The ducks have laid a trail of cuneiform footprints back to the duck pen through the snow.
French voters frightened themselves in 2002, when their first-round protest vote let Jean-Marie Le Pen through to the run-off.
Reflecting on the ways things have changed, he rhymes, "No weed cyaan smuggle again, through the bombing/Cyaan pass customs with a pen, through the bombing".
Only an inspirational episode of Dr. Phil can make you feel like putting a ballpoint pen through your eyeball right in the middle of the barber shop.
"I got burned once before, in 2002, when the leftwing vote splintered half a dozen ways and let Jean-Marie Le Pen through.
GR Robbie Earnshaw scribbled his pen through soccer's unwritten "muted celebration" rule, celebrating his goal against former club Toronto FC by literally going head over heels.
The forecasts for Q4 growth in the US – always looking a might too punchy in my view – will have a big fat red pen through them.
Mr. Dogaru, dressed in a sports sweater emblazoned on the back with the brand name BOSS, his mother, Mr. Darie and a fourth defendant, Mihai Alexandru Bitu, sat mutely in a wooden pen through most of the session, watched over by a masked armed guard.
At times it feels as if he too is trying to write like a novelist: "So the years dissolve and there she stands …" "The old man in Rye drew his pen through a line…" This is indulgent, as are the many places where he takes us by the elbow – "Let me place him the Garden Room".
Mr Chirac, endorsed by every mainstream French political party from the Communists to the free-market Liberal Democrats after last month's shock first-round vote sent him and Mr Le Pen through to the second round, hailed his win as "a victory for democracy" within minutes.
You learn how Hogancamp makes his flesh wounds – "by heating the figure with a lighter and pressing a pen through the skin, mimicking a bullet's trajectory … The blood is either red-coloured sugar water or nail polish, which looks wet and fresh for months, giving Mark more time to shoot".
