Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett: > The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred tim

Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett: > The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.