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Wheeler wrote that he was not a fan of sports, calling them “a neighborhood faux-pas of epic proportions,” and that he planned to study the humanities at Harvard...
...peanut soup proved it didn’t deserve to exist on just one sampling, and although I didn’t try it again, I could probably guess that it wasn’t much better on the second go-around. Please don’t dump unwanted faux-curry sauce on us and expect us to eat it. Furthermore, there should be more than just one hot entrée option. Cheesy pasta with tomato sauce doesn’t cut it as the only main dish, especially when it’s served with Fly-By?...
...you’re willing to dive into the depths of the pseudo-punk faux-postmodern world of The Garage, you’ll be rewarded with a great cup of ice cream for around $4. The vanilla ice cream here was great and boasted a nice, natural flavor, but after half a cup we felt ourselves yearning for a sweeter experience...
...dropped 56% from its opening weekend - not a disastrous plummet, considering that the movie got mixed-to-hostile reviews and a lowish B-minus CinemaScore rating, and that the geekosphere was vexed that Clash was converted at the last minute from 2-D to fake 3-D. (Call it faux-D.) Costing $125 million to make (compared with Date Night's $55 million), the movie has already earned $110 million in North America and another $45 million abroad. Action movies almost always do better in foreign markets than comedies. Baby Mama, for example, took in $60.5 million at home...
Students received at least two faux advertisements. One prank e-mail went out at 10:02 p.m. over Eliot House's e-mail list, proclaiming that Weird Al Yankovich would be an artist at this year's Yardfest. Yankovich is the author of the smash hit “White and Nerdy,” a parody of Chamillionaire’s “Ridin...