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...from its almost total obscurity to the veggie's showing up at Whole Foods. As Davina Baum, the managing editor at Chow, a leading site for adventurous home cooks, put it, "You always remember the first time you said, 'What are ramps?' and you got a smug look because the cook was totally expecting that question...
...proper noun. "Celebrity wars of words could now take place on a new battleground," Mattel spokeswoman Sarah Allen wrote in an e-mail. "It's another part of the process of expanding the brand - it's an evolution." In other words, you might be feeling pretty smug about laying down "Jay-Z" (23 points), but if your opponent responds by playing his wife Beyoncé, that would be worth a mighty 64 points, as he'd benefit from the 50-point bonus (commonly known as a Bingo) that's awarded for using all seven letters. (See pictures of video gamers...
...Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was followed by a raft of near identical statements by the other Democrats - almost all of them sclerotic committee chairs with far more seniority than debating skill. They produced a Woodstock of heart-tugging anecdotes, but not much else ... except, perhaps, another demonstration of the smug Democratic incompetence that got us to this point. (See the top 10 players in health care reform...
...notion that liberals are smarter than conservatives is familiar to anyone who has spent time on a college campus. The College Democrats are said to be ugly, smug and intellectual; the College Republicans, pretty, belligerent and dumb. There's enough truth in both stereotypes that the vast majority of college students opt not to join either club...
This draconian rationing of toilet paper reveals itself as such when an urgent undergraduate, gorged on squash and Our Dear Leader’s weekly gift of hot sausage and eggs, finds himself perched on a porcelain potty. Smug because of a particularly generous offering to the Charles River, his hand reaches for his janitorial set only to find unwelcoming and coarse texture of a cardboard tube. Panic and rage...