"And, she adds, David Phillips, the senior climatologist with Environment Canada, has estimated that the number of snowflakes that have fallen on Earth over the course of time is 10 followed by 34 zeros."

Such is ...wossname... life!

¹ Dan's pronunciation disyllabic, (which was something like ‘ersë’)
Means that line should end (ungramatically) ‘worser’

² My ...um... 'complex' relationship with old Henry is explored in the notes to this essay, and here and, indeed, here .
As I say complex...

¹ Sometimes used to introduce speeches or even whole poems, hwat is often translated 'Lo!' or 'Listen!'or even 'Oi!"

² A couple of translations:

Not that the monster was minded to pause!
Straightway he seized a sleeping warrior
for the first, and tore him fiercely asunder,
the bone-frame bit, drank blood in streams,
swallowed him piecemeal: swiftly thus
the lifeless corse was clear devoured,
e'en feet and hands.

or

That the monster did not think to delay,
but he quickly grasped, at the first occasion,
a sleeping warrior, rended without restraint,
bit into the bone-locks, from the veins drank blood,
swallowed great chunks; soon he had
the unliving one all devoured,
feet and hands

The title is a reference to that old John Wayne movie “The Shootist ” (Paramount, 1976)---though since it was soya¹ beans rather than peas, I probably shouldn’t have bothered, especially since ‘peas’, being properly a noun of mass (in the past often spelled pease, peese or even peaze), makes ‘pea’ a barbarous back formation which would force me (as a devout etymologist) to analyse the word as *peas hootist---and a world of trouble with owl, not to mention Mammo-Centric Publicans of America*, lobbyists awaits there.

¹ (Oh! And before we go on, that really is ‘Soya’ with an ‘A’, and it says something or other about the state of our two countries, that we in England seem to have taken the high road with the formal form, ultimately from sho:-yu or siyau-yu whereas you casual buggers took the low road with the more colloquial shoy or soy.) And I took the even lower road, but that’s a story for a different time---probably for a different audience too.

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* At least I didn't title it 'Peas Hooters"!