Your guess is as good as mine. Better probably, because you haven't had four beers.

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.