'When I was a boy," says Mark Gatiss, "I wanted to be a whiskery man in a white coat saying, 'Look, it's a pterodactyl!'" He elaborates, mentioning one of his film heroes, who died earlier this year: "I wanted to be Lionel Jeffries in an Edwardian-set family fantasy film".
Whiskery coders sit hunched on beanbags, tapping on Macbooks.
Mining has long gone; a vast slag heap, covered with whiskery grass, looms as a defiant historical reminder.
Labour strategists cannot for one moment think that whiskery newsreel footage of poll-tax rioters will deflect attention from more recent and infinitely more gruesome images from Iraq.
I was snorkelling in the Crystal River, minding my own business, when a colossal underwater slug-like creature swam up and pressed its whiskery face to mine.Why was I swimming with manatees?
WHEN elections loom, even whiskery political scandals can earn a new lease of life.
Mr Garton Ash's observations from his trip to Iran in 2005 seem a bit whiskery now.
AT THE recent Vancouver Writers Festival Joseph Boyden black jeans, T-shirt, whiskery soul patch could have been mistaken for an ageing rock star.
4. A month isn't enough … The world record for moustache length is held by Badamsinh Juwansinh Gurjar, a whiskery Indian whose pride and joy extends to a scarcely comprehensible 12ft 6in.
Those arcing, whiskery "ears" are more like a snail's horns or an insect's antenna.
An hour of blissful browsing later, I found the children had discovered the Ile Saint-Louis; I found them eating ice-cream with grenadine and watching a whiskery old trouper playing the theme from Amélie on a battered accordion.
