A hard border is a real possibility, and a frictionless border is almost an oxymoron.

Why, Walsher, said Mr. Stubber, how many times a day do you rub your face with a brass candlestick? Why, I lent you a pony when you were stumped, and you carried off a cool hundred.

The old man's rambling yarn was circumlocutionary.

The famous double arrow emerged at this time, as did the new Rail Alphabet typeface (basically slightly altered Helvetica) that it still used today for station names and signposts, ….