Ok, Ok, how's this?

What if you were driving down the road, and lost control of your car, and plowed into an onion patch?

How may onions have to be run over for the field to considered compromised?

Sounds like me and my siblings, if there were more than two of us in a room at a time.

Swing it by the tail. That produces more sharp pointy ends to make contact with your child's head.

I was doing fine until I hit 40. Then my perfect vision went to crap, and I have to wear glasses to read anything.

But that doesn't mean tverbeek originally read Shakespeare in English. Mr. T. Verbeek could have read Shakespeare in a Dutch translation, and is translating it back to English from memory.

Not saying that is what happened, but it is a possibility.

Translation issue, maybe?

Well, "the Inca's" don't exist anymore. They were a group that ruled the area in the past.

As to why Peru hasn't "totally blocked off the area", it would take thousands of troops to surround the area, just to prevent the one group of morons in several decades who thought trampling world historic sites for political messages sounded like a good idea.

No, I heard they spray painted that on the pyramid at Giza.

I'd say it is more like pissing on the Kaaba Stone in Mecca. It is something that defines a group of people, part of their heritage. Not simply some picture that one guy painted.

I'm not the AC you are responding to, but sometimes I'm not on my own computer, and just don't feel like logging in to make a comment. Or maybe the person is just a lurker, and never made an account.

And what do timepieces have to do with it? ;^)

When I first saw the photo yesterday or day before, that's exactly what I thought it was. Because no one would be stupid enough to go trampling through that area and defiling one of the Nazca lines with some crude political message. Right?

Go to a sand trap in a golf course. Sprinkle a thin layer of black dust over the sand, but thick enough so that you cannot see the sand beneath. Walk through that area of black dust over whitish sand.

Now use a rake to remove the footprints.

Hawaii has that.

mauka - towards the mountain
makai - towards the sea

The mauka side of a house is whichever one faces the mountain. If you live on the north side of the island, mauka is southward, and on the south side mauka is northward.

Also, if you are in Honolulu, and you are heading "eva", you are going west. If you are somewhere west of the town of Eva Beach, you might use that phrase, but I'm not sure whether it would mean you are going west or east.

I still don't know why people wrap up douches.

I still mention the carnival ride to people: The riders have a 1 in 1,000 chance of dying. And I don't simply mean "statistically" or "potentially".