Say hello to my little friend. Hideous, isn’t he? […] He's a replica of a tiny 20 cm. black-lacquered bronze statue in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. […] Listed under grotesque animal, and probably 17th century by the engraver Arent van Bolten, he stands on high legs with an open beak. On the place of the wings sits the spiralling part of a cochlea (snail shell); its genitals are quite prominent.

Under certain circumstances and because of the method of application, lamination of all but the flaps of a bookjacket can prove more costly...

My sister had her tubes tied after her fifth pregnancy.

No, no refusal, exclaimed a chorus of voices. Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our Dimber Damber.