a gratifiable urge

Finally, there I was, face to face with death.

Now there are Oirish an' Oirish. The good are good as the best, but the bad are wurrst than the wurrst.

Recently, in 2004, a new geological period, the Ediacaran, was formally added to the time scale. It immediately precedes the Cambrian period, and therefore lies within the Proterozoic.