There was a lot of snagging at first, of humpies too tired to resist, of deadfall trailing limbs in the water, but after a while Gregor caught and by a miracle landed a two-pound rainbow and everyone began fishing in earnest.

By the time the men’s final was under way an estimated 25,000 bikini-clad and board-shorted surf lovers were there to watch.

Jun 24, 2001, David Spera, “Makes with high %age of manuals?”, in rec.autos.driving, Usenet, retrieved 2022-06-18:

Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.