Regular segments included " What Cheeses Me Off " ( which aired viewer complaints on virtually any subject ), " Media Watch " ( to which viewers contributed humorous newspaper misprints, almost invariably smutty ), " Red Faces " ( a Gong Show-style talent competition ) and " Chook Lotto ", a parody of variety show barrel competitions, in which the numbers in a farcical lotto game were chosen using numbered frozen chickens spun in a large wire cage.

In his efforts to fashion general history into a specific fictional story, Shakespeare may have consulted the Gesta Romanorum, a well known thirteenth-century collection of tales, legends, myths and anecdotes in Latin, which took figures and events from history and spun fictional tales around them.

A number of tall tales were spun by both sides afterwards in an attempt to make their actions appear morally justified.

Parties sympathetic to the smaller ranchers spun tales that included some of the west's most notorious gunslingers under the employ of the Invaders, including such legends as Tom Horn and Big Nose George Parrot.

Finally he declared that he had seen a star, which he took to be that of Antinous, and gladly listened to the fictitious tales spun by his companions, to the effect that the star had really come into being from the soul of Antinous and had then appeared for the first time.

Swiftly spun off into their own title in Oct / Nov 1960, the Justice League would become the backbone of the DC Universe, and thanks to the concept of the multiverse, regularly engage in annual " team-up " s with their 1940s counter-parts, the Justice Society in tales written by Fox.

Mostly, though, Cohen saw old friends, sat in hotel lobbies and spun out tales — many of them tall — of his exploits.

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The book's focus is on the various ways violent experiences can be articulated: violent threats, acts, memories, suggestions, relationships, games, and other situations dominate the tales spun in Toy Guns.

In its history numerous performers and performing groups have spun off from the Cockettes, including, among others, the Seattle Ze Whiz Kidz ( including actors Tomato Du Plenty and Screaming Orchids ; the first Whiz Kidz show was a musical based on the life of Yma Súmac ), The San Francisco Angels of Light, The New York Angels of Light and The Assorted Nuts.

Over the next few decades, divisions of the conglomerate were slowly spun off and competition within the Greenlandic economy somewhat increased.

The German company Ernst Paul Lehmann filed for bankruptcy in late 2006, only a few short months after LGB of America ( LGBoA ) was spun off into its own company.

A few hundred yards ahead of him, Carl Williams spun out as he exited Turn 4, triggering a five-car front-stretch accident right in front of Foyt.

Large archives from 1992 to the present, as well as a few select archives from the early 1970s, are available, but the syndicated programs from 1978 to 1992 are not because the broadcast rights are currently in limbo ( Dial Global purchased Westwood One in 2011, but spun off several of its music shows to Compass Media Networks ; it's unknown whether the Dr. Demento syndicated archive was among the programs ).

The sling psychrometer, where the thermometers are attached to a handle or length of rope and spun around in the air for a few minutes, is sometimes used for field measurements, but is being replaced by more convenient electronic sensors.

These appearances were few, as Gaidal soon disappeared from Tel ' aran ' rhiod, apparently having been spun out into a new life.

Confusingly, a few hotels in The Luxury Collection which were originally part of the ITT Sheraton Luxury group kept their Sheraton name when the Luxury division was spun off as a completely separate brand under Starwood.

However, by the end of the first browser war, the Internet suite market dwindled to one or two competitors every few years ; in reaction, alternative routes of profit or funding were sought ( Opera Software, for example, moved away from offering the Opera Internet suite with embedded advertisements to a completely ad-free product ), and Mozilla ( spun out of Netscape ) began to separate the Mozilla Application Suite into separate projects: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird, but development of suite continued with Seamonkey internet suite and after several years it is very active and under Mozilla umbrella.

The opening few laps were eventful-Jack Brabham spun in front of Bruce McLaren and Jo Siffert who collided taking avoiding action, whilst Jim Clark had to take to the escape road.

A few laps later, Forti's Roberto Moreno spun and caused terminal damage to his suspension in the same place where Coulthard had crashed earlier.

The German took second from Barrichello, and on the next lap, Coulthard took third, just a few turns before the Ferrari seized and spun on the infield straight.

Led by a merger and acquin team comprising IDG Peterborough President Roger Murphy and 2 other IDG executives, Jim McBrian and Roger Strukhoff, the magazine was acquired, then a few months later spun off as an independent business unit of IDG, under the leadership of Ferrell as president / CEO.

