Word: forkful
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Hyperbole is nothing new at this annual showcase of just about every gizmo ever featured on, or destined for, an infomercial. The $6 Pizza Fork combines a pizza cutter and fork in one utensil ("Easy! Amazing! Versatile!" screams the flyer). The $80 Cooper Cooler chills a can of soda in 60 sec.--after you add 24 ice cubes and two cups of cold water and plug the thing into the wall...
Then Harpest saw a couple of SBC ads telling customers that switching to the new local services offered by the likes of AT&T was as foolish as poking a fork into a toaster or sticking your tongue to a metal pole in freezing weather. Far from amused, Harpest thought the ad could "give kids bad ideas." But it gave him a good idea. He called AT&T, already his long-distance provider, to sign up for its local service, seeking only the convenience of a single bill. He was surprised to learn the switch would also save him about...
Back in the day when I was a prospective freshman talking to then-larger-than-life Harvard grads about their experiences, one woman summed up her four year-education with the two things Harvard had taught her: how to tell which fork is which and how to schmooze it up at an interview. These, she assured me, would be important life skills, much more crucial than spouting Shakespeare or knowing about partial derivatives. Forget about grade inflation—everyone should graduate summa cum laude in poise, congeniality and schmooze ability: the Faculty of Articulation and Sociability...
...live in that virtual world there is a one-time fee of $49.95 for the software, and the player-inhabitants of The Sims Online will then fork over $9.95 a month for access to its servers. Based on pre-orders, Electronic Arts expects to have "hundreds of thousands" of subscribers at launch...
When HUPD searched the juvenile, Catalano said, he was actually carrying a dinner fork...