book significant. There is a small scene involving the clacks tower 181 where a young girl named Alice is learning the trade, receiving and sending messages at an expert rate. One message comes in with no original sender listed and she is told about the concept of those who died on the towers sending final messages back home. Moist exposes Gilt's corrupt business by forging one such message. Vetinari uses this piece of clacks lore to declare the message trustworthy and its accusations worth investigating. Stanley's obsession with pins, which gives Moist the idea of using many pins on sheets of paper to create easily-cut stamps. The... unpleasant results of climbing onto the Mail Sorting Machine. Mr. Gryle learns this the hard way.
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Going Postal / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Going Postal / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The filmmakers are deadly determined to give Adora Belle a larger part in the story, with varied results. Adora trying to get the golems to strike is silly, as it requires Ankh-Morpork's leading golem expert failing to understand the nature of golems. Adora devising the Woodpecker herself, though, is so brilliant it makes the viewer regret the author hadn't thought to put it in the book. The filmmakers also chose to have Moist become more unambiguously repentant, rather than retaining the original idea that, whatever else Moist von Lipwig is, he is still a con artist. (This does gradually happen in the books but isn't solidified until Raising Steam). Since the ultimate con he runs (that he can give up everything and go back to being an itinerant con man, which allows him to not do so) is on himself and entirely in his head, it would be hard to do. Tying in with the above point, in this film Moist's fake bonds con is shown to have caused the economic crisis, closing several banks and giving Gilt the opportunity to buy the Trunk, so he has a lot more reason to be repentant. On top of that, the letters, rather than hallucinating the glorious past of the post office, directly show Moist the harm his schemes caused. The film adds a short prologue showing Moist's career and apprehension by the Watch. The book starts with Moist already in prison and awaiting execution. The Watch officers who arrest Moist are led by Angua, who has several unnamed appearances in the book but never interacts with Moist directly. Horsefry has a lot more screentime, and serves as Gilt's Bumbling Sidekick instead of the one-note pencil-pusher he was in the book. Gilt also personally beats him to death, rather than having Mr. Gryle kill him.
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Going Postal / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Going Postal / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Adora Belle Dearheart is anything but adorable. Her late brother (affectionately) called her "Killer". Her love interest, Moist von Lipwig, calls her "Spike". Mind you, she's a wonderful person, just not a very likable one (in contrast to Moist, who is, at least pre-character development, not a good person, but incredibly likable).
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Going Postal / int_24067bb9	type	Related in the Adaptation
Going Postal / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: Mr Pony is the grandfather of Princess.
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Going Postal / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Going Postal / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: The undelivered letters (almost) quote John 1:1 to Moist: "In the beginning there was a Wordâ€¦"
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Going Postal / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Going Postal / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In several earlier books, it is observed that using multiple exclamation marks is a sign of a deranged mind. In this book, Dave's Pin Exchange (the pin equivalent of a comic book store) styles itself as the "Home of Acuphilia!!!!!" For bonus points, five exclamation points is the exact figure mentioned for being the sign of a deranged mind.
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Going Postal / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Going Postal / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Groat has a tendency to repeat, sir, repeat his words.
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Going Postal / int_26e7f210	type	This Is My Side
Going Postal / int_26e7f210	comment	This Is My Side: Groat and Stanley's living quarters are an example of this. Stanley maintains the border with a very sharp knife. The table is divided into two halves, but since they only have one salt cellar it gets its own little 'demilitarized zone', a white circle in the middle.
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Going Postal / int_27636a1	type	Hellish Horse
Going Postal / int_27636a1	comment	Hellish Horse: Boris, an extremely ornery stallion that hasn't been broken yet and which the stable master provides for Moist. It was meant to be a bluff, but Moist called it and used Boris anyway.
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Going Postal / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Going Postal / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen/Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Adora Belle Dearheart. Or "Spike", as Moist affectionately calls her.
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Going Postal / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Going Postal / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: You might be forgiven for thinking a guy named "Grandad" is a Cool Old Guy, despite being a mere twenty-six years old - the same age as Moist von Lipwig.
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Going Postal / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Going Postal / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Prominently, Ridcully's attempt to remember a particular wizard — "Thingummy, got a funny name." Like that'll help narrow it down...
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Going Postal / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Going Postal / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: The Bond One Liners Moist could have said are mentioned, but not used, which actually meant that Pratchett got to include more than one.
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Going Postal / int_2b374ed1	type	It's Not You, It's Me
Going Postal / int_2b374ed1	comment	It's Not You, It's Me: Moist to Adora. Quite appropriately, she replies, "Oh! Cliches, as well, now I really am insulted."
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Going Postal / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Going Postal / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Towards the end, Moist fears that he is no better than Reacher Gilt. However—unbeknownst to Moist—the ending reveals that the Patrician caught Gilt, offered him the same chance for rehabilitation, and Gilt...refused. Moist discovers that it is very important to him that he isn't just like Reacher. How much unlike Reacher he actually is depends on your point of view. The Golems see it as only a matter of degree, but that doesn't stop them from thinking he can make Adora Belle Dearheart happy.
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Going Postal / int_2cd6b637	type	Fantastic Nuke
Going Postal / int_2cd6b637	comment	Fantastic Nuke: In a Continuity Nod to earlier accounts of the Mage Wars, such as Sourcery:
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Going Postal / int_2d428543	type	Eyes Never Lie
Going Postal / int_2d428543	comment	Eyes Never Lie: Although supernatural entities in other books play this straight (as the eyes of even gods can't be cloaked with illusion magic), this is subverted and lampshaded when it comes to ordinary dishonest humans. A "firm handshake and a steady gaze" are the most basic tools in Moist's kit to the point where he does it instinctively. Both men he gives the treatment to confidently say that he's clearly an honest man. On the other hand, getting this from Reacher Gilt is what makes Moist recognize him as a con artist on a level he could only dream of.
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Going Postal / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
Going Postal / int_2d4d16d9	comment	Vetinari maintains a largely hands-off approach to Moist in the book; he only interacts with him when he has a point to make, or when he feels like pulling an I Know You Know I Know. In the adaptation, Vetinari has Moist arrested a second time after he "finds" his old stash for no obvious reason, and threatens to have Moist hung if he loses the bet with the Clacks. This is a far cry from the books Vetinari, who generally only has people killed for good reasons and would never throw away a competent, tightly-leashed underling like Moist over a mostly-meaningless bet. Making this even more egregious is that it happens after Moist has rejuvenated the Post Office and begun causing the Clacks serious problems, making Vetinari's explanation of Moist having outlived his usefulness fall flat.
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Going Postal / int_2f379796	type	BreadMilkEggsSquick
Going Postal / int_2f379796	comment	Bread Milk Eggs Squick: While discussing the City Watch's "diversity" with Moist, Mr. Groat drops this gem.
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Going Postal / int_309c05ec	type	Teleporter Accident
Going Postal / int_309c05ec	comment	The... unpleasant results of climbing onto the Mail Sorting Machine. Mr. Gryle learns this the hard way.
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Going Postal / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Going Postal / int_31083edb	comment	The night before the Clacks-vs-Post Office race, he dreams of the Clacks towers burning as the operators blindly forward the "Woodpecker" killer message, even detailing how many towers fall before anyone realises what is going on, which he snaps out of with the realisation that the plan is too dangerous and would allow Gilt to win by declaring the message had been tampered with.
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Going Postal / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Going Postal / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Deconstructed; despite being an unashamed Con Man and criminal Moist believes himself to not be a particularly bad person because he has certain standards (never killing people, only pulling his cons on those who 'deserve' it, and so forth). During his "The Reason You Suck" Speech, however, Mr. Pump brutally informs him that his standards didn't stop him from ruining innocent lives, hastening deaths (he didn't need to actually hold the blade or even be aware they existed to kill people) and generally making the world a worse place; just because he didn't consider himself to be a particularly evil person doesn't mean that his actions weren't harmful and evil in their way, whether he was aware of it or not. It's especially visible when it turns out Adora Belle used to work for a bank that Moist had swindled, and his internal monologue is full of despairing protest that "this is not fair" (for him) and that "you're not supposed to meet these people afterwards"—thinking he is better than other criminals is only possible as long as he keeps a serious layer of denial. And then played straight with the "Not a hammer" line. And Vetinari and Gilt share a moment of this regarding blithering idiot Horsefry.
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Going Postal / int_31f9cec9	type	Critical Staffing Shortage
Going Postal / int_31f9cec9	comment	Critical Staffing Shortage: It is revealed that the Royal Post Office in Ankh-Morpork, formerly a city institution employing thousands, has atrophied with the years to a point where only two remain - an elderly eccentric and a young man who could be described as a little bit strange. The job of the new manager is to get it up and running again - with a staff of only two men, a cat, and ideally his parole officer.
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Going Postal / int_324ef023	type	Mercury's Wings
Going Postal / int_324ef023	comment	Mercury's Wings: The Spirit of the Post is a golden statue with a winged helmet, winged sandals and a winged fig leaf. Moist, as Postmaster and possible avatar, gets a gold postman's hat with real pigeon wings attached to it, and a matching pair of boots◊. (There's also some kind of elasticated arrangement, but he decides to forgo this.)
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Going Postal / int_3266ed59	type	Incredibly Obvious Tail
Going Postal / int_3266ed59	comment	Incredibly Obvious Tail: Used to great effect by Vetinari. If you see his spy, it's a spy he wants you to see.
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Going Postal / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
Going Postal / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: Adora explains that her father lost his business, the original Clacks system, because the bank he loaned money from was victim to fake bond fraud, that Moist started. Guess who took over the Clacks system and is trying to kill Moist?
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Going Postal / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Going Postal / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Several minor characters are completely absent, such as the elder golem Anghammarad and the entire board of the Grand Trunk. The Mail Sorting Machine is also absent.
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Going Postal / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Going Postal / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Gilt is a Magnificent Bastard, no doubt about it. Unfortunately for him, he's still not as good as Vetinari.
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Going Postal / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Going Postal / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: Vetinari gives Moist a fresh start, but only if he's willing to do a little job.
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Going Postal / int_370df1f9	type	Pony Express Rider
Going Postal / int_370df1f9	comment	Pony Express Rider: Moist's race against the clacks. Moist also ensures himself a little leeway in the final contest by ensuring that it truly is clacks vs. carriage, so that the Trunk cannot use their horses to ferry the message if a tower breaks down. (He notes that they could beat him without using a single tower by running a pony express.)
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Going Postal / int_384e9bac	type	Fantastical Social Services
Going Postal / int_384e9bac	comment	Fantastical Social Services: The first of the subseries about Ankh-Morpork's industrialisation, starting with Moist's impressment into revitalising the postal service.
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Going Postal / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Going Postal / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Moist tricks Gilt into engineering his own downfall with a gaudy and entirely nonmagical broom.
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Going Postal / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Going Postal / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Once Moist finally accepts that no, he's not going to receive a miraculous last-second reprieve from the gallows, he becomes surprisingly calm and actually manages some dignified, memorable last words. Fortunately for him, he received a post-death reprieve instead.
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Going Postal / int_3974efe4	type	Requisite Royal Regalia
Going Postal / int_3974efe4	comment	Requisite Royal Regalia: Morporkia is wearing one (a Vermine cape) on some of the stamp illustrations in the book (at least the hardcover versions).
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Going Postal / int_39798793	type	Ludicrous Precision
Going Postal / int_39798793	comment	Mr. Pump's oddly specific calculation of how many people Moist has killed is upped from 2.338 people in the books to 22.8 people.
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Going Postal / int_3a02ad13	type	Elder Employee
Going Postal / int_3a02ad13	comment	Elder Employee: Junior Postman Groat is, in fact, the oldest employee still serving at the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, but the Post Office has been without a Postmaster for so long that there was nobody to promote him. Also are the other, even older postmen who induct Moist as Postmaster General, and later still Anghammarad, a golem several thousand years old whose last job was delivering a message to an island that sank into the sea (and is waiting for it to come back up, carving the message into a new clay tablet when the old one crumbles) and who gets given the rank of Extremely Senior Postman.
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Going Postal / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Going Postal / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Moist starts the book as an unrepentant Con Artist who doesn't particularly care about the Post Office and views himself as a Lovable Rogue. By the end of the book, he's come to appreciate not only the Post Office, but also the Clacks; even when Mr. Pump tells him he won't be following him anymore and Moist realizes he has a solid chance of getting away free, he decides to remain.
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Going Postal / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Going Postal / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Stanley's upbringing: All we know is he was raised by peas. Not on, by. (We do learn that peas are noted for their thoroughness, but that's about it.)
