Televised cookery has changed beyond all recognition over the course of her watch but she's still there doing what she does best, making fuss-free food in a fuss-free way.
Back on 12, Tiger leaves himself a 12-footer for birdie, after playing the hole in a fuss-free style, but doesn't hit the putt, and then waves his putter around in baroque patterns, anger very much the fuel pumping through his arms.
But minutes later, he came back in without a fuss, and without adult intervention.
The chillies, aubergine, tomatoes, amaranthus went in without a fuss, and as for the 7m tall palm tree: it was a piece of cake.
Thorp had the bad luck to be employed by an agency that devised an extreme dress code, but the rest of us have the benefit of her courage in making a fuss about it.
It's the classic Napster problem; in making a fuss about these ROMs, you've just alerted a bunch of people to their existence.
In particular, make a fuss of the person you're standing in place for, the one who usually does most of the work.
One player in particular caused a fuss with his very angry tweets about the replacement refs in the NFL.
Arnold Zwicky said it better than I can: "this is not even a tempest in a teapot, it's a fuss in a thimbleful of spit".*It's good to be consistent, and that's why the AP and The Economist (and probably the Washington Post) have something called a style.
