Discombobulated and bamboozled at the marks of change in the suburbs, he rode into his home town after several years in the outback and found he could hardly understand the inhabitants who each held a connector in their hands or reached for one from their back pockets in a manner not unsimilar to those with Tourette syndrome’. Said one of them, pausing his connector for a second, in response to the rider’s friendly greeting, ‘You look confused’, ‘No, he replied, I’m only discombobulated and bamboozled.’