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...massive United Nations-approved campaign. Well, approved by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), that is. It is all part of the 50th Anniversary of the blue-skinned creatures, whose nearly all-male society has fascinated children and adults all over the world, infecting languages everywhere with the verb "to smurf" - which can mean almost anything you want. Above it all, a Smurf zeppelin patrols the skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smurfs Are Off to Conquer the World — Again | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

Martha remembers one of her son’s early disses, the delightful “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, suck my dick and swallow slow.” “I’m like, ‘Honey, that’s a verb. You need to modify it with an adverb. Slowly...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The All-Spin Zone | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...name came up a few times, most notably when Sen. Joseph Biden called Giuliani the "most under-qualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency... I mean, think about it. Rudy Giuliani. There's... there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Rudy the Real Debate Winner? | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...pretty tough, and the pun on the general's name is pretty witless. You could argue that since the verb betray and the noun traitor have the same root, the ad is accusing the head of American forces in Iraq of treason. The ad can also be interpreted - more plausibly if you consider the rest of the text - merely as questioning the general's honesty, not his patriotism. But whatever your interpretation of the ad, all the gasping for air and waving of scented handkerchiefs among the war's most enthusiastic supporters is pretty comical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Outraged Over MoveOn | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...could attend Davidson. Max is 12. The first time I saw him at the academy, he was reading an article about the Supreme Court. He likes to fence. He loves Latin because "it's a very regimented language ... There's probably at least 28 different endings for any given verb, because there's first-, second- and third-person singular and plural for each tense ..." He went on like this for some time. Max didn't get along especially well with classmates in Sydney and later Kent, England, where his mother first moved him in search of an appropriate school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Failing Our Geniuses? | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

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