The title skit involves a family with a problem many children have: "Everywhere we go, we cause a mess".
It insists that not only do the pigeons cause a mess, but they also carry infectious diseases.
Roberts cites a report projecting that the true measure of success will soon be whether foodstuffs "can be consumed one-handed, and whether packaging causes a mess".
I propose that the only things that may be respectably thrown are things which will cause a mess, but not injure; and that only active, serving politicians should be considered legitimate targets.
In the current climate in the Arab world, where America is not only viewed as the unquestioning champion of Israel but also as having caused a mess in Iraq, few want to be associated with the United States.
At the moment this role is left to the Department for Education a state of affairs described by one critic as "Napoleonic" (it is also odd, given the coalition's enthusiasm for pruning Whitehall bureaucracy).The education secretary's ability to send strong reformist signals, so useful in encouraging the growth of academies, can cause a mess.
Lena Posner, a leader of the Jewish community in Stockholm, told the Israeli news Web site Ynet that Israel had caused a "mess" by drawing undue attention to the original article and turning the debate in Sweden into one about the need to protect freedom of expression.
When he went to the city of Tsaritsyn (later renamed Stalingrad), on the Southern Front, to try to turn the tide for the Bolsheviks, he immediately caused a mess by fighting with the tsarist-era officers who were saving the Red Army from defeat, and then pursuing (and executing) supposed enemies of the people.
