Word: socks
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...canal called Klong Bangkok Noi, where Poon spied a hawker in a boat piled high with soap, snacks and sodas. The long-sought coffee peddler set a pot of water boiling on a tiny gas stove. He carefully poured steaming water through what looked suspiciously like a gym sock filled with ground coffee. It dripped into a can already laced with two generous spoonfuls of sweetened condensed milk. In one practiced motion he scooped a plate of ice into a plastic sack, poured in the steaming coffee, stabbed it with a straw and deftly secured the bag with a rubber...
...group distributed copies of recent articles that appeared in the Independent and last week’s installments of the comic strip “Sock Full or Quarters,” which runs in The Crimson, to administrators to show what they described as Harvard students’ lack of understanding of the current sexual assault policy...
...glory year of the dotcom ads, the online trader proudly blew $2 million on a spot featuring a dancing monkey. At Super Bowl 2001, the monkey rode through a ghost town littered with the graves of Tieclasp.com, Pimentoloaf.com"--and the lifeless body of a familiar-looking sock puppet. At least the Internet boom could laugh at its own funeral...
...Agassi, 31, have been together since 1999. Rumors of the pregnancy started flying at this year's Wimbledon, where Graf kept an unusually low profile. The German newspaper Bild, quoting Graf's mother Hannah, says the couple are expecting a boy sometime in early November. They might want to sock away some of that tennis prize money for any future shrink bills. Having just one tennis parent has been known to mess up a few kids...
Reality TV couldn't get any more real than the stuff that Emma Gilding records with her handheld camera. This consumer anthropologist focuses on the scenes that no network would dare show you--tooth flossing, toast buttering and sock sorting. Gilding dives deep into the consumer psyche for clients like American Express, AT&T Wireless and Huggies. As founder and global director for Ogilvy & Mather's Discovery Group, she sends camera-toting researchers to study consumers as if they were part of some undiscovered civilization...