Have you noticed that, generally speaking, the only people still smoking are the less well off? Perhaps Nero & the rest just used human nature when giving the people their circus (circi?)

Women have more favorable attitudes toward beefcake ads than toward cheesecake ads, but even more favorable attitudes toward ads with nonsexy male models.

Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red, / Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams, / Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams.

These wintry nights, if she turned from the fire and the beguilement of Jim's songs, to shudderingly look outside at the frosty moonlit world, Andrew's prediction that their waiting pints of water would be all ice in the morning was often a little consolation.