No-one would have believed, in the final years of the Century of the 
Fruitbat, that Discworld affairs were being watched keenly and impatiently 
by intelligences greater than Man's, or at least much nastier; that their 
affairs were being scrutinised and studied as a man with a three-day 
appetite might study the All-You-Can-Gobble-For-A-Dollar menu outside 
Harga's House of Ribs... 
        -- (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)