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Going Postal / int_3cfeeb48	type	I Die Free
Going Postal / int_3cfeeb48	comment	I Die Free: Anghammarad. In his death, he finds himself free of all orders, commands, and duties. He can simply sit and do nothing if it is his choice...and he chooses to do just that, sitting on the sand in the black desert. Later, Reacher Gilt takes this trope to its logical conclusion by choosing death over a government job. Vetinari comments afterwards that he admires a man who believes so strongly in freedom.
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Going Postal / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Going Postal / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: When Moist wonders "What's the worst that could happen" if he goes through the Postman's Walk, Mr. Groat helpfully replies "The worst that could happen is you lose all your fingers on one hand, are crippled for life, and break half the bones in your body. Oh, and then they don't let you join." When Pump displays ignorance about certain aspects of local culture, Moist asks if he's been at the bottom of a hole for a hundred years. Pump replies that actually, he's been at the bottom of a well for over two hundred years. Pump isn't his given name; it's his former job description.
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Going Postal / int_3e11c4b0	type	Under New Management
Going Postal / int_3e11c4b0	comment	Under New Management: Moist Von Lipwig as the new management of the post office, and Gilt and his cronies at the Grand Trunk.
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Going Postal / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Going Postal / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Mr. Pony, whose saving ledgers and giving them to Adora helped to bring down Reacher Gilt. In the book, he did something similar by keeping detailed records about how the board constantly refused his recommendations for needed maintenance, but that subplot (and the board itself) was mostly cut.
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Going Postal / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Going Postal / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: An implied one. Princess, the thirteen year old working a clacks tower, notices that Grandad, the oldest worker (at twenty-six years old), is always there when she's working with one of the younger, male workers, and that one day she will put two and two together.
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Going Postal / int_40652d02	type	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You
Going Postal / int_40652d02	comment	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: Vetinari and Gilt share a mutual one of these after a third character shows his profound ignorance about the game "Thud".
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Going Postal / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Going Postal / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: After just narrowly avoiding one of Stanley's Little Moments, Moist sees Mr. Pump standing behind Stanley, his fist raised, clearly prepared to bash his brains out in Moist's defense. Mr. Pump insists he was just wanting to ask Moist a question. Fortunately, Stanley is oblivious enough to believe this. Not wanting the Watch to pry into his dispute with Reacher Gilt or into his own background, Moist tells them — in a bright, over-innocent voice — that, my goodness, he thought the corpse of Mr. Gryle the banshee was just "a big pigeon", even though Captain Carrot has already told him it was a banshee. Seeing the Watch werewolf wink at him as it pads away seals the deal.
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Going Postal / int_40f90c7c	type	Moody Mount
Going Postal / int_40f90c7c	comment	Moody Mount: Moist rides one of these to another city to help save the postal system. He is given one because he asked the stable to not bring him an old decrepit horse, so the workers bring him one which has actually bitten people. Sensing a chance for flair, Moist accepts with gusto to improve his appearance to the crowd. After he arrives, the horse escapes its new handlers and is roaming the plains now.
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Going Postal / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Going Postal / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Vetinari tells Moist he's danced "the sisal two-step" instead of "the hemp fandango". He then goes on to confuse "the Agatean Wall" with "the glass ceiling" when talking to the board members. (That one is very deliberate.)
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Going Postal / int_433cee4c	type	Tricked to Death
Going Postal / int_433cee4c	comment	Tricked to Death: Lord Vetinari offers (at different times) to let both Moist Von Lipwig and Reacher Gilt the opportunity to leave through a specific door, promising them "freedom" if they do. Moist is genre-savvy enough to suspect a trap and refuse. Reacher is strongly implied to have chosen death rather than work for Vetinari.
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Going Postal / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Going Postal / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Just before the Clacks-vs-Post Office race, Moist successfully baits Reacher Gilt to the point that he passes right through visible anger and into "the calm, limpid waters of utter, visceral fury".
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Going Postal / int_45609583	type	Pun With Pi
Going Postal / int_45609583	comment	Pun With Pi: There is a bit of a confusion for some characters (and for the reader) as to how the curse of the Post Office was related to a pie. It turns out it was related to the number pi (Bloody Stupid Johnson built a letter-sorting machine in which the pi equaled exactly three, and mayhem ensued).
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Going Postal / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Going Postal / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Speaking relatively, Vetinari and Reacher Gilt "loathe...every aspect of [each other]'s personal philosophy to a depth unplumbable by any line", each also grant the other that they are not Crispin Horsefry. More classically, Gilt and Moist recognise each other for what they truly are more or less at first sight, when they meet at Le Foie Heureux. Moist is left in stunned awe, tempted to offer himself as an apprentice to learn how to do things like the three card trick with entire banks. Gilt, off-balance by the fact that Moist isn't in the Post Office (where Mr Gryle is looking for him) and - it is implied - impressed by the gall and skill it took to successfully forge an invite from Gilt to the extremely posh restaurant they're at, graciously offers to pay their bill. At the end, recognising that he has been beaten by the better con-man, Gilt sends Moist his intentionally pirate-like parrot.
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Going Postal / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Going Postal / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Inverted. Horsefry is beaten to death by his boss for doing his job too well, in a rare moment of competence.
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Going Postal / int_47769748	type	WithAllDueRespect
Going Postal / int_47769748	comment	With All Due Respect: In Reacher's first scene, he repeatedly peppers his speech with the words "all respect" to Vetinari. Vetinari clearly realises the meaning behind the phrase, and simply comments that it's gratifying to be shown such respect.
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Going Postal / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Going Postal / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: After Moist von Lipwig kills an assassin in self defence, the text notes that it would be the perfect time for a Bond One-Liner. Instead, Moist just becomes noisily sick.
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Going Postal / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Going Postal / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: After the long end-credits have rolled. Groat and Stanley return sore and exhausted after their round-trip to Uberwald in the mail coach, but elated because they bet all their money on Moist to win the race at 50-1. Then they suddenly realise they've left the betting slip back in Uberwald...
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Going Postal / int_4977559e	type	Our Angels Are Different
Going Postal / int_4977559e	comment	Our Angels Are Different: Played with. Vetinary presents himself rather cynically as the "Angel of Redemption" and offers Moist a second chance after he "died". Vetinari's definition is that this type of angel will appear at a point in a ""man's career where he has made such a foul mess of his life that he contemplates suicide and will give him the opportunity to go back at the moment it all went wrong and make the right choice."" Obviously Vetinari is not an angel but he's very much a tyrant who uses this story to forcibly recruit Moist Von Lipwig. Moist is presented several times as an "Angel", aka: a Messenger, a Symbol of hope, a Representative of the gods and a Force of good. Naturally, he isn't any of those. By the end of the book, he becomes all four.
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Going Postal / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Going Postal / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Gilt, having to explain his pun on "prophet" and "profit":
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Going Postal / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Going Postal / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Crispin Horsefry positively runs full-tilt into these on a regular basis. During the meeting between Vetinari and the Grand Trunk executives, he protests the slightest hint of any wrongdoing by insisting what they have done is perfectly legal, and even drops this colossal clanger: Reacher Gilt makes a similar revealing remark when he asks Moist how Mr. Groat was recovering after the attack. Only a few people know there was an attack.
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Going Postal / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Going Postal / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: Moist tricks Gilt into thinking he was planning to use a flying broomstick to cheat at the race, and Gilt leaps to prevent it. Not only was the real plan unrelated, but the concession Gilt made to get flying banned made it pretty much impossible to counter. The Board thinks that Gilt is a shady corporate raider who helped them steal the Trunk for a share of the profits. This blinds them to his skimming money, deliberately running the company into the ground so he can make even more money selling it, and using the connection to steal from their other business interests as well.
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Going Postal / int_4cb90f31	type	Three Laws-Compliant
Going Postal / int_4cb90f31	comment	Three Laws-Compliant: Moist assumed golems are, and in a sense they are, but with a twist: they actually are not allowed to harm a human beingâ€¦unless ordered to do so by a duly constituted authority. This essentially inverts the Laws, making it more important to obey (certain) humans than to protect humans.
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Going Postal / int_4cecb933	type	Signs of Disrepair
Going Postal / int_4cecb933	comment	Signs of Disrepair: The sign outside the Post Office headquarters reading "NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLO M OF NI T WILL STAY THESE MES ENGERS ABO T THEIR DUTY" are brought up again. It turns out the missing letters found their way onto a shop sign labeled HUGOS, without the apostrophe.
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Going Postal / int_4d0f7f79	type	Employee of the Month
Going Postal / int_4d0f7f79	comment	Employee of the Month: Spoofed, along with the We Care trope, at one point in the book:
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Going Postal / int_4e95743e	type	Cutlery Escape Aid
Going Postal / int_4e95743e	comment	Cutlery Escape Aid: Moist von Lipwig manages to conceal a spoon in his cell, which he uses to gradually chip away at the ancient mortar around one of the blocks in the wall. He finishes on the night before he's due to be hanged, only to find a freshly mortared block right behind it, with a shiny new spoon in the gap. Lord Vetinari regards false hope as a healthy prisoner activity; there are plenty of other classic prison escapes in the cell, none of which work.
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Going Postal / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Going Postal / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: In contrast to the book's polished Magnificent Bastard, the Reacher Gilt of the adaptation is pale, greasy and charisma-free (as well as losing his "con artist with vision" angle for a straight Corrupt Corporate Executive role). This has the side effect of making him a much less intelligent villain; in the original he knew full well his policies would drive the business into the ground and stood to make a fortune by doing so, but in this version it would ruin him.
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Going Postal / int_4fa3a61f	type	The Barnum
Going Postal / int_4fa3a61f	comment	The Barnum: Reacher Gilt. Moist has elements of this as well, though he does feel some guilt over his actions when directly confronted with the harm he's caused.
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Going Postal / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Going Postal / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Gryle (and Lipwig in return) tried to make this, but it didn't work for either of them.
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Going Postal / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Going Postal / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Parodied; After killing a would-be assassin with the mail sorter, the narration observes that this would have been a perfect time to say something clever like "That's what I call 'sorted'!" But since Moist isn't the heroic type, he just gets noisily sick instead.
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Going Postal / int_5178a0b3	type	Three... Two... One...
Going Postal / int_5178a0b3	comment	Three... Two... One...: As in the book, Moist finds out the missing letters of the sign outside the Post Office headquarters ended up on the sign of a hairdresser salon labeled "HUGOS", without the apostrophe. When the employee refuses to let him talk to Mr. Hugo, he leaves the message that he'd hope to avoid it, but they might get in trouble with Lord Vetinari. As Moist exits, he's counting to three before being anxiously called back.
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Going Postal / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Going Postal / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: At the end of the book, Vetinari offers a job to Reacher Gilt, just like he offered one to Moist von Lipwig at the start of the book. Though Gilt ends up taking Vetinari's offer to "walk right out that door, and I won't bother you again" and unlike Moist he didn't stop to check for the bottomless pit first.
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Going Postal / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Going Postal / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Gryle to Gilt.
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Going Postal / int_5407b177	type	First-Episode Resurrection
Going Postal / int_5407b177	comment	First-Episode Resurrection: The story begins with Moist Von Lipwig, in his identity as Albert Spangler, being executed by hanging. After his execution, Moist wakes up and is surprised to learn that Lord Vetinari colluded with the hangman to make him Only Mostly Dead. So, while Albert Spangler is still legally deceased, Moist gets a second chance on life.
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Going Postal / int_55023d83	type	Just Smile and Nod
Going Postal / int_55023d83	comment	Just Smile and Nod: A clacks worker tries to explain the technicals to Moist. Occasionally, as technical polysyllabic words fly past him, he catches one or two he recognizes. Like "the".
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Going Postal / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
Going Postal / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: Moist never, ever used violence in his criminal career. Weapons make him nervous. Though Mr. Pump deconstructs his assumption that this made him not such a bad person by pointing out that his actions had devastating effects on people despite his not physically harming anyone.
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Going Postal / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Going Postal / int_55c79f7c	comment	Death Trap: When Vetinari is meeting his new Boxed Crook Moist von Lipwig, he tells Moist that if he doesn't like the offer he can simply walk out that door. When Moist goes to check, the door has nothing behind it - and that includes a floor.
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Going Postal / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
Going Postal / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: The subplot about what happened to the previous postmasters is skipped by revealing they were killed by Reacher Gilt's banshee assassin. However, the only reason the Post Office is standing in the book is that Gilt doesn't see it as a threat; as soon as he does, he doesn't mess around killing postmasters, he burns the place to the ground. In addition, a rearrangement of scenes means that TV Gilt has to kill Horsefry personally, when the man is visiting his office, rather than employing the hard-to-track Mr Gryle to swoop down and kill him in his own home. Despite the TV version retaining Ankh-Morpork's capable and determined Watch (and its bloodhound-like werewolf), this crime apparently goes unsolved. Angua twice arrests Moist for breaking his parole by leaving the city, but for some reason there was no problem earlier when he took a horse to Sto Lat. (In the book, it's made clear he can leave the city as long as he's on Post Office business, which applies all three times.) It's also not clear why this is even Angua's job; Mr Pump is still his parole officer, and collects him when he actually tries to escape.
