And so there was: even in a land so sodden it couldn't absorb another drop of rain, in a country so stuffed full of its own self-important history and so obsessively busy with its own business, there turned out to be plenty of room for snow.
Doing that sort of stuff for its own sake means you're just being self-indulgent or trying to show off.
Teresa said "that getting all of the kids to stuff was a sport of its own".
Kevin Mambo pointed out Fela's anti-establishment message has a new relevance today, "The stuff is now getting a life of its own and it's been introduced to a lot of people who knew nothing about any of this music when it happened, but it's all so relevant.
For the time being, we need to move out this dogma of designing new stuff for its own sake.
Just as it adjusts to opiate use and you need more and more opiates, it adjusts to the lack of opiates by making more of its own good stuff.
All this stuff is presented in a room of its own, the walls hung with grimly optimistic amateur felt and appliqué religious banners.
By now, the film had already taken on a life of its own and rejected stuff that didn't suit it.
SCIRI's opponents fear this is just a pretext for stuffing the security forces with members of its own militia, the Badr brigade.
In one especially visceral murder scene the camera pans across chunks of wet flesh and a blood-encrusted drill, before coming to rest on a naked corpse with a tape recording of its own torture stuffed between the dead man's lips.
