Earl laughed after the others, unheartily but genially.

[…] he furiously bushed out and clipped cross-wise sections of beard and slapped them on his chin gleaming brown with spirit gum.

This is the only remedy that would permit an escape from the “doom loop” described by Piergiorgio Alessandri and Andrew Haldane (2009), whereby, when financial institutions are seen as “too big to fail,” governments have no option but to bail them out with public money, no matter how many times they claim they will not do so.

The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.