The party was a time-eater.

Here we met with the large and deep lairs of the porcupine (Hystrix cristata) and also of the earth-pig, a devourer of ants and termites. The burrows of the earth-pig are several yards deep, and hidden in the grass they constitute a dangerous impediment to the traveller and hunter.

I tossed off a letter to the local council.

Overall then, with Vista, Megabollox were 'flogging a dead donkey' by introducing this cosmetic, resource-flogging successor to Windows XP falsely as an advance.