Word: trunk
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...Gabby Hayes-Cactus Jack: A reasonably plausible geezer, older than the presidential candidate - comparable to what you have when you put one of your slightly balding tires in the trunk as a spare. Sixty-eight-year-old Pete Domenici of New Mexico has been mentioned as a possible George Bush spare, for example. Truman did it with Alben Barkley...
...These folks treasure their cars and might not think highly of a fellow who stole them. Yet the film has few quibbles about the ethics of boosting. Hey, guys in the film (and guys who made it): maybe a wage slave left his PC in the trunk of that Toyota you stole; maybe a child's first drawing is in the glove compartment of that HumVee pickup. For people who love their cars to make a movie that lionizes a person who steals them is a textbook case of sociopathic schizophrenia. We almost hope that when they leave work this...
...like to. They shoot them because in Russia these days a bullet is the quickest way to get things accomplished. In such places, industrial consumerism just curls up and vanishes. Black markets take its place; there are no more fast-food chains, so everybody eats lunch out of the trunk...
Funny acts included Dumbo shooting peanuts from his trunk at the female elephants in Dumbo and Tigger toppling Rabbit in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh...
...that we know, however wondrous in extent and variety, all proceeds--or so our best inferences tell us--from one single experiment. The biochemical features underlying this amazing variety and the coherent fossil record of 3.5 billion years (implying a single branching tree of earthly life with a common trunk) indicate that every living thing on Earth, from the tiniest bacterium on the ocean floor to the highest albatross that ever flew in the sky, arose as the magnificently diversified evolutionary outcome of one single experiment performed by nature, one origin of life in the early history of one particular...