This is what we look like to strangers

Or, at least, what the UK looks like to Japanese people.

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This works for me

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See - Granular Eruptions!
Be staggered by - sand acting like water!
Be amused by - extraneous exclamation marks!

Very cool video at the bottom of this page.

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Cheers to the three people who pointed out the faulty link.  Here is a picture of the UK looking like a witch with a pig.  Had to go back miles to find stillcarl's post.  Looking at more closely, it seems to be a map of all the UK's nuclear power plants.  Wierd.

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An orange ruled the world.

It was an unexpected thing, the temporary abdication of Heavenly Providence, entrusting the whole matter to a simple orange.

The orange, in a grove in Florida, humbly accepted the honor. The other oranges, the birds, and the men in their tractors wept with joy; the tractors' motors rumbled hymns of praise.

Airplane pilots passing over would circle the grove and tell their passengers, "Below us is the grove where the orange who rules the world grows on a simple branch." And the passengers would be silent with awe.

Remainder of story here