Word: darning
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...editors, darn them, insisted that I tell Joel what I was doing. (I can't help thinking he trashed some good stuff before I started spying.) Not that it would have been difficult to really spy on Joel at his home computer. I could have sent him spyware wrapped in an e-greeting card, programmed to install itself when he opened the card. He'd never know...
...macho on us - despite your conviction that you are impervious to all danger, you?re going to get burned just as fast as your mom/wife/girlfriend. As one of our staffers says almost every Monday morning, when he appears in the office with a cringe-inducing sunburn: "That darn sun is a lot stronger than it looks...
...Most lawmakers see the ban as a win-win proposition - while irrefutable supporting data are still in the pipeline, preliminary evidence suggests that drivers are more reckless when they?re on the phone. And if simply keeping people off their cell phones while they drive (or just putting the darn thing on a dashboard console), thus leaving the driver with two free hands, can cut down on the expense, human cost and inconvenience of traffic accidents, most legislators figure they?ve got nothing to lose...
...drivers? risk of accidents fourfold - or about the same amount as drinking and driving. And while it might be reasonable to assume this kind of dire warning would be enough to keep drivers? eyes on the road and off their little dial pad, it apparently hasn?t done a darn bit of good. More drivers than ever are yakking away as they negotiate sharp turns and slippery roads - and the rest of us cringe and scramble to stay out of their swerving trajectories...
...those darn spear carriers...