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Going Postal / int_568b9d5	type	Orphaned Etymology
Going Postal / int_568b9d5	comment	Orphaned Etymology: A rather jarring example from Pterry, who is usually very on the ball with words and their origins; when Moist first tries on the golden suit Mr Pump had made for him and looks at himself in the mirror, he comments "Wow, El Dorado or what?"
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Going Postal / int_578a2681	type	Treacherous Spirit Chase
Going Postal / int_578a2681	comment	Treacherous Spirit Chase: The Ankh-Morpork Post Office wraps unsuspecting postmasters entirely in a beguiling vision of the building's opulent past. Unfortunately for them, this includes images of floors and walkways that have long since rotted away. Moist von Lipwig nearly takes a very long tumble by almost stepping onto a balcony that had long ago ceased to be.
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Going Postal / int_57917bb0	type	Immortality Through Memory
Going Postal / int_57917bb0	comment	Immortality Through Memory: Workers on the Clacks towers circulate the names of their dead throughout the network without end so they can live on in the Clacks.
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Going Postal / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Going Postal / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: At the end of the initiation trial that the old postmen run for Moist, they sic several massive dogs upon him, whom he recognizes from their bark as Lipwigzer dogs — which his grandfather raised. He handles the challenge with perfect confidence by using the commands that all purebred Lipwigzers are trained with... only to learn afterwards that they were not Lipwigzers at all, but Ankh-Morpork junkyard dogs with no training whatsoever who only obeyed out of sheer bafflement. The Mail Sorting Machine in the Post Office's cellars includes a circular wheel whose diameter-to-circumference ratio - that is, Pi - is exactly three, not 3.141 et cetera. This is, of course, impossible, but nobody seems to have told Mr. Johnson that.
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Going Postal / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Going Postal / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: Professor Pelc notes to Moist that the same way the University's library distorts time and space on a massive scale due to the accumulation of words, so did the Post Office the instant they started accumulating the mail, creating a different phenomenon called a gevaisa - a "tomb of living words", while Mr Pump refers to it slightly differently as a "tomb of unheard words". Pelc notes that the hallucinations and distortions inside the Post Office should gradually decrease as the mail is delivered, though given the sheer tonnage of the undelivered mail, Moist is highly skeptical of this.
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Going Postal / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Going Postal / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Worse: they're quite competent and dangerously clever. This annoys Moist, as he is used to dealing with cops in other cities, who are taking the lead from but haven't quite got a handle on Sam Vimes's style of policing. Moist spends the novel obfuscating things for them so they'll not look too closely and realize Alfred Spangler didn't quite die.
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Going Postal / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Going Postal / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Unlike with the Colour of Magic adaptation, a lot of things were implemented in a different way to the book rather than simply left out. Mr. Gryle's climactic fight with Moist takes place in the middle of the burning post office, instead of in the cellar. He dies by being incinerated by the Post Office itself, rather than being spliced by the mail sorting machine. In the book, the deaths of Moist's predecessors were genuinely accidents, caused by the psychoactive properties of the Post Office. In the film, they were unambiguous assassinations directed by Gilt and carried out by Mr. Gryle.
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Going Postal / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
Going Postal / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Lipwig's dreams involve the letters forcing him to watch the consequences of his actions portrayed as silent movies, complete in some cases with dialogue cards.
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Going Postal / int_5b3e927f	type	All-Natural Snake Oil
Going Postal / int_5b3e927f	comment	All-Natural Snake Oil: The logic, such as it is, behind Tolliver Groat's homemade medicines, which are made from all-natural ingredients such as sulphur, saltpetre, charcoal, arsenic, and dead voles. Amazingly, the doctor who examined him found him to be in remarkably good health—possibly indestructible. He was just absolutely disgusting (since he doesn't believe in bathing). And his hairpiece tried to make a break for it. They also had to surgically remove his pants, which were then field-detonated.
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Going Postal / int_5d716d61	type	Ground by Gears
Going Postal / int_5d716d61	comment	Ground by Gears: Mr. Gryle is quite thoroughly done in by an experimental mail-sorting engine, thanks to a central flywheel so poorly designed that it rotates through its own space-time frame. Alien Geometries plus an off-balanced banshee equals a [Gloop] and a sticky smear.
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Going Postal / int_605b8f40	type	Bumbling Sidekick
Going Postal / int_605b8f40	comment	Horsefry has a lot more screentime, and serves as Gilt's Bumbling Sidekick instead of the one-note pencil-pusher he was in the book. Gilt also personally beats him to death, rather than having Mr. Gryle kill him.
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Going Postal / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
Going Postal / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: If Gilt had spent a tenth of the money and effort he expended on sabotaging the post office on ensuring that the clacks was working properly, he'd have won hands down.
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Going Postal / int_6143ce68	type	Dine and Dash
Going Postal / int_6143ce68	comment	Dine and Dash: Moist has some unspecified plan for doing this when he takes Adora to the ritziest restaurant in Ankh-Morpork. In the end, they do escape paying the bill, but ironically thanks to the villain of the novel rather than anything Moist intentionally does.
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Going Postal / int_625cfe89	type	Emergency Stash
Going Postal / int_625cfe89	comment	Emergency Stash: Moist keeps various tools of the trade — forgery supplies, make-up and a change of clothes, lockpicks, even safehouses — stashed all over the city. He also has amassed 150 thousand dollars in assorted currencies over the course of his career as a con man. He later digs it up, claims that it's a gift from the gods and uses it to rebuild the Post Office.
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Going Postal / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Going Postal / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: A minor one in the epilogue: The Patrician offers Reacher Gilt the choice between running the Royal Mint or death. He chooses death.
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Going Postal / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Going Postal / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Moist pulls off one or two during the course of the book.
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Going Postal / int_6306ceb6	type	Hat of Authority
Going Postal / int_6306ceb6	comment	Hat of Authority: The wingÃ©d gold hat that comes with being Postmaster. It also came with some winged sandals and a(n also winged) fig-leaf thong, which Moist wisely passes up.
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Going Postal / int_64e2c7c7	type	Lying Finger Cross
Going Postal / int_64e2c7c7	comment	Lying Finger Cross: Moist makes Adora swear to keep her cool and to avoid violence just before dropping a bomb on her. She agrees, and he confesses he's the forger whose checks cost her her earlier job. She takes a moment to reflect, and asks whether she was crossing her fingers. Unfortunately for her, Moist was very deliberately looking at her hands just to avoid this specific trope, and she swallows her wrath for a second until he explains himself.
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Going Postal / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Going Postal / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: This book introduced a new protagonist who proved very popular with fandom (somewhat revitalising the series) as well as being built around a serious point about privatisation—previous Discworld novels sometimes have serious points to make but they always took a back seat to the humour and never dominated the whole book (with the arguable exception of Equal Rites, Small Gods, Jingo, and Night Watch). In addition, there is a style change to the layout of the novel, with Pratchett including chapters for the first time in the main series since The Light Fantastic (partly in response to a critic who mocked his work for lacking chapters).
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Going Postal / int_678a72a9	type	And a Diet Coke
Going Postal / int_678a72a9	comment	And a Diet Coke: Well, in Sacharissa's case, two figgins and a skinny Klatchian coffee. Given the properties of Klatchian Coffee (it makes you so sober some Go Mad from the Revelation), the figgins aren't going to help.
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Going Postal / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Going Postal / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is quite a large building, but it seems to contain corridors that run for miles in every direction. This may have something to do with the power of words to warp space.
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Going Postal / int_69b31908	type	Disturbing Statistic
Going Postal / int_69b31908	comment	Disturbing Statistic: Mr. Pump calculates the damage Moist has done to peoples' lives with his cons. In total, he's effectively killed 2.338 people. It merges with "The Reason You Suck" Speech since Moist thinks of his cons as never having hurt anyone — or at least no one who didn't deserve it.
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Going Postal / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Going Postal / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: In his second last words, Moist preaches about it. And about Love Redeems, too.
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Going Postal / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Going Postal / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: There's some competing Epileptic Trees regarding Moist and Reacher's names. Pratchett, as a master of multilevel wordplay, probably intended more than one or even all of them. Reacher Gilt: Aside from the obvious meaning—he's "reaching" for your "gilt" (i.e. gold; Gilt mentions to a servant that he was a bit surprised he got away with that one). The pirate act is just flavor, but the name spells it out; see also the Stealth Pun below—there are two main competing theories. It's either a reference to Long John Silver, or a Take That! against John Galt. There is, given that it's Pratchett, known for layering his wordplay, the very real possibility that it's both. In favor of Long John: the character's appearance (he deliberately looks like a Pirate), he's someone with an impressively long, er, reach, and "silver" vs. "gilt" (gold). It also fits in with the other Dickens-style names in the book. In favor of John Galt: aside from his ruthlessly rules-free capitalist approach to business and the similarity of their last names, the air of mystery he cultivates around himself prompts some to ask "Who is Reacher Gilt?" More obviously, given how brazen Reacher is about his crimes, his name literally proclaims his "gilt". Moist turns out to have a heart of gold whereas Reacher's friendly demeanor is only gild (i.e. gold painted or plated), "gilt" being the past participle of "gild". Lipwig implies a false mustache, indicating that Moist is a Master of Disguise. Another theory has it that the name Moist is intended to call to mind "Slippery Jim", the hero of The Stainless Steel Rat series, who is another Boxed Crook. It could also be based on Victor Lustig, a Con Man who sold the Eiffel Tower... twice. Finally, it's similar to the real German city of Leipzig, which fits with Moist's background in Ãœberwald. Many surnames come from one's place of birth, usually those of noble descent. Adora Belle Dearheart is supposed to call to mind Ada Lovelace, one of the pioneers of computing. The Smoking Gnu isn't just a punny misspelling, and the whole story calls to mind the fall of Ma Bell, and IBM's days as the Evil Empire. There are a lot of Meaningful Names in this book, even for a Pratchett work. The Smoking Gnu is also a Shout-Out to The Bromeliad in which the Nome confuses the words Gun and Gnu at one point (and confuses everyone he's talking to). Stanley Howler recalls Stanley Gibbons, the London stamp dealers, "howler" and "gibbons" both being kinds of primates. A water pump is a machine that forces water uphill. Mr Pump is a machine that pushes Moist to be better.
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Going Postal / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Going Postal / int_6d7026fa	comment	Anoia, goddess of Things That Get Stuck In Kitchen Drawers.
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Going Postal / int_70d53103	type	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment
Going Postal / int_70d53103	comment	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment: Moist Von Lipwig is offered (as an alternative to being hanged, again) the job of Postmaster General. It's a job for life, just quite possibly not for long, as it's already claimed the lives of several other "volunteers." Of course, Vetinari isn't going to be so crass as to force him to take the job, and tells Moist he can walk out of the room whenever he likes. Moist takes the time to confirm his suspicions that there is a long drop beyond the door, but the choice is still there.
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Going Postal / int_711714da	type	Opposites Attract
Going Postal / int_711714da	comment	Opposites Attract: Moist von Lipwig: Conman, forced into public service, liar, and optimist with some cynic in. Adora Belle Dearheart: Golem trust chairwoman, chose her job voluntarily (more or less, after losing her last job thanks to Moist), incapable of lying (bar sarcasm), and cynic with some optimism deep inside.
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Going Postal / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
Going Postal / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: Highly organized, with a scoring system and tactics that seem to be based on a combination of rugby and professional wrestling. People expect things of bar brawls after all.
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Going Postal / int_7170f25a	type	T-Word Euphemism
Going Postal / int_7170f25a	comment	T-Word Euphemism: Moist's rant when he realizes what Gilt is doing apparently includes the K-word, the L-word, the T-word, two different S-words, the V-word and the Y-word.
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Going Postal / int_72455542	type	Adaptational Intelligence
Going Postal / int_72455542	comment	Adaptational Intelligence: Horsefry in the book was so stupid that in the Smart People Play Chess scene his only contribution was that as a child he got a piece stuck up his nose and seemed to think this meaningful commentary. In the special he's completely competent, just not savvy enough not to keep a second set of books with accurate records. In particular, his justification for keeping the books here (that he needs accurate records somewhere if he's going to be able to properly conceal Gilt's illicit spending) actually makes sense, whereas his justification in the novel emphasized that he was a Cloudcuckoolander.
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Going Postal / int_725583e8	type	Good Feels Good
Going Postal / int_725583e8	comment	Good Feels Good: Played straight (in Lipwig's part) for most of the time, but subverted in a dialogue of Moist and Mr. Pump.
