Word: samoa
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...it’s well-known in my circle of friends that my favorite cookie is the coconut-and-caramel Samoa. Yes, it’s a strange name, but evoking the image of the Samoans, known for their sumo wrestlers and Santa-like jolliness, seems an appropriate enough label for the cookie (70 calories apiece...
...upon running into a troupe of girl scouts last week, hawking their wares along Mass. Ave., I was horrified to find that I couldn’t procure Samoas from the scoutette I was talking to. Indeed, chortling to myself at the girl’s youthful naivete, I asked her troop mother, who simply looked puzzled, claiming she’d never heard of a “Samoa.” Thoroughly inspecting the scouts’ boxes, I was happy to find that the purple box displaying the photo image of my favorite treat was present...
...beyond that, I’m an angry white middle-American male, disenchanted by the increasing flow of PC into our society. Frankly, the label Samoa was quite appropriate—perhaps the name was meant to conjure the pervasive coconut taste for which the Samoa Islands are known. After all, if Detroit was famous for a fattening food that tasted like smog or whatever else Detroit is famous for, would we refrain from calling it a “Detroit” because the city’s average resident is overweight? I think...
...part for democracy. I knew it was time because I was stuck at the Republican Convention and people kept talking about doing stuff for democracy, and I'm a bit of a joiner. The problem is, I had no idea what to do. Then I heard American Samoa give the lamest preamble to casting its votes, listing the most generic virtues of its home whatever-you-call-that-nonstate-thing-they-are. I realized my country was calling me to punch up the 30 seconds when the states plug themselves. It seemed easier than voting...
...saved the city will start being worried that he's too intemperate for a collegial body like the Senate. So far, the campaign has been an uphill struggle for her. For months she "listened" to New Yorkers as if she were Margaret Mead collecting stories from the natives in Samoa, and blundered every time she opened her mouth, from claiming too many sports-team allegiances to praising Mrs. Arafat, who had just dissed the U.S. The most recent Quinnipiac College poll, conducted in late February, shows her running behind Giuliani, 48% to 41% statewide. With the mayor leading upstate...