Mean World Syndrome

The former Soviet Union grows the most sunflowers.

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”

Banana flavors are the product of yeast metabolism, as are spoilage aromas such as sweaty, barnyard, band-aid and rotten egg.

Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties.
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Nah, man. She’s not my girl, she’s just a squeeze.

“the secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe” is that “You must only show the first two cracks.”

“A pump (shoe) with a slightly low vamp for a hint of toe cleavage should not be too racy for a conservative office.”

The peacock looks like an angel, but has the voice of a devil, and feet so ugly that the bird screams every time it sees them.

“Ếch ngồi đáy giếng coi trời bằng vung” (“Sitting at the bottom of wells, frogs think that the sky is as wide as a lid”)

Duck neck. Quite attractive, if you like that kind of thing.