A few thousand fans were gathered around to watch him sink a two-foot putt for a final par.
And then there were the prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates: Sens. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Ryan all voted No – a thousand times no.
Yet nearly all advertising for sanitary products encourages us to hide this chunk of our lives – three thousand days for most women – by preventing leaks that might embarrass us and everyone else; by ensuring we don't, God forbid, smell of menstrual blood; by putting menstruation behind locked doors and safely enclosed in euphemism.
"As a thousand-year-old European nation we have one demand.
If Melwyn Lucas of the hardline Traditional Unionist Voice takes several thousand votes in South Antrim (from ultra-loyalist disgruntled ex-DUP voters) then McCrea may lose the seat to Empey.
That has implications enough for the church in the inner city, but what are the ramifications in the countryside where, for a thousand years, the Church of England has often been the institution that holds rural communities together?
But those few extra thousand votes could keep the Greens ahead of the BNP – and that is the scenario with the best chance of keeping Griffin out.
Fine for the odd visit, but an experience you can get at out-of-town "shopping centre" festivals such as Reading or Leeds without having to lug all your stuff three thousand miles from the car.
Rights groups say the government that replaced him has been anything but democratic – with more than a thousand dissidents killed, thousands more arrested, and the right to free assembly and free speech severely curbed.
Seventy thousand devotees go crazy, and shower him with the kind of ear-splitting applause that is usually reserved for film stars, rock stars and royalty.
His report is now at least five years later than anyone imagined possible and as he meandered on – "It's been very difficult" – it gradually dawned on the committee that part of the delay was down to Chilcot's inability to use one word when several thousand would do.
