Wodehousian farce, like all other kinds of farce — like most comedy, for that matter — nurses a deep suspicion that the ability to reason is an overrated gift, and what counts in farce is not originality of meaning but freshness of image.

A well designed shelter belt will reduce the mean wind speeds from ground level up to the full height of the protected object (eg: house, greenhouse, agricultural crop).

It's only a rattle, Alice said, after a careful examination of the little white thing. Not a rattle-snake, you know, she added hastily, thinking that he was frightened: only an old rattle — quite old and broken. I knew it was! cried Tweedledum, beginning to stamp about wildly and tear his hair. It's spoilt, of course! Here he looked at Tweedledee, who immediately sat down on the ground, and tried to hide himself under the umbrella.

Yeah, I could run around the house in my altogethers, do the housework while the kids were in school.