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Chris: Kick someone in nuts. No matter what’s wrong, if it’s highbrow, lowbrow, or satire—if you’re not getting laughs, you’ve got to resort to kicking a guy in the nuts...
...were victims of the database state, people who had suffered as a result of details being lost or misappropriated. I met a girl who couldn't get a job because she's on some criminal database as a shoplifter, but she never did that. I met a guy who was caught up in an operation to do pornography on the web, but his name was just spelled wrong. These nightmare stories result from the increasingly digitized world that we live in. (See the top 10 Ye Olde British criminal trials...
...thought it would be an easy way to get to me. But they'd managed to harvest my friend's details from Facebook. Even when you delete your profile, loads of data stay up there. They made a fake profile of me called Phileas Fogg, as in the guy from Around the World in 80 Days, and they sent it to my friends saying, "Hey, I'm on the run, I'd love to get in touch." And loads of them responded...
...video number two, "Bigger is Better," Brown and Harvard compare plans for the evening. Harvard's plans are to do work for his four classes, including "Dead White Guy Philosophy 101, Insider Trading 302," and "this graduate level seminar entitled 'Country Club Etiquette.'" (Must have missed that last one in the course guide.) The video concludes with this...
...restaurants want to stop serving bluefin but feel they can't be caught without it. They know it's wrong, but they don't want to lose their tuna-lusting customer to the guy down the street. Even the most popular (and hence most influential) restaurants do it: after Nobu in London was called out by its celebrity clientele last year for serving the tuna, the restaurant kept it on the menu but added a line noting that the species is "environmentally challenged" and suggesting that customers consider an alternative - a wussy solution that pleased nobody but allowed the restaurant...