You know, the funny thing is that I was just commenting the other day about how familiar Sir Isaac Newton would be with a lot of the contents of my house. Yes, the plastic and various other technological advances would throw him, but I do still have that fireplace, and while my windows are beyond anything he could have had, they're still windows. My books are brighter and more varied, but they're still books. He wouldn't be able to work out my oven without help, I suspect, and my refrigerator would completely floor him, but aside from our dependence on electricity, not as much has changed as we may imagine. (And emptying my bag would produce no electronics whatsoever, and only my collection of credit cards/store discount cards/library cards would produce any suprises.) The basics don't really change.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"