Word: suckers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concept behind seatbelts also bugs me. You're falling to earth from 30,000 feet and you expect a seatbelt to save your life? The only good thing that they do is make it easier for the rescue people to find your body. "Yup, there he is, 27A, sucker had his seatbelt on." If it's going to be your last chance to piss someone off, you might as well spread your body all over the place...
...Pentagon had been paying $91 for screws that cost 3? "in any hardware store." He charged that the Federal Government has failed to collect some $100 billion each year in taxes that are owed it. "If you're still paying taxes," he said to his audience, "hi, sucker...
...become a hard-working co-conspirator in the creative experience. Celluloid, by comparison, is a laissez-faire baby sitter. It asks only that the viewer believe what he sees, that he go with the flow of seductive images and return to intellectual infancy as a passive, pacified fun sucker. The young audience that makes hits these days out of laser shows and locker-room frolics seems bored with the notion that the mind has a life too. And few moviemakers, even the smart ones, are choosing to exercise their craft for the benefit of anyone old enough to vote...
...brother [Mike] is the backfield coach for the freshmen," says Ernst. "He's on the sideline during my games. He'll expect good plays and he'll see my mistakes. On the 63-yard sucker play I expected him to say 'Good run' after I finished. He told me that if I had zig-zagged at the end I could have avoided the last tackler and scored...
...yard screen pass reception at 19 yard sucker and a four-yard catch (a 35-yard total) formed Ernst's contribution to the 38-yard drive that set up Jim Villanueva's tying (10-10) field goal...