Doh! I mean *iterables* not *iterators* of course.
This would actually be a reasonable and useful function to have, and sampling from dict.items() would fall out transparently from that.
The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the
not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse
the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born,
become abortifacients against new conceptions.