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...Keck I telescope in Hawaii, it's also the closest planet to our solar system ever found. There isn't another until you look 35 light-years -- 5.9 trillion miles -- away. It's also only the twelfth planet discovered in the universe. Since it formed around a red dwarf such as Gliese 876, the most common type of star in the universe, astronomers suspect there could be many more planets floating in solar neighborhoods near ours...
...Workin' 9 to 5. Your summer job kicks ass. And even if it doesn't, it has to be more relaxing than your existence as a student--you'll finally meet that dwarf, the 40 hour week...
...worthy and hilarious use/abuse of the public poll is underway on the People magazine Web site. Howard Stern, rightfully calling into question the idea that 50 actors, models and other celebrities' pictures do anything for national morale, has started a campaign of his own--for Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf. And Stern and friends are succeeding: Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf, is so popular that he has gone from write in to actually being on the ballot. Not to mention the fact that he leads the next contender, Leonardo DiCaprio, by 153,872 votes...
Both People and Time are now in the indelicate position of honoring their votes or asserting editorial control, and we at Dartboard have a bad feeling about what will happen. Still, it is fun while it lasts: go cheer on Hank the Dwarf and start purchasing that Ataturk memorabilia...
...before we hang all the dealmakers, consider the flip side. Last week financial-services giants Travelers Group and Citicorp agreed to the largest merger in history, a stock swap worth some $76 billion. It's a titanic marriage that will dwarf everything else in banking, brokerages, insurance, ATMs, cold calls, lollipops, hamburgers and chutzpah. It makes the size of the next biggest merger, the pending $42 billion deal between MCI and WorldCom announced last October, look cheesy...