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*** Although this is also because Hex has a habit of adding things all by itself!
** The addition of Anoia, goddess of things that get stuck in drawers, to the [[Discworld]] pantheon has provided excuses for many kitchenware Cow Tools to have their inexplicable and/or useless presence in everyone's cupboards lampshaded.
* The "offog" from Eric Frank Russells' science fiction short story [
* In [[Spider Robinson]]'s ''[[Lady Slings The Booze]]'', the narrator, a [[Private Detective]] specifically [[Lampshades]] the fact that in his profession, it is vitally important to be able to accurately observe and describe whatever he sees. He then enters the laboratory of the resident [[Mad Scientist]], which he is only able to describe as "''a rectangular solid filled with stuff'', to his great chargin."
* Subverted in the Niven and Pournelle work ''[[The Mote in God's Eye]]'' when the Moties present the humans with a room filled with what appear to be Cow Tools but are not. The tool room is actually an "IQ" test of sorts. The humans are expected to determine the flaw in each tool which renders it useless. Naturally the person who figures this out is the ship's engineer.
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