“For the same reason you were yanking my chain about the double ropes,” I said. “You want to see if I'm going to be any help to you or a total idiot when it comes to this retail thing.”

I tend to overspice things, to go for big, peasant flavors.

I really do not think it is appropriate to come up here and present to this committee or to the Congress the who shot John processes by which the President makes decisions.

One of the most intriguing advances has been the development of the transputer, a single-chip computer developed by Inmos Ltd.