Like yesterday’s pillow fight, my response is, “yes, who hasn’t?”. On second thoughts I don’t know how many people do hitch hike these days. Way too dangerous, everyone seems to think. And I cannot remember the last time I actually saw someone hitching.
But we used to do it all the time, occasion...
Exhibit A: In the UK, atheists weasel with “probably”. I don’t know why. Frankly, I don’t much care, because for me it is a done deal.
That picture is a mockup, but there's video at the Telegraph that looks real enough to me.1
Exhibit B: In Italy,2 non c'e dubbio.
Only two buses, st...
Of course. Who hasn’t? But I cannot remember a specific fight. And until this very moment -- searching Flickr for a picture -- I had no idea that big public pillow fights took place, at least in San Francisco and Paris. I suppose it is all good clean fun, except for the feathers. I did a little b...
Exhibit A, from The Origin of Species, by C.R. Darwin, 1st edition, 1859, pp73-4:
I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, most remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations. ... The number of humble-bees in any district depends...
Most recently, just before Thanksgiving last year, the midnight train from Rome to Turin, and what a hoot it was. The cabin, with two bunks, was absolutely tiny. A basin was advertised, but we never did manage to find the space to use it. Simply getting in and out of the cabin, let alone the bunks,...
