Well, TV being what it is, it can’t use plain everyday dirt, the reason being—no kidding—that it looks too dirty on camera. As a result this commercial uses especially prepared dirt, treated with a dye to make it look like undirty dirt.

[S]aving of all kinds is pointless when interest is microscopic and state-sponsored inflation is debauching the currency.

Mesmer attributed all the phenomena of animal magnetism to the efflux and the influx of a subtle fluid conceived of as specifically localised in the magnet, but radiating also from stars and planets, sun and moon, the earth and the sky, and most effectively of all from the bodies of healthy and viripotent men.

And the home side survived without any late scares to pick up the first win of their Group F campaign.