But I doubt I'm the only Briton who would struggle to unwind the tentacles the Internet giants have thrust into my life.
From a crest in his vineyard, overlooking giant rocks thrusting out from the earth like the paws of a sphinx, Mr. Kamen can see San Pablo Bay in the near distance and, on a good day, San Francisco on the horizon.
Sadly she was less willing to let Hattie try the giant self thrusting dildo that I suggested too much too soon perhaps.
As time expired, Juwan Howard jumped atop the scorer's table wearing a giant grin, and Mavericks Coach Don Nelson thrust his right hand in the air.
It was a commanding 20-10 Giants victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in their National Football Conference semifinal game and it boldly thrust the Giants -- without a victory and lightly regarded in the preseason -- into next Sunday's N.F.C. championship game against the Minnesota Vikings at Giants Stadium.
But an early sketch shows what he thought of northern writers who pander to media expectations: "I love this landscape, the hills spreading wide their great thighs, and the pits thrusting their giant black fingers into the sky.
'Ah yes, we are a young country,' agrees our Super Jeep driver Edward, thrusting the giant, bouncy hulk of a vehicle up the side of a snow-clad mountain on two wheels, as if to prove the point.
But that often amounts to a giant gamble, which is the thrust of the thinking behind a new retirement planning program that treats investing in stocks like a trip to the casino.
But between hikes, I planned to view the country from the end of a giant rubber cord, via the thrust of a powerful machine, and in the not-terribly-protective shell of a helmet and wet suit, all in a quest to find out what drives the people of this country to the ever-more-extreme.
The strange geology of the region, including giant petrified sand dunes, strata thrusts and sedimentary capstone, make Red Rock Canyon a unique and varied climbing environment.
