It's not to get us oldies living longer, but enable us to live life to the full, independently and happily, looking good for our age with Queen on the iPod: don't stop me now.
The more prosaic truth may be that in times as grim as these, thousands of people will happily pretend that the last 20 years have been rolled back, and that if only for a couple of hours, they can be back in 1990 – happily looking to a future which, for the Stone Roses as much as anyone, singularly failed to happen.
Happily, readers looking for a more carefully annotated collection of hip-hop lyrics can turn to an unlikely source: a rapper.
For me personally, seeing the hedgehops wandering happily around looking for food reminded me of when I used to see them in my home town when walking home at night.
If a customer attends one of the restaurant's theme nights and has certain dietary constraints, Mr. deWaal will happily look out for them (he recently created an all-scallop menu for a diner partaking of his summer crab fest; he's made pretzel- and Tostito-crusted chicken fingers for children, and he even adapted one group's meal to the special wine they had selected).
Apparently, everyone fits into one of these buckets, something that I'm afraid I'll happily look forward to sneering about for days to come.
"We are a fit, respectful, happily married couple, looking for a fun, attractive girl to join us for fun".
Each year, I happily look forward to Movember.
She happily spent hours online, looking for just the right place — space for a little boy plus visiting grandparents in a cohesive urban neighborhood with a good public school.
But by the end of just one session, they're happily playing in the mud, looking for worms and creepy crawlies".
