Throw it into the trash barrel.

If Kathy had been with us, she'd have countered with a few ha-has of her own, thus guaranteeing a laugh at his expense.

'Twere back-end o' t' yeer, he continued at last, "an' t' lads had gone into t' woods to gether hesel-nuts an' accorns.

Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament.