Word: collaring
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...hand you a lanyard on which you can put your ID and room key. Don’t do this. It’s important not to lose these items, but at the ripe age of 18, one should be able to do so without the help of a collar...
...world's first manned balloon flight took place on Nov. 21, 1783, in Paris. The balloon was blue and gold and 70 ft. (about 20 m) tall. It had no basket. You rode on a kind of circular balcony that hung around the balloon's neck like a collar. This meant that there had to be two passengers, for balance, and they had to stay on opposite sides of the balloon at all times. The two men in question were Jean-Franois Piltre de Rozier, a young doctor who was exactly as dashing as he sounds...
...vampire. The condition's benefits - he can bend lamp posts, scale high walls - don't always outweighs its liabilities. The food supply he needs is hard to find in the local market. So, as you walk unawares into a hospital room, you might find a man in a collar and cassock supine on the floor, sucking the blood from a patient's IV bottle. (Read "Zombies Are the New Vampires...
...Blue-Collar Blues The crisis has hurt 20-somethings without college degrees even more. In Vigo's unemployment office, people of all ages and backgrounds come by to get the stamp that allows them to receive unemployment payments, but it's hard not to miss the heavy predominance of blue-collar workers under 30. Manuel Bao, 24, has worked as an electrician since he was 18 - his contracts were never permanent but there was enough work to keep him busy. Now that the construction industry has gone bust, he's out of work - and about to run out of unemployment...
...will be an impact player right away for us,” Biega wrote. “The qualities he has is exactly what [our] team will be about this year. He is a blue collar player who has a tremendous amount of skill who will be able to score some goals for us next year...