It has always made me smile, Vetinari's reaction to street mimes. As much as the populace loves a good piece of off the cuff street theatre, everyone seems to find The Patrician's attitude towards mime to be quite reasonable. One can only assume that at some point in young Havelock's early years there was an over abundance of speechless actors going about in white face, causing aggravation and traffic jams all over the city. Hence the use of scorpion pits.
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