The Little Price made me think of an idea I had for a puzzle based on "built-up book titles". You could start by reading Machiavelli's The Prince, continue with Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, and finish off with Dinah Craik's The Little Lame Prince.
Or watch movies, starting with Sandra Bullock in 28 Days, then stick around for the apocalyptic flick 28 Days Later.
And that, for whatever reason, made me think of a parody in Mad Magazine (many moons ago) called "20,000 Leaks Under the Sea."
At one point I would have called my response "off topic," but the more I hang out here the more I find many threads evolving into a "stream of consciousness" type of exchange.
Great idea for a game Ron. Maybe you should work up a few more and get on WWW with that.
Grant Barrett said:
Where do we get the expression "more than you can shake a stick at"? It probably just derives from counting. Imagine herdsmen bringing in their cattle or sheep at the end of the day, pointing with a stick in order to do a headcount.
My favorite use of this idiom is in the Marx Brothers movie Monkey Business (1931), where Groucho says:
Now he's got more women than you could shake a stick at, if that's your idea of a good time.
I started my life using Butch Wax to coerce my hair into some sort of order, then a kind of gel (Dippity Do?), then a watery lotion like Vitalis, and finally a non-aerosol spray, before retracing my steps in the opposite direction (adding mousse into the sequence along the way).
Hairdressers probably refer to "product" to save them asking whether you use any "lotion, cream, gel, spray, mousse or pomade" to style your hair.
Some think product sounds better than stuff. Personally, I find the word $#!+ quite applicable to many situation where product might otherwise be used. And it is versatile beyond that.
e.g
What $#!+ do you use on your hair?
I think it looks better than the $#!+ I use.
The $#!+ my wife uses is really expensive, but on my hair it works no better than some $#!+ at half the price.
I am advocating for an increased use of the word $#!+, mainly for the purpose of simplification.