Word: chickening
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Just speak to any athlete or sport fan, and they have little rituals that they have to engage in just to make sure the game goes ok. They have to wear their lucky shirts or they have to eat chicken before every baseball match, things like that. There's a number of very famous ones - John McEnroe wouldn't step on a white line, David Beckham is notoriously superstitious, Tiger Woods has to wear red on a Sunday when he plays golf...
...grandmother's home in the country after pulling some tabloidy teen-star antics. It's the kind of place where evenings are spent on the porch with nothing for entertainment but a guitar and Rascal Flatts. Where a girl can declare her love for a guy by renovating a chicken coop. Where father and daughter can sing a duet the father has never heard of in a pergola on a misty hill. But wouldn't you know it - the idyllic hamlet needs the help of someone: Hannah Montana...
...know that factory chicken farms—they keep the chickens calm by making them wear red contact lenses?” I muttered, pushing my salad around the plate. Here I was, face to face with an eminent professor of the English language, and I found myself missing Gchat. Gchat would give me time to Google his reference to some Florentine poet I’d never heard of. It would even allow me to take a break from talking to watch “David after Dentist.” But, now, trapped in the actual world where...
...Buddhas, Zorros, monks and chickens who populate Spain's collections community may face an enemy greater than new legislation: a changing sense of social shame. On an online forum for debtors, one writer, who goes by the moniker Altevere, wrote that he was expecting the chicken any day but was determined to meet him (or her?) sanguinely. "At first, I couldn't breathe, I thought my heart was going to burst out of my chest," he wrote. "But the next day I decided that even if they sent me all the collectors at once, I would simply ignore them...
...long drives to practices and games are hallowed arenas for team bonding, whether players are partaking from the same gourd of green goop or scoping highways for options other than Nick’s Famous Roast Beef. “I think I’m getting the chicken parm’, baby,” Snow says. The three men consider other possibilities. “I was thinking the steak and cheese sub, but I can do pizza,” Scalise concedes. “If it’s the right pizza...