Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.