It's intention and surroundings, right? And audience.
I agree with CupofJoe that Terry Prachett expected people not to get every little joke or reference. And he had the library/pile of lore to let that work. The surrounding material to support his intention.
You can set your joke up to...
Hello, fellows.
I’m Wren. On the big quest to make my writing publish-worthy. All experiments and practice for now.
I am absolutely and delightfully haunted by my world building hobby. Call it a special interest. I am developing a world called Parsk and I hope that Parsk is my career someday...