Word: stickering
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...friend met his Waterloo. He valiantly tried to cut out a rectangle in the plastic used for the second lamination so that the "Harvard 1987-88" validation sticker would not be covered up. But his hand slipped and his' razor blade wasn't sharp enough...
Step Four: Peel open i.d. He started from the bottom edge and pulled the pieces far enough apart to reveal the sticker. A razor blade was perfect for scraping the old label off the card and the clear plastic cover...
...sophomore had the foresight to steal blank i.d.s at registration. (And if you think our freshman friend had a fairy godmother, what about this woman?) The blank contained the Harvard seal and a sticker with someone's name (not that of the thief), but no picture, and it hadn't been sealed yet. The way was clear, but not the line...
...this movie I saw a car with a bumper sticker that said "I brake for fantasies." In I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Polly always stops for hers and we dream along with her. Mermaids gives us the key to Polly's whimsical imagination and she takes us on a very personal, very funny, and very rewarding journey...
Cultural divisions among Anglos and Latins have also prompted bumper-sticker humor. WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE SOUTH FLORIDA PLEASE BRING THE FLAG? is a popular example. Allman gets his kick when North meets South, as in the alliance of David Kennedy, Miami's former Anglo mayor, and Rosario Arguelles, an exiled Havana debutante who married Kennedy in 1984 and was elected to the city commission the following year...