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...That leaves a lot of filler,” he says.FUTURE UNCERTAINIn early 2002, Rees published a GYWO strip that, like many others, featured two nameless office workers talking on the telephone—in this instance, about Bush’s infamous reading of “My Pet Goat” to Florida school-children during Sept. 11 and about reports that terrorists were targeting New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.This strip exemplifies Rees’ philosophy of political comedy: be over-the-top, but never flinch from the fear we all feel. The dialogue goes like...
...movie's reluctant hero, Roddy (voiced by Hugh Jackman), is a pampered, upper-class-English pet mouse. Kept in a literally gilded cage by a nice family in Kensington, Roddy has impeccable manners and a chipper demeanor that can't quite mask his loneliness. So when he's flushed down a toilet into the London sewer system, and discovers a complex underworld underground, he is at first horrified, then thrilled to join a plucky rodent named Rita (Kate Winslet) in her comrades' battle against the pompous toad king (Ian McKellen). This, Roddy realizes, is the bustle and agitation...
...waiting--which the former Exxon chemical engineer doesn't like to do. Peers at Exxon dubbed Krouse "Iceman" because the Natchez, Miss., native once traveled to Naperville, Ill., in December for training that could have waited until spring. Eventually, in 2001, Krouse says, he was fired for pushing a pet chemical-engineering project too hard...
...already have a terminology for our better halves - spouses, husbands, wives. But because Michael and I couldn?t marry, calling him my ?spouse? was a lie. So I always introduced him as my ?partner? and put my hand around his waist, to show we didn?t just run a pet store or a restaurant or a Hollywood studio together. I also showed pictures of our two beautiful cats (wait a second, do we sound like ?longtime companions...
James Dyson--inventor, self-promoter and Britain'smost famous vacuum salesman--constantly seeks minor irritations. If the batteries in your hand vacuum go dead just when you need it, you plug it in to recharge and grab a broom, right? Not Dyson. If pet hair clogs the vac and ruins its suction, you open it and clear it out. Dyson embarks on a research project. To him, these issues aren't minor, and they're not irritations. They're business opportunities...