Jokes aside, part of the point still sticks.
"When I was growing up in the 70s, we were at the point still where Scottishness was an embarrassment.
More to the point still, more Tunisians are voting with their feet, that is, trying to emigrate.
Obviously we never did put the money away; I think I spent most of it on beer and curries, but the point still stands.
Hunts Point remains one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, and the businesses near the Point still have a ramshackle, haphazard look.
If these things had truly been lost to New York, we would never have got Seinfeld, but the point still stands.
Expect Labour over the next two and half years to hammer home the point still further, using every opportunity available to crystallise in people's minds an association between the words 'incompetent' and 'Government'.
The point, still, is to help "the banking institution sell services, by virtue of attracting customers and other users and initiating a dialogue," the inventors wrote in their patent application.
The chalk may have been rubbed away but the point still stands that Scouting For Girls somehow occupy a realm of musical badness that even the Darkness' Justin Hawkins at his most creatively distraught may still find difficult to comprehend.
Of course, the thing about media commentators saying that Boris won't even clean up the mess he's made is that most of us have cleaners, but I think the point still stands.
Some of us might struggle to imagine the Iron Lady perched on a grate with her white dress suggestively billowing around her, a la Marilyn, but the point still stands that women are expected to be just a little bit nicer than their male counterparts.
