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Partington agreed, saying that when the occasional patron protests, she asks, "If this is really your ID, why can I peel it in two?...I've had people swear up and down that it's their license, but [when informed they can return when the owner is there to reclaim it], they never come back...
...same as it had always been (with maybe a few more grey hairs), her outward behavior was markedly different. This year, instead of continually and incessantly begging for and attempting to steal food, Sadie walked around in a fog, her tail lazily wagging, with what I would swear was a stupid grin on her face. When I asked my parents about this strange, albeit more manageable behavior, they confided that they had placed our family dog on anti-anxiety medication, the equivalent, I would guess, of doggie-Prozac. They said she had grown unmanageable in the past few months, chewing...
...counting houses, the three-headed, magnifying-glass-wielding canvassing boards in Broward and Palm Beach both swear they'll be done picking over their "questionable" piles by the Sunday 5 p.m. deadline. Broward, with a quarter of its 2,000 undervotes counted, has turned up 271 net votes for Gore; Palm Beach, just beginning its own 10,000-vote stack, has turned up 14. No Lotto yet for Gore...
...supporting male characters appear as all sweetness and light. Derry Woodhouse milks his honeyed brogue for all its worth, making his character Pato an earnest, lovable womanizer. Matthew Ellis as Pato's brother Ray is less successful. Aside from a few outpourings of the perennially amusing Irish swear word "feck!", his dialect and his mannerisms fail to convey the sense of a bored and insolent Irish...
Homeopathic preparations are hardly dangerous. Even those that use deadly poisons as active ingredients are so diluted that they should cause no harm. Many users swear that their minor ailments have been cured through homeopathy. But scientists argue that the placebo effect--whereby belief in a treatment will provide relief--is probably at work. It's likely that the symptoms would have disappeared anyway with no medical intervention...