In Gin Lane, 1751, an image of almost vertiginous power set against the backdrop of the slums of St Giles, the stupefied woman lolls on the steps down from a veritable stage, dropping her baby over the abyss between payers and audience.
It also sells Buckfast by the glass, making it a veritable place to drop by on any late night meander through the city.
That would be the latest shoe to drop in a veritable downpour of footwear ever since the memorabilia-and-tattoos scandal broke in December.
The company has of course been subject to plenty of fraud in the past, but the latest swindles suggest its increasingly spectacular wealth has made it all the more inviting as a target if only because the losses represent a drop in a veritable ocean of unreal corporate profit.
The twist here is Ronnie, a veritable catalog of dysfunction whose drop-dead drunk of a mother (Celia Weston) describes him as having been a special-needs child.
So good that if they relax and go with the flow, they'll produce a flow of their own, anywhere from a few drops to a veritable waterfall of clear fluid (not pee).
Tell-All is written in what the publishers call a "veritable Tourette's Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping".
Even with the lavish blood bath that slathers this movie red and pops those tops, these are joyous times for Bella (Kristen Stewart), who has risen revived, restyled and stone-cold dead after dropping a new addition to the Cullen family, those veritable vegan vampires who snack on woodland creatures instead of humans.
France Telecom also dropped on profit-taking after announcing healthy profits for 2007 with a veritable bonanza in emerging markets.
One has to applaud the entrepreneurship of co-founder and owner Guy Laliberté, who took the company from street performers to veritable rock stars, making it almost impossible for most circuses to survive unless they dropped "circus" for "cirque"; I am less sanguine about Soleil's efforts to monopolize the word.
