Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short, I don't expect to make friends in odd places, like the local bar or the cross town bus. I'm planning to meet people who share some sort of common interest with me: colleagues at work, other members of the synagogue I join, people I meet through other friends...
...weeks ago, we were positive that the Sandra Bullock comedy Forces of Nature would stand for years as the nadir of filmmaking. People would come out of some piece of tripe, shrug and say, "It wasn't as bad as Forces of Nature." Well, we were wrong; the bar just got lowered. The Mod Squad, based on the TV series that ran from 1968 to 1973, is a disaster you don't have to wait for to happen. It could be the capper segment in a Fox prime-time special on the World's Most Inept Movies. The cinematography...
...prescribe them dog antidepressants. June 25 is the first Take Your Dog to Work Day. June 26 is Why Does This Office Smell Bad? Day. While the homeless go ignored, almost 28.5 million Americans bought their dogs Christmas presents last year. A woman I know throws her dogs a Bar Mitzvah every year. That's not even correct on a religious level. People knit their dogs things. Now I've never knitted anything, but it looks like a pretty serious endeavor. If getting married meant knitting something instead of buying a ring, there would be even more out-of-wedlock...
...Raytheon technician Percy Spencer accidentally discovers microwave cooking when microwave signals melt a candy bar in his pocket...
Percy Spencer didn't know better than to bring candy with him into his microwave lab in 1946. When the American engineer, who was developing radar components for the Raytheon Corp., let his chocolate bar get too close to a piece of equipment, it turned into chocolate...