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Going Postal / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
Going Postal / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: With Moist and Adora, to the extent we see her crying and him saying: "I deserve to die!" The adaptation puts a lot more emphasis on Moist's guilt in general; as part of this, the number of people Mr. Pump calculates he has killed is about ten times what it was in the book.
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Going Postal / int_7351b2bf	type	Asymmetric Multiplayer
Going Postal / int_7351b2bf	comment	Asymmetric Multiplayer: Discussed. Thud has one player controlling a few slow but powerful trolls and the other controlling multiple fast but independently weak dwarfs (which Thud later established also have combo abilities). Vetinari and Gilt size each other up (and foreshadow much of the plot) by talking about their preferred sides. Crispin Horsefry also demonstrates his profound ignorance by saying "the dwarfs always win," something which a subsequent novel would reveal as the mark of an amateur player with a limited understanding of the game.
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Going Postal / int_73c9a109	type	Butlerspace
Going Postal / int_73c9a109	comment	Butlerspace: Igors again. Reacher Gilt's Igor does this several times, and Reacher puts a bear trap behind him as a test. The Igor, however, being no stranger to "masters of an inquiring mind", gets around it.
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Going Postal / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Going Postal / int_740f59b4	comment	The creators seemed to go Color-Coded for Your Convenience-route, fearing that a dark-haired, more menacing Vetinari could be mistaken for the villain by a casual viewer.
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Going Postal / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Going Postal / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Subverted: Horsefry lasts longer than he does in the book, outliving Mr Gryle, who killed him in the original. Then, Reacher Gilt realises that Horsefry has recorded all the assassinations in his accounts books (since Gilt had to pay Mr Gryle for each assassination). Gilt then beats Horsefry to death with his cane and disposes of the body.
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Going Postal / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Going Postal / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "You should've been there! You should've seen it!" â€œLet me tell you about angelsâ€¦â€�
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Going Postal / int_7481a085	type	Offerings to the Gods
Going Postal / int_7481a085	comment	Offerings to the Gods: Parodied with the Church of Offler, said to pay special attention to any prayers that come with sausages. It's a good deal for the priests too (depending on seniority - the most junior priest is noted to get about as much of the sausage as Offler Himself, which is to say, the smell).
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Going Postal / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Going Postal / int_76b4b7dd	comment	Vetinari, true to form, takes him at his word and asks his secretary for a broom.
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Going Postal / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Going Postal / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: Even when confronted with a determined golem parole officer, Moist von Lipwig (a Meaningful Name if pronounced as spelled, since he's known for wearing false mustaches) can muster enough righteous indignation to remind said golem parole officer that his name is pronounced "Lipvig" with a V.
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Going Postal / int_7886d4d0	type	Decemberâ€“December Romance
Going Postal / int_7886d4d0	comment	Decemberâ€“December Romance: Moist delivers an old letter, which results in a pair of childhood sweethearts, now both elderly and widowed, hooking up again.
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Going Postal / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Going Postal / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Vetinari has one, reflecting on the nature of freedom and whether it's all it's cracked up to be. At least he has an excuse - who's going to tell Vetinari to stop monologuing?
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Going Postal / int_78d103c3	type	Exposition of Immortality
Going Postal / int_78d103c3	comment	Exposition of Immortality: The golem Anghammarad, built over 20,000 years ago and still functioning, remembers times, events, places, and languages that nothing else on the Disc does.
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Going Postal / int_7916f22e	type	Creepy Changing Painting
Going Postal / int_7916f22e	comment	Creepy Changing Painting: Due to the imp-based technology used to print the stamps, around one in five has a small deviation from the original image. For instance, the one depicting the Tower of Art has a man throwing himself from the tower.
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Going Postal / int_794095d7	type	Boxed Crook
Going Postal / int_794095d7	comment	Boxed Crook: Moist is a confidence artist forced into a government job, because his cunning criminal mind is exactly what Vetinari needs to both sell people on the idea of the post office and take down Reacher Gilt.
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Going Postal / int_7a54c458	type	Mock Millionaire
Going Postal / int_7a54c458	comment	Mock Millionaire: Reacher Gilt is arguably an example of this trope. He conducts himself in a very lavish manner, but that may be part of his masquerade. He himself believes that wealth is an illusion, and stole the Grand Trunk through embezzlement and accounting tricks. It's never clear how much actual liquidity he actually has; in the end, when he is caught by Vetinari after fleeing the city, he seems dishevelled and impoverished. That may be disguise, or just a side-effect of spending an unspecified amount of time in the hands of Vetinari's Clerks before being brought before Vetinari and, quite literally, finding himself "in for the long drop".
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Going Postal / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
Going Postal / int_7aa858c1	comment	Early on, Moist notes how people assume someone with a firm handshake and a steady gaze is honest, and how easy those are to fake. When Moist meets Reacher Gilt, he sees right through Gilt's facade by recognizing the man as having the firm handshake and steady gaze of a Consummate Liar who's practiced for years.
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Going Postal / int_7b0448b6	type	Paperworkaholic
Going Postal / int_7b0448b6	comment	Paperworkaholic: Crispin Horsefry. In the book, he's just a somewhat dim member of Gilt's club of rich hangers-on, who tries to soothe his conscience about the whole "embezzling money and running the company into the ground" thing by keeping records of what money they stole, so that once they have enough they can put it back and it'd be like there wasn't any crime at all. In the TV film he's obsessed with balancing numbers, to the point that he keeps detailed notes of his company's illegal deals. When Gilt finds out about this, he's so incensed he kills him and tries to burn the records. Nevertheless, the books are rescued and used to oust the corrupt board members.
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Going Postal / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Going Postal / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Vetinari and Gilt assess each other with their Thud tactics. Also, Crispin Horsefry's dismissal of the game (not that he didn't play it, but that he couldn't see past the obvious to the intricacies) is an(other) indication of his low intellect.
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Going Postal / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Going Postal / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Reacher Gilt virtually advertises the true nature of his business practices by dressing similarly to a pirate, complete with an eyepatch and a cockatoo on his shoulder. Which, for bonus points, is taught to say "Twelve-and-a half-percent!". Converted to fractions that's 1/8, or a "piece of eight".
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Going Postal / int_7d68f571	type	...Or So I Heard
Going Postal / int_7d68f571	comment	...Or So I Heard: Moist has to say this a few times when he realizes he's revealed more knowledge than he should have of criminal enterprise. "They're the devil to forge, I know that...well, that's what I've heard."
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Going Postal / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Going Postal / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mr. Pump, demolishing Moist Von Lipwig's comforting vision of himself as a criminal with standards by pointing out that through his cons and scams he did not need to physically touch or even be aware of the existence of people to ruin their lives and hasten their deaths.
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Going Postal / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
Going Postal / int_7e07f634	comment	Paranoia Fuel: In-Universe- The knowledge that his golem parole officer can kill if ordered by a suitable authority (such as the Patrician) combined with the graphic demises of previous Postmasters leads Moist to suspect that such golems were responsible for ridding the Post Office of unsatisfactory Postmasters. Groat's insistence that at least one of them died in an "industrial accident" furthers this, as golems are generally regarded as tools. It's revealed later that the deaths were caused by a completely unrelated phenomenon.
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Going Postal / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Going Postal / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Happened thrice, between Moist and Adora. She deliberately stopped the first and third ones, a concurrence of circumstances interrupted the second one.
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Going Postal / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Going Postal / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The flashbacks show how Lipwig's cons drove a farmer to suicide, sent a bank clerk to prison, destroyed the bank and ruined the Dearheart family... and drove Adora to start smoking cigarettes. Also, the movie's tagline is "A Tale of Love and Revenge...And Stamps." The list of Lipwig's crimes include Littering with Extreme Prejudice.
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Going Postal / int_81574019	type	Creature of Habit
Going Postal / int_81574019	comment	Creature of Habit: Tiddles the ancient cat is so set in his ways, moving the furniture into his daily path through the Post Office will leave him pathetically butting his head against the obstacle. Certainly a little thing like the building being on fire won't change his routine.
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Going Postal / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Going Postal / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Gilt. Boy howdy, Reacher Gilt. Not that we expected anything else. And he's played by David Suchet! Also, in a very sharp change from the tight-lipped version in the novel, Mr. Gryle.
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Going Postal / int_84df9a79	type	Second-Face Smoke
Going Postal / int_84df9a79	comment	Second-Face Smoke: Adora, occasionally.
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Going Postal / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
Going Postal / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: Watching outside the burning post office, Adora Belle Dearheart catches a burning piece of paper that flutters past and uses it to light a cigarette.
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Going Postal / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Going Postal / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Gilt, to the point where even he is incredulous about it.
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Going Postal / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Going Postal / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead:
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Going Postal / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Going Postal / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Subverted, in that the neglected Mail is so desperate that they'll Choose anyone who happens to be available.
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Going Postal / int_8a0cfe56	type	Merchant Prince
Going Postal / int_8a0cfe56	comment	Merchant Prince: Reacher Gilt is a powerful swindler and conman who is attempting to use his wealth (assuming he actually has any...) and power to displace the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork (though see below).
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Going Postal / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Going Postal / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of the Lovable Rogue character type. Mr. Pump points out the ways in which even nonviolent criminals who feel they have standards can cause suffering and evil all over the world:
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Going Postal / int_8ca20b69	type	Out-of-Character Moment
Going Postal / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: Seeing Angua referring to anyone as "lunch" and changing in public (as she's seen doing in the trailer) is very jarring compared to her representation in the books, where she's a vegetarian who hates the impulses brought on by being a werewolf, and the only time she makes a corny joke about it was Self-Deprecation. The books also state that changing in public is considered highly impolite in were society, to the point where she doesn't even let her lover Carrot see her while she's changing shapes. While the watch having a Werewolf is common knowledge, the fact that the werewolf is Angua (and not Nobby) is not. Also, given that her clothes don't transform with her, she just stripped naked in the middle of a tavern to make a point, something the Watch goes to great pains to avoid in the books. Also Mustrum Ridcully talking about the nature of words. The Ridcully seen in the books and, indeed, the other adaptations, is a big, hearty man who bellows in almost every situation and uses phrases like "damn silly fool". The Ridcully in this version stays soft-spoken and talks like a professor. This is because he's serving the role of Professor Pelc, which raises the question of why they didn't just call the character Professor Pelc. Vetinari maintains a largely hands-off approach to Moist in the book; he only interacts with him when he has a point to make, or when he feels like pulling an I Know You Know I Know. In the adaptation, Vetinari has Moist arrested a second time after he "finds" his old stash for no obvious reason, and threatens to have Moist hung if he loses the bet with the Clacks. This is a far cry from the books Vetinari, who generally only has people killed for good reasons and would never throw away a competent, tightly-leashed underling like Moist over a mostly-meaningless bet. Making this even more egregious is that it happens after Moist has rejuvenated the Post Office and begun causing the Clacks serious problems, making Vetinari's explanation of Moist having outlived his usefulness fall flat.
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Going Postal / int_8dea4592	type	Prayer Is a Last Resort
Going Postal / int_8dea4592	comment	Prayer Is a Last Resort: Played with and subverted. After Reacher Gilt has the Post Office burned down and Vetinari will not provide the funds needed for restoration, Moist fakes this trope, hard. With smartly-written and stamped letters to the gods in hand, Moist goes to three different temples, praying to various gods for a large sum of money to help rebuild the Post Office. After that, he fakes a vision, falls to his knees screaming and praying to "give thanks" for the phony revelation, and "discovers" the huge stash of gold and other currency that he'd buried in the fields before the book begins: his ill-gotten money from all his cons.
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Going Postal / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Going Postal / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The fact that Lipwig had to face the consequences of his own crime which indirectly had caused ruining Adora's family and the death of her father is quite a sharp example.
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Going Postal / int_91438937	type	Gonky Femme
Going Postal / int_91438937	comment	Gonky Femme: They put a golem into a dress and rename it "Gladys", in order to make it proper for "her" to clean the ladies' bathroom. The golem promptly starts to act very stereotypically girly, which actually makes a degree of sense, given that it's essentially a matter of programming.
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Going Postal / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Going Postal / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Vetinari says this to Moist before the big race. That's why he added the "if you lose then you will be hanged" condition.
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Going Postal / int_9303d6d1	type	Battle Amongst the Flames
Going Postal / int_9303d6d1	comment	Battle Amongst the Flames: Mr. Gryle and Moist's final confrontation. Unlike the books, where the two fought in the smokey-but-not-actively-burning basement, here they go up against each other in the middle of the roaring mail-fire Gryle started.
