’ * * * It hadn’t even occurred to me that I hadn’t swim trunks on until Carrie sat down on the grass and started shimmying out of her shorts. ...ven as I felt the blood warming in my veins I found it impossible to look away from her long bare legs as she walked straight into the creek, shirt and all, while I stood on the bank like a fool, staring. When I noticed that she was staring back at me expectantly I started fumbling with my shirt. ‘I, uh, forgot that I wasn’t wearing trunks today. The headline read: "State Senator will not run for national office"."State Senator Lana Rogers, who rose to national prominence for her outspoken and sometimes controversial positions regarding what she described as 'traditional Christian family values', along with her calls for the teaching of abstinence only sexual education in public schools, announced late yesterday that she would not be seeking the Republican nomination for the open Senate seat of retiring senator Andrew Fullard as had. "And how do you know that you're mad?" To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so," said Alice."Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore, I'm mad."Excerpt from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll © 1865, Macmillan & Company, Publisher"Please, Monsieur. You must stay. After all, you and I, ' ... we're partly. 5 inches.That’s an exceedingly odd number.Why was that gauge used?Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the U.S. Railroads.Why did the English build them like that?Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that’s the gauge they used.Why did ‘they’ use that gauge then?Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that.