Mother immediately returned with a little saucer of hot sweet tea and within moments the little fellow was as good as new.
He spooned a morsel of paste or greenish jam about as large as a thumb from a crystal vase, and placed it next to the silver spoon on each saucer.
My personal view is that it has been the tiniest bit overrated, and I am a little bemused at some of the saucer-eyed critical responses, but there are some tremendous performances and it is terrifically watchable.
With Tame Impala and AC/DC, Australia has a lock on the top of the bill on Friday night, but Parker's saucer-eyed fellow-travelers couldn't be more different from the Young brothers' down-and-dirty mob – though Parker says onstage how much he's looking forward to seeing them: "I've waited my whole life".
Apple is busy building a flying saucer in Cupertino, a precision-engineered doughnut designed by Norman Foster that is being constructed with the same level of accuracy as one of its products – and is already $2bn over its $3bn budget as a result.
It is hoped that the new line will increase trade between the fertile north and the richer south, and help unite the nation A crumbling reminder of communismBuzludzha was once the futuristic, flying-saucer-shaped headquarters of the Communist Party in Bulgaria.
In 1989 a giant flying saucer stalled in the sky over Johannesburg and has been hanging there ever since; its occupants, a motley herd of bandy-legged crustaceans, have been crammed into one of the townships once reserved for blacks.
"A bath-shaped or saucer-shaped recovery, where the upturn is gradual, still seems most likely, although the bath does seem to have deep corrugations," said Martin Sorrell, WPP's chief, and traditionally one of the more cautious voices in the industry.After more than two years of gloom, advertisers are cautiously perking up again.
Indeed, British Rail took out a patent on a flying saucer.
THE Senate, so George Washington is reputed to have told Thomas Jefferson, is a saucer into which legislation is poured to cool it down.
Like other recent attempts at urban shock-therapy, this daintily named, yet bluntly modernist, revival of Alexandria's famed ancient library sets out to provoke controversy.Detractors say the building, scheduled to open later this year, looks like a flying saucer crashed on the shores of Africa.