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Going Postal / int_937fc70c	type	Chalk Outline
Going Postal / int_937fc70c	comment	Chalk Outline: One of the previous postmasters spied into the sorting machine, and several outlines of his remains were all over the sorting office.
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Going Postal / int_94edf56d	type
Going Postal / int_94edf56d	comment	"You!" Squared: The bar brawl version is known as the "Double Andrew", and is worth quite a lot of points. Bar brawls in Ankh-Morpork have become somewhat formalized. There are scoring rules, judging, official teams, and extensive brawl planning. They even have an Igor on standby to stitch back on anything that happens to get cut off (and they recommended having your name tattooed on extremities to make sure he stitches the right bits back on you). The impression is more of sport or folk dancing, or particularly stylised martial arts. Of course, any resemblence to the choreographed and pre-arranged outcome of a typical Professional Wrestling bout, possibly of the cheap-and-cheerful old-school British style, is all in the mind of the beholder.
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Going Postal / int_953626a3	type	Literalist Snarking
Going Postal / int_953626a3	comment	Literalist Snarking: Vetinari does this to Moist.
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Going Postal / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Going Postal / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Moist, following Mr. Pump's "The Reason You Suck" Speech and a long look in the mirror.
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Going Postal / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Going Postal / int_970c790a	comment	Both Reacher Gilt and Moist Von Lipwig are big fans of this trope, but in different ways. Reacher Gilt is so obvious about being a scoundrel that people trust him. Moist, meanwhile, has both the wits and the sheer guts to push his luck as far as he needs to in order to sell a con. Reacher gives them something they hope isn't true, Moist gives them something they hope is true.
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Going Postal / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Going Postal / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Groat and Stanley. Among other things, they have carefully divided their living quarters with tape, and Stanley makes a point to cut off the corners of paper that accidentally crosses to his side to enforce neatness.
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Going Postal / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
Going Postal / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: The golem Anghammarad, built over 20,000 years ago and still functioning, remembers times, events, places, and languages that nothing else on the Disc does. He's carrying a message on a tablet strapped to his arm. He intends to deliver it. To do so, he has to wait for time to start over. To quote Ms. Dearheart: "Golems aren't afraid of forever. They aren't afraid of anything."
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Going Postal / int_9919369d	type	Con Man
Going Postal / int_9919369d	comment	It could also be based on Victor Lustig, a Con Man who sold the Eiffel Tower... twice.
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Going Postal / int_9951519	type	Water Tower Down
Going Postal / int_9951519	comment	Water Tower Down: During a fire at the Post Office, the rainwater tank on its roof (which acts as a counterweight for its freight elevator) breaks free and falls into the fire, causing a massive steam explosion that kills the golem Anghammarad. It's noted that neither water nor fire would have been enough on its own.
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Going Postal / int_9b04a8d1	type	This Is Not a Floor
Going Postal / int_9b04a8d1	comment	In the book, the deaths of Moist's predecessors were genuinely accidents, caused by the psychoactive properties of the Post Office. In the film, they were unambiguous assassinations directed by Gilt and carried out by Mr. Gryle.
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Going Postal / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Going Postal / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Reacher Gilt, to Moist von Lipwig. Vetinari knows this. This may be the reason why he tries to recruit Moist von Lipwig. And may also be the reason why he tries to recruit Reacher Gilt...and also why Reacher Gilt fails the test that Moist had passed.
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Going Postal / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Going Postal / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: How Mr. Gryle dies, combined with the power of letters from the post office.
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Going Postal / int_9ca24902	type	Heroic Fire Rescue
Going Postal / int_9ca24902	comment	Heroic Fire Rescue: After rescuing everyone else who was in the burning building, Moist has to run back in to rescue the stupid cat.
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Going Postal / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Going Postal / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Reacher Gilt is amused by Igor's story of how an ex-employer died by thoughtlessly stepping into his own spike-lined pit. Presumably he ceased to find this so amusing by the end of the book, at least for a fraction of a second. A long-ranged example: When he's wondering how Moist is going to win the great transcontinental race, Vetinari asks him if he might dig up some extremely fast magical horse buried nearby. Moist says of course not. But in the next Discworld book featuring Moist von Lipwig, this exact thing happens.
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Going Postal / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Going Postal / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The von Lipwig family are active in the (highly schismatic) Potato Church, implying that Mr Tulip may actually have been remembering his religion accurately. Under the above mentioned "glo m of ni t" lettering on the post office is graffiti that says not to ask about, among other things, Mrs. Cake, who appeared in Reaper Man. (The post office sign and the rest were also pointed out by Vimes to Carrot in Men at Arms.) Mr. Pony's suspicions about University students tampering with the clacks system could be a nod to The Science of Discworld II, in which Hex gets hooked up to the network and begins using it to send messages without paying for them. Possibly a coincidence, but when they examine B.S. Johnson's machine, the wizards declare that destroying it could destroy the entire universe in one go. After the post master takes a wrench to it, the wizards come back and declare the universe was destroyed in one go, but popped right back into existence immediately afterwards before anyone could notice. Looks like Lobsang had his eye on the situation. The chapter between 7 and 9 is numbered 7a. There's a very good chance the little old man idly sweeping the floor in the temple of Offler is Lu-Tze from Small Gods and Thief of Time. Moist is quite shaken up to learn that the Watch has a werewolf in their ranks, and Angua makes a few appearances, although she's never referred to by name. Several other members of the City Watch make short appearances, including Vimes and Carrot, and Nobbs is mentioned. The elderly greengrocer to whom Moist delivers a letter is a veteran of the Klatchian Foreign Legion, and has the same memory problems about this as the garrison from Soul Music. Mr. Pony's description of how a clacks tower's mechanism was sabotaged involves a swage armature jumping off an elliptical bearing. This is exactly the outcome that occurred when Death sabotaged the combination harvester in Reaper Man.
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Going Postal / int_9ea277d2	type	Stealing from Thieves
Going Postal / int_9ea277d2	comment	Stealing from Thieves: Deconstructed. Moist von Lipwig spent most of his life convinced he was doing this on the grounds of "you can't fool an honest man", concentrating on Violin Scams or only stealing from large businesses. However, he comes to realize that he was still hurting innocent people in the process, culminating in The Reveal that his Love Interest lost her job as a bank teller when she was blamed after he tricked her into accepting a bad check before they'd properly met — seeing only the faceless employee of his mark at the time.
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Going Postal / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Going Postal / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Or adaptation lack of a dye job. Charles Dance plays a blonde Vetinari, which is a shame, since he's otherwise pretty perfect in the role. Amusingly, in the book Adora actually says "They say he dyes his hair, you know". The creators seemed to go Color-Coded for Your Convenience-route, fearing that a dark-haired, more menacing Vetinari could be mistaken for the villain by a casual viewer.
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Going Postal / int_a4b3fe1c	type	Twisted Echo Cut
Going Postal / int_a4b3fe1c	comment	Twisted Echo Cut: We cut from Gilt having a meeting with his staff to Moist and Adora Dearheart having lunch together:
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Going Postal / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Going Postal / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Lipwig has three "dreams" about the effects of his past crime deeds, not only because it is a magic number, but as a Shout-Out to A Christmas Carol (stated by the director's commentary).
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Going Postal / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Going Postal / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Moist has a couple: The night before the Clacks-vs-Post Office race, he dreams of the Clacks towers burning as the operators blindly forward the "Woodpecker" killer message, even detailing how many towers fall before anyone realises what is going on, which he snaps out of with the realisation that the plan is too dangerous and would allow Gilt to win by declaring the message had been tampered with. When Moist realises Adora Belle has fallen in love with him, he imagines, in the space of a paragraph, fleeing the city and going back to his old life as a con artist, but discovering the joy is gone and his skills are failing him, and eventually dying in some forsaken slum of an inn, before he snaps back to reality.
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Going Postal / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Going Postal / int_a7aef9ff	comment	The chairmen of the board at first fall for Vetinari's Obfuscating Stupidity—after all, he was classically educated. Then they remember where that classical education comes from.
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Going Postal / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Going Postal / int_a8559a9f	comment	Stanley Howler, pin-fanatic-turned-stamps-guy, is named for Stanley Gibbons, a Real Life company that sells collectible postage stamps and stamp-collecting supplies.
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Going Postal / int_a8d6bd1f	type	Reality-Breaking Paradox
Going Postal / int_a8d6bd1f	comment	Reality-Breaking Paradox: The mail sorting engine in the basement of the post office was designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson, who built the wheels inside using measurements where pi equaled exactly 3 (thinking "three and a bit" was untidy). This is of course impossible, but because he's BS Johnson he did it anyway. As a result, a small bit of the universe around the engine is twisted up, causing the machine to spit out letters that have yet to be written, or should have been written and weren't, or were written in a different reality, even after it was turned off. The wizards of UU analyzed it and decided that trying to destroy it would also destroy the entire universe all in one go. A Post Office employee eventually decides to beat the thing with a crowbar until it stops spitting out letters. When called out for his actions, he explains that after he hit it the first time, he saw the wizards running away as fast as they could; thus, he figured that, unless the wizards had another universe to run to, they weren't entirely sure that destroying the sorting engine would take the universe with it.
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Going Postal / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Going Postal / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: A strictly non-combat example. Mr. Groat is an extremely quirky old man with an ambiguously-sapient toupee, but he proves to be very valuable to Moist when it comes to reinvigorating the post office. Despite his eccentricities, he not only does well when Moist makes him interim postmaster, but proposes several ideas that wind up being very valuable to the fledgling Ankh-Morporkian postal service.
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Going Postal / int_aa517da5	type	Forged Message
Going Postal / int_aa517da5	comment	Forged Message: Moist von Lipwig secures an immediate reservation for himself and his girlfriend at the poshest and most expensive restaurant in Ankh-Morpork by forging a letter from financier Reacher Gilt. Gilt, a master con-man himself, recognises a worthy opponent by graciously offering to pay their bill... For his plan to win the clacks race, Moist has the Smoking Gnu forge a message from those who died working under the harsh conditions of the Trunk, proclaiming how and why they died while implicating the Board and Reacher Gilt in their deaths.
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Going Postal / int_abb9ebaa	type	Dramatic Pause
Going Postal / int_abb9ebaa	comment	Dramatic Pause: One is required to pause before saying ... The Woodpecker.
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Going Postal / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Going Postal / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: As is somewhat-common in the later Discworld novels, there are a few to be found. Mr. Pump goes on a minor one when he tears down Moist's self-image of being a Lovable Rogue, pointing out exactly how many people he's harmed or outright gotten killed without ever needing to touch or even meet them. Vetinari has one, reflecting on the nature of freedom and whether it's all it's cracked up to be. At least he has an excuse - who's going to tell Vetinari to stop monologuing?
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Going Postal / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Going Postal / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In having the Post Office burned down, Gilt both motivates Moist to finally shake off his past, lets him get some good PR, and actually relieves him of a significant problem - namely, what to do with the enormous piles of letters, some of which don't belong to this universe, or are might-have-sent, and so could be incredibly disruptive if received by its inhabitants and quite difficult to tell apart from 'native' ones.
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Going Postal / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Going Postal / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Moist's reaction when he sees the cartoon in the Times about his new penny stamp. "Maybe Mr. Trooper can squeeze me in." For reference: The penny stamp has a profile picture of Lord Vetinari; the cartoon shows two wags discussing "licking the Patrician's backside"; Mr. Trooper is Lord Vetinari's executioner. The chairmen of the board at first fall for Vetinari's Obfuscating Stupidity—after all, he was classically educated. Then they remember where that classical education comes from.
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Going Postal / int_afe5728	type	Promotion, Not Punishment
Going Postal / int_afe5728	comment	Promotion, Not Punishment: Albert/Moist is captured for fraud and hanged... to within half an inch of his life. Vetinari then offers him the position of Postmaster, knowing that his specific skills are what is needed to get the Post Office up and running again.
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Going Postal / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
Going Postal / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word:
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Going Postal / int_b10f0160	type	Starting a New Life
Going Postal / int_b10f0160	comment	Starting a New Life: Moist is forced to start over after supposedly being executed for his crimes. He's not entirely on his own, because Lord Vetinari has decided to make him the new Postmaster, which means that he's starting out with a job and a small apartment, but it's still an adjustment for him, because he's not used to making an honest living and has to get over his instinct for cheating other people.
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Going Postal / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Going Postal / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Ridcully displays this in fine form as he is the agreed to neutral party to the final race between Post and Clacks. He was asked to select something for them to deliver. He picks a thick textbook with lots of colored pictures and diagrams, which requires tedious encoding to be sent on the Clacks.
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Going Postal / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Going Postal / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: In Reaper Man, Mr. Ixolite is described as the "last living banshee". Guess nobody told the narrative about Mr. Gryle. But to be fair, he's a wild banshee.
