Word: lobstering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then a chance occurrence seemed to save the day for the crew as the Dorado, a lobster boat returning to port after three days, was spotted. It was 8:30 and darkness had fallen; Vanderhoop fired off powerful 2500 ft. rocket flares that he fortunately had in the cabin...
Rock quit school and, after a stint as a busboy at Red Lobster, launched a comedy career. He was a clueless 17-year-old, playing small clubs around New York like the Comic Strip, trying to read the crowd, trying to milk laughs, usually failing. He wasn't making much--the Comic Strip paid $7 a set during the week, $40 on weekends--but he was trying to get his name out there, trying to build a rep. His big joke was this: "Woman comes up to me, says she'll do anything for me, anything. So I say, 'Bitch...
Marie Wyman's 87th birthday celebration at the Lobster Trap & Steakhouse in Winslow, Maine, ended with a bang. As she backed out of a handicapped-parking spot, police say, Wyman lost control of her Buick and plowed right through the restaurant's crowded dining room. Tables and chairs scattered as terrified diners scrambled for cover. Twenty-seven people were injured, and police say it was a miracle that no one was killed in the July 25 crash. Tragically, that wasn't so in Los Angeles nine months ago, when Byron Cox, 96, a driver with dementia, ran over Brandi Mitock...
Reporters who wouldn't know an offside trap from a lobster pot were now descending on the team's lone media rep demanding exclusives. David Letterman pronounced himself "team owner" and began plugging away. Even Tom Brokaw went West for an on-the-scene report...
...worst cardio-fitness program in this century was that of Egypt's King Farouk. The King weighed around 300 lbs.; he looked like an immense, saturnine party balloon. Staples of the royal diet: a few tablespoons of caviar, lobster thermidor, slabs of roast lamb, a cubic meter or so of trifle, a pound of chocolate, a magnum of champagne. Workout: two or three dancers from the chorus...