(A typical exchange at a table ends with the unchallenged assertion that "Scottsdale has bugs that you could put leashes on").
Other countries, including the US, fare even worse – and the league table ends with Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, all of whom have no women representatives.
Potato salad – which had bite and a substance while cooling on your kitchen table – ends up looking like it's taken a beating in a cement mixer and is now designed only for those without recourse to teeth.
Obviously at some point the 900-lb gorillas have to get together and talk turkey, but often when they do, whatever gets left off the table ends up neglected for a long time.
A perfect pie on the dinner table ends a meal on a cheery note and sends us off into the night with not just the satisfaction of endurance, but with joy.
But after dinner, when the dishes started being whisked quickly from the table -- along with the wine glasses and candelabras -- and men with power tools started unbolting the metal trim from the skate-ramp table ends, it became immediately clear something else was about to take center stage.
