Word: sofas
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...jungle out there, teeming with hordes of unseen enemies. Bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites fill the air. They cluster on every surface, from the restaurant table to the living-room sofa. They abound in lakes and in pools, flourish in the soil and disport themselves among the flora and fauna. This menagerie of microscopic organisms, most of them potentially harmful or even lethal, has a favorite target: the human body. In fact, the tantalizing human prey is a walking repository of just the kind of stuff the tiny predators need to survive, thrive and reproduce...
...fast-talking, lacquer-haired impresario who stands atop a blinking, bleeping game board and hosts homemade variations on Wheel of Fortune and other word games. With microphone flailing and jaw flapping, Mr. Gameshow dishes out play money and bad jokes with equal largesse: "Nice jacket. Who shot the sofa...
Last week everyone from Virginia and Maryland housewives to Capitol Hill secretaries and foreign diplomats were streaming to Dale City to take advantage of discounts of up to 70% off IKEA's regular low prices. A sofa that normally goes for $195 was $95, while $69 dining-room chairs were marked down to $49. The 3.5 million people in the Washington area could hardly miss the 330 radio and TV commercials touting the sale -- or the double-page ad in the Washington Post. City buses winked with the company's cryptogram: an eye and a key followed...
...like a trouper. "Sometimes things just don't work out," she told her audience last Friday after learning the news. "I've been in this business 23 years; I'm going to be in this business another 23 years." Then her guests closed the show by turning over the sofa and festooning the set with toilet paper...
...shocked to react at first, as I tasted blood in my mouth and felt blood trickling down my chin. I heard a couple of sadistic chuckles from the audience, but repressed the urge to leap up, hurl the satanic sofa into the front row and run screaming from the theatre...