Word: oughta
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...little mustard on it? Put a little mustard on it? Who does he think he is? Why I oughta...
...this happened?" But Eappen is looking for rationality where there is little. Consider this irony: no doubt many of the people jamming the airwaves condemning Eappen for going to work and leaving a small child at home are the same ones demanding that welfare mothers do exactly that. There oughta be a law, folks clamored, and now there is: the 1995 Welfare Reform Act, which requires welfare mothers to get a job, any job--cleaning houses, flipping burgers or, most ironic, watching other people's children--or lose their benefits...
Bennett called that Sunday to back out. If not you, Reed asked, then who? Again Bennett told him, "You oughta look at Jack." More and more, that was the thought in Dole's mind as well. His other potential choices were not panning out. For a while he had been keen to reach back to the Bush years for former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but the onetime Wyoming Congressman, who has had a coronary bypass, wanted to remain in retirement. Michigan Governor John Engler got on Dole's bad side when he urged Newt Gingrich to shut down the Federal...
Oops! After the Alanis Morissette song You Oughta Know won a Grammy, the Mississippi house of representatives passed a resolution honoring the native son who wrote it, Glen Ballard. Then lawmakers read the lyrics. Shortly after they came across the F word, they rescinded the honor...
...Madonna, who knows a thing or two about musical makeovers--and with Jagged Little Pill has delivered the butt-kicking album she wanted. The sound is more muscular; her voice is rawer, the guitar work more aggressive. The songs are about such topics as postbreakup rage (You Oughta Know) and overbearing parents (Perfect), and while the words are rarely as smart as they seem to think they are, this is straight-ahead rock, sweetened somewhat with pop melodiousness...