The NRA doubtless recalls that Kyushu Electric itself was caught using highly irregular PR tactics.
Mr Ryzhkov, whose Republican Party is also stymied by election rules, calls it the "Dresden system", a reference to East Germany's bogus multiparty system, which Mr Putin doubtless recalls from his spying days in Dresden.There are other obstacles for the outsiders.
They were doubtless recalling Nabokov's remark, that Don Quixote is nothing but an encyclopedia of cruelties.
It is still fresh in the memories of middle-aged audience members, many of whom doubtless recall the show's era with at least a tinge of embarrassment.
His voice quaking with emotion, and doubtless recalling the king's famous televised carpeting of an army chief and a protest leader after a massacre in Bangkok in 1992, he beseeched "his majesty" to intervene again to end the showdown.Yet Mr Thaksin, in exile and convicted in absentia of corruption, is accused by his opponents of being a closet republican.
And very beastly they will doubtless recall Gordon to have been, with the possible exception of his devoted creature Ed Balls, whose claim this week that he didn't even want Darling's job in 2009 is perhaps the shadow chancellor's most screamingly funny fib so far.
Gray Davis, for his part, hasn't been much of a governor — on top of the current fiscal mess, California's energy crisis also crested on his watch — and recalling him would doubtless be a gratifying experience, like throwing an old boyfriend's clothes out the window.
But at the time, both countries would do well to recall the feeling of doubtless possibility from Kennedy's era.
And there will doubtless be children today who will recall for many a year the 14 hours their family car was stuck in a traffic jam on the approach to Dover.
This recourse to the notion of intelligent design will doubtless upset the atheists out there, but it's worth recalling that scientific theories aren't descriptive of any reality at all, but rather provisional rules of thumb for a universe which exhibits assumed regularities.
Someone else has doubtless created a list of all that's occurred, but no matter how many details you recall, the entire conglomerate of fiascos carries weight as a single disaster.
