Word: velcro
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...tend to walk around these days saddled with so much stuff that I waddle like a plumber. Beeper, cell phone, personal digital assistant, laptop--sometimes I fantasize about Velcro-ing all my digitalia to bandoliers crisscrossing my chest: the Geek Rambo. Hasta la vista, baby, I say, dropping to my knees, ripping free a cell phone and speed-dialing a pizza...
...have the rest of our lives to go to LL Cool J concerts. But when else do students have the opportunity to throw themselves onto a giant wall of Velcro, or smack each other over the head with giant foam boxing gloves? The corraling of legal-aged students into a special cage for beer drinkers may not have been the most aesthetically pleasing solution to the problem of providing alcohol, but turning the event into a "BYOB affair," as the staff suggest, is a recipe for disaster. And the MAC Quad was the perfect location for the festivities. Had they...
They are the kids who chill in carpenter jeans. They never owned jams or velcro sneakers. They've probably never even heard of Gotcha T-shirts or Zubaz pants. They may have worn plaid in elementary school, but that was when mom was doing the shopping. Now that they're becoming fashion conscious, it's all about the stripe...
...marched to the shelf and tore down the card, it made a loud noise ripping away from the Velcro. I hope Professor Twersky, somewhere, heard...
...comic-book premise: that extraterrestrials have landed, that they are a scuzzy lot who deserve to be treated like illegal aliens and that the government has an elite corps of FBI-style agents (notably Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line. Ah, this explains everything: Velcro, liposuction, the microwave oven and why the 1964 World's Fair was held in Queens...