African vipers are hazardous to pin and hold by the head, as experienced herpetologists will attest, because they have the longest fangs in snakedom.

Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

On the whole they are at present fairly cheap, and are not overburdened with long priced stamps, and still fewer unobtainables.

A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.