We worshipped music like Perry's but we knew we didn't own it, a fact we tried to ignore as far as possible, masking our disabling caucasity with a sort of professorial knowledge: who played congas on the B-side, the precise definition of collie.

When teams play now they verse each other. Who did you verse? (Forget whom. It's long dead.) We're versing you next. Pity the Latin scholar who might feel the loss of versus more keenly than many.

If one is stopped on the highway, one would rather hand one's purse over to a courteous knight than to the rough-and-ready bludgeoner.

This was especially true of BASIC program anthologies, a particularly important area of bookware for TI owners.