Talk:Book:Raising Steam/Annotations

p124: "-and a guaranteed herd of goats". No one has explained the goats to me yet. Trolls have an ancient and well-documented aversion to goats; they can't eat goat or cheese; what do they do with these goats? --Old Dickens (talk) 16:38, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Wool, perhaps, for the essential troll loincloth... or it could be a Magpyr-style learning process in confronting what you most fear, ie a big billy-goat gruff bent on butting you off the bridge...AgProv (talk) 17:29, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Then another possibility creeps in: sacrificial purposes? Throw a goat off the bridge in hope of being hit on the head with the rock of good fortune? _ --Old Dickens (talk) 01:09, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Or else the good old Discworld principle of opposites and balance: if trolls are traditionally associated with bridges, then so are goats. Maybe Vetinari thought this up...AgProv (talk) 01:16, 14 February 2014 (UTC)