Word: bummerli
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...dusty street-side caf?s, a smattering of dreadlocked types sport vaguely disappointed looks, as though they've missed the party; they make do with bottles of Beer Chang instead of the opium pipes they had perhaps hoped for. "This is a bit of a bummer, man," moans Robert, a goateed 25-year-old traveler from New Jersey, sporting a knitted cap in Jamaican colors, as he tucks into a plate of oily phad thai. "I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this," he says, as a bus disgorges a load of German package tourists...
...Then, even as the deals - and with them the buyers - were retreating back into the shadows in November (the wane of the keep-America-rolling sales push was behind Thursday's retail-sales bummer that took October's 6.4 percent spike and turned it into a 3.4 percent drop) carmakers are doing just what we want everybody else to do. They're refilling their lots. Production of automobiles and parts jumped a whopping 6.4 percent in November, taking the edge off the rest of the manufacturing sector's stubborn statistical lethargy...
...ourselves in trouble in the defensive zone,” said Harvard Coach Katie Stone. “We killed the first penalty [to Kat Sweet in the second period] beautifully. It’s a bummer they got that goal on the power play...
Beatification can be a bummer, though, and St. Jane of the Chimps is no fan of the road-warrior lifestyle. "When I do get back to England for three weeks solid or I'm doing my writing, the thought of packing up and setting off is literally scary," says a woman who has lived among all sorts of dangerous beasties. "But when you're actually on the road, it's just a way of life, like a gypsy, I suppose." She gets to her home in Bournemouth "three days in between trips here, and four days there, and occasionally...
...Being stuck in the Disney studio executive offices when the returns for "Pearl Harbor" roll in Can you say "bummer of epic proportions?" The $140 million Bruckheimer-Bay spectacular posted disappointing numbers at the box office. While Disney execs blame the movie?s long running time, we think the movie?s unsatisfactory performance may have had more to do with unbearable dialogue and a ridiculous subplot...