The sequel? II, Claudius, you mean?

Especially if, after that degradation, you got the chop anyway.

Still too soon.

I think it’s more like “serial killer on hiatus”.

Suppose your favourite personal use is hiding in the long grass and then leaping out at people?

You don’t work on dangerous animals for long if you don’t have a very healthy respect for what they can do to you.

+1 for use of root meaning of “idios”.

Never. However, the regrets over irrevocably-missed opportunities increase exponentially till the end of your days.

Yes, well, you have to take into account the re-use factor.

That recently? God, I’ve held my breath that long.

Sprained wrists - couldn’t write or type.

If I am recalling it properly, George Orwell’s essay “England Your England” goes into the sort of thinking that keeps classes and racial groups separate and disdaining one another, even when they are both poor and would be better off combining their efforts and goals. It’s about England in the ‘30s of the last century…

Just wondering, didn’t have time to follow back through the citation chain this afternoon.

...how the human race would possibly have survived if wild animals were constantly attracted to it...

Do you have citations for these studies?

Masters of Lite Metal.

She’s responsible for a whole lot of things, isn’t she? An entire civilization. Accomplished woman.

That’s the Nike of Samothrace. Totally pagan.

Mynahs. Going about their business quietly. For a decade.

Huh. I think that I read that they were going or gone in an article by Wayne Grady.