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...what they come up with is as good as or better than how I would've done it," he says. Rubin's "they" includes a circle far wider than that of his peers. During a 1993 recording of an aborted Mick Jagger blues record, session guitarist Smokey Hormel recalls, Rubin walked up and asked, "How can I make guitars sound better?" "That was a first," says Hormel, who has since become a featured player on several Rubin albums. "He's still the only producer that does that. He runs a real democracy." Says Kiedis: "The truth of the matter...
...nation's major pig-producing states are North Carolina, Iowa and Nebraska. Arizona has only one industrial pork operation, Pigs for Farmer John, a subsidiary of Hormel Foods Corp., which ships a quarter-million animals to slaughter each year and houses, on any given day, about 13,500 pregnant sows. The gestation crates, according to a spokesman for Pigs for Farmer John, keep the sows safe from other pigs and allow individual feeding and care. Prop 204 opponents, led by Jim Klinker of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, have erected billboards around the state dissing the initiative as "hogwash." Outside...
...presenting Pythonalot, a two-week retrospective of the canon films, plus Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda and Gilliam's always-worth-reseeing Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and Brazil. True to the absurdist spirit of Python, a disclaimer on the Film Forum webpage reads: "SPAM? IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HORMEL FOODS CORP. PYTHON AND ALOT ADAPTED FROM MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT LOGO. USED WITH PERMISSION...
...Hormel Foods Corporation was understandably disappointed in the choice of the word “spam” to describe unsolicited 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...
...hormone product” to hundreds of thousands of unwitting consumers, has been prosecuted under its auspices, on the grounds that, according to the Federal Trade Comission, their product is effectively worthless. The name of the bill? The “CAN-SPAM” Act. Surely Hormel isn’t particularly pleased with the word play...