Suddenly I was transported back to when I might have entertained oh-so similar a score of youths, on that very patch of hillside… when the great-gre...t-grandfathers of the trees surrounding might yet have been seedlings. Bronze spears and shields laid aside glinting as linen tunics were likewise discarded. Battles yet to be fought and won in honour of their fathers on every tongue, as I took current test of their strength and stamina. Perhaps it was simpler, back then… A woman following in the. “Correct” I said. “Kim, I know you are thirty four, I believe you are younger than Kelly so you should roll the dice next.”“She is; do I have to tell you how old I am?” Kelly said with a wicked grin.“NO” I said back. Kim rolled a two. “Your category is entertainment, what were the rival gangs in West Side Story?”“The Bloods and the Crips” Kim answered.“No, the Sharks and the Jets. Draw a chip from the bag.” Kim drew a four from the bag, went to the Sybian with the double finger attachment, and. Instead of merely dancing, each one whipped the one in front, and they went round and round the night-club, in and out of the doors, and up and down the stairs, each whipping and being whipped and all having a great time and getting more and more exhilarated. Jacqui was just behind Karl and delighted in giving him a thrashing.Karl had managed to get behind Martha and was laying on the whip with a will, drawing blood, when it all suddenly stopped as Martha let out a great scream of pain and fell. The reason for the duration of the pain is that the body's defense mechanisms fail spectacularly at trying to wash away a lipophilic molecule by thorough rinsing with biology's preferred solvent: water.A large group of humans have, however, against all rationality, acquired the taste of food that sets the oral cavity ablaze. Rare are those, on the other hand, that find even fulfillment of desires other than purely nutritional from chili peppers.I am humming a merry tune as I pick the last few.