Foul Ole Ron is a member of the Beggar's Guild of
Ankh-Morpork, one of the oldest
Guilds in the city. He is well-known by most of the city's population, mainly because of his very characteristic
smell. His smell is so noxious that it has taken on a
personality and existence of its own, and now it often likes to arrive in places before Ron himself, so that it can "get settled in". In fact, the Smell is so terrible that it deserves a capital letter.
Foul Ole Ron lives with
Coffin Henry,
Arnold Sideways and the
Duck Man. For a brief period(during
Feet of Clay), Ron was accompanied by a speaking dog of indeterminate identity, which may or may not have been
Gaspode. He is often to be heard mumbling his way through the streets of Ankh-Morpork, muttering such gems as
"Buggrit, millenium, hand and shrimp! The worm's on the other boot now, see if he ain't..."