They way I see it, anyone visiting this little-known (in this country at least) corner of the world for the first time will be struck by its sheer - well - oddness.
To get across this kind of sheer terror, well, you have to see the film 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days.
These are often hilarious - but only in the aftermath of sheer panic!" "Well - one time, while waltzing an important journalist through the set of a major television production, I spotted our seriously agitated lead actor smash his fist into a wall with such power that he actually broke his hand!
What can seem daunting about sheer is that, well, it's sheer.
The same is true of India, China, and later Japan; for sheer bulk, as well as for subtlety and insight, Oriental scholarship has never been surpassed.
Remembering his dad's meanness with money, he was hilariously unaware of his own horror at the sheer expense of, well, almost anything.
Ryan Jordan of Bozeman, Mont., the editor of Backpackinglight.com, wrote this of an ultralight backpacking trip through the Beartooth Mountains in Montana: "Late afternoon brought a waning sun, high winds, and impending thunderstorms, quickly making us realize that we were walking astride a very fine line between sheer stupidity and well, sheer stupidity".
For sheer longevity, as well as for their love of celebrity guests, film and music pastiches, and riffs on their own friendship, there's no comedy partnership to compare, male or female, apart from Morecambe and Wise.
Much of "Split Sides" is about maintaining equilibrium while the body is tilting one way or another: this solo takes that challenge to new virtuoso extremes, phenomenal in terms of sheer gymnastics as well as rhythm, shape and linear complexity.
While the Heidsieck was on the robust side of the blanc de blancs spectrum, our No. 2 wine, the 2002 Vieilles Vignes from José Dhondt, was notable for its sheer delicacy as well as for its succulent freshness.
