Word: flukes
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Then, unexpectedly, Dartmouth broke open the game with a fluke goal with thirty seconds left in the first half...
...first goal was really a fluke," Mejias said. "After that, we just kept our heads down and let them score another...
...Cornell game was no fluke...
...penetrating one of the nation's last bastions of secrecy, I descended into shock. It wasn't that I was bowled over by the committee room - really just a cluster of windowless rooms in a basement - but that I suddenly realized my own admission to college was a total fluke. In adhering to the conventional wisdom dished out by parents, teachers and so many guidebooks, I made almost every misstep in the book. I had bought into every one of the myths about applying to college...
Since Green Day relinquished what tiny semblance of street credibility they had with the fluke success of 1997's mushy ballad "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," it's instructive now, a couple of years later, to reevaluate what street cred really means. Friday night at the Axis was the time to do it. A small invite-only audience (kids who won tickets on the radio). No fireworks, no dancers, not even an opening act. Take that, arena rockers...