He was a propa gadgie, and always bought we drinks after a long shift. He was a great guy, and always bought us drinks after a long shift.

Gay or straight, we've all made incorrect assumptions about someone's sexual orientation, so the likelihood of “gaydar” or even “straightdar” as a meaningful idea is unlikely.

Through a minuscule pinhole in that lead block, he could now direct tiny, controlled doses of a furiously potent beam of X-rays … to lancinate any cancer cell to death.

There is a phenomenon in stock market investment known as seasonality. In Canada we sometimes summarize it with the epithet Buy when it snows, sell when it goes.