Word: plating
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...wuss: Prof. N. Gregory Mankiw, who has been spotted tooling around in a shiny BMW (presumably bought with profits from outsourcing American jobs overseas). The bad-ass plate on the back? EC 10, of course...
...Judgment Award.” This young lady has serious issues with how I conduct business in the dining hall. I understand that she has made the personal decision not to eat meat, but is the sour face she makes while she watches me load steaks onto my plate really necessary? Why can’t she just let me eat delicious animals with a clear conscious? Now even when I’m picking out silverware I can see her out of the corner of my eye shaking her head in disapproval of my fork selection...
Usually it's the kids whojump up from the table before the meal is finished. Here the meal runs out the door before little Banjo can eat it, followed by the silverware, plate, table and chair, Banjo and others. As with all runaways, some of the foods in Ahlberg's zany narrative come to a bad end (i.e., get eaten); others take up new lives. Will everything turn out well as Banjo returns home and sits down to his plum-pie dessert--or is it footloose...
...people are going to talk about how we are off-base," he said. "But we are the only ones really willing to step up to the plate...
...spot a car sporting the license plate LOLITA or MINI-PIMP, change lanes. Psychologists at Colorado State University have found that people who give their car a name or gender are more likely to express road rage, a growing problem that causes some 370 deaths and more than 20,000 injuries each year. "Anything you do to make your car feel like your territory will make you more upset when someone steals your parking space," says Jacob Benfield, a co-author of the study. In fact, a vehicle's aggressive persona was a better predictor of road rage than...