Gandhi was terrified of having to speak to a group: his vision would fog over; he would fall mute.
(Dean and Paulina always get a kick out of that one, and how when my roommate took a shower while I watched TV, the screen would fog up).
As the team's leader, he had to consider diverse obstacles: would fog cause Wiens to arrive in Boston after they had returned — a delay that could cause the face to decompose?
The US economy in 2000 had really, really full employment — it was an era when labor was so scarce that McDonald's was actively trying to recruit senior citizens, when the joke was that you could get a job as long as your breath would fog a mirror, that is, as long as you were actually alive.
Sir Walter Bodmer, of the University of Oxford, who conceived the study, said: "We're reaching back in time to before most of the mixing of the population, which would fog history".
"Booming" is a relative term: None of these cities would fog a mirror in China, where personal incomes have climbed at a steady 15% annual clip since 2000 and cities with millions of residents spring up practically overnight.
There were millions of unemployed Americans even at the height of the 1990s boom, when the joke was that anyone who could pass the "mirror test --that is, anyone whose breatest --thatg a mirror, indicatest --thathey were actually alise--could find work.
One suitable solution would be a physical malware detection device [126] as it would use minimal Fog resources.
If he could wear a fog hat, it would be perfect.
"He had felt as one standing in a boat on a wintry river, looking out into dense fog, knowing it would at any moment part to reveal vivid glimpses of the land ahead".
