A process of de-Englishification begins; the Queens head comes off the postage stamps, the pillar boxes and phone boxes start to be painted blue; all official road and other signage are made bilingual with Gaelic; English citizens are banned from owning second homes in Scotland.
He said his plan all along had been to clean off the stamps after the holiday.
The dog had been walked, the dry cleaning dropped off, the stamps purchased.
If the paper does not come off, let the stamp soak longer.
Without even mentioning his heavily publicized gig teaching at the French Culinary Institute in SoHo, Mr. Soltner rattled off a few of the stamps on his passport: Greece, Mexico, Singapore, Sydney, Bali, Uruguay, South Africa, Senegal, Las Vegas.
We all know you can't shake off the quota stamp whenever you get a job under a quota system.
For instance, many of those knocked off the food stamp rolls qualify only through an obscure rule called "categorical eligibility," which automatically provides access if a family qualifies for any other federal assistance.
