Word: zippering
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Yoshida, now 65, insists that he still follows that formula, and it has made his company, YKK Manufacturing, the world's largest zipper maker. This year it will produce 500,200 miles of zippers, more than enough to stretch to the moon and back. Sales have grown from a pathetic $170 in 1934, YKK's first year, to $475 million...
...Finally an usher at one of the entrances to the bullring took pity on me and went across the street to a firehouse, from which he graciously brought me an old, worn pair of uniform pants. They were about eight inches too big around the waist, and the zipper wouldn't work, but at least I now had some pantalones...
Equally good as satires of scientific logic are an essay that postulates the existence of the Infinite Zipper and another that proves heaven is actually hotter than hell. The reasoning goes like this: heaven, which the Bible says receives 49 times as much radiation from the sun as the earth does (Isaiah 30:26), would therefore have a temperature of 525° C. Hell, where the main topographical feature is a lake of molten brimstone (Revelation 21:8), could have a temperature of no more, no less, than 444.6° C. Above that temperature, the brimstone would vaporize; much below...
...nothing I could see that could conclusively indicate a hoax." In his 1973 book, Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality, Napier explained his having told Argosy magazine not to dismiss the film. "In effect," he wrote, "what I meant was that I could not see the zipper; and I still...
...list of Blue's unacknowledged credits is Easy Rider, with all its patchwork imitations. The script concerns a sawed-off Arizona motorcycle cop named John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) who yearns to achieve style and respect by becoming a detective like Marve Poole (Mitchell Ryan). His goonish partner Zipper (Billy Green Bush) laughs at his aspirations, but their discovery of the body of a desert old-timer who may have been associated with some drug traffic gives Winter-green the chance to prove his stuff...