A few years after that, they spun off most of the company's natural resources interests as Santa Fe Gold and spun off all their non-track real estate interests, including railway stations, as Catellus Development.

The album spun off a few hits, including " I'm A Stranger Here ", their highest-ever charting hit in their native Canada.

NCR management tried to cancel all further development of AT & T-CS systems, though some refused to die for a few years, and backlash from AT & T Network Systems ( later to be spun off as Lucent Technologies ) precipitated a purge of NCR upper management by the AT & T Board.

The division was initially composed of three districts ( Abbottabad District, Kohistan District and Mansehra District ) but within a few years, Haripur District was spun off from Abbottabad District and Batagram District was spun off from Mansehra District.

A few papers, already weakened by staff burnout, poor finanaces and other factors, died in the wake of these schisms, while others lost revenue and circulation by barring sexual content and advertisements, which in any event were increasingly being spun off into tabloid sex papers like Screw.

The earlier conception of Susan's character spun her as a less ordinary girl who had unusual abilities, of which Susan's ability in this story may been seen as one of the few remnants.

In that method, the cables were spun only a few wires at a time, with bundles made up as the wires were spun by pulling a loop along the cable's route.

From the 1970s though the 1990s, every few years, Signal / One was spun off, sold, and resurfaced at another location.

During practice for the 2009 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, Nelson Philippe, who was returning to the series for a few late-season road course races with Conquest Racing, spun exiting Turn 3 and stalled on the track.

Although his first forays into that medium were inevitably accompanied by instructions that he use the Fudd voice, Bryan soon came to the attention of Don Quinn and Phil Leslie, the production and writing team responsible for Fibber McGee and Molly and their supporting characters, two of whom spun off into their own radio hits, The Great Gildersleeve and Beulah.

Like many of the great heroes of the Wheel of Time, she has been " spun out " into the Pattern many times, taking a different name but always following the same pattern: an archer, sometimes a soldier, who is linked to a lump-faced man who fights with two swords ( most famously known as Gaidal Cain ), whom she at first hates but eventually falls for.

By 2004, Rennie had become the " number two " writer on the Judge Dredd strip, following up a number of subplots initiated by its principal author, John Wagner, as well as developing his own situations and guest characters, some of whom have spun off into popular stories of their own.

To achieve the effect, stuntman Dar Robinson ran at the window, then at the last moment, spun around to go backwards through the glass and land on an airbag.

On August 12, 2007, he won the Centurion Boats at the Glen at Watkins Glen after Jeff Gordon spun his car around after wheel hopping in turn 1 with two laps to go.

In addition, if a contestant spun a natural pair and a Joker, he / she could discard the pair but use the Joker to go " off the board " in that category for $ 50.

With only a lap to go Salo spun trying to pass Webber.

Niki Lauda needed 2nd place to secure the title, and gained this when Nigel Mansell spun out with 18 laps to go.

The pressure was so much that Senna spun off with two laps to go, although he was still classified 9th.

Zonta was given a 10-sec stop go penalty for the same reason as Trulli and thus he lost concentration and spun out on lap 38.

With just over four laps to go, Schumacher hooked his right front wheel over the curb and spun onto the wet grass.

The pressure was so much that Senna spun off with two laps to go.

The February 23, 1986 incident at Richmond International Raceway was inaccurately depicted, where Earnhardt spun out Darrell Waltrip with three laps to go.

With four laps to go, Buddy Arrington spun in a three-car accident.

He created and wrote for The Defenders in 1961, a weekly courtroom drama spun off from one of Rose's episodes of Studio One ; The Defenders would go on to win two Emmy awards for dramatic writing.

Neither of the Sauber, Williams or Renault drivers set lap times but Christian Klien and Juan Pablo Montoya did go out as did Mark Webber but spun twice on his only lap.

Golden Corral returned at the 2011 Aaron's 499, and Blaney led 21 laps but was spun out by Kurt Busch with 3 to go and finished 27th.

Her bad luck continued at Kentucky, and she ran in the lead group all night and appeared headed towards another podium finish when she spun out exiting pit road with less than 50 laps to go.

He appeared headed toward a top-10 finish at Atlanta with three laps to go when Carl Edwards, apparently in retaliation for a incident earlier in the race, spun Keselowski.

He came close to obtaining his first victory in only his third start, after taking pole position at Brazil and leading most of the race, but spun out from the lead with nine laps to go.