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...mother that her job was to pour drinks, light cigarettes and "discuss boring subjects like volcanoes." She confessed to Sophie that sometimes her customers spoke English with such thick accents, all she could do was nod. "I can't believe I am paid so much money just to pretend I am listening to them," she reported...
...Tachyon emissions are the most powerful subspace emissions. So I just pretend my husband is the ship. And we go to impulse...
...earth, Vermeer insists, so it will be in heaven. But he's no spokesman for holy poverty. He is too much in love with the world--its pearly light, its rich surfaces, its densities and textures, and the beauty of the women in it--to pretend to be any such thing...
...think any working journalist should be phony enough to pretend that anything I say on Weakest Link is anything different from what they've heard in their average newsroom...
...business-siders, of course, will probably pretend that it is, and slather on another layer of hype, glory, postmortem get-togethers, affiliate appearances and product placements next season. Forgive them - this thing practically saved their whole network, after...