Since all it takes for evil to prevail is one good seven-year-old to do nothing, I continued to crack the case wide open: "And what about the tooth fairy?" I got up to tell my sister, but was waylaid by an adult offering me chocolate cake in exchange for my silence.
"I decided I would stand on my head and crack an egg on my vagina," she says with disarming matter-of-factness.
"We'll crack down on anyone who takes an irresponsible approach to roadworks without regard to the travel misery they can so often cause.
Spooked by Ed Miliband's offer of a freeze, the Tories suggest that they want to crack down on the very green taxes that they voted for.
My method is: don't look anyone in the eye, straightforward, crack on with it.
Bake until the cakes just start to crack on top, 12 to 15 minutes.
Since 1997 there have been several attempts at a screenplay but it has had to wait for Jane Goldman to crack it.
Burrowes says giveaways such as Disney characters or commemorative coins were referred to as the "crack cocaine" of the media industry in Britain.
First, he claimed on Magic Radio that William Hague would make a great James Bond because: "he does yoga, he can probably crack a man's skull between his kneecaps".
He thinks that the Eurozone's economic woes mean "the whole thing is beginning to crack", and sketches out the unlikely-sounding scenario of David Cameron realizing his current approach to renegotiation isn't ambitious enough, and somehow leading an argument that would lead to a "a whole new architecture in Europe".
There was much that was miserable about the time - Tory rule, recession - and although it seems faintly absurd now, rave culture seemed a force for change and insurrection; certainly enough for the gov-ernment to bring in the Criminal Justice Act to crack down on illegal parties.
