Reuven Rivlin, the speaker of Israel's Parliament, said: "The pope spoke like a historian, as somebody observing from the sidelines, about things that shouldn't happen.
The majority of exorcists were reluctant to have somebody observe their work, which is presumably because they thought I was going to take the piss, or write some kind of damning exposé, decrying their services as the work of conmen exploiting religious mythology.
Indeed, it was hard to blame the prison officer who observed that he thought it was the Minister for Defence paying an informal visit to Mountjoy Prison yesterday because, of course, we all know the Minister for Defence is wont to use helicopters, as somebody observed already, as other Ministers are wont to use State cars.
"His dilemma is - how do you become somebody who observes nature when you're as famous as he is?
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: Too bad we can't get together more often..
"Cars are coming!" "They're all Volkswagens," somebody else observed.
The whole campaign had a modernist "This is Not a Pipe" absurdity to it, and I'm sorry to see him collapse, though I did see a nice tweet from somebody who observed that the only thing Herman Cain knows about foreign affairs is that he denies having had any.
"Eating solicits a response a lot more often than if I'm standing around waiting for somebody," she observed.
"That's right," NPR observes, "Somebody called the cops on Jesus".
Since the initial observations on macaque mirror neurons - cells that fire while the monkey performs goal-directed actions and also while the animal observes somebody else's actions [1] - it has been speculated that these cells may have played a role in the evolution of language [2] [4].
