Word: bum
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...Winners DAME EDNA EVERAGE Cross-dressed Aussie gets role on Ally McBeal. You'll know they've jumped the shark when an Edna-Ally-Bon Jovi love triangle is revealed STEPHEN DOWNING Mentally impaired Briton is freed after 27 years in prison for a bum murder rap. At least he got to miss the Thatcher years LARRY KING Voluble host re-signs with CNN for nearly $7 million a year. Heck, we'd chat with a totally with-it babe like Angie Dickinson for free Losers QUEEN ELIZABETH II Her Majesty may sacrifice her royal train to cut costs...
...skiing has a pro tour, although it's more like a minor-league, ski-bum tour. To go from the luxury of the national team--where coaches, technicians and handlers cater to an athlete's every need--to the penury of the pro tour--which features X Games-inspired short-course, head-to-head races--was a shock, one Schlopy thought he needed. "The sums of money are so little that you have to do well if you want to keep going. It was a total leap of faith." Schlopy earned less than $100,000 in three seasons, which went...
...skiing has a pro tour, although it's more like a minor-league, ski-bum tour. To go from the luxury of the national team--where coaches, technicians and handlers cater to an athlete's every need--to the penury of the pro tour--which features X Games-inspired short-course, head-to-head races--was a shock, one Schlopy thought he needed. "The sums of money are so little that you have to do well if you want to keep going. It was a total leap of faith." Schlopy earned less than $100,000 in three seasons, which went...
...former situation of cigarettes. Consider the similarities. Cell phones and cigarettes (1) are annoying to non-users; (2) require users to huddle out-of-doors; (3) are addictive; (4) are the result of social pressures; (5) are a means of connecting with others (“Can I bum a cig?” or “You wanna go have a smoke and talk?”); (6) engender constant fiddling; (7) are more convenient versions of an existing technology (pipe is to cigarette as landline is to cell phone); and (8) are incongruous luxuries for Third World...
...surprised,” says Nicole M. Jones, ’03. “You don’t usually see that many people on campus smoking––there’s never anyone to bum a cigarette...