And it's easy to see how "The Nanny Diaries" might have encountered that problem.
But having looked at the sort of fashions Manny might have encountered, Dr Römpler is keen to examine other ice-age species.
It's not impossible to imagine that his films might have encountered distribution problems or his funding sources would have come under more serious scrutiny.
Why would they hang out in a drowsy red-sauce joint with a soundtrack and a menu that Don Draper might have encountered on some sodden evening in 1962?
There were suggestions on Wednesday that the Peruvian airliner that crashed on a flight from Lima to Pucallpa might have encountered similar downdrafts.
Some people might have encountered Dennis Kelly as the writer of the musical Matilda, for which he won a Tony award earlier this year.
He couldn't choose just any swamp as his slough of despond: "dismal," a word he might have encountered in "Paradise Lost," had the right to-hell-and-back feel about it.
The new public service announcement that began airing Tuesday was meant to capture the attention of older women who watch daytime television and might have encountered Ms. Greig, 60, at a beauty salon or elsewhere in their daily lives.
Part of its success lies in its casting of first-rate singers who are not major opera stars but more like those you might have encountered at the premiere.
As is the custom in such locked-room whodunits, everyone is a suspect; but because they're members of the SS, Bernie faces more perils than Hercule Poirot might have encountered.
A full English breakfast, which you might have encountered during a sojourn at the Connaught or Savoy, consists of nine elements: eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, black or white pudding, toast, baked beans and potatoes.
