Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though she draws heavily on the combined wisdom of her friends, Hanson sometimes speaks from personal experience. For instance, when she found out the names of her three future Pennypacker roommates, she wrote them a humorous letter in which she said she would be "bringing an uncaged, 'outgoing' pet frog with [her]. At the time it seemed like a delightful display of wit, but as the weeks passed and no reply arrived, it began to seem more like a proclamation of lunacy." Hanson concludes, "First impressions count...
...have this right: Sean Connery is a cute medieval dragon who breaks into Alcatraz. Psycho groupie Robert De Niro tracks Flipper all the way to Alaska. Schwarzenegger takes the Brady Bunch into Witness Protection. Danny DeVito and Shaquille O'Neal--twins! Bill Murray goes bowling with his pet elephant. A tornado spits a giant spaceship onto the White House lawn and out steps the most destructive alien force the world has ever known: Jim Carrey...
...Kevin Nieusma, sales manager for Destron-Fearing, which has pioneered a new technology that allows pet owners to track their animals with a hand-held scanner. The company began development of the technology after the its owner had his prize horse stolen...
...YORK: Bernhard Goetz filed bankruptcy on Monday to prevent authorities from auctioning off his pet chinchilla and his guinea pig Squeaky. With assets of just over $2,000, Goetz will be hard pressed to pay the $43 million a jury awarded last week to Darrell Cabey, a victim of Goetz's subway shooting incident. The legal action will keep authorities from Goetz's assets until at least mid-June, when a bankruptcy trustee will reviews his debts with creditors. "It prevents a sheriff or marshal and New York State from coming in and just simply ransacking Bernie's house, having...
...FIRST TIME I WAS HONORED BEYOND DESERVING was on a tour of a Hollywood studio as a child. For some reason, I was chosen to go onstage and pet a fake gorilla while it growled dramatically. I got a big hand. For several months after I was badly hurt by a mail bomb, it was the same story, roughly speaking: gratifying but undeserved applause. The public figured that computer technology had been (in some sense) the intended victim, and so I became Mr. Computer Science. I was proud to represent a field that has contributed so much...