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...learn from our mistakes, the two weeks in Texas was an eightcredit course. At least Universal Pictures screwed up too. There's no such thing as a little whorehouse in Texas. Everything in Texas is big, and when you make a mistake there, it's usually a whopper...
Which is not to say most will not find something useful or valuable. It includes, for example, caloric counts for popular junk food items (A Whopper has 606 compared to a Big Mac's 557); a broad bibliography; a profile of wunderkind Bill Rodgers; a re-evaluation of the specious but spiritually uplifting legend of Pheidippiedes; a thourough survey of running equipment, apparel, and periodicals; and up to the minute status reports on the latest pertinent medical studies...
...Miami last fall and set out to halve the county property tax rate, to $4 per $1,000 of assessed value. He gathered 15,000 signatures to put the proposition on the ballot next month. But the best laid schemes of tax revolutionaries gang aft agley. Because of a whopper of an error, Wilson's petition stated the proposed new rate as 4 mills per $1,000, meaning, for example, that the tax on a $100,000 house would be only 40?, rather than the $400 that he intended...
...biggest ad agency. He is best known in the advertising community for being the first "to call a jock a jock" in a campaign for Bike brand underwear ("There's nothing like a washed-out jock"). Other successful MacDougall slogans: "It takes two hands to handle a whopper. The two-fisted burger from Burger King"; "Salada-the coffee drinker...
That's it-grande dame, showgirl and a whopper of a teenybopper...