Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

I have to laugh when I think of the first cigar, because it was probably just a bunch of rolled up tobacco leaves

It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.

His ankle is really sore. Playing on that surface probably made it more significant.

Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.