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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...Peyo said the word came to him when he asked a friend for salt during lunch and, struggling for the word, just blurted out, "pass me the schtroumpf." The same process triggered the Smurf language, which uses the word "smurf" to replace nouns, verbs, and everything in between, with predicable confusion: "I feel like smurfing you on the smurf" could mean either "kissing you on the cheek" or "hitting you on the head...
Williams: No. I don't believe in diets, and no one should. If you get on the Internet right now, and search the word "diet," I think you'll have well over 1.5 million entries, with about 1.2 million different diets out there. If any one of them worked, there would only be one. So the truth is, none of them work. My book is a lifestyle change and an eating regimen...
...exercise not a great license for an army of pundits to bloviate, often inaccurately, in the papers, on TV, and in a thousand blogs, so much so that you can forgive those who tell pollsters (too many of them, too) that they trust not a word the media say? And does the whole thing not just drag on too damn long...