Word: rip-off
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...sandwich is an Aussie favorite. Damper bread is a source of native pride. McDonald's managed to insult both. The official restaurant of the 2000 Games took exception to an Olympic Park restaurant's putting an egg-and-bacon damper sandwich on its menu. Calling it an Egg McMuffin rip-off, the double-arched bully demanded that the homegrown dish be banned. A compromise was struck; the offending sandwich will be served on hot-dog buns. Corporate muscle, 1; indigenous cuisine...
...sooner had the deal been made than the critics of agricultural biotechnology erupted. "A rip-off of the public trust," grumbled the Rural Advancement Foundation International, an advocacy group based in Winnipeg, Canada. "Asian farmers get (unproved) genetically modified rice, and AstraZeneca gets the 'gold.'" Potrykus was dismayed by such negative reaction. "It would be irresponsible," he exclaimed, "not to say immoral, not to use biotechnology to try to solve this problem!" But such expressions of good intentions would not be enough to allay his opponents' fears...
With two papers due the next day and a lot on my mind, I went into Road Trip nursing a very, very bad mood. I also wasn't particularly thrilled about seeing what people were calling an American Pie rip-off, a There's Something About Mary gross-out clone where the raunch was heaped on the audience just for the sake of getting a few shocked laughs. In other words, if Road Trip wasn't damned good, I was perfectly happy to tear it apart...
...Saving art from censors used to mean fighting for Ulysses, or at least the Smothers Brothers. Once, thought-provoking series like All in the Family and M*A*S*H stirred turmoil. But recent TV history, from upn's The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer to Fox's Simpsons rip-off Family Guy, is instead littered with idiotic series under idiotic attacks from would-be censors. Thus the job of pushing society's buttons and fomenting public discussion--once a hallmark of "quality TV"--has largely been taken over by TV's most mediocre shows...
...bigger rip-off [at the Coop] is used books," Tseng said...