The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.

Except that the latter's spinal column must have suffered some pretty severe snakings when the camera-carrier went through corduroy bridges […]

Once I asked a seventeen-year-old singer something that wasn't on the list, which caused her manager to pipe up: That wasn't what we agreed on. She doesn't have to answer that.

Such kinds of defensives are really rather protecting the local companies than the consumers.