Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland Part 8

54 Double down-term used in the game blackjack, where the wager is increased to a maximum of double the original bet and the player increasing the wager takes just one more card. Fifth Street-the final single community card played in Texas hold 'em poker games, also called the 'river'. Split aces-in blackjack a player may split their hand if they have been dealt two cards of the same value, giving the opportunity to play two hands. Experts usually recommend splitting aces and eights. Quads-four cards of the same value (in poker). Steal the brag-call someone's bluff. Napoleon-Napoleon Bonaparte (17691821), French military and political leader. Freeze out-a game where players start with specific amounts of chips and can buy no more. Fourth-Fourth Street, first board card after the flop in hold 'em, also known as the 'turn'. Connect Four-two-player game in which the players take turns in dropping alternating coloured discs (commonly red and yellow) into a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid. The object of the game is to be the first player to connect four singly-coloured discs in a row. The game was published under the Connect Four trademark by Milton Bradley in 1974; the original version is known as 'The Captain's Mistress'.

55 A Flock of Seagulls-1980s New Wave band from Liverpool.

56 Ray Romano (b. 1957)-American actor and stand-up comedian best known for his role as the lead character in the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. QVC-home-shopping channel founded by Joseph Segel in 1986 and broadcast in the US, the UK, Germany and j.a.pan to a combined audience of 141 million. QVC is an acronym for 'Quality, Value, Choice'.

57 Council Tax-system of local taxation used in England, Scotland and Wales. It came into effect in 1992, replacing the Community Charge (see p. 33, n. 25). The advertiser is quoting from a Council Tax late payment notice.

58 'Come Fly with Me'-composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Performed by Frank Sinatra on his alb.u.m Come Fly with Me (1958, Capitol).

59 Giro day-in the UK, recipients of unemployment benefit (Jobseeker's Allowance, colloquially known as 'dole') were paid their fortnightly benefit by giro cheque. Thus the day when a claimant's state benefit is received is sometimes known as 'giro day'. This is still often the case even though electronic transfers have, by and large, replaced much of the giro payment system to benefit claimants.

60 Written over a period of 30 to 50 years during the Warring States Period (ca. 479 BC to ca. 221 bc), the a.n.a.lects is the representative work of Confucianism. The Chinese t.i.tle literally means 'discussion over Confucius' words'.

61 Market Rasen is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the River Rase 13.8 miles (22 km) northeast of Lincoln, 18 miles (29 km) east of Gainsborough and 16.3 miles (26 km) southwest of Grimsby. Its population is 3,200.

62 Possibly a reference to one of the world's largest talent and literary agencies, International Creative Management. ICM is sometimes referred to by its clients as 'I'll Call Monday'.

63 Sc.r.a.pie-a fatal, degenerative disease that affects the nervous systems of sheep and goats. Pinkeye-a highly contagious infection of sheep and goats and humans that affects the eye and surrounding structures. Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA)-a disease caused by the bacteria Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. It commonly leads to the formation of abscesses within the lymph nodes and lungs and sometimes other organs of sheep and goats.

64 Reference to the 1997 horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (dir. Jim Gillespie).

65 The muscles of the pelvic floor, sometimes known as 'Kegel muscles' after Dr. Arnold Kegel, who devised a system of exercises to strengthen weakened pubococcygeus muscles of the pelvic floor.

66 'I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)'-jazz standard by Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster. Written for Herb Jeffries's Jump for Joy revue, which opened on July 10, 1941. The song was originally sung by Ivie Anderson but many notable versions have been recorded since, including that of Nina Simone, which was included on the soundtrack to the Coen brothers' film The Big Lebowski (1998).

67 Estraderm-oestradiol-based s.e.x-hormone medication used as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in menopausal women. Truprint-mail order and online photograph processing service in the UK.

68 In the UK the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) recommends no more than 4 grams of salt per day (1.6 grams sodium). The Food Safety Authority of Ireland endorses the UK recommendations. Australia defines a recommended dietary intake (RDI) of 0.922.3 grams sodium per day (between 2.3 and 5.8 grams salt). In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration does not make a recommendation but refers readers to Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005. These suggest that US citizens should consume less than 2.3 grams of sodium (or 5.8 grams salt) per day.

69 'What do you get when you fall in love?'-a line taken from the song 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again', written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the musical Promises, Promises (1968), based on the Billy Wilder film The Apartment. It has been covered by many notable artists, including Bobbie Gentry, who recorded it for her alb.u.m Touch 'Em with Love (1969, EMI). It reached number one in the UK charts. Trench foot-also known as immersion foot. Caused by prolonged exposure of the feet to damp, unsanitary and cold conditions above freezing point. If left untreated trench foot usually results in gangrene, which can require amputation. It was a particular problem for soldiers in trench warfare during the winters of World Wars I and II and in the Vietnam War.

