Elmer Blaney Harris eloquently captures the feel of the Bowery in 1906: Bands, orchestras, pianos, at war with gramophones, hand-organs, calliopes; overhead, a roar of wheels in a deathlock with shrieks and screams; whistles, gongs, rifles all busy, the smell of candy, popcorn, meats, beer, tobacco, blended with the odor of the crowd redolent now and ten of patchouli; a streaming river of people arched over by electric signs -- this is the Bowery at Coney Island.

Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.

The elements of a list are the successive cars along the cdr chain. That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

6 October 2006, Republicans@Hell.com, “Drudge Report - Pedophile Friendly and full of Shizzle!”, in alt.politics.bush, Usenet: