When we weren't being treated to images of spongy tissue or extreme close-ups of what everyone kept calling "erotic movies", it was contributors talking about how they weren't quite as erect as they, or their wife, would have liked.
Arguably, 9-11 did bring this country to its knees and some might say it's never quite stood erect again.
Pastor Butler quite properly erects the twin defenses of both free speech and religion contained within the First Amendment".
The oldest of the five records the death of Peter Annal, my three times great-grandfather, and, despite its age and exposure to the elements, the inscription is still quite legible: "Erected by Peter Annal in loving memory of his wife Ann Cromarty who died 15 Feb 1865 aged 53 years Also the above Peter Annal who died 8 Jan 1891 aged 92 years".
That's why sons – and mothers – often feel they need to erect quite strong boundaries when the sons get older, to prevent the relationship becoming incestuous.
Do we want to read about erections that don't quite...erect, or else erect so quickly that they make a mess over everything?
In fact, as historians note, the name "Merrymount" can also refer to a Latin phrase meaning "erect phallus"—quite a coincidence, given the men erected an 80-foot pole in the center of town.
They built a private elevator to whisk patrons up to the private boxes, and even erected a quite respectable press set-up.
The next barbed wire fence, not quite a wall, was erected by Greece in 2012 in an effort to seal its land border with Turkey.
The ears are pointed, erect, and often quite large in desert species.
