Word: annoying
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...records and, by not playing them, broke them. To get him to play their songs, singers made new versions of their 45s: George Hamilton IV turned "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" (covered, much later, by Marilyn Manson!) to "A Rose and a Candy Bar" so as not to annoy the show's candy sponsors. John Zacherle's horror-novelty song "Dinner With Drac" was toned down for Clark; a record was then issued with the hard and soft versions. Chuck Berry didn't need prompting to insert, in his "Sweet Little Sixteen," the lines "Well, they'll be rockin...
...admitting that he has felt intimidated by the expectations of his storied baseball lineage. His father Bobby was a three-time All-Star; his godfather Willie Mays is a baseball god. Not exactly a relatable problem for most bleacher bums. Bonds can alienate fans with his aloofness and annoy teammates by refusing to share his obviously sharp insights into the game. One teammate in Pittsburgh, where Bonds played his first seven years, famously remarked that he would "rather lose without Barry than win with...
MIGHTY MOUSE The two things that annoy people most about their PC's mouse are the trackball (or "gunk collector") and the cord (too long or too short yet always in the way). The solution? Logitech's Cordless MouseMan Optical ($75), on sale at logitech.com Having traded in the trackball for an optical sensor, this wireless bionic wonder has only one flaw: an insatiable hunger for AA batteries...
Glenn thinks that Hermenaut provides important proof that it is possible and worthwhile to get people thinking and excited about philosophical concepts and tools that usually don’t make it beyond university campuses and into real life. No doubt Hermenaut has as much potential to annoy and confuse as it does to delight—it’s not for everyone, although maybe it would be nice if it were. Will Hermenaut ever manage to bring about the revolution in philosophical discourse it dreams of? Its staff doesn’t even know when the next issue...
Locking other students out of a House on weekday nights when most are sleeping or studying does nothing to promote community. And on weekend party nights, locking students out of their friends' dorms does little but annoy students and compromise their safety, forcing them to wait outside on the street for their friends to open the door...