Word: mucking
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...what's the next step for the beach boy who has the girl's number? You don't muck about, explains the tall, blond Tank. Best to fire off a message that night, something like, "hi its tank met u @ beach 2day how ru wots up." With luck, the girl will message back and they'll exchange innocent texts for a few days. It then falls to the boy to raise the stakes. Tank's preferred lines are, "when was yr last bf" or "how far have u gone." A girl you've met once for five minutes replies...
...pass a primary school where a bunch of 10-year-olds of all colors and shapes are having a physical education class in the autumn sunshine. Within the space of a few minutes you watch them encourage and console one another, succeed and fail, concentrate like demons and muck about amid noise and mirth. And you have to wonder, whatever the arguments to the contrary: Is this a snapshot of something - school life - that children could really be better off without...
...anecdote from a 14-year-old: “The first boy I ever dated kissed with a soggy open mouth...I felt as if I were being forced to lick the side of a stagnant well. His tongue was a live, wriggling fish that reeked of algae and muck that left a trail of glistening slime across my lips...[So] I figured that kissing was just another of those nasty things that adults had to endure, like scraping dinner plates and wiping baby’s [sic] asses...
...over censorship, but over the crass fact that Google's profit increased a mere 82% in its last quarter. That's not enough for a $433 stock, which became a $381 stock in the days after the announcement. Google may foster a perception that it is beyond the muck of the marketplace, but Wall Street is rapidly getting wise to the less poetic realities of the situation...
Even Prime Minister Paul Martin descended into the muck last week, all but branding his opponent an alien from outer space, or at least Texas. "The farthest of the U.S. far right--that's what [he] means when he says it's time for a change in Canada," Martin told supporters in Toronto. "Well, let me tell you something ... That's not the kind of change that Canadians want. America is our neighbor. It is not our nation...