Car in ditch
Driver in tree
Moon was full
And so
Was he
Burma-Shave (1947)
"Neo, this is loco. They've got Morpheus in a military controlled building.
Even if you somehow got inside, those are agents holding him. Three of them.
I want Morpheus back too, but what you're talking about is suicide."

"I know that's what it looks like, but it's not. I can't explain to you why
it's not. Morpheus believed something and he was ready to give his life for
what he believed. I understand that now. But that's why I have to go."

"Why?"
"Because I believe in something."

-- Tank and Neo, "The Matrix"
The Drum jealously guarded its reputation as the most stylishly disreputable tavern in Ankh-Morpork and the big troll that now guarded the door carefully vetted customers for suitability in the way of black cloaks, glowing eyes, magic swords and so forth. Rincewind never found out what he did to the failures. Perhaps he ate them.
(Sourcery)
EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military
officer from the enemy -- that is to say, from the officer of lower
rank to whom his death would give promotion.

BENEDICTINES, n. An order of monks otherwise known as black friars.

She thought it a crow, but it turn out to be
A monk of St. Benedict croaking a text.
"Here's one of an order of cooks," said she --
"Black friars in this world, fried black in the next."

"The Devil on Earth" (London, 1712)