Think Red Hots are a taste challenge? Or the Atomic Fireball is the ultimate tongue torture? They barely move the needle for confectionery connoisseurs.

the elevation of my apartments furnished a subject for conversation, which, without somesuch help, we should have been in danger of wanting.

In this Place of Venus the Hour and Amplitude of the Sun's Riſing, for one Half of the Year, are the ſame with thoſe of his Setting in the other Half; which will alſo happen in all Places under the firſt Meridian, where he riſes and ſets: […]

Thus, a first generation woman member of parliament for the Greens reported that she needed regular breaks from an atmosphere which she described as self-rape and in which she could only function by shutting out all emotions or personal expectations and functioning like an automaton (Spretnak and Capra 1985: 142).