Word: suckering
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...gravity…” Unspoken: Disagree with me, a-meego, and you’ll receive the roundhouse kick of popular opinion to the gut. I doggy dare you. Effectiveness Factor: 8 Chuck Norris Factor: Avert your eyes in the presence of glory 3) The Facebook Sucker Punch “Is that really what you think? That’s odd, considering (insert allusion to enemy’s dirty Facebook pics/ suggestive wall posts/ group memberships). Oh, I’m sorry (directed towards TF), it was inappropriate of me to talk about...
...trick to getting the most out of my cash is to make it work for me. Once I set up some kind of foundation--something simple, like Dogs Are People Too, Only Better--I figure lots of sucker humans like Leona who've been burned by human relationships will pour cash in. I take out some ads, like "This Dog Will Be Put to Sleep This Weekend Unless You Send Me $500," and in four months that $12 mil is $24 mil, and I've got my nose 12 deep in Pomeranian rump...
...soon an open question which one of them Patty is a greater threat to. In TNT's Saving Grace (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Holly Hunter is Grace Hanadarko, a tortured, hard-living Oklahoma City cop who sleeps with whom she likes, drinks as much as she likes and will sucker punch anyone she doesn't like. In the first scene, we see her fully naked in bed--with a married cop--a prelude to her driving drunk, hitting a pedestrian and getting an intervention from a genuine, albeit tobacco-chewing angel. (By the second episode, she's trying to beat...
What scares me is that an airline ticket priced at $20 after all taxes and fees—which the Skybus website advertises will be available for at least 10 seats on every flight—makes sucker-punching the environment as easy as buying a t-shirt...
Clever entrepreneurs and even established companies can profit from this volunteerism--but only if they don't get too greedy. The key, Benkler says, is "managing the marriage of money and nonmoney without making nonmoney feel like a sucker." In software, where IBM and other companies charge billions of dollars to install and run otherwise free Linux systems, this seems to be working--in part because Linux volunteers can make money from their expertise and there's a clear understanding of what one can charge...