You could build even more interesting components called amplifiers and begin playing around with amplifiers.

“So how are you getting on at UCL?” said Penny kindly, as if it must be a sorry comedown after Oxford.

You guys are going to mock me for this aren't you? And circle gets the square!

[T]his prospective gay adoptive father chose not to disclose his sexuality to the caseworker who interviewed him at his home, rather than admit that he was a gay man, in order to avoid being told he could not adopt.