And it is possible that you will shortly read in the papers that he has executed his stated intention of burning down his father's bee hoon factory in Upper Thompson Road.

One Englishman named Walter Rumsey invented an electuary of coffee to be applied with an instrument called a provang.

At another level, there are what the Americans describe as Iraq's salami tactics - picking at weak points in the rules of sanctions, preferably in ways that cause disagreement between the US and other countries.

Those heroick Barbarians accounted it a Dishonour to die in their Beds, and rush’d on to certain Death in the Prospect of an After-Life […]