Are you kidding? And deprive all those tourists of photo ops with animals? Believe me, you see a crowd of people with cameras in the middle of Central Park aimed at the ground, you can expect to hear Europeans discussing ratons laveurs, Waschbaren, etc.
Manure in ancient Greek epic: In the Odyssey, book 20, Odysseus returns home disguised as a beggar after being away for 20 years. He arrives at his palace/homestead and the only living being that recognizes him is his old dog Argos, who is lying outside on a pile of manure next to the door. Not only does this show that no one cares about the poor faithful aged dog, but no one is supervising farmwork. Ordinarily the manure would not be lying there in a pile; it would be spread on the fields as fertilizer. In fact, archaeologists in Greece have found small battered pieces of pottery strewn what were open areas around farmsteads: people threw broken pots on the manure pile/trash pile and then spread the pieces across a field where they broke further.
Hard cider has been around forever in the US. Supposedly the reason the legendary Johnny Appleseed caused so many apple trees to be grown across the US is so that people could make hard cider (which was easier to make than whiskey). On a personal note, my boyfriend in high school purchased a gallon jug of cider when he went off to college at the University of Maine, intending it to ferment and become (illegal) alcohol in his dorm. The jug exploded in his clothes closet.
Also, in the US as I hear the tern, ‘soft drink’ is not the overall word for a nonalcoholic drink: it generally refers to soda or pop: something carbonated and nonalcoholic like Pepsi or Coke. Nonalcoholic beer is not a soft drink.
Omigod I remember in 4th grade when I used Euler’s more famous third law of heterodox inequality instead of his logopädische praxis inequality and Mrs. Whittaker made me stand in the front of the room wearing the hat that said DUNCE on it. You have no idea how much I’ve shelled out for therapy in the decades that followed.
Enjoy the napping — now’s your chance to be a cat and snooze 22 hours a day! And get well soon!