Acheiropoietes
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You know that phrase “Last one in is a rotten egg”. You don’t know it? Well then you will have to trust me, it is a phrase, maybe it is just in American English, or perhaps just Californian. Anyhow I can remember my buddy Ralph yelling it, “Last one in is a rotten egg” and dashing into the surf, and then dashing straight back out because the Alaska Current hits the Bay Area, and the Alaska current is as cold as you would expect with a name like that, and that’s why there’s always so much fog in the Bay Area you see. Well here is the thing about that saying; if you want to check to see if an egg is fresh you put it in cold water and it will sink, while the air pocket inside the stinky old rotten egg has grown larger over time, and so the rotten egg will float. Which if you think about it means that the one time it might be good to be a rotten egg is when you are about to plunge into water. In case you hadn’t guessed I was always the last one in.
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