Rather, I was wholly mesmerized by her, by that famous nose, yes, a signifier of so much, but also her voice and mouth and especially her mouthy-ness, a tremendous inspiration for smart girls, like me, who liked to talk, and were sometimes told, even protectively, to shut up.
He's Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year, the best basketball player on the planet and he even shut Skip Bayless up for a few days.
With eyes so powerful that they can even shut James Corden up – which make him the world's first purveyor of the fatal glare – and designer spectacles that hint at an ocean of thrilling metrosexuality lurking fractionally beneath the surface, he seemed to have it all.
And, given our values, we can't even shut them up - to do so would violate the values we hold most dear - freedom of speech, the right to a speedy trial, to confronting your accusers, and on and on.
And if you need more proof, consider this: the Ting Tings have even got their song Shut Up and Let Me Go on an iTunes advert.
To young soldiers it says: shut up, even if you suspect your commanders of violating the law; they will go unpunished and you will go to jail if you leak.
But he would not or perhaps could not shut up, even though he also seemed to know he should: "How can I get out of this sentence?" he asked.
Wesley's behindlings follow along, snatching up information, trading it and processing it, absorbed in the facts about their wild boy and quite unfazed by his odd moments of commercial acumen or even the way he shut up his own brother in a worn-out refrigerator and left him to die.
People who cannot shut up, even if shutting up is the most logical thing to do.
