Word: annoyed
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...finger command, the fortune and weather options as well as the ubiquitous “ph.” Also facing nearly certain death is the antiquated—but amusing—telnet “talk,” which, despite instant messaging, has survived intact to annoy anyone who is logged in for too long and makes it easy to send obnoxious banners to those folks worth disturbing. Webmail, meanwhile, leaves no user trail—which might be safer, but is surely a lot less...
...more than thirty years), he tried his hand at a wide variety of literary genres: from poetry and drama to fiction, journalism, history and polemics, as well as a voluminous (and decidedly indiscreet) journal. Primarily, sometimes exclusively, known as a literary critic (a fact that never failed to annoy him), he also found time to write an average of more than two-and-a-half letters per day for every day of his life - an astounding 70,000 in all. Although two previous collections of his correspondence have been published, the vast majority of his more personal letters have remained...
...industry, claims that by failing to provide enough captioned screenings, distributors and theaters are violating the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. Studios should supply theaters with open-captioned films, in which dialogue appears onscreen, Todd's attorneys say. The studios' complaint against open captioning has been that it will annoy hearing customers. But advocates say open-captioned screenings, which occur sporadically around the country, haven't drawn complaints. And viewers have grown used to captions on TVs at gyms and airports, advocates say, which may make the studios' case less persuasive to a jury. Several of the defendants, including 20th...
...collection of death threats, some vague, some specific, and most of them left on his home answering machine. He seemed quite unmoved by the ire of his fellow citizens, taking reporters around his rose garden Thursday and shrugging off criticism. And then, as if he knew precisely how to annoy his new enemies most, he mused on Thursday's Today show, "I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case...
...incredible peaks to rip off Little Richard. Are they better than the classics they imitate? No. But the songs are awfully catchy--and the Hives aren't kidding themselves, either. On Main Offender, Pelle sings, "Stuck in ways of sadistic joy/ My talent only goes so far as to annoy...