From a New Yorker article on Peter deVries, whom I believe was himself quoting someone else.

“Every sentence like a mother cat nursing a litter of cozily squirming subordinate clauses.”

Wait a minute. I resemble that remark.

BT, a staunch Republican Yankee, writes, “Jerry Springer was selected as a delgate to the Democratic National Convention. Res Ipsa Loquitur … the whole thing speaks for itself.”

I replied, “Along with Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of the world’s 6th-largest economy, this nation is headed down the well-televised, mass-marketed joke it has long yearned to be.”

“The Wax Lake Delta is a river delta in Louisiana that was formed by rapid deposition of sediment following the creation of a canal through Wax Lake off of the Atchafalaya River in 1942. It is roughly 20 miles southwest of Morgan City adjacent to the Atchafalaya delta.” – Wikipedia

Andre-Marie Ampere, a parent of electromagnetism and for whom the unit of measure of electrical current is named, also wrote a book called Considerations On The Mathematical Theory of Chance. The book proves that the more you gamble, the lower your odds of winning against the house. Someone’s got to tell those oil-industry geophysicists to stop blowing their wads at Harrah’s.