Re: Hang on!
'Tis a bit of irony somewhere here ...
Working my way through Pratchett ... haven't seen this yet ...
Although Mark Twain wrote this about 6th century England
"That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration — and it was on the very first day of it, too — was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn’t travel any way but sideways or backways."
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889