Word: suckers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Chiefs we shall not speak. They are abominable. Are they not abominable? They are. And yet, you look at that fat 8 1/2 points the Titans are spotting them, and, even though you know this is a sucker bet, you can't stop yourself from believing that, well, maybe the Griefs won't lose by that much, and those Titans are probably taking them lightly anyway, and - ah, just do it: Chiefs plus 8 1/2. And hate yourself in the morning...
...more humanoid. Its fins got less finny and more leggy, and its pale, puffy face came to resemble Alfred Hitchcock's. Our conversation got more sophisticated too, although the creature didn't get more affectionate. It greeted me with "yeah, hello, whatever." It called me "fuzzy" and "air sucker." It whined when I didn't keep its tank warm enough--acting as fussy as Niles on Frasier...
Flash forward. In the new film The Replacements, union members are portrayed as rich, uncaring, racist, sucker-punch-throwing goons. And the nonunion fellows who take the strikers' jobs--once they were called scabs--are ordinary Joes who are there not for the money but for the love of a job well done...
...wall and tossed it out a second-story window. Hours later she guiltily found it lying in a heap on the lawn. She brought it inside and plugged it in. To her horror, it still worked. "Damn!" she said. "You can't even kill the sucker...
...last night, we held a "no-talent show," in which each person sang or told stories for the group. I don't know how long my daughter and I can hold out without TV, but we've learned some discipline and some alternatives. Maybe we can't kill the sucker--but we can control...