Word: bloke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though at first he resisted the idea of giving up sprinting, the perverseness of specializing in versatility appealed to his sense of justice and mischief. "In any walk of life, there'll always be a bloke more talented in this or that, who's smarter in some way, or richer, or faster, or just better suited. But can the thing that he was given be lined up against everything you've got?" At 6 ft. 1/2 in. and 195 lbs., much too thick and blocky for track, though not nearly brawny or flexible enough for the field, Thompson is ideally...
...explain his theory is interrupted by the sound of smashing glass and two bodies rolling on the floor. A very short and very drunk student (later identified as attending the Harvard Law School) insults a woman and throws his glass in front of her. Unluckily for the short bloke, the woman's older brother, eight inches taller and 75 pounds heavier, is close enough to take offense. "Hey! I got glass in my beer," exclaims a bystander as the bouncer and bystanders quickly separate the two combatants. The drunken student is bleeding profusely from having his face ground...
...were men's dresses," he explained later. "They didn't have big boobs or anything.") Now he boasted to the music press about being gay and claimed that he first met his wife, an aspiring fashion model from America named Angela Barnett, "when we were both laying the same bloke." Whether it was true did not matter. It was the image that mattered, and the impact that counted...
That last question really steamed me. It refers to a garbled report that panda sex takes place only in "an eyeblink." I thought of asking the bloke how long he and his wife take, but luckily I caught my tongue in time. Instead, I showed him the clipping from London saying that I do quite a bit of preliminary wrestling and light biting, just like Alex Comfort recommends. Except for the gentleman from the Times, who wanted to know my feelings about the Laffer Curve, everybody wants to talk about sex. All that locker-room chortling about my "mission...