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...taping an old photo of Anna Nicole Smith or Al Roker on your fridge hasn't helped you lose weight, you may want to consider using mypetfat, a yucky yellow glob of fake body fat designed to remind dieters to lay off junk food. Created by lifestyle writer Jay Jacobs, who claims the bogus blubber helped him shed 115 lbs., the diet aid comes in 1-oz., 1-lb. and 5-lb. versions (prices range from $15 to $100). Recommended for use in grocery carts--in tandem with a real nutrition-and-exercise program. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have You Seen My Love Handles? | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...example, one of the jobs criminal investigators routinely perform is testing for gunpowder on suspects' hands. In the past, this was a surprisingly low-tech chore, involving melting a glob of paraffin in a pot and painting it onto the fingers and hands. The wax was then peeled off and treated with chemicals that react to gunpowder traces. If the chemicals turned up positive, you had your shooter--unless, of course, the chemicals were reacting with urine, bleach or fertilizer, which had a nasty habit of yielding identical results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Science Solves Crimes | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...home this summer and was cooking only for myself and my parents and sometimes my grandmother. And although they liberally offer criticism in every arena of my life, on this issue they were generally polite, sometimes effusively positive. When my attempted reduction sauce was reduced to a smoking black glob in the corner of the saucepan, my mother quietly turned on the fan over the stove and put more salt on her chicken...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love Me Tender(izer) | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

...minutes, Monstropolis is a great place to live, as you survey this dense comic universe, beautifully visualized by director Pete Docter and his team. A delicatessen is a grossery, a tabloid The Daily Glob. Before a date--say, dinner and a monster truck rally--the male applies his odorant (Smelly Garbage, Wet Dog). Even minor characters have cunning personalities. Mike's girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) has five live snakes for hair ringlets, and when she idly says of her 'do, "I'm thinking of getting it cut," each reptile snaps into a horrified doubletake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scaring Up A New Winner | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

Dining hall workers and/or careless students in each and every dining hall always seem to manage to get a perturbing glob of mustard in the mayonaise bin, and, of course, vice versa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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