Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all the JFK files released, presidential conspiracy theorists have set upon certain details of the Nixon death as fresh fodder for their nimble minds...
...class where so much material has to be assimilated in a very narrow range of time, and for a letter grade which might prove a detriment to a model transcript. This competitive attitude is the basis of non-pre-med resentment towards pre-meds at large, and provides fodder for the stereotype that all premeds are taking the course not for its inherently interesting subject material but solely for its stepping one-to-med-school value...
...same value as the likes of buster Pointdexter or Thomas Dolby, minus the better arrangements, interesting voices, and performer personalities. Which brings us to yet another problem: Peck's songs and singing don't really reveal much about his personality, which makes them appealing pop radio fodder, but not much else...
Ancient Rome--with a few side rips to Egypt--makes terrific fodder for Pudding material. If all else fails, after all, you can throw in a Roman numeral joke: "Take V," the taskmaster tells his crew. Or a hieroglyphic joke "Feather before squiggly line except after bird...
...Mick Murphy sings about wanting to escape his friends for a while ("Mr. Spaceman"); about not understanding why his girlfriend left him ("Gas," "Tremendous many"); about crushes ("Water for a Man on Fire") and so on. Sometimes (as in Sorry's Not Enough") the results are equally commonplace, WFNX fodder whose riffs are" memorable" only is some minimal, involuntary sense...