No intelligent man or woman would use the word `bloke.' It is a gutter expression, destitute of the least claim to recognition, a blur on the linguistic landscape, and a standing advertisement of Australian bad language.

The fuss and faff meant Christmas had long since been drained of any joy and excitement.

1. Cases of Nouns are six: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, and Ablative. As in the Latin and Greek languages, these cases are derived from the Nominative by certain rules of inflection; the Nominative being the root of all the other cases, is termed the direct case, the others are called oblique cases.

As upside-down as it seems to most adults, many kids see lying as a respectful, loving, sensitive act if it protects someone they look up to from unpleasant information. I can't imagine where they learned that. And let's not forget about sex. Can I just tell you how much pornography fries my bacon?