70 'Girlfriend in a Coma'-written by Johnny Marr and Morrissey. Performed by The Smiths and taken from their alb.u.m Strangeways, Here We Come (1987, Rough Trade Records). It reached number thirteen in the UK singles chart and became the inspiration for the Douglas Coupland novel of the same name (1998, HarperCollins Canada).

71 In Genet's novel, Querelle is a thief, a prost.i.tute, an opium smuggler and a serial killer. Ostensibly he kills for money, but his real motive for murder is pleasure. Peristerophobia-a fear of pigeons. Lochinver (or Loch an Inbhir in Gaelic) is a village on the coast of Sutherland, Scotland. Green M&M candies have often been attributed with aphrodisiac qualities. Rumours of an aphrodisiac a.s.sociation with the green candies began in the 1970s when students reportedly collected them from packets to feed to their loved ones during s.e.x. Mars eventually exploited the myth from 1997, when it first introduced the green character candy into advertising campaigns. By 2001, the campaigns were much more suggestive. The green M&M character became a clearly s.e.xualised version of the other characters, with fuller lips, heavy-lidded eyes and long eyelashes. The campaign carried the tag-line 'Is it true what they say about the green ones?'

72 Waitrose-chain supermarket. The Caversham branch is located at 51 Church Street.

73 'Don't Look Back in Anger'-written by Noel Gallagher and performed by British band Oasis. The song appeared on their second alb.u.m, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995, Creation/Big Brother). It reached number one in the UK singles chart.

74 Teen drama that originally aired on the Fox network in the US for four seasons between 2003 and 2007.

75 A for Andromeda (1961)-BBC TV science fiction drama written by cosmologist Fred Hoyle. It provided Julie Christie with her first major role. She was replaced by Susan Hampshire in the follow-up series, The Andromeda Breakthrough. s.p.a.ce: 1999 (197577), UK science fiction series produced by Jerry and Sylvia Anderson, starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. I Will Go Slightly Out Of My Way To Step On That Crunchy Looking Leaf-member group on the social networking website Facebook.

76 No Frills-cheap, generic own-brand goods sold by the now defunct Kwik Save chain of supermarkets in the UK. The supermarket went into administration in 2007.

77 Univocalic-consisting of only one vowel.

78 (See p. 55, n. 47.)

79 Theory proposed by Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski in a paper published in 1924 that a ball can be decomposed into a finite number of point sets and rea.s.sembled into two b.a.l.l.s identical to the original. Thus, the theory suggests that the points inside a pea can be sorted into pieces, and these pieces can then be rotated and rea.s.sembled to cover all the points of the sun.

80 Richard de Fournival or Richart de Fornival (circa 120160) was a medieval philosopher and trouvere perhaps best known for the Bestiaire d'Amour (Bestiary of Love). De vetula is de Fournival's Latin poem, offering a systematic study of the number of ways you can obtain any given total from a throw of three dice.

81 Edith Wharton (18621937)-American novelist, short story writer and essayist on architectural design. Frogger and Donkey Kong-arcade games that both made their debuts in 1981. Antonin Artaud (18961948)-French playwright, poet, actor and director.

82 Taken from the song 'My Humps', written by will.i.am and D. Payton. Performed by Black Eyed Peas and taken from their alb.u.m Monkey Business (2005, A&M/Interscope). The song reached number three in both US and UK charts. It was the subject of intense music press criticism upon its release. John Bush, writing in All Music Guide, described it as 'one of the most embarra.s.sing rap performances of the new millennium', and Bill Lamb, writing for About.com, called it 'the musical equivalent of a bad Farrelly Brothers movie'. Hua Hsu of Slate.com said, 'It's not Awesomely Bad; it's Horrifically Bad.... There are bad songs that offend our sensibilities but can still be enjoyed, and then there are the songs that are just really bad-transcendentally bad, objectively bad.' A poll conducted by Rolling Stone ranked the song first in the list of 20 most annoying songs.

83 Family Fortunes-UK television game show based on the US show Family Feud. The show ran in the UK from 1979 to 2002, revived again in 2006. Les Dennis (b. 1954) was the show's host in the UK between 1987 and 2002.

84 Symmedian-one of three geometrical lines intersecting in a single point (the symmedian) on a triangle.

85 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (16461716)-German polymath and the discoverer of the binary numeral system in which numeric values are represented by two digits (commonly 0 and 1).

86 Necker cube-an optical illusion first published in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. A wire-frame drawing of a cube in isometric perspective, the Necker cube can be interpreted in two different (although both seemingly correct) ways, alternating which side can be interpreted as the front/reverse of the cube. The illusion helps form an understanding of the human visual system and of the human brain being a neural network with two distinct and interchangeable stable states.