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Going Postal / int_b3b162c8	type	Honesty Is the Best Policy
Going Postal / int_b3b162c8	comment	Honesty Is the Best Policy: A desperate Moist goes to Adora, the only person in the city who will realize he's being entirely serious when he says he's unable to think of any way to actually win the race with the Grand Trunk, and fully confesses to the role he played in the loss of her earlier job. While irritated, she keeps her promise to keep level-headed and actually gives Moist a possibility that winds up being critical in his plan.
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Going Postal / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Going Postal / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: The Sorting Engine, designed by "Bloody Stupid" Johnson to have a wheel with a pi equal to exactly three, which bends reality to the point that it occasionally puts out letters from the past, the future, or even from alternate realities (ones where the check really was in the post, for example).
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Going Postal / int_b3d1b7e3	type	Genius Bonus
Going Postal / int_b3d1b7e3	comment	Also, the statues of Bissonomy and Tubso, two Virtues honored by so few people that no one even knows what they're supposed to represent anymore. (There is presumably no Genius Bonus here; these are just funny-sounding words Pratchett made up with no meaning.)
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Going Postal / int_b4d3489e	type	Severely Specialized Store
Going Postal / int_b4d3489e	comment	Severely Specialized Store: Dave's Pin Exchange sells pins, with the owner being very adamant that he doesn't sell nails.
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Going Postal / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Going Postal / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Gilt accuses Horsefry of being this before beating him to death for recording the assassinations in his ledger.
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Going Postal / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Going Postal / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Whatever it is bissonomy is, the statue of its respective grace is carrying a kettle.
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Going Postal / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Going Postal / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: Mr. Pump. When Moist, angered by Mr. Pump's "The Reason You Suck" Speech, orders the golem to screw his own head off, Pump plays back a message from Vetinari that he cannot be ordered to destroy himself. And warns him not to try it again.
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Going Postal / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Going Postal / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The main characters in this book are Moist von Lipwig, Adora Belle Dearheart, Reacher Gilt, Tolliver Groat, Pump 19 (also known as Mr Pump) and... Stanley.
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Going Postal / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Going Postal / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Pony has been telling the Board about what effect their cuts to maintenance are going to have from the very beginning. He was savvy enough to cover himself from the inevitable fallout by documenting everything. Played with in that the Board actually agreed to his proposed overhaul of the system once problems started piling up; the main issue is that Gilt, acting as the middle man, stole most of the money (it's in his interest to make the business fail) and then smoothly convinces Pony that "budget cuts" (i.e. the stolen money) took away his budget and to accept the pittance that Gilt left.
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Going Postal / int_baa1d4b	type	I Can Explain
Going Postal / int_baa1d4b	comment	I Can Explain: But Adora didn't give him a chance.
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Going Postal / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
Going Postal / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Mr. Pony turns over the evidence to bring down Reacher Gilt after the latter almost throws his niece off a clacks tower.
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Going Postal / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Going Postal / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Stanley, at the beginning.
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Going Postal / int_bf8daa02	type	Better with Non-Human Company
Going Postal / int_bf8daa02	comment	Better with Non-Human Company: Adora Belle Dearheart, who likes golems rather more than she likes humans.
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Going Postal / int_c0bfb059	type	Against My Religion
Going Postal / int_c0bfb059	comment	Against My Religion: Moist has a fear of his undisguised face appearing in the paper and thus claims that any photography of him is this trope. When pressed, he adlibs that he doesn't actually believe being photographed will remove a piece of his soul, but he doesn't think you should treat religion like a "buffet".
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Going Postal / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Going Postal / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Mr. Gryle, along with "Time to shut up shop, Postmaster!" and "The Dearheart boy screamed like a pig! SCREAMED LIKE A PIG!!"
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Going Postal / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
Going Postal / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: When Moist introduces himself, Adora remarks that his name is unusual and asks if his parents were "stupid" or "cruel".
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Going Postal / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
Going Postal / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: Vetinari does this to the Grand Trunk board members. When the wizard expert on the Post Office tells Moist that the two Post Office chandeliers have ended up in the Assassin's Guild and one in the Opera House, Moist wisely decides to hold off on getting them back, as it might be dangerous. The wizard expert agrees, since some of those sopranos have a kick like a mule.
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Going Postal / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Going Postal / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!" (and Little "No"): Lipwig's reactions at his "dreams".
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Going Postal / int_c2d04a04	type	Names to Trust Immediately
Going Postal / int_c2d04a04	comment	Names to Trust Immediately: Parodied with Adora Belle Dearheart, who grew up to a be a cynical chain-smoker with, in her own words, no sense of humour whatsoever.
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Going Postal / int_c37fb907	type	Walk, Don't Swim
Going Postal / int_c37fb907	comment	Walk, Don't Swim: Vetinari explains to Moist that even fleeing to a different continent would not help him to escape his Golem parole officer. It knows where he is, all the time, without having to observe him, regardless of how far away he is or how he masks himself; it does not tire, eat, drink, sleep, breathe or stop at all on any account, and would thus be able to walk under any body of water eventually. Four miles an hour without stopping is six hundred and seventy-two miles in a week note While there are eight days in a week, Mr. Pump does have a day off where he won't have to pursue Moist. But there's no need to tell Moist this, and while most golems are very diligent in observing their days off...and there's always the chance that one might choose to make an exception. It adds up. Eventually the officer would catch him by sheer implacability.
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Going Postal / int_c38afac1	type	Otaku
Going Postal / int_c38afac1	comment	Otaku: Stanley is so obsessed with pins that even the other pin collectors in the city think he's "a bit weird about pins". After Lipwig invents the postage stamp, Stanley eventually transfers this obsession into stamps and stamp collecting, devoting all his time to categorizing and detailing everything about the stamps, which leads to Moist making him head of the division.
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Going Postal / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
Going Postal / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
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Going Postal / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Going Postal / int_c3c18143	comment	Vetinari believes that the greatest of all treasures is hope; providing people with hope is healthy. Not, you understand, any actually chance of success, just the hope of success. Sometimes he does it just to twist the knife, as when he asks Vimes to escort some people out... and into some cells.
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Going Postal / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Going Postal / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: At the beginning, just as Moist is beginning to hope that Drumknott's arriving with a stay of execution, he instead tells the executioner to get on with it; it's getting late.
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Going Postal / int_c5237cf	type	Ridiculously Average Guy
Going Postal / int_c5237cf	comment	Ridiculously Average Guy: Moist notes that he is almost never noticed precisely because his face is so average and unremarkable that no one can place him even if they've seen him.
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Going Postal / int_c59d7452	type	Unfulfilled Purpose Misery
Going Postal / int_c59d7452	comment	Unfulfilled Purpose Misery: Anghammarad is a nineteen-thousand-year-old golem who was supposed to deliver a warning that the sea goddess was angry to a city, but the city was underwater by the time he got there. Fortunately, golems believe time is cyclical, so he only needs to wait until the universe resets and he can finally deliver his message (which he has repeatedly retranscribed over the millenia). When he dies in the Post Office fire, he tells Death he is perfectly happy waiting where he is, as not having to do anything is the golems' definition of freedom.
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Going Postal / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Going Postal / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: As the director's commentary says, the nice old lady with a clackgram in the beginning of the film is an allusion to The Ladykillers.
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Going Postal / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Going Postal / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Moist eventually decides not to go with the Smoking GNU's plan, which was described in detail. The message he sends instead, for maximum dramatic effect, is hidden from the reader until after it's been received. (This is entirely in character with Moist, who is the consummate showman.)
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Going Postal / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Going Postal / int_c9597a03	comment	Seeing Angua referring to anyone as "lunch" and changing in public (as she's seen doing in the trailer) is very jarring compared to her representation in the books, where she's a vegetarian who hates the impulses brought on by being a werewolf, and the only time she makes a corny joke about it was Self-Deprecation. The books also state that changing in public is considered highly impolite in were society, to the point where she doesn't even let her lover Carrot see her while she's changing shapes. While the watch having a Werewolf is common knowledge, the fact that the werewolf is Angua (and not Nobby) is not. Also, given that her clothes don't transform with her, she just stripped naked in the middle of a tavern to make a point, something the Watch goes to great pains to avoid in the books.
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Going Postal / int_c99e7ed8	type	HotScoop
Going Postal / int_c99e7ed8	comment	Hot Scoop: Sacharissa, very much so.
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Going Postal / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Going Postal / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The Board of the Grand Trunk.
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Going Postal / int_cc6f4612	type	Beyond the Impossible
Going Postal / int_cc6f4612	comment	Beyond the Impossible: Deconstructed. Moist knows it's impossible for the postal service to beat the clacks in a long distance race, so instead of trying to beat the laws of physics he works with them to win the race. He implants an Engineered Public Confession into the Clacks message that gets Gilt arrested.
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Going Postal / int_ccdd6905	type	Epileptic Trees
Going Postal / int_ccdd6905	comment	There's some competing Epileptic Trees regarding Moist and Reacher's names. Pratchett, as a master of multilevel wordplay, probably intended more than one or even all of them.
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Going Postal / int_cd8aa3e8	type	Smoking Is Glamorous
Going Postal / int_cd8aa3e8	comment	Smoking Is Glamorous: Adora Belle Dearhart smokes constantly. Moist finds himself quite attracted to what she does with a cigarette and describes kissing her as like kissing an ash tray, but in a good way.
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Going Postal / int_cda0c781	type	Revealing Skill
Going Postal / int_cda0c781	comment	Revealing Skill: A steady handshake is famously one of the ways that people assess whether you're trustworthy or not. And Moist consequently practiced his handshake in order to fool people into giving him money. But when Moist shook Reacher Gilt's hand, he came to the chilling realisation that Reacher Gilt was a master conman who had perfected the steady handshake at a level that dwarfed Moist's efforts. The book even notes that in other circumstances, Moist would have dropped everything to become Reacher Gilt's apprentice.
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Going Postal / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Going Postal / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: As a Con Man, Moist only committed totally non-violent crimes. Viciously deconstructed by Pump calculating (to three decimal points) the number of people he had indirectly killed.
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Going Postal / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Going Postal / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Adora, who was always pretty tsundere in the novel (her brother nicknamed her "Killer" after all).
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Going Postal / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Going Postal / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Adora Belle and Lipwig have a bit more of a... combative relationship in this adaptation.
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Going Postal / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Going Postal / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity/Devil in Plain Sight: Both Reacher Gilt and Moist Von Lipwig are big fans of this trope, but in different ways. Reacher Gilt is so obvious about being a scoundrel that people trust him. Moist, meanwhile, has both the wits and the sheer guts to push his luck as far as he needs to in order to sell a con. Reacher gives them something they hope isn't true, Moist gives them something they hope is true. Also, one of the Smoking Gnu wears a horned helmet to be inconspicuous, because nobody who sees him in it would suspect he's trying to pass unnoticed. Moist is less impressed with that particular display of the trope.
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Going Postal / int_d48c0702	type	That's What I Would Do
Going Postal / int_d48c0702	comment	That's What I Would Do: Moist about Reacher Gilt's plans for the Grand Trunk.
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Going Postal / int_d54c5d44	type	Man Versus Machine
Going Postal / int_d54c5d44	comment	Man Versus Machine: Snail Mail versus the Telegram, although it's more a case of upholding a competitive market than proving that Ludd Was Right.
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Going Postal / int_d64491d8	type	Meaningless Meaningful Words
Going Postal / int_d64491d8	comment	Moist seems to have a problem with this; when he reads the letter Gilt had published in the Times (full of corporate doublespeak and Meaningless Meaningful Words), he discovers that he's been cursing at length the whole time in front of his employees. This apparently included a few words so vulgar that they don't even exist in our language, and to his horror, he finds his very proper secretary glaring at him...until it's clarified he's talking about Gilt.
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Going Postal / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Going Postal / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: For death. The Order of the Post is explained as making sure a postmanâ€™s family is cared for when heâ€™s â€œReturned to Sender.â€�
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Going Postal / int_d8f3dc8	type	Eternal Recurrence
Going Postal / int_d8f3dc8	comment	Eternal Recurrence: This appears to be an article of faith with the golems, or at least the oldest golem, Anghammarad. He failed in his mission to deliver a message several thousand years ago. Being immortal and nigh-indestructible, he resolves to wait for the universe to reboot and do it right the second time around.
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Going Postal / int_d959a5f3	type	Contempt Crossfire
Going Postal / int_d959a5f3	comment	Contempt Crossfire: Gilt and Vetinari pause in their hatred of each other after Upper-Class Twit Horsefry (one of the clacks executives) demonstrates his crass ignorance of Thud (used to demonstrate that Smart People Play Chess):
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Going Postal / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Going Postal / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Reacher Gilt's Igor realizes what's about to go down, and decides to get out while the getting's good. As he's about to leave, Gilt's personal cook gives him a balaclava she knitted for him as a goodbye present; in turn, and in violation of their codes of conduct, the Igor warns her that she should get out of town too.
