Unnaming the NPCs
'This is captain...' Oh dear, the GM doesn't know the name of an NPC off the top of his head and needs time to find the reference in the adventure. This can only feed in to our tendency to rename all NPCs to something we actually have a chance of remembering.
'...Sausage?'
'Sausage?! Sausage?! If the other fellow is Commander Aardvark I'm storming out.'
Captain Sausage, as he is now known for what is probably only a cameo appearance anyway, bears the brunt of our attack, blows raining down on him in the first round of combat. 'He's badly wounded, but still standing.'
'I'm sure he'll be gone interfrastically.'