"My zippers bust, my buckles break I'm too much man for you to take The pavement cracks when I fall down I've got more chins than Chinatown….
Charities on Foot The health charities that make more modest requests take to the pavement to raise money.
Susie Lau, a k a Susie Bubble of the fashion blog Style Bubble, took to the pavement in San Francisco for the Nike Women's Marathon on Saturday in the name of the battle against breast cancer.
For every stride a runner takes, pounding the pavement, it is the poor old knees soaking up the impact, destroying that cartilage, bit by bit, until he or she is a dead cert for arthritis.
Thousands of flowers take up the pavement outside self-service shops in the city of Cayenne in French Guiana in the weeks leading to All Saints' Day, but they are all fake.
Even then, at 54, Emile got off the pavement, took the subway to Queens, his head battered as if a piñata, bleeding; ribs, jaw and spleen broken.
But some primal response was triggered by the invasion, and he took to the pavements with his camera, making 5,000 images in the first week.
Anywhere else in the world this cardboard city would raise eyebrows, but not in Hong Kong.For a few weeks, small fortune has favoured the weekend influx of such house maids who take up the pavements, overpasses and public squares of Central on a typical Hong Kong Sunday.
But before a Zamboni can take the ice, it hits the pavement on Colorado Avenue.
Activists have complained that, since the publicity about cyclist deaths back in November police officers engaged in the Met's "Operation Safeway" have been pouncing on errant cyclists who choose to take the safer route on the pavement this corner, serving them up with fixed penalty notices.
