Word: hams
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...commercial e-mail back when that decision was popularized without ceremony in the late 1990s. Naturally, the producer of SPAM™ Luncheon Meat (Hormel recommends writing the name of their product in this way to keep intentions clear) wanted to avoid an association between their celebrated canned spiced ham product and the worthless artificially-fabricated garbage that stuffs your inbox...
...Port Discovery in Baltimore, Md., which recently shifted its focus from tweens to the under-5 set. Its new programs include a petting zoo with parrots, llamas and potbellied pigs, and a cooking area where toddlers help a chef whip up treats like Seussian green eggs and ham...
...variant of this rumor alleges that American banks and "financial experts" are wagering that peace will come within a few months. Here again there is no supporting evidence. As one member of the stock exchange put it, "We haven't enough for a small ham sandwich these days, much less to bet on so risky a proposition as this...
...amazing thing about Blue Blood is that where a lesser writer would just have gone numb, Conlon stays alive to the humor and the sadness and the ironies of life even in the teeth of the city's everyday assault--bricks (and, once, a canned ham) thrown from rooftops, the festering bitterness of precinct-house feuds, the bizarro underworld of the midnight shift, the agony, both Dantean and Sisyphean, of sifting through the rubble of the World Trade Center that has been moved to Staten Island. Conlon has no ambitions as a whistle-blower or a hero--he's neither...
...meal plan. It seems the only thing that would make this unacceptable is that I would not be eating the food in the physical structure of Memorial Hall. And to put the situation into perspective, it’s not as if students are making off with sides of ham or loaves of bread now. Not only is it food we have paid for, it’s not much of it at that...