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Going Postal / int_da76ae0b	type	Dead End Job
Going Postal / int_da76ae0b	comment	Dead End Job: The position of Postmaster General. Vetinari gives the job to Moist Von Lipwig as an alternative to being hanged, on the off-chance that he might actually succeed in reviving the Post Office, but generally expecting him to be killed, as the job had already claimed the lives of some of Vetinari's clerks.
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Going Postal / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
Going Postal / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: The adaptation makers couldn't erase Adora's cigarette addiction, but they did give it a backstory: she took up the habit because of the stress brought on by losing her job and seeing her family ruined. This is a touch Anvilicious, as there weren't any Drugs Are Bad implications attached to Adora's smoking in the original book.
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Going Postal / int_db212ca9	type	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
Going Postal / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Vetinari, true to form, takes him at his word and asks his secretary for a broom. There's another more serious one where Moist accidentally blurts out the typical lines to the end of Adora Dearheart's enraptured description of when her family owned the Grand Trunk. It's a rather somber reminder of how the book presents the double-edged sword of being so taken with something. Moist seems to have a problem with this; when he reads the letter Gilt had published in the Times (full of corporate doublespeak and Meaningless Meaningful Words), he discovers that he's been cursing at length the whole time in front of his employees. This apparently included a few words so vulgar that they don't even exist in our language, and to his horror, he finds his very proper secretary glaring at him...until it's clarified he's talking about Gilt.
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Going Postal / int_dbab18ef	type	Morally Bankrupt Banker
Going Postal / int_dbab18ef	comment	Morally Bankrupt Banker: Discussed; Moist believes himself to be a decent person because the only people he pulled his cons on were those who "deserved it". Mr. Pump, however, points out that many bankers, when they lose something, tend to recover their losses by taking from other people — and these morally bankrupt people aren't usually fussy about whether the people they're taking it from deserve it.
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Going Postal / int_dc0ca62a	type	Public Execution
Going Postal / int_dc0ca62a	comment	Public Execution: The book opens with a faked public execution. Moist (the accused, who doesn't know it's faked) is asked to sign the rope before hand, since it will then be worth more to collectors. He's also expected to come up with some last words, that being traditional. He goes with "I commend my soul to any god that can find it.", after being told that his first choice—"I wasn't actually expecting to die."—is acceptable but not memorable.
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Going Postal / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
Going Postal / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: Moist von Lipwig (who was named so by "unwise but doting parents" and has heard every possible joke on his real name) and Adora Belle Dearheart (who claims to have "no sense of humor whatsoever" after growing up with a name like that). No wonder they end up together.
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Going Postal / int_dd5faec5	type	Only Mostly Dead
Going Postal / int_dd5faec5	comment	Only Mostly Dead: How Moist was allowed to be hanged by the neck until dead, but still alive afterward. Lord Vetinari tells him that hanging is a very exact science, that the hangman he employs is a true master who could write a book, and he was hanged "to within half an inch of his life."
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Going Postal / int_dded28f2	type	Playful Hacker
Going Postal / int_dded28f2	comment	Playful Hacker: The Pun Smoking GNU, at first.
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Going Postal / int_de70f5a4	type	Continuity Cameo
Going Postal / int_de70f5a4	comment	Continuity Cameo: Otto von Chriek, the Ankh-Morpork Times' vampire iconographer from The Truth, silently accompanies reporter Sacharissa Crisplock in a couple of scenes.
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Going Postal / int_defec730	type	Tiger by the Tail
Going Postal / int_defec730	comment	Tiger by the Tail: By the time the Board of Directors learns Reacher Gilt's true nature, they learn he also has dirt on all of them thanks to Crispin Horsefry's blabbing. They realize not only are they riding a tiger, but the tiger knows where they live.
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Going Postal / int_df4d868c	type	Battleaxe Nurse
Going Postal / int_df4d868c	comment	Battleaxe Nurse: The matron Moist encounters when trying to get Groat out of hospital. She even says she refuses to release him and Moist has to point out that patients are not "released" from hospital, they are "discharged." Even Dr. Lawn's method of dealing with the nursing staff is to give them chocolate and run in the opposite direction.
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Going Postal / int_e031b7ef	type	Slave to PR
Going Postal / int_e031b7ef	comment	Slave to PR: A concept taken from several previous books (Witches Abroad, Jingo, Carpe Jugulum) but explained and taken to its logical breaking point. Everybody is governed by their appearances and expectatives (by the force of narrativium), from the Patrician down to bar brawlers. As explained by Moist.
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Going Postal / int_e04c0759	type	Unstoppable Mailman
Going Postal / int_e04c0759	comment	Unstoppable Mailman: Anghammarad. He gets through The Postman's Walk — an obstacle course including roller skates, stray bottles and a letterbox laced with razor blades, done with a hood over one's head — by crushing everything in his path and punching a hole in the door. The other, human postmen find the display gratifying.
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Going Postal / int_e0804063	type	Even Nerds Have Standards
Going Postal / int_e0804063	comment	Even Nerds Have Standards: Stanley is so obsessed with pins that even the other pin collectors in the city think he's "a bit weird about pins". To put it in perspective, the person who says this owns a hobby shop that deals exclusively in pins, and has a tattoo which reads "Death or Pins!"
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Going Postal / int_e12670cd	type	Freudian Threat
Going Postal / int_e12670cd	comment	It's also hinted at in the bar scene, where Adora pins down a drunken lech's foot with one of her high heels, then points out to the man that she's sitting across from him, she has another shoe in waiting, that "in pounds per square inch, it's like being stepped on by a very pointy elephant", and thanks to unwanted childhood ballet lessons, she can kick like a mule. The man gets the hint and leaves.
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Going Postal / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
Going Postal / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: When Gilt is introduced, he speaks the language of a self-made, freedom-loving, tyranny-fighting libertarian who could have been the hero in an Ayn Rand novel. Later, it turns out he only cares about his own freedom, though he is a true believer at least that far.
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Going Postal / int_e2dae05d	type	Liberty Over Prosperity
Going Postal / int_e2dae05d	comment	Liberty Over Prosperity: Reacher vs Vetinari. Reacher does whatever he can get away with regardless of the law, advertises himself as a modern-day pirate, and justifies his business practices by claiming his customers always have a choice, even if it's between him and just sending a slow letter. Vetinari gears all of his resources towards ensuring the city runs smoothly, and believes the most important aspect of freedom is to take the consequences of your actions.
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Going Postal / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Going Postal / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Almost anything Moist does.
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Going Postal / int_e39ce9	type	The Face
Going Postal / int_e39ce9	comment	The Face: Moist for the Post Office staff. It's what Vetinari hired him for. Stanley's thought to be weird even by other pin collectors, and Groat doesn't have the skills either, but Moist knows how to connect with people, motivate them, and how to promote something.
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Going Postal / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Going Postal / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: Moist von Lipwig narrates one of these to himself about what he'll do to Reacher Gilt near the end.
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Going Postal / int_e491684a	type	Odd Job Gods
Going Postal / int_e491684a	comment	Odd Job Gods: Anoia, goddess of Things That Get Stuck In Kitchen Drawers. Also, the statues of Bissonomy and Tubso, two Virtues honored by so few people that no one even knows what they're supposed to represent anymore. (There is presumably no Genius Bonus here; these are just funny-sounding words Pratchett made up with no meaning.)
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Going Postal / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Going Postal / int_e4965307	comment	Also Mustrum Ridcully talking about the nature of words. The Ridcully seen in the books and, indeed, the other adaptations, is a big, hearty man who bellows in almost every situation and uses phrases like "damn silly fool". The Ridcully in this version stays soft-spoken and talks like a professor. This is because he's serving the role of Professor Pelc, which raises the question of why they didn't just call the character Professor Pelc.
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Going Postal / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Going Postal / int_e5421161	comment	One of the signs that Reacher Gilt is a semi-Expy of John Galt is the literal stating of the question "Who is Reacher Gilt?" Well, that and his hatred of government interference in (his) free enterprise. His description during his introduction as a flashy unknown outsider who appeared out of nowhere and throws parties that is the stuff of legend brings to mind The Great Gatsby as well.
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Going Postal / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Going Postal / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: All golems fall into this, as they will obey their orders and continue working at a single job for thousands of years or until those orders are rescinded. Mr Pump is chosen as Moist's parole officer for this very reason. Pump walks all day and all night to a far-off town, just to catch Moist, then carries both Moist and his horse back to Ankh Morpork, without stopping to rest. Vetinari states that Pump will do the same, no matter where Moist runs, even if Moist flees overseas, as the "abyssal plane" won't hinder a golem at all. Anghammarad in particular. He's nineteen thousand years old and is waiting for all of history to repeat itself over millions of years just so he can deliver a message for an empire that was destroyed over a millennium ago.
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Going Postal / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
Going Postal / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: From Moist's point of view, The Ankh-Morpork Times is a useful tool, and Miss Cripslock makes for a great verbal whetstone (that is, she forces him to keep his wits sharp), but the editor-in-chief is an overly wordy, pompous stuffed shirt. Which makes for an interesting triangle of protagonists, since both Moist and de Worde are dismissive of Sam Vimes, and he's not so fond of them either.
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Going Postal / int_e88d37c3	type	Too Unhappy to Be Hungry
Going Postal / int_e88d37c3	comment	Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: In the miniseries based on the book, Moist discovers that one of his large-scale cons caused the ruin of his beloved Adora's family. He is so struck with guilt and remorse that, when he meets Adora in a restaurant, he admits he can't think about food.
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Going Postal / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Going Postal / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The offer that Vetinari makes to certain people regarding employment options.
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Going Postal / int_eaa2b8f8	type	Bewitched Amphibians
Going Postal / int_eaa2b8f8	comment	Bewitched Amphibians: One of the bankers threatens to sue Unseen University in the heat of the moment. Archchancellor Ridcully's reply?
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Going Postal / int_eabeae5c	type	The Window or the Stairs
Going Postal / int_eabeae5c	comment	The Window or the Stairs: Moist von Lipwig is given a choice by Vetinari, who presents himself as an "angel" to Moist: He can take over the job of Postmaster General, or walk out a door in Vetinari's office, and Vetinari would never bother him again. Being a Genre Savvy sort of chap, Moist goes to the door, carefully peeks through it, and finds a deep pit where the floor should be. He drops a spoon into the pit, and it doesn't make a sound for a rather long time. He takes the job. At the end of the book, Reacher Gilt is offered the same choice with a job at the Mint. It isn't stated whether he walks straight out the door without pausing to look or purposefully did not consent to Vetinari's bargain (given the kind of man he was, the former is more likely), but it seems we will not be hearing from him again.
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Going Postal / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Going Postal / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Sustained over time from a bareback ride, but the aftermath is subtly played for laughs, what with Moist taking correspondence from within a tub of ice. It's also hinted at in the bar scene, where Adora pins down a drunken lech's foot with one of her high heels, then points out to the man that she's sitting across from him, she has another shoe in waiting, that "in pounds per square inch, it's like being stepped on by a very pointy elephant", and thanks to unwanted childhood ballet lessons, she can kick like a mule. The man gets the hint and leaves.
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Going Postal / int_eb24d076	type	Freud Was Right
Going Postal / int_eb24d076	comment	Freud Was Right: As Adora Belle looks over Moist's ideas for stamp pictures, she notes that the stamp with the highest value has a picture of the tallest building in the city.
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Going Postal / int_eb9bc4b6	type	Violin Scam
Going Postal / int_eb9bc4b6	comment	Violin Scam: One of Moist's most common tricks back when he was a crook. At the start of the book he has several glass rings and a very nearly gold coin on hand that he plans to use to make enough money to get out of town.
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Going Postal / int_ec3ff1f7	type	In Which a Trope Is Described
Going Postal / int_ec3ff1f7	comment	In Which a Trope Is Described: The chapter headings use the Victorian-style synopsis in this vein. Apparently Pratchett adopted them not only because they're thematically appropriate, but as a Take That! to a reviewer who accused him of being unable to write in chapters.
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Going Postal / int_ed3dc201	type	Addiction Displacement
Going Postal / int_ed3dc201	comment	Addiction Displacement: Stanley is completely obsessed with collecting pins, to the point where even the owner of a pin store considers him to be weird. He eventually drops his pin obsession and starts up stamp collecting.
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Going Postal / int_ee1aeda6	type	Mortality Grey Area
Going Postal / int_ee1aeda6	comment	Mortality Grey Area: One golem is shown to have a soul after it dies, but Death isn't sure what to do with it. The golem answers that not doing anything is the greatest freedom a golem can have, and so it stays where it is..
