Word: scoff
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...Loft This homely, unpretentious and very affordable eatery, www.theoldloft.com, is housed in a restored "net loft" - a building used by fishermen to store goods and repair their nets. Tucked away in Woody Point, one of the sleepy coastal communities within Gros Morne National Park, it's a place to scoff your way through some of the tastiest seafood in the province - from capelin to cod chowder, buttery mussels, scallops and more. While you wait for your meal to arrive, you can mosey around the downstairs craft shop and stock up on quality souvenirs...
Although his sophomore year performance, which garnered him second-team All-Ivy honors, was nothing to scoff at, a committed work ethic and Harvard’s improved play paid dividends this year...
...prediction. The trader remembers only one occasion when Ashby's advice proved wrong: "She told me I would meet someone in October, but it was very busy on the market and I wasn't in the mood for love." And while the trader requests anonymity for fear colleagues will scoff, she believes her profession has much in common with Ashby's. "We work on intuition," she says. "You wake up in the morning thinking 'I don't like this position' and you close...
...Paul Rudd, Mike Birbiglia, Andrea Rosen, Michael Ian Black and a bunch of people who probably roll in an insider comedian circle. Although 95% of the people in this spoof and those who gripe about the commercial are probably die-hard Times fans, it's still spectacular entertainment to scoff at it. Case in point: "I love to pull everything out of the Sunday paper...and then throw it away." It's all in the delivery (pun unavoidable). Take a look for yourself...
...Laden's strange disappearance makes one wonder what exactly happened to him. The last relatively reliable bin Laden sighting was in late 2001. A video that he apparently appeared in last year shows him with a dyed beard. More than a few Pakistani intelligence operatives who knew bin Laden scoff at the idea he would ever dye his beard. They think the tape was manipulated from old footage, and that bin Laden is in fact dead. But then again, they would have an interest in making Americans believe bin Laden is dead, since it would relieve U.S. pressure to find...