"Symbols are just symbols; the thing's the thing."

--Howard Ogden

Ordinary things are often taken for granted. Governments do not commission studies about them, museums are not erected in their honor and people rarely put up a fight when an ordinary thing is in danger of being lost.

This is the vexation and the virtue of the ordinary thing -- which is all the more reason to save them in the next millennium.

Bicycles

Candles

Canoes

Cats

Chocolate

Family Meals

Fly Fishing

Jokes

Pigeons

Pubs and Bars

Small Towns

Soccer

Surfing

Tea

Tobacco

Trains

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