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Going Postal / int_ef276485	type	Battle of Wits
Going Postal / int_ef276485	comment	Battle of Wits: As Moist is a conman and dislikes physically fighting someone, he fights his battles with his mind and manipulates others. Recognizing Reacher Gilt as a dangerous conman means he must up his game if he wants to survive.
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Going Postal / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Going Postal / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Vetinari is repeatedly seen playing Thud! throughout the book.
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Going Postal / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Going Postal / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Played with in typical Pratchett style with Moist's own plan for defeating Gilt as Moist admits it is an Evil Plan too, just he is going to use it in the cause of good. And given that they're Evil Counterparts they could have switched places.
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Going Postal / int_f37c192	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Going Postal / int_f37c192	comment	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: Because "greengrocer's apostrophe" has become a phrase referring to unnecessary apostrophes (usually in plural words on shop signs, like "Apple's" or "Banana's") the greengrocer character Antimony Parker speaks with apostrophes in front of every single S he uses. Moist also comes upon a letter that's possibly from the Trope Namer Captain Carrot, given how awkwardly it's written.
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Going Postal / int_f61d4485	type	Waking Non Sequitur
Going Postal / int_f61d4485	comment	Waking Non Sequitur: Moist has one after visiting Unseen University and discovering a room full of glass jars through which voluntarily-dead wizards communicate with the living. He dreams of wizards in bottles all shouting his name, and when he is shaken awake he blurts out "some of them were covered in jam!"
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Going Postal / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Going Postal / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: During the epilogue, Vetinari gives Reacher Gilt the same "angel" speech that he gave Moist at the beginning of the book and that Reacher's reaction is one of "increased puzzlement". It's implied he is simply too crooked to understand the concept of redemption, underlining how he and Moist are very different after all.
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Going Postal / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Going Postal / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Hope, the greatest of all life's treasures. Not any chance at the actual thing, that would be awful daft, just the hope.
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Going Postal / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Going Postal / int_fabef10f	comment	Reacher Gilt dresses like a pirate and has a parrot that says "Twelve and a half percent!" In fractions, of course, 12.5 percent equals 1/8th, or "pieces of eight".
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Going Postal / int_fc4a7224	type	Trash Landing
Going Postal / int_fc4a7224	comment	Trash Landing: Moist jumps from the window of the hotel when Mr. Pump is chasing him, only to realize that he's landed in manure.
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Going Postal / int_fd7267dd	type	Master of Disguise
Going Postal / int_fd7267dd	comment	Lipwig implies a false mustache, indicating that Moist is a Master of Disguise. Another theory has it that the name Moist is intended to call to mind "Slippery Jim", the hero of The Stainless Steel Rat series, who is another Boxed Crook. It could also be based on Victor Lustig, a Con Man who sold the Eiffel Tower... twice.
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Going Postal / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
Going Postal / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Gilt. "I haven't finished... SOARING!" He even stands up and spreads his cape. His minion laughs in a lampshade. Mr. Gryle, when gloating to Lipwig. Right before his comeuppance.
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Going Postal / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Going Postal / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: A truly astounding one following a tiny moment in Men at Arms written eleven years earlier, regarding the Post Office motto as displayed on the facade of the building. One of the first things Moist does is find out where the missing letters went to. The notion of collectors paying for used hangman's rope had previously appeared in The Last Continent, as one of Fair Go Dibbler's money-making scams.note This was an actual thing that happened after public executions.
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Going Postal / int_fe1c3451	type	Prophet Eyes
Going Postal / int_fe1c3451	comment	Prophet Eyes: Moist fakes this with turtle egg shells.
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Going Postal / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Going Postal / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Vetinari quietly but firmly corrects Moist every time he refers to Mr. Pump as "it," and treats the golem with respect. Reacher Gilt's Igor realizes what's about to go down, and decides to get out while the getting's good. As he's about to leave, Gilt's personal cook gives him a balaclava she knitted for him as a goodbye present; in turn, and in violation of their codes of conduct, the Igor warns her that she should get out of town too.
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Going Postal / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Going Postal / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Moist's induction into the order of Postmen is very similar to a Masonic initiation. The whole Grand Trunk/Ma Bell plot impressed Real Life telecommunications engineers with its resemblance to the actual events (fortunately, though, AT&T never killed anyone... as far as we know). Likewise, a number of British readers noticed the distinct resemblance to the privatisation of British Rail in the 1990s - a 'trunk line' is the main line of a railway. It also resembles the (Canadian but British owned) Grand Trunk Railway. The whole concept of Moist having a race to deliver a book by clacks versus via a postal wagon is a reference to the computer science concept of the "sneakernet", the notion that for large transmissions it can be faster to physically transport a disc containing the relevant data than to transmit it via the network.
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Going Postal / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Going Postal / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: The weight of his sins thrown in his face pushes Moist into this. Mr. Pump tells him to become The Atoner instead. Unconvinced at first, Moist later goes for Must Make Amends, with a bit of Reformed, but Rejected from Adora.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Going Postal	hasFeature	A Place Holds Memories / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Adaptational Consent / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Adaptational Seriousness / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Adopting the Gender Binary / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Afterlife Angst / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Afterlife Antechamber / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Against My Religion / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	All Dogs Are Purebred / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	All-Natural Snake Oil / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Annoying Patient / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Anthropomorphic Personification / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Appeal to Force / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Appeal to Nature / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Automatic Crossbows / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Bad News in a Good Way / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Badass Bureaucrat / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Bait-and-Switch Comment / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Battle of Wits / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Battleaxe Nurse / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Bawdy Song / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Beat / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Beat Bag / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Bewitched Amphibians / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Biting the Handkerchief / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Black Cloak / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Bond One-Liner / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Brainy Brunette / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Bring News Back / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Broken-Window Warning / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Brotherhood of Funny Hats / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Buffet Buffoonery / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	By "No", I Mean "Yes" / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Cape Wings / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Cardboard Prison / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Chalk Outline / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Chandelier Swing / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Character Filibuster / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Character Witness / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Clark Kenting / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Collector of the Strange / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Combat Stilettos / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Comical Coffee Cup / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Con Men Hate Guns / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Concepts Are Cheap / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Condescending Compassion / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Consequence Combo / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Consulting Mister Puppet / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Contempt Crossfire / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Contest Winner Cameo / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Continuity Drift / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Conveniently an Orphan / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Cool Horse / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Couldn't Find a Lighter / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Crashing Dreams / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Creator Cameo / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Creature of Habit / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Creepy Cleanliness / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Critical Staffing Shortage / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Custom Uniform / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Cutlery Escape Aid / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Cutting Corners / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Dainty Little Ballet Dancers / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Dangerous Backswing / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Dead End Job / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Deadly Environment Prison / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Death Means Humanity / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Decemberâ€“December Romance / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Died Happily Ever After / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Dine and Dash / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Don't Ask / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Don't Explain the Joke / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Dramatic Ellipsis / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Dramatic Pause / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Eldritch Ocean Abyss / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Emergency Multifaith Prayer / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Emergency Stash / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	English Literature / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Eternal Recurrence / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Evil Plan / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Evil Tower of Ominousness / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Exposition of Immortality / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Face Realization / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Failed Execution, No Sentence / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Family Business / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Fancy Dinner / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Fantastic Nuke / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Fat Idiot / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Fictional Currency / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Field Promotion / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Fire/Water Juxtaposition / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Flat World / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Flying Broomstick / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Fool's Map / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Forbidden Chekhov's Gun / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Forensic Accounting / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Freud Was Right / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Freudian Threat / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Frivolous Lawsuit / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Fun T-Shirt / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Fun with Homophones / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Gallows Humor / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Generic Graffiti / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Genius Book Club / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Genius Ditz / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Gentleman Thief / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Go-Karting with Bowser / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Go-to Alias / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Gold Makes Everything Shiny / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Gonky Femme / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Good Fortune from God / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Government Procedural / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Grievous Harm with a Body / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Gross-Up Close-Up / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Ground by Gears / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Hanging Around / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Hat of Authority / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Heartwarming in Hindsight / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Hero Antagonist / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Heroic Fire Rescue / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	High Turnover Rate / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Hollywood Fire / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Hope Springs Eternal / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Horsing Around / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Hustler / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	I Know You Know I Know / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	I Like Those Odds / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	I Never Got Any Letters / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	I Read It for the Articles / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	I Shall Taunt You / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	I Warned You / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	If It Bleeds, It Leads / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Immortality Through Memory / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Immune to Fire / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	In the Hood / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Incredibly Lame Fun / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Incredibly Obvious Bug / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Informed Obscenity / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Instant Waking Skills / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Intangible Time Travel / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Ironic Name / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Jabba Table Manners / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Just Smile and Nod / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Kitsch Collection / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Lame Last Words / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Liberty Over Prosperity / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Literal Metaphor / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Literalist Snarking / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Living Relic / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Logic Bomb / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Ludicrous Gibs / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Ludicrous Precision / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Mage Tower / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Magic Feather / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Magnetic Hero / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Mailman vs. Dog / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Men Are Generic, Women Are Special / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Merchant Prince / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Mercury's Wings / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Mercy Lead / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Metallic Motifs / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Middle-Management Mook / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Mix-and-Match Critters / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Mock Millionaire / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Monstrous Cannibalism / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Moody Mount / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	More Teeth than the Osmond Family / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Mouthful of Pi / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Mundane Luxury / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Neat Freak / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Never Heard That One Before / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Never Hurt an Innocent / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	No Sense of Humor / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	No Smoking / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Nobody Here but Us Birds / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Non-Natural Number Gag / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Non-Uniform Uniform / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Nose Shove / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Nose Tapping / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Not Actually the Ultimate Question / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Not with Them for the Money / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Obfuscating Disability / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Obligatory Joke / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Oblivious Adoption / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Oddly Small Organization / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Offerings to the Gods / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Orphaned Etymology / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Overt Operative / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Peggy Sue / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Perilous Marriage Proposal / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Pet Rat / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Photo Op with the Dog / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Pit Trap / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Playful Hacker / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	[Popular Saying], But... / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Practical Currency / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Prayer Is a Last Resort / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Prim and Proper Bun / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Profanity Police / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Promotion, Not Punishment / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Pronouncing My Name for You / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Psmith Psyndrome / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Public Execution / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Pun With Pi / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Rags to Riches / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Railroad Baron / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Raised by Natives / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Rake Take / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Reality-Breaking Paradox / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Rearing Horse / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Reassignment Backfire / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Resignations Not Accepted / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Rhetorical Question Blunder / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Rodents of Unusual Size / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Scare the Dog / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Scarily Competent Tracker / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Schedule Fanatic / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Scotty Time / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Screw Destiny / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Seadog Beard / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	"Second Law" My Ass! / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Shadow Archetype / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Shamu Fu / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Shipshape Shipwreck / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Side Bet / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Signs of Disrepair / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Silence, You Fool! / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Silly Prayer / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Simple Solution Won't Work / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Skeleton Crew / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Slipping into Stink / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Slobs Versus Snobs / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Smart People Play Chess / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Snail Mail / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Son of an Ape / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Soul Jar / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Spiked Blood / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Stab the Sky / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Starting a New Life / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Stealing from Thieves / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Stealth Hi/Bye / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Stock Quotes / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Stock "Yuck!" / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Stout Strength / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Strange Salute / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Stress Vomit / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Summon Bigger Fish / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Surveillance as the Plot Demands / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Sympathetic P.O.V. / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	T-Word Euphemism / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Tastes Like Purple / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Terminally Exclusive Club / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Alleged Steed / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Barnum / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Baroness / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Cardinal Virtues / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Cat Came Back / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Charmer / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Dead Have Names / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Key Is Behind the Lock / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Magazine Rule / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Maiden Name Debate / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Patient Has Left the Building / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Slow Path / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	The Window or the Stairs / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Thieves' Cant / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Third-Act Misunderstanding / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	This Is My Side / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	This Is Not a Floor / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Thrown from the Zeppelin / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Thwarted Escape / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Tiger by the Tail / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Too Clever by Half / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Treasure Map / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Tricked to Death / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	True Craftsman / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Trust Me, I'm an X / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Unfulfilled Purpose Misery / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Unusual Chapter Numbers / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Violin Scam / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Waking Non Sequitur / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Wallbonking / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Water Is Air / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Water Tower Down / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	We Win, Because You Didn't / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Welcome Episode / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Welcome to My World / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	When Things Spin, Science Happens / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Winged Humanoid / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	With Catlike Tread / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	With Due Respect / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	Worrying for the Wrong Reason / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	You Do NOT Want to Know / int_74365738
Going Postal	hasFeature	You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost / int_74365738

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