Word: parlorized
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...dumb stuff I wanted to do when I was 15, I'm glad someone stopped me." (But even wise Aaron clearly can't imagine any drawbacks to his future as a 40-year-old man with a Yoda tattoo.) Ron Stiehl, the proprietor of my local piercing and tattoo parlor, says that for kids who want to try out a tattoo, artists can apply henna designs, which last about three weeks...
Woolery laughs off the idea that the show's rules are too byzantine. "Can you imagine Abner Doubleday trying to sell baseball as a parlor game?" And the answer is no. But then, baseball didn't have to become the national pastime in its first three games...
...where he once studied geometry. He was raised a short bike ride from the school, graduating in 1985. He moved to Colorado and Texas but returned after marrying, so that he could raise his two children in Webster's small-town atmosphere--and see his students at the pizza parlor or the Krispy Kreme. He doesn't mind when they stop by his house, or hide outside his back door to blast him with water balloons. "I would never teach in a school where I didn't live," he says...
...like when you leave the beauty parlor, and you don't know how to do your hair to make it look the same again," she says. "You're helping other people help themselves...
...steady procession of failed ventures since Loker opened testifies to its enduring worthlessness. The ice cream parlor and candy shop are distant memories, but even Old Faithful, the coffeehouse, has closed. Now all that remains are such choices as a mediocre hamburger restaurant, whose motto may as well be "fast food served slow," and an entire stand devoted to all-natural smoothies and juices, evidently responding to the Harvard student population's clamorous demands for more overpriced drinks containing ginkgo biloba and spirulina...