Can they render complex ideas, such as a person who wears gloves to throw snowballs (Handschuhschneeballwerfer) or a man who pees sitting down (Sitzpinkler) in one deliciously singular word?
In 1965 Mr Paisley infamously pelted Sean Lamass, one of Mr Ahern's predecessors as taoiseach, with snowballs when he visited Stormont in an attempt to improve relations between the republic and Northern Ireland.
And at the bottom, the same smiling athlete, is relaxed and totally cool.If this isn't a re-incarnation of the true Olympic spirit and the "joy of effort", then pelt me with snowballs.
So, if comets have landed there (and, given the craters' ages, the odds are that several will have), some of the ice carried by such dirty celestial snowballs might be preserved in the permanent shadow cast by the craters' walls.Two past investigations have given comfort to the optimists.
He says that plasmas (charged particles) high above the earth break up the snowballs before they reach either the low orbits of most satellites, or the atmosphere (hence they do not burn up visibly).
There are new claims that the sky ought to be ablaze with meteor-like displays; and that even delicate snowballs, when hitting the moon at several miles a second, should stamp visible dents on to its surface.Such debates, which depend on what Dr Frank's mini-comets would be like if they existed, can go on forever or rather, until there is more evidence on whether they exist at all.
It is easy to see how the problem snowballs.
The same owlish horn-rimmed glasses; the same liking for blazers and bow ties; and that same quizzical, half-laughing, wide-eyed look, as if another quip was coming.He was a prankster as a boy, letting off stink bombs in cinemas and putting snowballs in hats.
Mr Partnoy thinks they are already predisposed to trade too much: "Making $10m profit here and there irresistibly snowballs into a bigger trading operation".
HUNDREDS of angry protesters chanting "mafia" and "resignation" threw snowballs at Delyan Dobrev, Bulgaria's economy and energy minister, a few days ago when he went out of the ministry's building in Sofia to talk to about 500 people rallying against skyrocketing electricity and heating bills.
Demonstrators reacted with throwing snowballs at the minister and burning their bills in public.
