More Lost Lines from the Seamonkey Chronicle: "by the time..."

"By the time I got back from the store almost the whole prefrontal cortex was missing," Dr. Mya Lynn recalled. "The good part about all this mess is that we now know that whatever special quality Einstein's brain had, it's irresistible to macaques."

"Apparently they were trying to simulate the experience of the Rapture," said police sergeant Doug H. Nutt. "By the time we cleaned off the searchlights and wedged her outta the church ceiling fan, the pastor was lookin' mighty embarrassed."

In a heated controversy over whether navel lint can be considered organic, NL spokesperson Umbili Calalli contends that it's a natural product of the human body. "Our items are comfortable, colourful and cruelty-free," he insists. "By the time the lint is harvested, nearly all the harmful chemicals have been leeched away into adjacent sebaceous formations, and can easily be scraped off with a fingernail."