[quote=@Etcetera]
<Snipped quote by Tank O The Lake>

*A working age women sitting next to me in comfortable winter clothes opens her mouth to say something, but I lift a finger and she closes it*
Can you help but love them? They're an entertaining bunch.
[/quote]

*I lean in conspiratorially.*

"They are [i]invigorating[/i], in the most primal of ways.  I don't know what I'd do without them."