Word: tinfoiled
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...Bangkok hut, Jacky leans her bare back against the plank wall, her dragon tattoos glistening with sweat as she trims her fingernails with a straight razor. It has been two days?no, three?without sleep, sitting in this hut and smoking the little pink speed tablets off sheets of tinfoil stripped from Krong Tip cigarette packets. Now, as the flushes of artificial energy recede and the realization surfaces that there's no more money anywhere in this hut, Jacky is crashing hard and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates that sponging little punk...
...Three a.m., the night before deadline, the office is abuzz. Computer screens glow as editors, sustained by caffeine, frantically click at their keyboards putting finishing touches on their babies. Red-eyed editors litter the floor amid a wasteland of sleeping bags. The trash overflows with tinfoil and napkins, remnants of late night stops at The Wrap. As the sun rises over Cambridge, some editors panic and some breathe a heavy sigh of relief...
...only take a punk for so long. Eventually he's going to chew on your roll of tinfoil, and your love affair will end. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, TV's only true punks, have done something to irk almost everyone. After their blistering success with South Park two years ago, the duo did the following: concluded a heavily promoted South Park cliffhanger with farting stick figures in place of the regular characters; directed a short movie starring Stone's dancing penis; produced a news show staffed by people with Down syndrome; released Orgazmo, a movie about...
...coyotes, says a cop standing outside a south-side Billings bungalow while agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration toss the place for drugs. "This town is coming unhinged," another cop says. As if to prove their point, the suspected crank house whose street-side picture windows are sheathed with tinfoil (sunlight is the cranker's natural enemy) starts belching evidence of criminal lunacy--hypodermic needles clogged with meth, automatic pistols of several calibers and an AK-47 with a loaded 100-round clip...
...Force headquarters the same night, Brigadier General Roger Ramey, after consultations with his weather forecaster, Warrant Officer Irving Newton, called in the local press and announced that the debris was the remnants not of a saucer but of a high-altitude weather balloon. The sticks and tinfoil, he explained, were from a reflector used to track the balloon by radar. The next day, under the headline GENERAL RAMEY EMPTIES ROSWELL SAUCER, the Daily Record reported his retraction and explanation. In the same edition, the paper quoted rancher Brazel, overwhelmed by the uproar and embarrassed: "If I find anything else besides...