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Life has been good to Mervyn L. and Joyce Alphonso: four healthy children, a six-bedroom house, a Mercedes in the driveway. But a few decades ago, life was much bleaker. They were both surviving day to day in Guyana, their families crowded into small cottages without indoor plumbing. Mervyn's father had died when he was 13, casting the youngster into the work force as a messenger who also attended school; Joyce studied furiously in the hopes of getting a job abroad...
...around it. The original shows (it also includes acquired Japanese anime toons) follow the same principle: lunacy on a low budget. On Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a trio of superpowered fast-food products pursue get-rich-quick schemes (luring pilgrims to a "sacred oil stain" in the neighbor's driveway) and avoid crime fighting (except, for instance, when they catch pot-smoking aliens tapping into their TV cable). According to co-creator Matt Maiellaro, budget constraints posed a problem in animating Meatwad--a lovable, dim-witted lump of hamburger who has the power to change his form. "We could only...
...contentious issue of rent control also weighed on some residents, like John Carbone, a plumber by trade who was laying brick for his own driveway...
Morning came on the first day of my new wireless life, and I couldn't wait to get started. No more walking barefoot to the edge of the driveway to fetch a rain-soaked newspaper--and getting an acorn or two wedged between my toes. Instead I jumped onto the Web, touched base with time.com scanned a few hot blogs, checked out the competition and clicked to espn.com for box scores. All without missing a beat or a drop of breakfast cereal. What I did miss, however, was the screaming of an infant in her high chair and the smoke...
...It’s like she went in the backyard all summer and shot pucks in the driveway,” says Ruggiero, complementing her ability to rip pucks into the top-right corner. “That’s what you’re told to do when you’re younger, but I think she actually did it. Her shot’s improved a ton, and she’s just a big strong hockey player. If she can utilize that strength better, she’ll be one of the top scorers this year...