Unlike Billie Sol Estes, however, he probably won’t have a song and a book written about him.
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And of course, everyone knows exactly who you’re referring to.
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In the UK, paper books are VAT-free, but e-books are VATable at 20%
Everybody “of an age” does. 
Or you could just, you know, Google him.
The people voted it in, by a large amount.
I rest my case.
the brits really hate their trees
They voted it in when the estimate was 1/100th of what it is now, with projected service to be about a third of the original promise.
Numbers are pulled out of my ass, of course, but are suggestive of the actual circumstances within an order or magnitude or two.
One big ass, there
it is $33B to around $120B. 4x.
But that always happens.
Hey, that’s totally within one order of magnitude, and my disclaimer allowed up to two orders of magnitude!
Are we talking orders of magnitude of the proposed expenses, or of your ass? Inquiring minds want to know.
As Winston observed, "hat’s a big *Twinkie .
When I’m overseas I really appreciate those lightweight, easy-to-use folding “airers”, or racks for drying clothes, that consist of several flat racks connected by some type of hinge mechanism and extend about a meter or more in all directions. Like this.
Back home in the US, the folding clothes racks I have, and pretty much the only kind I ever see in stores, are the narrow accordion-style (or “concertina”) ones with a smaller footprint but much less linear footage for holding the wet garments. Like this.
Why is the former kind comparatively so rare in the States? Because everybody uses a clothes dryer except for people with actual clotheslines in their vast backyards or people with tiny cramped apartments who can’t spare the footprint?
A mystery.
I didn’t know who this was, but googling his name and Sol Hurok finally clued me in to the joke behind the name Billy Sol Hurok (from SCTV’s “Farm Film Report”).
Weird. I just checked our local Walmart (Southern Ontario) and they have both types and other kinds too.
That might be the only kind you see in stores, but Amazon has a larger selection including ones you may never have seen/thought of as a drying rack. Anyway, the availability of many items in the US is going to be very location specific - don’t try to describe a foldable personal shopping cart to someone who has always lived a suburban life. I would be really surprised to find the racks that you are looking for anywhere in my neighborhood - in fact, I’m not sure that I could find any sort of rack in my neighborhood or the one I grew up in . Almost everyone lives in a 1-6 family building with clotheslines in the not-vast backyard - like this .
Yes! And considering I managed to be there in the hottest part of the year, I usually needed more than one drink.
I found Pocari Sweat here, but could not find the Lemon Squash drink I loved so much. 
Will have to check Chinatown next time I am down there!
True, true.
Nice to see, in these days of excessive electrical-appliance use and draconian municipal rules about no clotheslines allowed! I miss my outdoor clothesline and just the occasional visual interest of neighborhood home clotheslines in general. (Best sighting: two separate halves of what was apparently a two-person sparkly pink fuzzy unicorn costume. Adult size, mind you. 
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A lot of water bottles in the US have the cap that stays on and I find them annoying and difficult to use. Maybe the European ones have better design.