Our professor -- whether he awards the paper an A-plus or a B-minus (pretty much the full spectrum in today's grade-inflationary economy) -- is a chump wasting his time evaluating the wrong person's ideas and crediting a thief.
And, since we know its pluses and minuses pretty well, it may be wise to stick to it where possible.
But that idea too – recasting C4 as if it were a mini BBC – pretty much failed to fire.
Then again, the iPad mini seemed pretty unlikely for a long time, too.
On eBay, another big seller of Trudeau cutouts, you can get a life-size or mini cutout pretty easily.
The man who finally wins her hand, a California businessman named Fisker, does so by pitching marriage as a straightforward deal, minus the pretty words: "Let us go in for life together.
It's a similar experience, minus the pretty views, at Chateau Lynch-Bages in Bordeaux.
There were some pretty mini bubble dresses, but all in all this was a heavy, over-embellished collection.
On social media, she offers a stark summary of the situation: "They fail him, send him miles away, drug him, send him back damaged after eight months, to a mini-institution with pretty curtains".
In its crude form, plus-minus is hardly perfect: a player who finds himself on the same team with the world's four best basketball players, and who plays only when they do, will have a plus-minus that looks pretty good, even if it says little about his play.
Cropped woollen trousers, a concept that would make most women shudder, were flattering thanks to a looser cut at the bottom of the leg and straight at the top and the mini capes were pretty, not fussy, with their heavy wool fabrics and dark colours.
