When I take you out, tonight, with me, / Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be: / You will set behind a team of snow white horses, / In the slickest gig you ever see! // Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry / When I take you out in the surrey, / When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top!

My flight was going to Wu-han and Nan-ning and thence to Hanoi, which caused a certain interest; it is not every day that British passports go to North Vietnam. My immigration official was suitably inscrutable; he took the thing as no great drama (which it certainly was to me), rather did he appear to regard the trip as a quaint eccentricity.

Men were more likely to gossip about celebrities and acquaintances. Having established that both sexes share equally in the pleasure which gossip seems to provide one may ask, “What makes us so gossip-prone?”

[…]there is a distinct preference for direct-experience learning, which gives rise to an antibook attitude.