“I have a huge head, and I walk on these stiltlike legs,” Preston recently told TV Guide’s online edition.
College students were asked to rate the humor of cartoons from Gary Larson’s The Far Side while holding a pencil in their mouth.
Matt Wilson originally proposed that the band be named Kirk Shakespeare, after two of his heroes: James T. Kirk and William Shakespeare.
Harington is not in any sense an “Arkansan,” and can’t stand to hear that word, although he’s a native of Little Rock and has lived in the state for most of his life. Yet he always has seen himself, and with deep passion, as a genuine “Arkansawyer.”
Few best-sellers can have been so reviled and excoriated over the years as Dean Farrar’s Eric, or Little by Little. It has consistently earned such critical judgments as “mawkishly false” (Vivian Ogilve), “a preposterous book” (John Rowe Townshend), “the sort of story Dr Arnold would have written if he’d taken to drink” (Hugh Kingsmill), “terrible warnings, soaked in nauseously cloying piety” (Roger Lancelyn Green), “the only book I ever wanted to lose” (Eric Ambler), “the nightmare emanation of some morbid, introverted brain” (Edward C. Mack), “one of the most idiotic books of the nineteenth-century” (Benny Green). The undoubted immortality of Eric is, then, as one historian has put it, “an immortality of derision.”
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Surplus is an American, as we are apparently meant to recognize from his full name — Sir Blackthorpe Ravenscairn de Plus Precieux. Technically, he is also a dog, his canine genome tweaked into human form.
Only practitioners certified by RISI can use the title “Rolfer,” or practice “Rolfing,” due to service mark ownership.
Smiley compared the squirrel in the road to peers who had gone “too far in their quest to reach ‘The Further.’”
Original Male Dog (OMD): Fic will sometimes feature an OMD (almost never an original female dog).
Some creepy, dangerous frogs have taken over the southern woods.