You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.