An answer to that required a very special journey on a very caloric night, during which a friend and I willingly (and, truth be told, gleefully) sacrificed our cardiovascular futures on the altar of Thorough and Accurate Scientific Research.
Despite being an obviously frivolous proposal with no chance of being implemented, we are being told (gleefully in internet troll-holes like breitbart.com) that it's hard, if not impossible to stop the advancement of the measure to the signature phase.
"I'm sure that we ruined somebody's Thanksgiving that year," Egner told me gleefully.
"This guy is my next target," he told me gleefully one day, hanging up after talking to a high-ranking official involved in a continuing scam.
The Karibu Hotel consisted of huts scattered along the shore of Lake Kivu, which, Carlier told us gleefully, contained no life: the last time Nyiragongo had erupted, the volcanic gases had killed every living creature in it.
She told me gleefully that she had just been to the dentist for the first time since she was 12 and been told that she still has some of her baby teeth - proof of her inner child!
Three enough?" In one case, he told me gleefully, I was going so fast as to disqualify me from the speeding retraining course, which can get you off a ticket.
He "adored" Mrs. Thatcher, shrank from the idea of "abroad," and told me gleefully that he sometimes ended his letters to Amis not with "Love" or some such endearment, but with "Fuck off, Oxfam".
"In many cities, a Concorde landing at the airport is a guaranteed spot on the six o'clock news," a British Airways executive told me gleefully in London a few months ago.
He darns his socks while watching Newsnight and saves the pips from every apple he eats (each pip, he tells me gleefully, is a possible tree).
Personally, I don't take holidays in the UK - the rip-off factor, the constant feeling of being spied on by millions of cameras, the badly-behaved chavs, the jobsworths everywhere telling you gleefully what you aren't allowed to do in their opinions, it's just not worth it.
