I’ll buy that for a dollar

Gluhweinsturzende Neubaten #xmasbands

- Are these the Nazis, Walter?
- No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.

The *only* down side to the smoking ban in restaurants is that nowadays movie directors couldn’t possibly make a scene like Colin Farrell’s brilliant confrontation with a fellow diner in In Bruges…

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When you indexers meet up, do you all sit in alphabetical order?

(sorry, I'll get my coat...)

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

Sure, but just as a definition can be a verb in the surface defining a noun, the cryptic grammar doesn't have to match the surface grammar. It only has to be sound internally - and I think it is in this case. YMMV